We will find out the babygender on May 6th at our first ultrasound. Huzzah! I have already decided it is a girl, and the name is Kate. If it does turn out to be a boy, we might still call him Kate, thinking it will make him tough (a philosopher popularized by Johnny Cash ( Read more... )

Being paranoid new parents like we are, we are super-nervous about any tummyaches that occur within The Sven's maternal belly. Yesterday she came home early from work, so I left home early (she was complaining of some cramping and general tiredness beyond the norm). We called the doc, but it was a Friday afternoon and he was gone. The very nice ( Read more... )

Spring Break at my House was mostly spent scheduling appointments with (and keeping appointments with) sub-contractors who were there to fix the water damage in my house. I actually didn't mention this before, but exactly one week after my sister's death, a pipe came loose under our kitchen sink and flooded our kitchen, living room, and my office ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

"`Mama,' I murmured instinctively, in a spoiled, childish voice."

Susan's memorial service is over. Thank you to everyone who wrote back with kind words of comfort or what not. Probably the hardest part of the "adjustment" process is that Susan's children are all going to end up living with their fathers. Given the adversarial relationship she had with said fathers, this is not going especially well as far as ( Read more... )

Svenny is 15 weeks pregnant now, with a minor "baby bump" as US Magazine calls it. Looking back on it, I would have to say that the First Trimester of parenthood was underwhelming. I mean, there's the BABY HYPE, right? Let's set things straight--during Trimester One, there is no baby. No "first walks", no "talking", not even any crawling. ( Read more... )

My sister passed away on Thursday night from an apparent brain aneurysm. Things are crazy right now.

I got a pink slip this weekend and it annoyed me a lot. I am not going to be fired, this is just FUSD's way of covering themselves so that they are not locked into anything. I wrote my principal a letter that contained the following ( Read more... )

Pholph's Scrabble Generator

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