I don’t normally post links to Boston Globe articles, because they are archived after two weeks, but this is a story too bizarre not to post. My mind just can’t wrap itself around this one!
So Brown Brown is officially stubborn or slow (let’s hope for stubborn). Today was his deadline for moving into position. But nope, his head is still stubbornly in my side. Adam gave me hope with the story from a coworker about his baby moving into position at 35 weeks. Apparently, it happened when they were [...]
So yesterday’s all-day babyathon was much better for me than Saturday’s. Nurse Nancy only mentioned the procedure that shall not be named once. We spent a while playing with dolls, putting on diapers, swaddling, and burping (note: I’m sure this is not indicative of his fathering skills, but Adam is a sucky swaddler. Hate to [...]
As Brown Brown still hasn’t turned and I’m becoming increasingly more desperate as his ever-growing noggin expands into the ever-decreasing room formerly known as my chest and now known as that friggin’ parasite’s cocoon (the term parasite left us for a while, huh? Well, it’s baaaack!), I’m trying all the techniques I can find to [...]
Driving into the parking lot of Beth Israel hospital at 9:40 a.m., you would have thought that everyone except pregnant women with pillows, trailed by dazed looking men, had disappeared off the face of the earth. It was empty out except for the swarm of us mutant women heading toward our weekend-intensive childbirth class. Adam [...]
Don’t get me wrong–I’m very grateful that I’m able to get freelance work so easily. It’s a great help now (as our crib finally is orderable, and order it I did, and I need to earn something to fuel this Pottery Barn Kids obsession I seem to have), and it’s going to be a great [...]
On NPR this morning: “Last night the Red Sox pounded the lowly Tigers, fourteen to five, at Fenway. Tonight they complete their two-game series.” Do two games really a series make? Wouldn’t you say that two games is more like a game and its sequel? I know that the Rabbit I drove in high school [...]
I’ve been walking into rooms and then forgetting why I’ve entered them. It’s incredibly annoying and I generally remember three seconds after I’ve left the room. So now, when I enter a room, I don’t leave until I know why I came in in the first place. It’s leading to long moments of my just [...]
On our wedding day, everyone treated me with deference. When Adam and I walked into the reception, the caterers handed us glasses of champagne, and I remember thinking, “That’s odd. We aren’t serving champagne yet.” A waitress came up to me and said, “We saved you a plate of hors d’oeuvres,” and again I thought [...]
As many of you know, the Tweedle Twirp is the Human Buffer Zone. Originally, it was her job to keep the peace between my mother and me. However, over the years her role has expanded as necessary (especially with pregnancy hormones) to buffer between me and my father, me and my grandparents, and basically me [...]