Ryan was "concerned" about my anxiety level, so Piper and I went to visit my family in Michigan for a couple weeks around Thanksgiving. I tried to tell him that visiting my family is not exactly a recipe for relaxation, but he insisted. It wasn't bad, really, but it was tiring. I even skipped the usual "drive frantically around the state for the ( Read more... )

I tried to take Piper to the park today, except our favorite park is on the river, and the mosquitoes were so bad they drove us away. We were fine for a few minutes, and then my feet/ankles (my pants were rolled up a few inches) started to itch so much I thought I'd gotten into some poison ivy. A couple minutes of frantic scratching and liberal ( Read more... )

My parents are coming tonight and my house is a DISASTER. You can't even walk into the spare bedroom where they're supposed to sleep. Every flat surface in the house is somehow covered in clutter again, despite the fact that I had them all cleared two days ago. Piper got shots on Wed. and has been extra clingy and hard to please ever since. I ( Read more... )

*For batsonian and anyone else who likes to look at baby clothes: this post inadvertently turned into a mini-guide to my favorite baby clothes, so enjoy!

We cleaned out Piper's closet today. I put eight pairs of never-worn shoes into the give-away pile. Er, rather the "What the Fuck Do I Do With All This Shit Now?" bin. The WtFDIDWATSN bin is currently ( Read more... )