Maybe this whole “Series” thing was kind of silly, but I really just wanted to stretch out the telling of today’s announcement. I wasn’t sure how to do it. I wanted to do some kind of dramatic reveal. I thought about starting with a description of how our lives have sort of sucked a little…
Burdens – Part 1 of a 3 Part Series
*Preliminary note – this ends well.* So if there is one lesson I want you to take from today’s post, it is this. If you go to the doctor, and the check-in nurse wants to take your blood pressure on an arm where you had blood drawn 48 hours ago (and you had blood drawn…
Just taking a brief moment to complain . . .
. . . about what a nuisance pumping is. Actually nursing Liam when we’re together is easier than messing with formula and bottle warmers and what-have-you, and I like it just fine. But when I’m at school, working, with limited babysitter time, and no dedicated office – it is a huge pain to feel that…
Who Da Wo-Man?
When we returned home from Christmas, we found in our collected mail among the bills and Christmas cards a letter from the City of New Orleans Photo Safety Program. When we opened the letter, it gave us the bad news – our car had caught the eye of a speed camera downtown, and we were…
Tomorrow, as it turns out, hasn’t been quite so great.
The Sleep Train -it’s one so easily derailed. Vaccinations, teething, illness, ear infections, diarrhea and nausea from the antibiotics used to treat the damn ear infections – all of these things can take a child who has been trained to sleep 10 hours straight at night, and turn him into a Sleep Sucking Demon that will destroy…