The Reluctant Grownup – Page 255 – Growing old gracelessly.

What is Love?

The cat, running wild, runs down the hall, ramps off the washer, and leaps into the air before flipping around and scrabbling in the opposite direction across the wood floor,…

August 7, 2006

Jack, Pregnancy Sucks, Dude

The News

Let’s look over some snippets from The Reluctant Grownup & I Wonder Women archives, circa late summer 2007, now known as “The Blissful Season of Ignorance.” July 23 – Muffaletta…

October 5, 2007

Carolina, HR Managin', Pregnancy Sucks, Dude, Sixteen Tons, Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two

Hormonal and Crabby

So I’m planning our fall family event at work. It will be a weekend in late October, when the air is crisp but not too cool, when the nights don’t…

August 30, 2007

Other People's Sorrow

RG / March 26, 2008

I have stumbled across the beautifully written blogs of a couple of mothers who lost their babies. It’s inevitable in the linked up world of blogging – at the moment, mommy blogs are…

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March Time

RG / March 24, 2008

Time is messing with me this week. I want it to hurry on, so Patrick will come home, and Jack will remove his bulky squirming mass from my straining abdomen. I want it to…

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Virgil's Morning Routine

RG / March 21, 2008

6:25 am BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BO- Yawn. Lick paws. Streeetch corgi legs. Chin on paws. Wait exactly nine minutes. BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BO- …

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I Wonder What Is Making Me Happy Today?

RG / March 18, 2008

I am very raindrops-on-roses-and-whiskers-on-kittens today, so this topic couldn’t be more easy for me. What is so great about my life right now, you ask? The pets and fetus had a pow wow,…

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Baby Update

RG / March 17, 2008

My appointment was today. He’s turned. His head is way down where it’s supposed to be, so when he gets the hiccups I’ve been feeling it in my, er, nether parts. It’s very…

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