The other night, this old picture popped up in the weird ‘here are you picture memories’ phone thing. It’s from a 2015 trip to Palm Springs with my forever friend Elizabeth (WHO IS STILL THIS …
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The Painting and the Statue
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scream feels
We have begun sleep training Joe, and by we I mean Joe screams and Morrison does the actual work of patiently listening to it, and I hide in the backyard. It only took me 90 …
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Sleep Train
For the past week or so, Joe has been going through what I will call a ‘Sleep Event’ in which he’s regressing, or maybe it’s we who are regressing, and we are sort of attempting …
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Color Meditation
I can’t seem to find a single kind of meditation that actually quiets my thoughts, but I’m determined to find one. Yesterday I attempted a five minute guided ‘color meditation’ in hopes of calming my …
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the worry spot
Joe, in 15 or so years: Mom? What is this weird spot on my chest? Me: Where? Joe: right here, over my heart? It’s this weird like, indented spot. Is it like my birthmark, or …
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the Baby Gym
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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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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Mother in Training
Baby is not moving: Me: WHAT’S WRONG, ARE YOU OKAY? Baby is moving A LOT: Me: WHAT’S WRONG, ARE YOU OKAY? Baby is moving a regular amount: Me: SOMETHING MUST REALLY BE WRONG, ARE YOU …
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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 …