category: emotional
girls are emotional. deal with it.
kitty update
November 13, 2008
"I thought since you all were part of the Giving The Cats Away drama a few months ago, it was only fair that I share an update on how they’re both doing in their new homes. First, Gracie. She’s doing great. Dan’s uncle sends us emails ‘from’ her, and they are seriously the cutest things I’ve [...]"
Number Two.
November 10, 2008
"When you get married, sometimes AT THE WEDDING, people immediately start asking The Question: When are you having a baby? At first, it’s cute. I mean, you JUST got married, you’re barely home from the honeymoon. HA HA not quite yet, thank you! But after a while it gets a little more pressure-packed, like WHEN ARE [...]"
civic duty.
November 04, 2008
"Today is a big day. Regardless of what ’side’ you are on (and let me just tell you how much I feel like I’m in 3rd grade talking about all this ‘us’ and ‘them’ and ‘which side?’ crap. WE NEED A RELEVANT THIRD PARTY IN THIS COUNTRY SO BADLY.) you have to admit: it’s all rather [...]"
letter to myself at 18
August 28, 2008
"A while back, Amanda over at Shamelessly Sassy posted a letter she wrote to her 18-year-old self. I immediately saved that idea in my mental ‘blog post ideas’ file (what, doesn’t everybody have one of those?) It’s taken me a while to get around to it, but… here’s my letter. Dear Eighteen-Year Old Jen, Wow. So you’ve [...]"
boats and fireworks and kitties
August 19, 2008
"Well hello there! Thought I fell off the face of the earth, didn’t you? Nope. Just a weekend filled with Lots of Fun and also giving away kitties. Basically from Thursday night until Sunday night, we didn’t stop. So yesterday? We were EXHAUSTED. And not just because Maggie woke up at 5:15, only to ‘take [...]"
Good-bye, Señor F-Nuts.
August 14, 2008
"Tonight, we took Scotty to his new home. (You can read the back-story here and here.) (Just a quick note on the title of this entry: Dan has had a ’special’ name for Scotty for the last few years. I’ll let you figure out what the ‘F’ stands for. It’s not exactly appropriate for the mixed [...]"
Tikki Tikki Tembo
August 07, 2008
"Yesterday I was sorting through the mail piled up on our dining room table. (Question: Am I the only one who fights a ridiculous losing battle with The Pile Of Crap On The Table? I swear, every 2 hours I’m cleaning stuff off of it.) In the pile, there was a catalog for children’s books, [...]"
16 months
July 31, 2008
"Dear Maggie, I know, I know: I have been absolutely horrible at keeping up with these monthly letters. I had grand plans to write you a note every month, talking about your milestones and all the wonderful things that come with you growing up. In reality, I’ve kind of sucked at doing that. Best laid plans. [...]"
the final straw
July 12, 2008
"First, I want to thank everyone for their comments on the last entry. Hearing others’ experiences and opinions (even the contrary ones) really does help. To be honest, I was afraid to write about what is quite a personal and somewhat sensitive decision for us. You just never know what you’re going to get on [...]"
The Furry Children
July 10, 2008
"A few months ago I posted about our less-than-tolerant attitude toward our cats. They used to be our babies, our furry children. Then we had a real, non-furry, human child and sadly, they kind of got knocked down a peg or two on the Priority Scale. I know that part of it is my fault. I [...]"
hoping for a vomit-free evening
June 25, 2008
"So this week has sucked so far, pretty much. I took Maggie to the doctor yesterday just to get her checked out. No strep, just a nasty virus. Her fever comes and goes, and her throat must be ridiculously sore because she will look at me as she coughs with this horribly sad and pained expression, [...]"
ode to my dad
June 21, 2008
"I rarely post about my parents. In fact, I can’t even remember ever posting anything specific about my dad, other than mentioning in passing that he came over to help with whatever home-improvement project I dreamed up. (He’s quite handy, my dad!) I tend to shy away from writing specifics on here about anyone other [...]"
