We’ve officially survived our first week with a newborn baby, and I’ve got to admit, it makes me feel both like a rock-star champion and a totally worn-down rag doll. But I have a feeling that overall, those kinds of contradictions might be pretty prevalent in this thing called new parenthood. Here are a few …
I deliberated for awhile about posting a birth story–it’s such an intimate thing, yet at the same time, it’s an experience that leaves you so filled up with so many feelings that you just want to tell the world. In the end, I figured that those who would want to know can read on, and …
Our daughter, Raven Jade, joined us at sunrise on Sunday April 12th weighing 7 lbs., 6 ounces, and being 19 inches long. She came after 12 hours of labor, and I finally understand why people say they are “so in love” after being blessed with a newborn. (I mean, you know it’s true love when …
Same skirt, 7 months later. (First picture taken at almost 2 months pregnant, second picture taken at more than 8.5 months pregnant (aka, now)). It is disturbing to me now that I originally thought that I looked a little bloated and full in the face in that first picture when I posted it back …
–Me at 37 weeks– (And yes, I have indeed heard all of these over the course of the last 8+ months): 1. “My daughter’s due at the same time as you, and she’s already gained THIRTY-TWO pounds this pregnancy!” (said incredulously, as if she’s never heard of any woman gaining such a massive amount of …
Each month this year, I’ve decided to focus on just one area of my life intensely rather than pull my mind in a million different directions with a whole list of goals and expectations having to do with everything from how many books I’ll read to how much exercise I plan to do. For …
After three years of teaching a whole unit on how money doesn’t buy happiness (while my classes read A Christmas Carol), you’d think I’d be pretty dead-set sold that no amount of money could improve my life that much. Last weekend, I discovered how very wrong I’d been. Apparently, the amount of a tax return …
Something I didn’t realize at 16 (when I made my first bucket list) was that life dreams change (sometimes drastically) over time. At 16, one of the first items on my bucket list was to travel to every country in the world. Now, at 28, I realize that that dream is, besides being a …
