She had eaten too much for lunch, and upon returning to work her greatest fear was realized – her stomach burst in a fantastic explosion of guts, pizza, and the requisite daily 64 ounces of water, and when the air cleared all that was left of her was an 8 pound baby, sitting in the…
Detritus
Last night I slept deeply enough to dream, but woke enough times to remember them. In my first dream, I was married to the bad news guy who I described in that lengthy and emotional post last July. Ben and I were heading into a buffet line at a restaurant where you had to…
FYI
In paging through my most recently posted pictures, it occurred to me that perhaps I should explain: the wine I am drinking copious amounts of at my brother-in-law’s 30th birthday is non-alcoholic wine that comes in a wine bottle with a wine label and a wine vintage year and everything, so when you pour it into…
April Fools
Yesterday as I was dressing for my morning doctor’s appointment, Patrick screeched my name from the front room. "JESUS, Gill, you gotta see this! Holy COW!" "What, what??" I say, totally excited to see something that would make my mild-mannered husband EXCLAIM in ALL CAPITALS to me before 9 in the morning. "OH MY GOD,…
Sleep is for Wimps
Indulge me. I promise, only once weekly pregnancy complaint blogs from here on out. Since today was a doctors appointment and I got some mucho-uncomfortable poking and prodding in my delicate parts, and I also slept NOT AT ALL last night, and I’m here at work with a kazillion things to do, I think today…