I was looking at a custom size dress website today and I realized that if I were to buy a wedding dress again, I would choose a completely different style than the one that I chose. The dress that I got married in is a very young dress. Big, fluffy, impractical. It doesn't really reflect ME any more. For the record, the one I like now is here: Read more... )

So many people I know are getting pregnant! It's hard for me to resist giving advice, but I know that it's so much better to figure it out yourself, so I'll just constrain myself to writing it down here. Maybe I'll look back and enjoy this when I'm pregnant with baby #2 ( Read more... )

Zoey wakes up half way through her morning nap with a primal scream that brings me running from the kitchen over to her swing where she usually sleeps. I look her over quickly and scoop her up in my arms. Instantly, she stops crying and gives me a big gummy smile before shoving her face into my chest and falling back to sleep, one hand tangled in ( Read more... )

Does the ocean floor feel like I do?
Hemispheres of pregnant stomach,
softly undulating, or still.
Turbulence under my skin.
My daughter’s dreams ripple like waves
under a clear sky.
In this vast roundness,
the unknowable spins.
What does the ocean floor think,
when it is invisibly redrawn
by surging seas?

Tomorrow I will be 20 weeks pregnant. Exactly half way through the pregnancy. I see pictures of other moms on the crazy lady pregnancy forums that I visit and I wonder if they're just better at not looking wild eyed and exhausted than I am. This baby isn't even here yet, and I'm already up every hour or two to pee. And even though my morning ( Read more... )

Today we marathon Christmas shopped. We're so very close to being completely done too. It'll be great to have all of that wrapped up as soon as possible. I love Christmas, but I don't love Christmas shopping when it's really crowded and rushed. Usually I try to be totally done by Thanksgiving so that I can enjoy the whole holiday season without any ( Read more... )

I would do pretty much anything not to switch the laundry over right now, so I'm procrastinating by writing in my journal ( Read more... )

These are books that I have really not liked/wasn't able to get through. Some people love them, but not me ( Read more... )

Visited Jon in Rockport and then he and I went to Orono for a quick overnight with George. Jon took me to Owl's Head and we climbed up into the light house. It was awesome. I find myself unable to express the growing importance of people who see me as an individual in my life. Today is the TRC lobster bake on Cabbage Island. It kind of sucks that ( Read more... )

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere;
I want it more than I can tell.
And for once it might be grand,
To have someone understand:
I want so much more than they've got planned.