There are things called baby gyms that you put your baby underneath to stimulate their brains, and if you DON’T then your baby will grow up to be a murderer or at least have little …
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the Baby Gym
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Crying Practice
Over the last few weeks and months I have ingested many apps and blogs and articles and message boards, led to each after Googling something like ‘IS BABY OKAY?’ or ‘NORMAL TO FEEL LIKE BABY …
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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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The Crib
Last week we hit the THIRD TRIMESTER which means that in a VERY SHORT AND YET WHAT STILL FEELS LIKE A LARGE AMOUNT OF TIME, the baby will live OUTSIDE my body, and we will …
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not funny
Like a month ago, I had a very good? very bad? idea? Let’s just simply call it an ‘idea’ to make virus shaped cookies with frowning faces and give to friends. And in the time …
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The Bag
For SOME reason I was bummed yesterday (pregnancy or pandemic? Fun Game) so we started putting together a baby registry to lift my spirits, AND IT WORKED. It was mostly a game of Wait, What …
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Meet the Pod
Social Pod: (n): a small group of individuals who have achieved the required quarantine state, and therefore know they are not infected with coronavirus, and THEREFORE can begin to socialize in person Our pod: Morrison, …
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how know you’re 97
After a much needed 5:30 PM post-work power nap, you take a moment, actually a long SERIES of moments, to gaze lovingly at your new teapot that you ordered to match the pepper shaker that …
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Charmed, I’m sure
For Christmas this year, The Brunstetters copied the Foster-Keddies, maybe because I forced them to, and did a Secret Santa type gift exchange. Employing a very fancy Santa app in which I first accidentally left …
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with, in fact, a bang
Starting 2020 off right with a 7 AM flight to NYC for a Notebook workshop and SETTING OFF THE TSA METAL DETECTOR WITH MY FERTILITY GODDESS GOOD LUCK CHARM NECKLACE, and then receiving my first …