Elizabeth is turning }*#mf$(‘ri@0 years old so we high-tailed it to Palm Springs with our floppy hats and matching bathing suits to melt like lizards poolside and sweat out the stress of the last 1.5 …
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Some Years
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Joe meets World
Don’t mind us jerks! We’re down at a SoCal Hotel where we sojourned last February, when I was 12 weeks pregnant and Joe was the size of a Lime and Covid was still buried in …
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HAVE BABY, WILL TRAVEL
Having a pandemic quarantine baby means you really, REALLY don’t go anywhere. I literally can’t even fathom taking him to a Store. It took us weeks to even take the dude for a walk. So …
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New Rock Bottom
Our Zoom baby class teacher told us that once we had Joe, once he came out ready to party at 4 AM, we would discover what she called a New Rock Bottom. Like, whereas before …
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Bedtime Routine
All of the blogs and books recommend that you establish a bedtime routine for your kid, that soothes them, winds them down, and lets them know that sleep is coming. Given that we are highly …
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10.22.16
What else can I say about that day that hasn’t already been said? I’ll love this day forever…… Long past when we’re dead.
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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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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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BINGO!
I have to do something other than scroll, grow human, grow fat. And LORD how I love a list of tasks to check off. Here’s an effective tool for ways to educate and act. Last …
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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 …