I only work three days a week, Tues-Thurs. While our weekends are filled with family activities, that leaves Cora and I with two days, to ourselves, to get into trouble. Right now, Monday's tend to be our wind down day at home to relax and Friday's are our errand running day. In between, on those days, [...]
Month: September 2016
What you don’t see in pictures
We sat on the back deck last night, in the dark, soaking in the last night of summer. I sipped a glass of wine, my husband smoking a cigar, the baby monitor on the table between us. I had that pressure building in my chest all day. It started with those memory photos that Facebook [...]
Building an immunity
One of the pros to putting Cora in daycare was for her to build her immune system up. To literally have my kid pick up a few colds and other germs so that her little body could learn to fight these things off. We have manage the flu bug, HFM disease and a few colds. [...]
Kicking the Bottle
When we went in for our 9 month appointment our pediatrician talked to us about getting rid of the bottle by the time Cora turned 1. Not that she pressured us about it but did help us understand how much more difficult it will be after age 1. Quite frankly, I was totally on board with the [...]
What Did I Do Before Baby?
Before I had Cora, I would constantly hear parents, of little ones, say I don't even remember what life was like before I had my baby! What did I do with all my free time? First of all, I want to punch people who say that. Secondly, you remember. Thirdly, quit saying that. I remember [...]
This is 10 months
(I forgot to write about 9 months, but it did happen!) Here we are in the middle of 10 months having just celebrated a nice Labor day weekend. I spent the past two years, at this time, being pregnant, so it was an odd feeling to look back on. We entered the 10th month while [...]
Ups and Downs of Marriage
Forget parenting. Forget work decisions and career options. Forget trying to figure out a household budget. You know what is hard and sometimes just fucking weird? Marriage. You can literally want to love someone so hard and smother them to death all in one day. Or one hour. Sometimes you just have to take it [...]
Life of a fertile
A few weeks ago my day care provider told me she was pregnant with her second child and quickly followed it up with her social media announcements. To be fair, she wasn't joking, she shows very early and it is hard to keep that a secret on her. Personally, I still would have kept it off [...]
Through My Mistakes 