And with an abrupt and unpleasant Monday, we return to our regularly scheduled programming from a fabulous week at the beach with The Professor’s Parents and The Professor’s Sister and The Niece. I’ll go ahead and reveal that we call these folks D.D. (or DeeDee, not sure how it should be spelled – deciding grandparental…
Category: Everyday Adventures
Twenty Five
This is the number of pounds I have to lose to get to my pre-baby weight. SUCK. I gained the same amount with each boy, but with Jack I had way less to lose. I think my one postpartum month of visitors, plus my inability to do much of anything even remotely athletic, made me…
Summer
This morning Liam slept on my chest. I watched his uneven newborn breathing – now fast, now slow. Squeak, sigh, groan – flail the arms, relax. He waved one arm around violently until it landed on my neck and he felt my skin, and then he spread his tiny palm and held it there. He…
The Fourth of July
Right now, Jack is sleeping soundly in his room. Liam is hiccuping and flailing in my mother’s arms, as she rocks him in the glider in the corner. The cat is hovering over my keyboard, desperate to sit on my hands and obstruct my half hour of internet productivity. The dog is in his spot…
Sunday at the Park
On Sunday we put Jack into his wagon and dragged him over the bumpy New Orleans roads to a nearby park. He spent the first half of playtime there being afraid of a motorized kid-sized John Deere tractor, and then when the other kids abandoned the tractor and he no longer felt compelled to subject himself…