A nerve-wracking thing about having had a preemie is that for months, I've been worried I was going into labor - I ended up calling my doctor's office on Christmas Day and things had gotten to the point where Jon was nervous every time I sent him a text. Which is awkward when you're married and have to coordinate things, ya know? OTOH, Jon pointed ( Read more... )

Events have overtaken my journaling, as anyone who notes the date on this post will see. Still, for some reason, it seemed important to note what the end of my pregnancy was like ( Read more... )

I'd been feeling pretty low energy for the past two weeks and actually overslept 3 hours on Thurs morning, so when I woke up a little damp and frantically running for the bathroom at 6:45am on Fri morning, I assumed that I'd overslept past my bladder's urges. ( Nope )

A few weeks ago, in one of my periodic refusals to go to bed, I read the journal of someone I've lost touch with, and discovered she'd suffered a terrible loss several months ago. I no longer know what's up with her on a regular basis, mostly because I find her way of thinking too eccentric to mine and because some of her recent successes remind me ( Read more... )

Last year I didn't realize how important Halloween is to my family of choice and got caught flat-footed, which meant I was scrambling the day before, which is why I ended up wearing an ao dai and long underwear. Every year, Jon's ex and child hand out candy for a few hours at a friend's house, which is part of a HUGE block of candy giving - this is ( Read more... )

I wish I knew why I feel so much better today than I did 2 weeks ago: is it crossing into the third trimester, less yoga, the PT exercises, or something else? Obviously, it would be quite helpful to know if anything I did made it better (or worse). *sighs ( Read more... )

The problem with this post is it keeps growing and changing the longer I don't write it. I almost didn't write it this morning, bc I'm getting more data later today (well, if I make it to the gym on time) so it might be invalid by this afternoon. Rinse and repeat ( Read more... )

Thurs, I met my closest friend in the sorority - who I actually met through MTG - for lunch in Brooklyn. I had forgotten just how much she can talk, but she's also an MIT mother of 4. I got to hear all about her four labors and homeschooling and her rant about breastfeeding. Yaay ( Read more... )

I hope, in years to come, when I look back on this summer, I remember how delicious fruit was, because I got to share it so intimately with someone I love so much.

I don't really have anything to talk about, I just feel chatty.

1) How much does my husband love me? He made me a lamb belly sandwich on potato bread bun with Carolina pepper sauce (to which I added all the relish) even though he didn't want any. aww ( Read more... )