Today was my last day at work this year. The students are fed and ready for their exams, and a beautiful day is there outside my open window, a day that tans your shoulders and perks up shy seedlings and sends all the leaves out of their shells. I have bare legs, feet, shoulders. I [...]
Alternative title: The Pop
All of a sudden, my skirts don’t zip up. Not over the belly. Not under.
All of a sudden over the belly is a very long way from under.
(Note: I know that all of my posts have been somewhat baby-centric lately. But, what can I say? I’m totally in Baby Land. And I [...]
Week 21
Week 22 (time flies!)
Belly (the outside): Increased dramatically over a span of three days last week, aided by two pints of ice cream (okay, I shared a little of the ice cream with my boys). I am told that I “actually look a little bit pregnant.” For some reason, this catches me completely [...]
I don’t know what sort of clothes to buy you. I don’t know what we will name you or if I will ever braid your hair in pigtails. But I got to see you for a while, today. I got to see a flicker of a little person. And what a little person you are! [...]
One of my favorite parts of the day is climbing the stairs to Reed’s room and drinking something warm and good while he colors and plays and reads and belly-flops onto his bed. Reed’s room feels like a special place. It is up so high above the street, high on a hill among the trees. [...]
“But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.”
At work, my partner and I talked for quite a while about how small I look for how far along I am in my pregnancy. Then I went to my doctor, who felt my stomach and told me that [...]
Alternative title: Snapshot with a Snapshot
Alternative title: Nothing Much to See
Weeks along: 16, give or take a week.
Weeks with a hearty appetite: Two.
Peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches eaten: Incalculable.
Favorite pastime: Sitting. Not sitting and reading. Not sitting and writing. Not sitting and talking. Just sitting and smiling and maybe holding my tray of newly sprouted tomato seeds to catch a bit of the sun I am stealing [...]
My posts have been infrequent here, and it is not because I have been very sick or very tired or very busy. Most everything has been infrequent. Washing dinner dishes has been infrequent. Writing has been infrequent. Baking bread has been infrequent. Honestly, I don’t know what I have been doing with my time. Reading [...]
This pregnancy is flying by, and it will only fly faster. I don’t know if it is always this way with the second child or if it is the time of year or if it is a part of getting older. But I know that it is only a couple days until March begins. And [...]