There's a country song that my dad loves to quote for me every time I get ahead of myself. Like when I decided to move to Maine at 17 to live with my aunt and uncle at their summer home and wait tables to save for school. Or when I adopted a puppy my senior [...]
The funny thing about pregnancy and childbirth is that you spend SO LONG waiting for your baby to be born - and then as soon as you go into labor time somehow shifts into hyper-speed and suddenly you're home from the hospital with a newborn and a toddler and your husband is back to work [...]
I've been both eager and terrified to write Lucy's birth story. Eager because the experience is still so fresh and so raw and so full of emotion. Nervous because this time around my blog actually has followers and I know people are expecting this and reading this and there is no way that even the [...]
My little lovebug is sick today, simultaneously breaking my heart and at the same time filling it up with all kinds of snuggles. While the munchkin sleeps (and before I catch whatever it is she has) I'm catching up on email and also finally getting around to taking some photos of Lucy's (not-really-new) nursery and putting together [...]
You twist and turn your arm, reaching for more space, presumably - and an alien ripple cascades across my belly. You're moving your wiggly little body down further and further inside me and as I begin to open up for you, I wince in pain, reminding me that our time together, just the two of us, is rapidly [...]
It's the first second week of January, which means it's time to quit coffee for a week or two, pay for a gym membership and make a list of things that need to be cleaned in my house. Of course I'm not actually going to do any of those things, but its the time of year where [...]
Normally I write about funny things on my blog. Mostly because I enjoy humor writing (Dave Barry is my literary idol, in particular because of this genius piece). But also because as a mom most things that happen to me on a daily basis are so gross/weird/disturbing that I have only two choices of how to respond [...]
As a person who has traveled quite a bit in their lifetime, I'm pretty familiar with what people in other countries think about Americans. Sometimes it's adoration, like the schoolgirls I met in Japan. Sometimes it's curiosity, like the teenage soccer team I kicked around with in Ecuador. But mostly it's anger, or worse, pity. [...]
Dear Lucy, Last night I was reading a book to your big sister and in the book the mommy goes to the doctor for an ultrasound so the big sister can see what her baby sister looks like. Mia saw the picture and was immediately worried about you. "Oh no, mommy!" she said. "It's dark in there. Lucy's [...]
When you're pregnant for the second time it's really easy to forget. Like, actually forget your pregnant. Sometimes Dan has to remind me that I can't have a beer and I'm thinking, why? And then I get wicked heartburn and it's like, oh yeah. But earlier this week at my 19 week ultrasound it got [...]
Oh Baby Richards 