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Entries Tagged as ‘sleep’
August 6, 2009
Classifieds
WANTED: Mother who does not arbitrarily decide she will not breastfeed between the hrs of 3 and 4am. Mother who does not suddenly refuse a nip of milk and a snuggle upon waking after eleven months of allowing that exact behavior. A fair mother. A loving mother. A mother who will sacrifice her sanity for the whimsical desire of [...]
July 22, 2009
Oh Canada, Refreshing Canada
I have returned from Vancouver and Whistler Mountain. I am a new woman.
I can’t possibly decide the best part.
Was it the company? The uninterrupted nights of sleep? The pomegranate martinis? The mountain air?
Perhaps it was strolling through Vancouver or the bike ride around Stanley Park and the views of the harbor and the mountains and [...]
June 9, 2009
mixed metaphors
In sleep he is a self-toasting, little roasting flour sack of a baby,
chocolate chip eyes drawn tight in small slits, his button nose snuffles and snorts and his mouth suckles and twitches.
Rolling along through the night, back and forth next to me, he is a small ship in the sheets gently rocking, his body bobbing [...]
June 2, 2009
Nine Month Madness
What they fail to tell you is that around nine months, your baby will start sleeping like an infant again, off and on. But your neighbors will not think to mow your lawn and your aunts will not descend upon your house to hold the fussy one so you can get a chunk of sleep. [...]
