Archive for January, 2009
Happy, happy birthday sweet boy!
In June of 2007, I called to tell her that I was expecting. We’d talked when she was last home, the month before, and I’d told her we were going to try. We’d giggled and squealed and cried in my kitchen, looking into the unknown.
Then that phone call. “I’m pregnant,” I said.
More tears, more laughter, [...]
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Tags: baby's first birthday, friendship, motherhood
cuteness of a random sort
Madeline, you are just so cute. It’s your saving grace after a night like last night, when you kept me awake from 12:30am – 2:30am simply wanting to play.
Two weeks ago, you went to Grammy’s house for the day and found her cat. You love to chase poor Lucy, and she’s mostly a good sport [...]
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Tags: cute baby stuff, parenting
if you have nothing nice to say…
Well I don’t. I have nothing nice to say at the current moment.
I’m getting sucked back down again, into the big black hole that is sometimes my mind. I’m anxious and I can’t sleep and I feel like a hamster on a wheel, just running and running and never getting anywhere.
And for the love of [...]
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Tags: 30 Day Shred, desserts, winter, winter blues
eleven months
Oh, my baby girl. Eleven months. Where has the time gone?
I cannot entirely recall the tiny baby you once were. Our friend Loni visited with her son Kareem; he was only seven weeks old at the time. As I held him, his body felt foreign and fragile – so different from your chubby, sturdy length. [...]
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Tags: 11 months, letters, parenting
you say it’s your birthday…
So, I’m 25 years old today. Which strikes me mostly as a QUARTER OF A CENTURY OLD. Sheesh.
Since becoming a mom, though, I can’t help but think of this as a day that should have been more about my mom all these years. About her gift, my life.
Her pregnancy with me was difficult, from what [...]
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Tags: 25th birthday, birthday, choosing life, mom, pregnancy
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