Jack laughed his first belly laugh today. Patrick called me up and I listened to it over the phone. What. A. Hoot. I can’t wait to get home and hear it in person. And, of course, videotape hours and hours of it. And then post it. Did you think you’d be spared?
Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated
Laughing!
Dad called me at work today. He put his cell phone on speaker, and said LISTEN TO THIS! I heard: You’re bouncing on the bed.You’re bouncing on the bed.You’re bouncing on the bed. Dad chanting over and over, the phone kind of scritching on the comforter, and little happy grunts out of you. And then…
The Skinny on Fat
Anybody else find their desire to eat healthily totally at odds with their desire to eat cheaply? Wallet or waistline? They get trimmer or fatter in parallel, I find, which is not how I would have it, were I Queen. Oh, to be an heiress.
Nursing – Thoughts
Those first nights when we brought you home, I found that though you slept in a cradle at our feet, I could not easily get out of our bed to fetch you when you cried, and so I slept on the office couch. I have not slept in that bed since the night my water…
Renaissance Girl
A friend and I were talking over lunch last week about how passionately anti-American Idol we are. OK, let me go wipe off the tomatoes that I just got pelted with, and then I will continue. Goofy reality shows are the name of the game this decade, and I get it, and it’s…