Last Saturday we hit the 37 week mark. Apparently that means the kid is full-term. Which I don’t quite get - if that’s full term, then why doesn’t he just come out already? Shouldn’t full-term mean the day he is set loose? Regardless, he is apparently fully-cooked now and just hanging out in the warming [...]
We are incredibly lucky to have made really great friends here in Austin, while only technically living here for 20 months. And it seems that they all know us pretty damn well - we have six people offering to bring us food to the hospital. Yes, of course, everybody knows that hospital food is total [...]
Without a ton to write about, after a weekend of sleeping on the couch that followed a week of a lingering cold (thank you sir at Magnolia’s counter last Sunday for coughing in the direction of our lovely breakfast - your plan to infiltrate our lives with your evil virus was successful) I am finally [...]
THUD!
Me: Stomach sinks. “Oh no. What was that?” I immediately picture another episode of Jack falling down the stairs…teeth busted out…blood down his front…us at the vet for another $1,400 day. I walk from the office into the kitchen.
Marc: Standing in the entry. “Stop. I will take care of this. Don’t look.”
Me: Stomach lurches, sinks again. [...]
It is pretty funny how the nesting instinct, however subtle, is ingrained in us. Even though the kid’s room is far from done, the work that we have completed makes me feel a ton better. Even the not-so-newly painted bathroom makes me feel more ready. Maybe it’s our way of ignoring the fact that our [...]
I had been privately celebrating my body’s victory - 36 weeks in and I am one of the 25% of pregnant girls whose body doesn’t turn against her with the swelling of the extremities. Yay me!
Well, I have been betrayed. How dare my body turn into some kind of science experiment gone wrong. My toes [...]
I’m crossing Congress Bridge, in my cutest preggers outfit - a short black dress with black tights and ballet flats - on my way to a spa downtown for a mani-pedi (time for a little pampering now, that I’m a beach ball wrapped in human), when I hear honking behind me. There is no traffic [...]
While Kara is busy craving beer with still almost 4 months to go - bummer! I find myself day dreaming about liquor. This cannot be a good sign of my parenting skills to-be. While other mothers dream about holding their new baby, dressing him in all the cute little clothes they have acquired, and giving [...]
Last week, at Wholefoods by myself - a rare occasion indeed - while buying a groceries including a lovely, locally grown watermelon I was accosted by an ex-fratty, funny-guy, goober in the check-out line.
Goober: “Hey man, you better check her dress - I think she’s smuggling another one of those out!”
Goober to Goober-Girlfriend: “Har! Har! [...]
Marc and I both had visions of our lives changing completely once we got pregnant and especially once the kid came. And while our lives have changed, it hasn’t been as drastic and certainly hasn’t been as terrible as we had imagined. I think we both saw ourselves turning on all of the things we [...]
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