With this, my sixth pregnancy, I’ve found that there are just a few gross misrepresentations about pregnancy, labor and delivery. Right now, just one is in the forefront of my mind.
There’s a “sensation” that most all pregnancy books and childbirth practitioners refer to as pins and needles.
Like Barack Obama, I’m calling for a change. I [...]
Nate’s grandparents (Grandmommy and Granddaddy) bought the boys a big bundle of Lincoln Logs for Christmas. Being a child of the 80’s, I still love playing with them. Nate, too. So the boys especially love them because they’re fun and Mommy and Daddy will take part.
I’ve been storing them all in a huge tote bag [...]
My husband sleeps like a rock. I really think a tornado could hit our house and he’d sleep right through it. Don’t believe me? When he works the midnight shift, he sleeps during the day while three rowdy boys and one screaming baby girl get shushed by their loud mommy. He never hears a thing.
Last [...]
I’m not talking weather. Remember that old “hot / cold” game you used to play to find stuff when you were a kid? That’s what I feel like as my due date approaches. Warm… Warmer… Even warmer!
I’m 35 weeks now. One more week and they won’t do anything to stop me if I go into [...]
For two, Connor sure is a smart boy.
The other day, the kids were all crazed and hyper during nap time, but I was spent. Rather than trying to get them all settled down in one room, I allowed Connor to “sweep in Daddy’s bed wiff you, Mommy.” He hunkered down on Nate’s pillow with three [...]
My husband knows me well. He knows what I like on my sandwiches, what time I generally wake up, when I need some “Mommy time” in “the Bahamas,” when contractions are real just by looking at my face, and that I’m generally more practical than frivolous. (Reasons #507-511 I love my husband.)
Last night, he did the [...]
We’re night-owls around here. My husband’s crazy schedule mandates it. It’s often likely that we (all of us) aren’t in bed ’til after 11 p.m., or even midnight or later. That said, it’s very reasonable that we sleep until 9 a.m. Or so I think.
The boys have a digital alarm clock in their room. For [...]
I was just checking my e-mail and in the inbox was a message to me from “Plus Size Fashions.” I’m not kidding.
How do they know when I go from my, ahem*, size 2 “normal” size to my “so big the killer whales don’t need to borrow my clothes anymore” size?
*This blogger reserves the right to [...]
When Evan was born two months early at just 2 pounds, 12 ounces, Nate said, “She’ll be a gymnast!” She was such a fighter in the month she was in the NICU that we knew she’d be tiny and strong.
So, yesterday I went to get her out of her crib after naps and this is what [...]