Sleep, don’t weep
Posted on January 28, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 15 Comments
We mailed Rowan’s birth announcements earlier this week, about 100 or so of them, and I feel like we deserve some sort of medal for crossing that task off the list, as it proved a more arduous undertaking than I imagined, having to track down and update dozens of contacts’ addresses, since the list was [...]
It only took me nine hours to write this post
Posted on January 14, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 17 Comments
I always thought that after I had a baby and was home all the time, I’d have gobs of free time with which to do all the things I sneakily squeezed into a full-time workday. Like blogging, Twittering, e-mailing, chatting. I figured there’d be plenty of time in between feedings and changings, when the baby [...]
Long nights allow me to feel I’m falling
Posted on January 8, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 21 Comments
While the birth of Rowan was as easy as pie, I can’t say that these last three weeks at home with him have been quite as delightful. Sure, there have been plenty moments of pure saccharine, when I wake up in the morning after cobbling together five or six hours of sleep the night before, [...]
I’ve been waiting all my life, you’re not a day, you’re not a day too soon
Posted on January 4, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 21 Comments
Preface: I know that birth stories are not everyone’s cup of tea, but for the sake of not letting the details of the greatest day of my life continue to blur around the edges some two weeks post partum (and because a handful of people have asked to read it, especially since I hinted that [...]



