Oh my dears, life is rather intense lately. You can rather imagine why, but on top of the usual, I’ll be writing my canonical exams next week. Seven days, seven papers to write. Mum is coming up to help with N, but I still have M who is very much in the “fourth trimester,” and … More About the Destash
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 should now officially be down to one project. But I’m not. Many months ago – I think I first blogged about it last September – I decided to get my WIP problem under control. Seriously under control: I wanted to get down to having only one project on the needles. My reasons for doing … More Dalliance
It all started with Bird Bingo. Literal Bird Bingo. Jared’s dad had gotten this game for N’s birthday – she had a thing for a random animal matching game at Mimi and Granddad’s house, and this was a close replacement – and sure enough, N loves it. We don’t actually play bingo, of course; we dump … More The Booby Slippers
While my mother was in the process of launching Colorstorms as a new business, and I wanted to keep designing for her lovely yarns as I could, we agreed on a design assignment for me. We decided on a small project – one skein each of two colors of Woolpaca solids – a shawlette, something quick and … More Saxifrage
Hooray, baby is here, we’re all very happy about it, now back to talking about knitting! Baby M gets a particularly early start as a sock model, at only six days old. She looks pretty excited about it, don’t you think? Yes, I chose the route of self control, and before starting another thing, I … More Labor Socks
Before I move out of “birth blog mode” and back to our regularly scheduled posts about knitting and food and playing with life’s mundanities, I have one last shout out to make. And that’s to Sara, who is Bona fide Photography. This post includes some of her remaining shots that I haven’t already shared. I … More A Thank You for Photos
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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