The Reluctant Grownup – Page 164 – Growing old gracelessly.

Domestic Bliss, Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!

This Is Not A Post About A Wedding

I’m in my parents’ kitchen in Nashville, dropping crumbs of chocolate chip cookie into my baby son’s mouth and monitoring the doneness of some pasta boiling on the stove. I…

July 26, 2011

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Broken

My daily cycling commute takes me about ten blocks west to the park, then about a mile north along the park trails to school. The road we live on is…

November 14, 2009

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Bored and Boring

My head aches. No reason, just pregnancy in general. The 12 days of pregnant Christmas should really be more like 50 days, if it was truly going to list all…

December 12, 2007

Does My Butt Look Big in These Pants?

RG / August 15, 2010

The ones whose seat I am flying by the . . . seat . . . of . . . um. So I was thinking about that expression today on a long car…

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Eh-Wa! Chup-up! Where Are You!

RG / August 11, 2010

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…

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Golden

RG / July 28, 2010

He gives me the side-eye, a sneaky wicked grin. I am in for it. A few seconds later, he makes a beeline for my chair, sloshing most of the water out of his…

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Look at me, squeezing in another entry

RG / July 24, 2010

I also wanted to say that you have just recently started having your animals act things out. Since the bulk of your language is still nonsense, we can’t understand what’s going on, but…

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Annoyed

RG / July 24, 2010

48 hours you have fussed, grunted, wiggled, and resisted sleep. If I put you down, you wail, but when I hold you, you wiggle. When dad holds you, you also wail, so it’s…

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