Alli pulls up on things. She is cruising. No joke. 6 months, 2 weeks and 3 days old. I had to go buy her some Robeez today because she can't be in footie pajamas and barefoot forever. I have now heard two stories of walking 7 month olds. Previously I would have thought this was impossible. But now? I am so scared it's about to happen to me. I am ( Read more... )

I'm downtown right now, waiting for my mom to get done with her dental surgery and drive her home. I had to get up at 6:20 this morning, which truly was painful, but I've had coffee now and am feeling a lot better. The baby is kicking a lot, which is unusual ... normally I feel nothing until after 8 p.m. I wonder if it always kicks at this time of ( Read more... )

the longer i'm away from lj the less i want to write because there's just so much it feels daunting to me, so i get disheartened and think why even bother? it's not like i'll be around to see the comments come in anyway. but deep deep down, there are parts of me that understand two very important things. it's not just about me. maybe i won't see ( Read more... )

"Papa? Why don't we like Nana's house anymore?"

Those of you who were around last year probably remember that we went to see my great-grandmother in California for her 100th birthday. We took a five-generation photo and I wrote about the whole thing for the paper, which was where I worked at the time. The whole thing was really fun (well, the grandma part was, anyway) and left us with beautiful ( Read more... )

My mom's sort-of ex-husband has suggested that she build a "garage over" which, I guess is a backwards way of saying an apartment over a garage, so we'll have a place to live that's our own space. She didn't really think that this was a great idea, probably more for her own financial reasons than anything else. Besides she already has a garage, it ( Read more... )

The best thing about staying with my mom is forced air heat. I'm not kidding, I can't believe how much I took for granted growing up, the least of which was never being cold. When I took that privilege survey a month ago, one of the things on the list was "Did you grow up unaware that heat cost money?" and I have to say the answer was yes ( Read more... )

Go to the post office and forward our mail ( Read more... )

Ben slept through the night again. He sure was exhausted. But I don't sleep all the way through anyway, because I'm so used to waking up. It would take several days in a row of him doing this before I got used to it, and that seems unlikely ( Read more... )

For some reason, it is taking a lot of willpower for me to write this. I really do want advice, but its emotionally taxing for me, I guess because its a dumb situation that could have easily been avoided except for the part where I was lame ( Read more... )