i'm way overdue for an lj post, so i'm checking in to say i'm still alive. life is quite a bit different than it used to be. when i moved to dc, i thought i'd never come back to pa to live. i also thought i was in no hurry to reproduce. we got married 7/28/07, and just over a year later, we were pregnant. for some reason, we did that on purpose... ( Read more... )

I think most people who read this journal have already figured it out, but the cat is officially out of the bag - I'm pregnant! The little one is due on May 19, 2009, and s/he is apparently currently the size of a fig. For those uninitiated, it has become common practice to compare the approximate size of a fetus in each week of the pregnancy to a ( Read more... )

I heard some upsetting news today and... I just don't really know how to deal with that right now. So let's focus on happy things instead, I suppose.. maybe I'll feel like talking about that later.
Now these sound like a really good idea!

It is, perhaps, a little early to be worried about it - I'm not even pregnant - but I had thought some before ( Read more... )

Freestanding Birth Center I hope to use:
BirthCare

Possible Back-up hospital:
Inova

Licensed Child Care:
VA Child Care Search

For maternity/baby clothes, maybe?:
Stella Maternity
Baby Wit
Rockin Baby Sling

My granola tendencies in regard to babies:
How to Green Your Baby
Cloth Diapers
Toxic Baby Furniture
Formaldehyde Baby Cribs
Glass Baby Bottles

Childbirth ( Read more... )

hey kids! i'm writing here as a means of storing some lists for myself somewhere that i can easily keep track of them. what kind of lists? well... brian and i have decided we want to be parents soon! i know, i know, it's completely crazy sounding coming from me, but that's where we are in our lives, and i'm ecstatic. family has always always always ( Read more... )

Professional Wedding Slideshow

This is the start of our professional wedding photos.. the photographer likes to add the first few while she edits the rest just to give a sneak peek. Check back later to view and/or order prints from the rest!

we got married! it was beautiful. some people did not do their jobs, which made us stress out more than was necessary. but in the end all that matters is that i married my best friend, and i couldn't be happier.

check out non-pro pics of our wedding on Flickr.

i thought i ought to update the blog, since i've been so neglectful of this thing. the thing is, though, i just haven't been interested in writing much. sometimes i think about posting, and what i would say.. and i realize it either sounds pretentious or self-important or overdramatic or just whiney. and i'm not really down with sending that kind ( Read more... )

Yelp is one of my more recent addictions, and I think it's really useful and fun, especially in urban locations where there are way too many restaurants, venues, etc, to wade through without any insight. Today I was selected for Washington's Review of the Day for the second time! Yay! I'm just going to preface by saying up front that some of my ( Read more... )

tonight i lost another good friend to a terrible accident. we went to high school together and spent countless hours on the phone together and writing notes in class. he had a goofy sense of humor and a good heart. we lost contact when i went to college and only caught up with one another at the start of 2007. he was going to school in north ( Read more... )