That post title was weird… I’m not taking steps to buy a baby. :) For some reason, I have developed a serious anxiety about buying baby items. ANY baby items. I haven’t been able to convince myself to buy a SINGLE thing for the baby since I bought Adam a camo diaper bag back in [...]
So, my 14-year-old brother, Billy, is up visiting Adam and I from Idaho for the summer, and I’ve had some… interesting conversations with him since he’s arrived. Observe: Billy: Is Tali spaded? Me: Hmmm… you mean spayed? Billy: Yeah, that. Me: No, we’re thinking about breeding her next year. Billy: Wow, you WANT like 7 [...]
Dear Negative Nellys and Debbie Downers: The baby names my husband and I have lovingly chosen are set. They are also OUR CHOICE. When YOU spend 15 months trying and agonizing and trying and peeing on sticks daily and trying and taking your temperature before you get out of bed every day and trying and [...]
Although I’ve read that these crazy pregnancy dreams that have been plaguing me lately are “completely normal” (suuuuure, babycenter.com), I still think some of them would be better off forgotten. I’ve dreamt of so many insane subjects in the past few weeks – from crazed killers coming after me with knives to finding out I’m [...]
Getting ready for the softball game Monday night (in which my pregnant ass has been demoted to scorekeeper, waaahhhh)… Me: Okay, cool, so let me just pop in the garage and through in a load of laund—-aaaaaaaaagh! Adam: (sitting on the couch, doesn’t even turn around to look at me) What? Me: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Adam: Words, [...]
3/7/10 Apparently this year is national “Let’s Decide to Make a Baby” year. Congratulations to ME, my girlfriend Jen, our close family friend Trish and my cousin Neal’s wife… who are ALL DUE IN OCTOBER. Crimony! :) UPDATED: And now congrats to another super-special someone who knows who she is but it’s not my place to [...]
Thought I would share this little email exchange between my grandma and I last week, because it surprised and touched me. My last post about Grandpa Bill’s Beer Bread came after a whole day where I thought about my grandpa a lot, and I just really missed him. When I woke up in the morning I [...]