yes, that's what i said ( Read more... )

i suppose that i should take the whole worlds advice and 'sleep when my baby sleeps' - nap during the day instead of continuing to scrape by on five or six hours of sleep a night - five or six hours that gets interrupted for an hour or two twice a night, anyway - but...  but alas, i was given a laptop for christmas and it's my "other favorite toy" ( Read more... )

somewhere in the world there's a dude named kevin griffith, and he wrote this, and it's awesome:

A poem has to offer promise.  Even severed heads dream a little.  Even the bronze butterfly will wake from its dark branch.  Keep that chin up.  For every suicide, there are at least a hundred births, and I admit I love my children, who, aside from ( Read more... )

even your least charming attribute is enough to make me want to get caught.

tag team, back again..

anyone who spent a lot of time with me while i was pregnant must remember the horrible heartburn i had all the time, right? always popping pepcid pills and eating tums like they were candy??
well, we went to the peds. today to find out why elise always gets so fussy right after she eats and why she won't fall asleep right away and starts screaming ( Read more... )

well baby i've been here before ( Read more... )

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apparently i can't post pictures on livejournal unless i have a paid account.. or can i? i'm not sure. regardless, i set up an account on flickr, so you can go there and see the pics of elise i've uploaded so far - these are some of the good ones. beware, i am a very proud mommy!

i'll try to make this quick ( Read more... )

At 5:25am on December 25th my daughter, Elise Victoria Kelley, was born ( Read more... )