I am VERY LUCKY that I have a husband that wants to and is able to be an equal participant in raising (ie: desperately, moment to moment, trying to understand and the keeping alive of) …
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A Blessing
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A MAN.
Today, on feelings I did not anticipate: I have a crush on my son. Like before bed I lie awake looking at pictures of him, he gives me butterflies, I miss him when he’s in …
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how to walk
My greatest fears used to be very bad reviews, plummeting to my death in a plane crash, or hurting the feelings of someone I love, but now at the very top of the list is …
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why I’m crying
Apparently (definitely) after you give birth, all of the estrogen and progesterone that have been making you crazy throughout pregnancy, making you sob over tiny eggplants at the grocery store, these hormones abruptly PLUMMET, but …
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Dad Brain, Forever
ATTN ALL: THIS MAN IS AMAZING (the big one, tho please note, the smaller version has also been proving himself to be pretty great.) The hospital was a blur, there were green beans? We cried, …
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The Wizard’s Wife
For a few months during lockdown, every Saturday, Morrison led a group of our friends’ kids through WIZARD SCHOOL, a part learning part D&D zoom adventure, in which the kids solved puzzles and were treated …
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watch Paint Dry
Just slowly moving our way down the list of pregnancy movie montage moments over here. Murrca’s been bad this year so its birthday party has been CANCELLED, DON’T SEND PRESENTS. Instead we are taking today …
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Pandemic Babymoon
We decided to take a risk and VERY CAREFULLY, DISTANCE-LY, MASKED AND DRIPPING WITH HAND SANITIZER, stay a few nights at a newly re-opened low-capacity beach hotel (and other things I will remind myself when …
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I HAS CRUSH
It’s on my husband, 15 years ago. I want to stand next to him outside of an improv show drinking a beer even though I don’t like beer while he avoids eye contact and quietly …
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Nurse Appreciation Week!
Y’all, it’s NURSE APPRECIATION WEEK (which maybe should be adjusted to NURSE APPRECIATION FOREVER) and so today I’m here bragging on two of my Sister in Laws for their service. Morrison’s sister Emily is a …