The Reluctant Grownup – Page 91 – Growing old gracelessly.

Carolina, I Can Haz Recession Angst, Like a Horse and Carriage

Throw Me a PFD

Anybody else drowning today? Nothing’s going right for our little family here lately. Work is a mess – I have spent the last three weeks frantic, heart racing, trying…

May 29, 2007

Holidays and Celebrations

Aught Eleven

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Wrote a Motion to Sever. (It won!) 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you…

January 1, 2012

Domestic Bliss, Jack, Lawyerin', Liam, Tex

Get Into the Groove

(You’re welcome for the earworm.) Liam had the novel experience this morning of being “the well-behaved one” for once, and I wanted to get the event down for posterity. As…

January 20, 2015

And Now for Something Completely Different . . .

RG / January 31, 2014

Tex arrived – 10:45 am on Thursday, January 30th. A whopper, he weighed in at 9lbs, 6 oz, 23 inches long. Here is the story of his birth, in several (non-gross) parts: Tex’s…

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Frozen

RG / January 29, 2014

I plan to start my maternity leave on the Friday that falls a week before my due date. People continue to give me assignments up through the end of the day on Friday,…

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Mothers in the Legal Profession No. 334

RG / January 19, 2014

The weekly Mothers In the Legal Profession Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the Butterflyfish, PT Law Mom,Attorney Work Product, BJJ, Law, and Living, The Reluctant Grownup, and Magic Cookie blogs. Week of January 13 –…

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Distraction, They Name is Thirty Eight Weeks Pregnant

RG / January 17, 2014

I have been at work since 7:30 am. It is now 11:30 am. I have done literally zero things, besides stare out the window and take a walk to a coffee shop. Yesterday…

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False Labor and Hospital Woes

RG / January 13, 2014

After the infernal never ending contractions went to 5 minutes apart, 70 seconds long, and stayed that way for approximately five hours, I called it and went to L&D. They weren’t getting any…

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