13 months
April 28, 2008
"Dear Maggie, So far, having a 1-year-old has been kind of hard. The month started just fine, a good 1-year checkup at the doctor, just one immunization shot that you handled pretty well, and a fun day-trip to my friend Susan’s baby shower. Pretty uneventful. Then your daddy left town for 11 days and I was all [...]"
alone no more
April 19, 2008
"Internet, I’ve been lying to you all week. Not maliciously, and not really about anything that important. But because since becoming a Mom, I’ve turned quite paranoid about The World, especially the Internet World (I spent Thursday night making pretty much every Flickr picture on my account that had a person in it ‘Friends & Family [...]"
introspective on my birthday
April 14, 2008
"So today I turn 29. TWENTY. NINE. That sounds so… old. Like I’m a grownup or something. When I was a kid, I remember hearing people say that they were 29 and thinking Wow, that sounds so adult and mature! I can’t wait to be that age! And now that I am 29? I certainly don’t [...]"
again with the perspective
April 02, 2008
"I was going to post a snarky, funny entry about how my period was messing with me again this month, having me convinced that I was surprisingly pregnant (I’m not.) I was nauseous for 2 days, and some things were happening with my girl-stuff that were identical to those that happened when I WAS pregnant [...]"
everyone needs some perspective
April 01, 2008
"If you haven’t seen it already, please read Emily’s post about her close friends and their 16-month-old daughter. Maybe it’s because my baby is close in age, but my heart was breaking reading their story. Help if you can, and spread the word. More posts like this: again with the perspective April 2, 2008 friday forum March 10, [...]"
one year later
March 28, 2008
"Dear Maggie, I’ve been putting off writing this Birthday Letter for a while now, but being that today is your first birthday, I guess I can’t wait anymore. It just seems to overwhelming to try to put into words the way you have transformed our lives in the last year. That’s a lot of pressure! Words [...]"
one short year
February 29, 2008
"Today I found Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule (thanks to Jessica!) and of course I had to sign up, and I immediately got my first bi-weekly email of photos from this time last year. Two of the photos are piles of gifts and clothes from my baby shower, one is of my GIGANTIC pregnant belly, and [...]"
part of the human race again
January 08, 2008
"I’m finally starting to come out of the fog and haze that was Saturday through Monday. I’m pretty sure Maggie had some sort of ear infection- fever, screamed bloody murder when we put her down anywhere (hence, NO SLEEPING FOR ANYONE.) and she had some very minor cold symptoms. But by Monday morning when I [...]"
out on a high note
November 07, 2007
"After a very long, stressful day that had me almost in tears* on my way to pick Maggie up from daycare, it ended with three glorious events: 1. Maggie. Just her smile is enough to make my day better. 2. A fajita-burrito and chips from Moe’s. Who cares how many Weight Watchers points it was? It was [...]"
Maggie, 3 months
June 29, 2007
"Dear Monster, I hope you don’t mind that we call you that. You’ll soon learn that in our house, name calling is a way of showing love and affection. And little girl, we surely do love you. Bunches. Yesterday you turned 3 months old. It is true what all those books and articles said, that after about [...]"
five years
June 08, 2007
"Five years ago today, I got married. After our short and relatively cheap honeymoon to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, we moved into our first home together- a small, 2 bedroom apartment. We quickly settled into a blissful, married life. Since then… it’s been a whirlwind of STUFF. We bought a house. Dan got his Masters [...]"
hold the beans
April 16, 2007
"A lot of you have asked for details on the crying over a burrito incident- so the least I can do is oblige :) But first, some back story. For those of you who have never experienced the first week post-partum… it’s HARD. I had always heard it was hard, I had read about it, and [...]"
Maggie: 1 week
April 05, 2007
"Dear Maggie-Girl, You are one week old now. A whole week! And we haven’t broken you! This is definitely a cause for celebration. A little over a week ago, you were still in my belly. I have to admit- as much as pregnancy was starting to drive me nuts, you were a lot easier to take care [...]"
