Whoever invented the term “morning sickness” never actually witnessed someone with pregnancy nausea. I’ve never met anyone who was just sick in the morning. They either glow their way through the entire nine months, or they are “mildly uncomfortable,” or they are heaving their guts out from day one. That one’s me. Yes, you are forewarned on the subject matter… Read More
So …(shuffling papers in front of her), let’s look at the facts. You’re pregnant. Again. And judging by the look of you, five months? Two months. Aren’t you too fat to be pregnant? Wha … what kind of question is that? I mean, you keep gaining all this weight after the baby is born and you eat because you’re tired…. Read More
I’m being tongue in cheek, of course. I always feel guilty that we don’t spend enough quality time with our kids and here we managed to do it two days in a row!! We should get an award. We went to a farm in the inner city ran into some friends there petted the goats cautiously observed the kid cautiously… Read More
Some of the things we’ve been doing lately. Finding spider webs Going to daddy’s « bring your kids to work day » where there was make-up and entertainment and magicians and running through the halls and taking the metro. We’ve also been botching matcha growling celebrating Sir’s 44th birthday and working our way through a feast getting serenaded (Sir, that is) by… Read More
Petit Prince has the chicken pox and has trouble sleeping, which means I have trouble sleeping. And I don’t even want to sit up with him and nurse him because, until today, we had no heating. Our workers are supposed to be painting our old fashioned radiator a raspberry color to complement my pink kitchen but they have dropped off… Read More
Young Lady has a friend. I met her for the first time last year when she walked into her ballet class and saw “Anne;” they threw their arms around each other and called out each other’s names in delight. I must admit to being surprised at her objection of affection – slight, rather stringy hair, awkward sort of girl. I… Read More
