I like getting presents. I think that most people do. However, I have a host of feelings about receiving gifts that I don’t have when giving them. Selecting something for a loved one, imagining how they might enjoy it, and wrapping it up for the gift-giving occasion makes me feel happy. Since I’ve spent...
Read more →My house has Christmas lights on it! I've never had that before. The baby and I both love them! # Hard day today. Baby rolled off the couch and bonked her head. Later she scraped and welted her thigh. Sad baby. Sad mommy, too. # Baby has a wet-sounding cough. This makes me nervous....
Read more →Rachael over at The Variegated Life wrote recently about the need to take breaks. I liked this post enough that I wanted to do my own. For me, a break is not: Sitting on the couch while the baby sleeps in my lap. This is a break from her needs and from mothering for...
Read more →This will be my first Christmas with a baby. As marriage changed my holidays, having a child will, too. For example: now that we’ve spawned, my husband’s family decided that the adults would not exchange presents. We will only shop “for the kids.” It’s a cost-effective solution in a down economy, and the adults...
Read more →I'm so cold-natured that I curl around the baby for warmth during our nap. Thank goodness she's a little heater. Just like her dad! # Made possibly the ugliest baby toy in the world today. Ah well. The baby doesn't know it's ugly. # Sometimes it makes me feel sad to be up all...
Read more →The baby had to tell my breast all about her night before she could finish nursing. # I put the play mat by the window. I thought the baby would enjoy it, but didn't expect the dogs to love it, too! Sunbaking mammals FTW. # It's great that the baby will play happily on...
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