Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!
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Thirty Five
I turned thirty five over Labor Day weekend. We traveled up north to watch the home team play the first college football game of the season, and it was epic in both good ways and bad: BAD: The husband was out of town, so getting out was an Endeavor. After staying up late finishing up some work assignments, and then getting up at 2:30 to deal with a certain little boy who had peed the bed, I had a lot to do to get us out the door. Had to do the pee laundry, plus Jack’s uniforms for the following week, and fold it so as to avoid ironing…
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Emergence
Over the course of the past week, my morning sickness has finally begun to trickle away. I am 12 weeks pregnant today, and . . . Oh Lord, dare I say it out loud? . . . I think I might be coming out of the roughest stage. I still feel poised to plunge over the precipice of nausea at any time, and occasionally do, but it comes in waves instead of a solid, unyielding wall. And even the waves are fading. Last weekend, I did laundry. I have become a useful creature again. So life looks a lot rosier from the Land of the Not-Throwing-Up. I wouldn’t say I have boundless energy…
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Eas-terrific!
We had a lovely Palm and Easter Sunday. Holy Week was a special time for me at our church last year, and I missed being a part of the festivities and celebrations there. But we enjoyed getting to know our new church’s traditions, which included a child’s parade of palms on Palm Sunday. Afterwards, Jack solemnly informed us that he was scared because he wanted me to go with him up the aisle, but he sucked his thumb so he wouldn’t be afraid. The intervening week was unremarkable, until Thursday evening when a car full of family pulled up to our door. The Professor’s sister, her husband, and their two…
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2013
I just wanted to put something here. 2013 is flying by (11 days gone, already!), and unremarked upon. This cannot go on. A (very pleasant, planned for, and happily accommodated) wrench was thrown into our daily lives when we took a trip north (everywhere domestic is north from here) to visit a newborn niece. She arrived a day ahead of schedule, while I was working out of our Atlanta office, preparing an Initial Disclosures package and furiously checking facebook for picture updates. I spent several mornings snuggling baby and several afternoons billing, and because I suffered a hideous neck injury from doing something crazy like looking to the left without…
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the end is the beginning
My husband’s grandmother passed away. My husband is very private, he reads this blog, and I am not sure how much he’d want put here about this experience. But it feels disingenuous to write about our summer without acknowledging this sorrowful life event. She lived a long life, suffered a long illness, and is now at peace. My son carries a lot of her features in his lovely face – we will be sure that he knows about the Gran who gave him his brow and smile. *********************************** The summer is coming to a close. While we continue to provide non-stop fun for the boys, I am increasingly caught up…