But I did what I always do. I read you all first and then, an hour later, my stuff just doesn't seem so pressing. My current stuff is mostly ( Read more... )

V is one and a half this week. It's crazy. Sometimes, when I get home, I stand in front of the picture window by the front door and watch her playing, running, "reading" a book, and I can't believe this little person is the tiny baby I carried. And then I flash forward and imagine the day I come home and see her doing her homework at the kitchen ( Read more... )

You saw the title, right? Any squeamishness you feel while you continue reading is now your own fault ( Read more... )

I did it. I went out and stayed out and had a sleepover in the city. It was good ( Read more... )

First of all, let me apologize to all of you active posters (all five of you) who got random comments from me today on posts you wrote months ago. I really wanted to catch up on my flist reading, and that meant going in the way-back machine ( Read more... )

I want to write something before too much time passes and it becomes a thing ( Read more... )

Victoria is two months old, and yesterday was my first day back at work. Thinking about it was so much harder/worse than the day and deed itself. First of all, for all of their disorganization, my company was pretty flexible with my comeback plan. The big bummer was that everything was completely unpaid. The upside is that under FMLA I was able to ( Read more... )