Most of you know that I'm the mother of a toddler - a girl-type toddler at that. While there are infinite joys associated with raising a little girl, there are also drawbacks. Serious drawbacks. Recently I have come to terms with the fact that, before too much longer, the odds are ridiculously good that my little girl will fall madly in love with ( Read more... )

Moira slept all night in her bed. This is the second time since we put it together a couple of weeks ago, but I think it's a good sign that it comes so close in time to the last time. To be fair, I did have to get up and go to her twice, but both times she was sleepy enough to go back to sleep with a bit of petting. Most nights, there comes a time ( Read more... )

I woke up with a migraine this morning. It was horrible - I took some Excedrine only to throw it up a few minutes later. I kept the second dose down, though, and managed to sleep off the headache after that. I don't know why throwing up eases the pain, but somehow it's always better after I let that happen. I'm super-glad that Tom's mom lives with ( Read more... )

Moira surprises me sometimes. Ordinarily she's an outgoing, confident, cheerful little kid. She's the type of baby who waves at strangers at the store and turns heads by giggling and being so damned adorable. She lights up a room ( Read more... )

As part of a series of resolutions for 2012, I'm planning to visit this journal and post more often. The fact that a week has already passed and I'm only just posting for the first time is not such an auspicious start, but hey - at least I'm here, right ( Read more... )

My Mouse is just over six months old and cutting her first tooth. Has it really been six months? Half of a year? In some ways it feels as though she’s still brand new; when I look at her, I half-expect to see her sleepy newborn face. But she’s newborn no more - rather, she’s some kind of pre-toddler, a little child-infant hybrid constantly ( Read more... )

We're sick. >_< Tom had it first - a nasty cold that kept him miserable for days. It had been a week or more and he was getting much better when, Sunday night, I started to feel a bit icky ( Read more... )

My cousins' father died rather suddenly this week. He wasn't my uncle by blood, and he and my aunt divorced thirty years ago, but he still remained family after all this time. I can't think of a Thanksgiving or Christmas that Ed wasn't around, so even though we weren't close, I'm going to miss him dearly ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I last posted here. I haven't lost interest - only time. Everyone advises me to write when Moira is sleeping, but everything else in the world has to happen while she sleeps, too (including my own sleep, sometimes), leaving a large percentage of nearly everything unfinished. I'm getting better at keeping up, though. I have ( Read more... )

Moira's one-month birthday was this past Sunday. On the one hand, it hardly seems like it's been so long, but on the other, it's like she's always been here. Kind of neat ( Read more... )