Ya’ll ladies know that sound, right? The super-quick washing machine swish of a little fetal heartbeat? Often accompanied by the much stronger, much slower beat of its mother’s heart, together entwining to form a glorious symphony of rushing blood and health and life? (POETRY, what’s up.) Love that sound. That sound, and the little flutter kicks,…
Cute Child Things, August 2013
They had an “around the world” month at daycare, and at the end of the month brought home a “passport” with stamps in it from each country they visited. Liam, reading off the countries he “visited” and pointing to each stamp in turn, says this: We went to China, Germany, France, and da country wif…
Saturday morning meal planning
I must be feeling somewhat better, as today I woke up feeling like doing a little menu planning and grocery shopping. The morning sickness is not gone, oh lordy no . . . it comes and goes in waves, and I still suffer the heaves a few times a week. But it’s better than it…
Mothers in the Legal Profession Roundup No. 314
The weekly Mothers In the Legal Profession Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the Butterflyfish, PT Law Mom,Attorney at Large, Attorney Work Product, BJJ, Law, and Living, here, and Magic Cookieblogs. Hello all, it’s your lovely belated author here, providing last Sunday’s Roundup. I plead work travel – sans laptop. I had plenty of child-free evening hours to…
Spiderman Sensation
Today was a happy day of errands, as I’d anticipated. We decided to divide and conquer – The Professor taking our littlest to the grocery store, and me taking our eldest to buy school uniforms for him and pregnant-lady-swollen-feet shoes for me. Jack had had a rough night the night before – we met friends…