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Breastfeeding Is Hard*
*More accurately, breastfeeding was hard for me. But I found some comfort googling "breastfeeding is hard" & reading the results before dawn during that first month or two, and now maybe someone else will too.Like labor and delivery, breastfeeding is one of those skills that you can't practice ahead of time. The classes and books and websites make ( Read more... ) -
First Year Recap
Yes, it took me 15 months to get this together... If you really feel like you're missing baby reports you can follow me on Twitter (@barnswallowkateAdriana was born in early December 2012 after a pretty average labor & delivery (drug assisted, woo!). Carlos was so great and gave me exactly the kind of support and encouragement I needed. He was ( Read more... ) -
Decluttering Is Awesome!
Confession: I am a recovering packrat. In elementary school my parents went to Parent Teacher Night and found my desk stuffed with acorns and rocks. Around the same age I cried when we left the beach without a big stick I’d been playing with. I’ve always had a bad habit of keeping things I might use someday, just in case. Even now I have to ( Read more... ) -
Pregnancy Update
Since I'm almost in the third trimester, and I'd rather put this all in one place than spread it over every Tweet ever, it's time for a pregnancy update ( Read more... ) -
ANNOUNCEMENT! (It’s Probably What You Think It Is)
Yes, since we have been married for more than 2 seconds, we are having a baby as is legally and socially required! (That last part is sarcasm. A lot of sarcasm. Almost an infinite amount of sarcasm.)
TL;DR version: I am almost halfway through and due on November 29. We aren’t sure if we want to find out ahead of time if it’s a boy or a girl. ( Read more... ) -
Stop Asking About Babies
Over the past few years I've had the misfortune of becoming *gasp* almost 30, and I'm knee deep in the attendant Baby Questions. Although I intend to answer them with slightly-sarcastic but somewhat good-natured humor, I find that when they come up I'm nonplussed at the time, uncomfortable until I'm away from the Questioner, and angry the rest of ( Read more... ) -
Birthday Resolution Report: February
This is incredibly late! Unfortunately, my mom spent the first two weeks of March in the hospital with an intestinal infection. I spent a lot of those two weeks going back and forth to the hospital, plus I stayed over a few nights. That has really messed March up and pushed back this post. Here’s the February report - March is going to be such a ( Read more... ) -
Birthday Resolution Report: December & January
So I wrote this a few weeks ago for December and then never posted it so I’m putting January intoo. I kept a log in a spreadsheet so I can report to you. ( Original resolution post is here!)
( Fails for sleeping, exercise, and birding. Gold stars for uncluttering and photography ) -
Birthday Resolutions
A friend of mine told me she does birthday resolutions instead of New Year’s resolutions, and I loved the idea so I’m stealing it (my birthday was at the beginning of the month). I also feel like have all these boxes to check off before the completely arbitrary deadline of turning 30 next year OMG. I think my resolutions in the past have been a ( Read more... ) -
Easing Into Catching Up
Yesterday on Twitter I posted a link to an old LJ post (the first time I ever mentioned Twilight, all the way back in 2006 - I disliked it before disliking it was cool!) and I realized how nice/amusing it is to reread old posts. It's like a diary and time capsule and I really want to get back into it! So here's my first post in months.
I've mostly ( Read more... )