I have trouble knowing what to say when someone compliments me for looking so "good" (meaning thin) so soon after giving birth. I feel uncomfortable just saying "thanks" for the following reasons ( Read more... )

Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott. It's a journal that the author kept during the first year of her son's life. I thought it did a great job chronicling the intense highs and lows of having one's first baby -- how really awesome the good stuff can be, and how really challenging the tough stuff is. It made me cry a lot, but that could be the ( Read more... )

This entry feels weird to write, because I know it will make me sound like an asshole. But it's how I feel, so I don't know. Just another of many moments where my identity as a mother turns out to be much more conventional than I had theoretically planned it out to be in my head ( Read more... )

This is a question that I get asked a lot, both by parents and non-parents when we are making polite conversation about my baby. What people mean by this question, I have determined, is "Does he cry a lot?" I have two answers to that question ( Read more... )

Of all of the parts of my new life that I love, I particularly enjoy my mornings with Lucas. We (and by we I mean he) get(s) up sometime around 6:00 to 6:30 on a typical day. He gets breakfast in bed while I play on my phone and then we hang out and look out the window and catch up with each other with a conversation consisting entirely of smiling ( Read more... )

1. I get to hang out with my amazing, beautiful son whom I adore all day long ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: Technically, Lucas won't be two months until Tuesday ( Read more... )

1. Take a shower and go to the bathroom whenever the heck I want to ( Read more... )

How to even start to tell you about my son Lucas? I mean, he's a baby like any other and at the same time he's the most amazing baby on the face of the planet. He's so incredibly cute, we just stare at him all the time. Except when he sleeps; then we either sleep or run around like crazy trying to get stuff done around the house. Brandon goes back ( Read more... )

The day Lucas finally chose to make his big entrance, I was bound and determined not to be pregnant anymore.  I had spent the day trying a bunch of different natural induction techniques: squats, galloping, walking, spicy food, a swim, acupressure. In the process I had neglected to take my daily nap. So of course, my water broke about ten minutes ( Read more... )