Then there’s you, then came you

Posted on April 23, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Meet our newest son, Milo Burke. Born Sunday, April 14, at 6:16 a.m. He was 7 pounds, 3.3 ounces, and 20 inches long. *** In case you don’t follow me on Facebook or Twitter, where I’ve been documenting the last several days, we’ve had quite the tumultuous postpartum experience. Four days in the NICU for [...]

Before there were four

Posted on April 4, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 12 Comments

A couple of Saturdays ago, when the light was just right, the three of us loaded into the car and drove north to a park we’d never been to before (though it turned out Rowan had remembered going there once with my mom when she watched him in January) and met up with my friend [...]

Belly of the beast

Posted on March 27, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Know what the hardest part of this pregnancy is? Surprisingly, it’s not the weeks-long morning sickness, the Zofran-induced constipation, the searing acid reflux or the perpetually vibrating hands and fingers from third trimester carpal tunnel. (Although don’t get me wrong, all those common pregnancy ailments SUCK like whoa.) Nope. I’d say the toughest thing at [...]

A means to a beginning

Posted on March 6, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

I spent a good chunk of time last week drafting a post essentially about how little I’ve enjoyed this pregnancy compared to the last. It was definitely a little glum in tone, which nicely complemented the funk I’d often found myself in the past couple of weeks since I last wrote about silver linings. For [...]

Silver linings

Posted on February 14, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Last weekend, I met up with my good friend Terrell to see Silver Linings Playbook, a movie with much buzz and many nominations. I typically enjoy these sorts of movies, the ones that are hard to define in any one category, and for the most part I did like it, despite being almost too quirky [...]

We’ll always have Maui

Posted on February 3, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 2 Comments

In retrospect, the timing of our trip to Maui was quite serendipitous. We’ve since wondered aloud if I’d been laid off before we were set to go if indeed we would have gone, and the answer is always yes. A lot of our trip was pre-paid and non-refundable, and my mom was to fly up [...]

A tale of two Fridays

Posted on February 1, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 13 Comments

Not last Friday but the one before that, I was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 10 miles away from Maalaea Harbor, bobbing up and down on a catamaran anchored to the floor of a volcanic crater. We were there to snorkel in said geologic marvel, to float atop the azure water and peer [...]

Start again

Posted on January 9, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Oh, hello! And a belated Happy New Year to you! It’s hard to believe it’s more than a week into the new year let alone that it’s already 2013 to begin with. So much of the latter part of 2012 was me telling myself and others, “I’ll deal with THAT next year!” And here it [...]

Four

Posted on December 17, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Dear Rowan, For months now, we’ve been talking about the day you turn 4. We’ve been planning and discussing every detail of your birthday party — who to invite, what color balloons to buy, where to put up the banner. You and Dad would look at the calendar and count the sleeps until the party [...]

Half-time show

Posted on December 5, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Time sure is a trickster, isn’t it? How can it be that it’s already December, and that the end of another year is nigh on the horizon? That we’re preparing to celebrate Rowan’s fourth trip around the sun, followed in short order by Christmas and all that jazz? And yet, on the other hand, it [...]

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