I have long worried about my likely end of life ravaged by dementia. It started as a little girl, hearing my mom tell about ancient grandmothers and great-aunts who had been shut away to whittle out what was left of their days in asylums. Caring for my grandfather during his last summer intensified my fears. He often called me Ann, my mother's ( Read more... )

The boys are running around singing Erasure, egg in a frames are sizzling on the stove, and I'm still in yesterdays clothes...this is indeed a lovely Sunday morning!


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Ok sweet baby Pips. You are looooooow, my cervix is ripe, and things are fairly well set up. Your due date is in 3 days and you are welcome to come out. Wouldn’t it rock to be a July Leo? You could share a birthday with such great people as Reta/Sally Struthers, Aunt Lindsay/Mussolini, or Graeme/Tom Green. I mean, come on. Cool, huh ( Read more... )

Damn, it is no longer Ian's birthday, but merely a shitastic Saturday (all thought Saturday clean-up is the best ever ( Read more... )

I just recieved a big package of books and magazines from Midwifery Today!  Yay!!!  So my poor boys have had to fight with Anne Frye's Holistic Midwifery for my attention all evening.  I just can't get enough!  Especially when it comes to learning about herbs and homeopathy for health.  Oooo, and today I learned about the coolest way to tell if a ( Read more... )

So I finished teaching my first class series today.  It went soooo well!  I was worried last night that the couple wasn't vibing with the unique Birthing From Within approach, but it turned out they loved it!  I think my intense Labor Theater might have been a little short and needed some moments that were less intense, but otherwise it was a ( Read more... )

Seals are trash mammals! Everyone knows that!
I am so very excited!  Today is my very first Birthing From Within class.  In the car on the way home from my second to last appointment with Amanda Moxley (*sniff sniff*), I practiced Labor Theater (which freaked out Liam a wee bit) and Birth Tigers.  That made me feel so much better to know that even ( Read more... )

Jesus!  I hadn't realized that a year and a half had past since I last posted.  Since then I've had another baby (the fabulous Liam) and we now have two more cats (all flea free, thank god).  We also have bought a great big house in North Salt Lake.  And I am just starting my doula and childbirth education practice.  I just attended my first birth ( Read more... )

Oh no! Yesterday morning, I discovered to my horror that the meows have fleas! It is so damn weird because a) they are indoor cats and b) we live in utah where there aren't fleas. That retarded scary cat that was getting into our basement must have had them. EW ( Read more... )

ugh, so i guess an hour of self-loathing wasn't enough, so i just had to tack on another half. i guess i always thought that he who will not be named would rot in eternal hell for what he did to me. but no. in fact he is quite happy with someone who seems really really awesome. granted, i am really happy with someone who is really really ( Read more... )