• I'm MEEEEEELLLLTTTIIIIIIING

    It is hot in this house. Patrick has gone to church without us.  I am hacking and nose-blowing my way through the morning, relying on Ms. Tele Vision to be babysitter.  Jack watches…

  • Ouch

    Hoisting 30 pounds of toddler has caused me some serious lower back pain today.  It doesn’t help that I heft around extremely substantial law casebooks whenever I’m not carrying him.  I’ve never had…

  • Tuesday with Cake

    I am thirty one years old today.  I share this birthday with little Max, a friend-of-a-friend’s baby who was born this morning at 5:30 am, and whose delivery stats I followed closely on…

  • In NOLA

    We’ve moved! And you’ve changed!The first few weeks in New Orleans, you were a little bit of, how can I put this – oh, a monster. Like, seriously monstrous. Tantrums and screaming and…