Springtime in Indiana

After a morning library visit with the boys I take the long way home. Roads named with numbers paired with an S for south or a W for west go through cow pastures and cornfields. Church steeples aren’t tall, but there are lots of them.
This soporific scenery always works its charm on the small boys [...]

Blogging through the Panic

Edit/Update: Sweet Cheeks is home, our bellies are full of vegetarian chili and red wine, and all is well. Thanks for your good wishes. And Merry Christmas!
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Okay. Pitter is asleep. Patter is nursing. And I am waiting for Sweet Cheeks to get safely home from the office while he navigates the icy streets and freezing [...]

Voting Early in Indiana, or Things I Doubt You’d Overhear Waiting in Line in Boston

We voted early today in our town, believing that it might be a lower stress experience than voting on election day itself. But with an infant and a toddler in tow and a line that took more than an hour to get through, it might have been a wash.
Sweet Cheeks spent all but the two minutes [...]

Birthing on the Brain

This weekend, Sweet Cheeks and I went on the hospital tour of the facility where I expect to deliver Patter. It’s a fairly new hospital, and the birthing ward is beautiful. There are 17 labor rooms, and 7 of them have gorgeous in-room birthing tubs, in addition to private bathrooms with showers. Oh how I [...]

Move it or lose it

Sammy over at Percipience alerted me to a neat website called Walk Score that provides you with a score determining how walkable your neighborhood, city, or town is. Just plug in your address, zip code, or town/city name and get a score from 0 to 100. The higher the number, the better. 
It’s no wonder that I [...]