Arts and crafts

By On April 22, 2012 · 4 Comments

I’m not a crafty person. I’m definitely not an artsy person. I quit taking art electives in school after I earned a C in 9th grade art. We did ink drawings that term, and I just couldn’t get the pen to flow correctly. Instead of art, I created the world’s most screwed up Rorschach test. [...]

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Don’t forget

By On April 20, 2012 · 4 Comments

Jenny, don’t forget these little toddler quirks, just days shy of reaching 17 months old:

Toby, instead of saying, “Tickle, tickle, tickle!” says “Godee, godee, godee!” All three kiddos try to bite toes after tickling them – probably because we pretend to nom-nom-nom their chubby baby feet. They all give themselves away by setting their [...]

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When they were still PB&J

By On April 13, 2012 · 7 Comments

Pregnant bellies are measured by fundal height. They quit taking that measurement when i was 23 weeks pregnant, measuring at 35 weeks by singleton standards. The OB who measured me that time was impressed by my belly’s width, remarking that I certainly was carrying across rather than outward.

He wasn’t kidding. I gave up [...]

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Hide and seek

By On April 12, 2012 · 8 Comments

I know I’m in here, mixed in with Wife and Mommy, Chef and Housewife, Milkmaid and Wardrobe Manager. I find myself every now and then when the house is quiet and my brain has room to wander. I sit in front of the computer, fingers poised over the keys, ready and willing to write, to [...]

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Carpe diem

By On April 2, 2012 · 8 Comments

Sitting in the theater watching The Hunger Games last night, a scene in which a character dies set my mind off on a not-focusing-on-the-movie tangent.

I really hope that’s what it’s like to die, I thought. Peaceful, bright – and I’d really like to have someone I love in view – someoneS, really – if [...]

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