Seahorses and those damn Maclaren strollers*

We’re sitting on the couch; Sweet Cheeks is watching our old football team whip our new football team’s ass, and I’ve just finished watching Away We Go on the laptop with earphones.
This has been a really difficult parenting weekend for us. Pitter’s defiance, fussing, and violence towards Patter has us feeling totally incompetent and like [...]

Grace in Small Things: 17

1. Antibiotics
I came down with official mastitis this weekend (fever, chills, body-soaking sweats yippee) after fighting it last month without medication. This time I needed medication. And, although taking it 4 times a day on an empty stomach makes eating when I’m hungry nearly impossible, and it gives poor Patter terrible poops, it works! I’m [...]

Christmas: The Bad and the Good

The Bad
The Bewb: Lately, we alternate between nursings that feel like tiny shards of glass are being ground against me and a sensation I imagine is akin to needles being inserted into one’s nip9les. Patter’s poisonous teething saliva is making me a bit…shall we say, edgy. As in, Do Not Feed the Animals, Do Not [...]

A Dream Deferred*

I think I speak for Sweet Cheeks as well when I say that our anniversary stank like a gargantuan poopy diaper. 
We unceremoniously threw gifts at each other in the early morning and were able to have about three ten-minute conversations over the course of the day that didn’t involve talking over noisy children. Because this [...]

Five Years

This all-inclusive package, which matures this Saturday, November 8, includes 2 apartments and 1 house in 2 states; 2 children; 1 graduate degree; 1 cross-country move, and countless glasses of wine. 
Features of the 5-10 year package are wide open. 
Happy anniversary, Sweet Cheeks.