Monthly Archives: April 2007

Beyond all odds, Ella is still asleep right now. It’s in these quiet, still moments that Motherhood catches up with me. How do I spend this (unguaranteed, quickly expiring) chunk of time – A shower? Breakfast? Cleaning up last night’s … Continue reading

One of the requirements to being a humorist is that your reader needs to think you are always having a good time, even if you are not. I, for so many reasons including this one, am not a humorist. When … Continue reading

We. Have. Health. Insurance. I am giddy. If I break my leg tomorrow, I do not have to set it myself! If Ella is still raspy in a few days, I can totally take her to the doctor! If Tom … Continue reading

Happy Earth day ya’ll. To mark it, Tom and I watched An Inconvienient Truth. I will spare you all another meandering diatribe, since I really am not as morose as my previous post would have you think. So how about … Continue reading

Growing up, family was a vague and fluid idea. Sometimes it held my father, sometimes my mother, and for fleeting moments, both. Sometimes I had aunts, sometimes I had cousins, but generally only in summer, and half of the people … Continue reading

I know I just posted 20 minutes ago, and I should be putting on my shoes to go to school, but I need to show you what I just finished. It’s a big sister shirt! I decided I wanted to … Continue reading

 I could have sworn I saw my little brother today, at the the bus stop near my house. Same build, same hair, same walk. I double took as I drove by, and then sat in my driveway for a minute … Continue reading

Last night on my way to pick up Tom at the bus park-and-ride, I passed a woman holding a tiny infant girl, with two small boys walking behind her. She was carrying a tattered diaper bag in her free hand, … Continue reading

    Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Robert Frost, from A Prayer in … Continue reading

Talking with friends at knit club (knit club, party time, fabulous) I realized how excited I am for (get read to hate me) birth. Birth! I am excited for birth! I just came out of the closet as a birth-lover! … Continue reading