Robert nailed it when he said this first Ijah free long week­end was like a sea­son finale.  It’s not a show chang­ing one, but it’s a big step.
When Sher­man and I first met I wasn’t sure that I wanted chil­dren.  I had decided that I didn’t in an ear­lier rela­tion­ship and the thought hadn’t really occured […]

There was really only so much more cold and dreary I could deal with…I felt my san­ity slip­ping away…running actu­ally, run­ning away from the cold grey.  “What?  You com­plain about cold and rainy yet you dream of Seat­tle?”  I know, but its different…way dif­fer­ent.  Seat­tle has an ocean, for that, I deal with rain.
But the infusion […]

I used to write in here a lot. It was like a brain purge. And I was hon­est. When life was good I wrote it, when it wasn’t I wrote it, when preg­nancy was awe­some or it sucked I was hon­est about it. But for some rea­son I’ve always avoided writing […]

The gro­cery is one of Elijahs favs…

Babies have the power to con­trol time.  They can stop it, stretch it, speed it up, slow it down.  It’s really quite astound­ing. 
I’m pretty sure it begins with birth.  In my expe­ri­ence, labor was fif­teen min­utes of hell.  Every­one else around said it was a good two hours.  That is a good time control, […]

Dis­claimer:  I am being a total whiny bag in the fol­low­ing post.  Life isn’t nearly as hard as I make it sound.  And my car­rier is one of the small­est and light­est I could find.  That said feel free to read on.
My shoul­der hurts today…along with the rest of my arm.  Yes­ter­day I got a taste […]

Insom­nia is a spe­cial kind of hell for me.  Espe­cially lately.  It doesn’t hap­pen often, but nights where I can’t get to sleep suck…hard.  Last night was one such night.  I had already stayed up too late.  Any­thing after mid­night is just silly for me dur­ing the week…I might as well just hit myself in […]

We got a Wii!  I know I know… “aren’t you hav­ing a baby?  shouldn’t you be sav­ing? could that have pur­chased neces­si­ties for Comma?” Well…yes…to all of the above.  BUT let me prac­tice ratio­nal­iz­ing here for a minute…
–First of all, we had actu­ally been plan­ning and sav­ing for a Wii for longer than a baby […]

There are lots of preg­nancy books, tons of par­ent­ing books, videos on child­birth, infor­ma­tion on “sleep­ing tech­niques”, advice, warn­ings, websites.…you name it you can find infor­ma­tion or advice on just about every­thing.  I say just about because I’m not sure any­thing can pre­pare a par­ent for the first trip to Babies R Us.
I had an itch…I […]

Tonight has been yucky to say the least.  Home from work a bit early due to a headache that feels like it would take down an adult ele­phant.  Had some things to write about but got dis­tracted by another voice mail telling me to call the Dr. first thing in the morn­ing.
This after tak­ing the […]