Headed into week 29 - hard to believe how fast the time goes. Third trimester over here, and looking it. People are starting to look at me with horror when I pick up heavy things, and to open doors for me. Old women are starting to smile knowingly at me in the grocery store ( Read more... )

Nesting urge + Baby Depot + credit card = oops. Fortunately, I restricted myself (with one exception) to the clearance rack. I found several little sleepers and things, a few little outfits, and a warm pink bunting for winter. Things she needs. I think her wardrobe for the first few months is pretty much taken care of. That's actually a huge relief ( Read more... )

So at the end of this week, we bid farewell to the second trimester and move into the third. We're two-thirds of the way there. Both yay! and ack!

Last night, we were watching The 4400 . I was resting against John, with my feet up on the arm of the couch. He has been trying to feel the baby move for weeks now, but she always seems to settle down ( Read more... )

Way back when I started this job at the church, I started to think about self-disclosure.

Some recent posts in friends' journals have made me think about this, too. About self-disclosure, but also about grace, about hypocrisy, about holiness.

My history, my life's trajectory, is a mess. You want to know the details? Come talk to me; I'll tell you ( Read more... )

Yesterday Luciano, today Madeleine.

I hope she gets to write poems in heaven, so that I can read them when I get there.

"If only there had been no bombs, I could have been equal to every one else."

Either not at all what I needed to read today, or exactly what I needed to read today.

I avoided most of the Katrina coverage yesterday. I knew it would make me mad. And sad. And (again) full of longing to be there ( Read more... )

Continuing the current no-content streak:

selectsmart.com 2008 Presidential Candidate Selector.

Who does it think your ideal candidate would be?

( Mine behind the cut. )

For your almost-hump-day pleasure reading: a site that has filled me with delight and merriment. Baby's named a bad, bad thing: a primer on parent crueltySometimes I am so tempted to mess with the whole family and tell them that baby girl's name is going to be something really awful, something they will all hate ever so much, but then name her ( Read more... )

Okay. So.

Mike Rowe? You know, the narrator of Deadliest Catch? And the Dirty Jobs guy?

Totally hot.

That is all.