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"Lightening crotch" is the riveting term used to describe the feeling you have when your little one inside kicks your cervix-area – tries to poke his hand through or something. It's a whole ball of quick, fierce pain and Boo just LOVES it! It's like his favorite thing to do, he can't get enough of [...]
1. I need to carry Tums at all times. At. All. Times. 2. It's probably better to chill out and enjoy the "treat" of Micah reading… everything. The milk carton. The cheese package. The road signs. The store signs. The menu. Enjoy his logic of, "but the chocolate sauce says "organic", Mommy…that means it's [...]
What I Learned this Week: 1. There is a threshold that I reach, after which I simply don't care anymore about how high the dishes are piled or how messy the place is. This threshold is not compatible with my mother-in-law visiting (today! this weekened!). But it is compatible with diner-breakfasts – out. And [...]
What I Learned This Week: 1. Do not go grocery shopping with two small children and knee-length skirt without shorts underneath. Unless I want to show everyone in Trader Joe's my underwear again. 2. When Moxie goes into her room and shuts the door? Assume she is brewing trouble. Especially now that she knows the [...]
Fiji was the best place I ever lived for hunkering down in blue weather with a blue mood. I miss Fiji – winter in Fiji, that is – when I feel like I did this week. I wanted to do what I did when I was a kid – grab a blanket, lie in bed [...]
With the first trimester came raging nauseousness. I don't know what I was thinking in choosing that time of all times to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of Oliver the Fighter. Oh, and run my first half marathon. But I'm glad I did. Now I'm in my homestretch and [...]
Before we say anything else, how about talking about how awesome it was that the Olympic drummers were lead by a deaf percussionist?! That it was the deaf children’s choir that sang their National Anthem? And that in music dance pieces, I saw people who use wheelchairs also dancing? Go, London! That’s some pretty rad [...]
Welcome to Week in Review, the Post of All Posts, in which I summarize the whole week on this blog. And stuff I found off of the internet. Plus photos! Let’s get started. _____ I loved this music video. Everything about it – great music, beautiful signing, lesbian couple and yes! It’s from the [...]
I find myself far more tired in the growing of this baby than I was in the growing of my others. I boil it down to having older bones and perhaps also to Miss Moxie being a rambunctious two-year old and Micah being so full o’ fire. My mind is stretched tight with his endless [...]
A week in review – posts covering Donna Summer, California Hot Springs, Grandby ’88 Pop Up Camper and the new International Alliance of Writers for Down syndrome (the T21 Alliance)
