Suddenly, Van has 2 wee little teethies coming in. One was kinda there one day and then BAM! There were two bursting through ( Read more... )

so i went to the movies tonight with courtney and sarah. we saw Friends with Money. and a couple of things just completely side-swiped me. i completely climbed into those people's lives this evening and now i'm walking around all. . . . disembodied. lost. doesn't it rock your world when art does that to you? i can't tell whether i took ( Read more... )

Milk Making ( Read more... )

Took Van to the Dr. for 4 month check-up. 15 pounds and 5 oz, putting him in the 50% mark. 24 1/2 inches in length, 50%. Head, 40 cm, 25%. Glorious, he doesn't have the huge Mattingly Noggin. that kid is cute! he's grabbing things and has a new sound daily. he'll be rolling over in mere weeks or at least that's what i hear ( Read more... )

Friday was Sarah's surprise party, disguised as a game night. I made her birthday cake from scratch. I don't think I've done that before. It was a lot of work to make the icing as we don't have an electric mixer. Time consuming to mix all that butter with all that powder sugar, but pioneer women didn't have electric mixers and they made it work ( Read more... )

The Sun rises. I cuddle with my husband. I stretch. I get out of bed. I gather the trash. I eat breakfast. I get my baby up, I feed him, I play with him, I change his diaper, I put him down to nap. I kiss my husband goodbye. I do laundry. I fold clothes. I do yoga. I read. I drink tea. I read some more. I make the bed. I take a ( Read more... )

I would like to thank all of you for coming to my pity party of the last post and listening and supporting. And of course for the empathy and virtual hugs. In the book "Birthing from Within" that I read it mentioned 3 rules of childbirth ( Read more... )

When did that happen? And when did December creep up on me? And did you know that Christmas is only 19 days away? And my b-day is only 14? I'll be a young 31 ( Read more... )

According to babycenter.com ( Read more... )

Dan and I closed on our house last Thursday, 8/4. I took the day off from my lame temp job to receive the bed delivery from Denver Mattress. We had sheets and a mattress pad and we slept in a bed. It's been a whole week and a day now we've been sleeping in a real live bed. No futon. No air mattress. No hotel bed. It's our very own bed and it ( Read more... )