I love Easter. I was baptized on Easter in a dramatic ceremony. Father Rick, the priest at the time at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Killington, Vermont, had a background in theater. It was dark, and then we came in during a procession, and...
I've been doing a year-end recap every year since 2005 in this exact format on ye olde LiveJournal. Here's a slightly edited-for-the-public version of this year's. First, the annual memes: Year in meme: 2016 The method: Copy and paste the first sentence of the first entry of every month this year...
So I've been trying to get Cory to go in on a third kid with me. He's not feeling it. He has good points. Like, how we're constantly close to the edge (or dangling over it by our fingertips) when it comes to balancing two kids....
I'm fairly certain that when I am very old, lying on my deathbed in some delirious state, tonight will be a memory I linger on. And I will know that I lived a rich, full life. We didn't have Valentine's Day plans. Usually we try to...
My firstborn son Henry, now 3, was breech, and born via scheduled C-section. I was devastated. I had been practicing HypnoBirthing for months, listening to birth affirmations like “I turn my birthing over to my baby and my body. My body knows exactly what to...
Today was Henry's first day with a new teacher in charge of his classroom. His former teacher Marissa moved to California. He knew his new teacher very well, but it was still a change. I don't know if that affected him at all or if...
We've been trying to conceive Baby Two since February. I've been trying to get to a yoga class at Lemon Tree since I moved in to my Advokate office here at the Shirt Factory since August. One of those things finally happened today. Spoiler: I'm not pregnant. I...