MoxiLady has passed the two-year mark now, so I probably should stop claiming “postpartum” status soon. In a way, having a two year old makes it easier to work out. My body feels more normal than in the months after birth. She can play for longer stretches of time. In other ways, though, it is [...]
Nesting. Sleeping. Crying. Urgency. Anxiousness. Peace. Excitement. Anticipation. Preparation. Busy. Accomplished. Tired. Tired. Awake. Full. Complete. The third trimester of pregnancy is intense and magical all at once. Your baby has grown to fill you up, and just when you think they can’t grow any more, they do. A big stretch reaches from ribs to [...]
Confession: I only take care of myself when I have to. Better said, I only take care of myself when someone else is at stake. If I have to be functional, or if I am carrying around a mini me, or if I’m currently a 24-hour diner. Even when I have a nurseling still but [...]
Time is a strange thing. Sometimes life feels so weird. Things like…chewing food to a mush and swallowing it…laying horizontally and “powering down” every night…growing a person in a fluid filled chamber inside of you…they just feel foreign and bizarre sometimes. I hope I didn’t just scare half of you off. Surely I’m not so [...]
The boys were so ridiculously excited to play in last week’s crazy snow. I know I’ve called it that a few times. I’ve not forgotten where my thesaurus is; that is just its name. In 24 hours, an area that usually gets 3-6 inches of snow per year got 18-24, depending on where you were. [...]
I’d intended to write this while dinner cooked, but apparently it was a very fast meal. Now, I’ve got grilled cheese just about cooked, Amy’s Tomato Bisque Soup about to start bubbling, and the baby’s cuddle time with daddy is just about up, as my expanding chest tells me. The moments don’t last long. That’s [...]
This has kindof gotten out of hand. You might remember back in the summer time when I mapped out the remainder of the pregnancy for spaced-out-nesting. I think it worked pretty well. Now that we are slowly easing back into life, I am nesting again, of sorts. I tend to think that planning can cover [...]
We have had family portraits, a reunion, company, and a baby shower, all in the last four weeks since Baby’s birth. We will find out officially on Thursday, but I am pretty sure she is putting on roughly a pound every week. If the get togethers were to continue, Hubby and I probably would keep [...]
This may be a super fast post, ‘cos I still don’t have a good office chair and my bum is telling me to type like the wind! That said, I haven’t had to cook much for the last couple of weeks thanks to some awesome friends and a fantastic Hubby. One meal that came just [...]
It is always amazing to me how much bodies (and lives) can change over a relatively short amount of time. Those photos were taken just days apart. In fact, the pregnant picture was taken just hours before Little Bean was born- and I had no idea it was happening. From conception to birth and postpartum, [...]
