The toddler is actually asleep during the daytime. The six-week old is swaddled and staying asleep while not physically attached to me. At the same time. This is the first time this has happened in weeks. Welcome to my life! The adjustment to having two kids has been… about what you’d expect. We had our “babymoon” … More There Should Be Two of Them
I do love to knit. But, as it turns out, even when I don’t have much time for knitting myself, there are fringe benefits to just being a knitter. (No pun intended, though I do like a good fringe.) One of them is, other knitters and craft-artists are more likely to give you handmade stuff – … More Hand-me-down Love
I realized, in reading over Martha’s birth story, that one person’s name doesn’t come up as much as one might expect: Jared’s. At one level, this is for the very obvious reason that childbirth is quite literally women’s work. So it makes sense that women’s words and wisdom would come to the forefront. … More Daddy
This is the story of Martha Elanor’s birth – the whole story, no text omitted. Fair warning: I am pretty thorough in my description of what happened, which gets a little specific in the medical quarter. If that bothers you, be forewarned. All pictures are pretty modest, though. You will notice below this post a password-protected … More Easter Vigil: Martha’s Birth Story
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It’s just after midnight on Holy Saturday. A day that I never expected to reach while still pregnant, eleven days past my due date. I’m awake not exactly by choice, but because every night I don’t take a Benadryl, I seem limited to a four-hour quota of sleep. I am blessed by a savory midnight … More Meditations from the Belly of the Whale
We are at EDD +4 today. Surprisingly, my calm increases as the days pass, as the inevitability of little Pat’s birth draws comfortingly closer, and as pre-labor progresses at its own impossibly slow rate. I think, with N, I just didn’t have time to get this uncomfortable. She was breech until 39 weeks, so I … More Progress, Slow but Sure
We are pretty excited about Advent around here. Not only is this the first year we have a kidlet old enough to share some advent traditions with, but this is the first year in four that Advent hasn’t been shared with the End of Semester Press. It is hard to get your Liturgical New Year … More All my Advent Thoughts
Uf, I feel terribly behind on blogging. On this site I don’t feel like a two week absence is really worth comment, but yesterday I listed out all the posts I have been wanting to write, and I really am terribly behind. There’s gluten experiments to update you on, veggies to report, advent fun… even … More {pretty, funny, happy, real} – year’s end edition
Recently, I have expressed, both privately to myself, and here on the internet, and out loud with my vocal chords to humans in my presence, a desire to make my writing here on The Blog more theological. More reflective. This hasn’t really happened, despite my having more thoughtful writing ideas than I can remember (and … More {pretty, happy, funny, real}: poop edition
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