I meant to get the car loaded tonight so the baby and I could jump in as soon as we're dressed and drive north. Instead, I put together my horned wig for my Lum cosplay for the Formal Ball on Friday. Yes, you read that right: I will be attending the Formal Ball at AWA dressed as a formal Lum ( Read more... )

So, all kidding aside, my New Year's resolution is to post more than three times a year in my LJ. Last year was, as you may have guessed from the retrospective, an oddessy of medical bills and semi-successful attempts at single parenting ( Read more... )

2010: A Year in Reverse ( Read more... )

Item One: "I resolve to be a wonderful mother-- damn it, child ( Read more... )

After thirteen hours of labor, at 0610 on the 25th of August, in the year 2009 of the Common Era, Helaine Elise Hart Garvey was brought into the world.

Here There Be PhotosPoints of interest ( Read more... )

Hospital bag packed and ready.

Spare clothes packed for hubby.

Car seat installed in primary vehicle.

Camera at hand and ready.

Absorbant pad down.

Purse packed.

Computer at hand.

It is now fifty minutes past the hour on D-Day.

....Any time now.

-Lady Shadowphyre

Warning: Pregnancy/Motherhood ranting ahead.

( Why a breast pump is Very Important even if you think it isn't. )

Dear Friends and Acquaintances ( Read more... )

So, I got my twenty week ultrasound done for anatomy check. Everything looked pretty normal... except for the two other wriggling bodies that had apparently been hiding behind the one we saw in the first ultrasound ( Read more... )