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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A MAN.
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THE SNOO
Long ago, women squatted in fields and pushed out their babies, cut their own umbilical cords with rocks, shushed and soothed their own babies in the middle of the night through storms or I guess …
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joe.
Formal, more thorough announcement to come when I have a clear brain and appropriately placed internal organs, which could be never? But PLEASE MEET JOSEPH CAMERON FOSTER-KEDDIE, Joseph after my Grandpa, Cameron after Morrison’s mom, …
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Roberta Appears
Circa once a year, my Grandma Roberta appears to me in dream or in thought, like she just enters my mind exactly when I need to remember her. For those just tuning in, Roberta was …
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Exactly Right
YES it’s a global pandemic but ALSO YES we wanted to safely celebrate the fact that we’ve finally made it to this dream place, and bonus, see the top half of our friend’s faces. Getting …
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“Nine Months”
HI did you know that women are actually typically pregnant for NOT 9 months, but actually more like 10 – 10.5 months and for some reason we have all accepted and perpetuated this time myth …
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DREAM TRAINING
Lately my dreams seem to be prepping me for the fourth trimester, dropping me into odd moments where I’m exhausted and screaming to the point of tears. The other night, Julien and I were traveling …
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Almost Mother’s Day
Last Mother’s Day, we’d just had a miscarriage, so I spent the day crying on a hike then crying into a Hummingbird Cake I decided to make for all of the women who weren’t Moms …
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COME ON AND RAISE UP
Wearing my state pride shirt today, NOT BECAUSE I AM IN LOVE WITH JOE BIDEN, tho if he can actually beat Trump FINE, but because just generally, I am missing my family and hushpuppies and …
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The Moment
You would think after years of fertility drama, and all of the time and words I’ve spent bitching about it here, I would be chomping at the bit to make public our joyous news that …