Have screaming kid, will travel
It all started when the pills ran out. You see, when a 4’11”, petite-in-every-place girl delivers a 10 pound baby, there is a lot of, ahem, stitching and fixing up to be done.
Normally I decline medication, but after Jonah tore into the world my doctor didn’t have to push it. In the hospital, floating on pain medicine, I was still struck by how completely unprepared I was for taking care of a baby, but I was handling it okay.
Then I went home.
How we’re turning a walk-in closet into a nursery
Two years ago, Andreas and I traded our 3 bedroom house in Seattle’s southend for a 1 bedroom condo in the heart of the beloved gayborhood where we’ve lived off and on since the late ’90s. It was a weird decision: we were thinking about starting a family, which for many people means getting rid […]
Who says you need a yard to raise kids?!
We recently moved to downtown Seattle, and were shocked that the first question family asked is “What do the kids do without a yard?” Um, EVERYTHING.
Mondays
Seriously dude, Mondays make me feel like that too. If you have a serious case of the Mondays, I highly recommend you check out the rest of this photo shoot over at BlondeShot Creative’s blog. This kid’s facial expressions are a national treasure.
Fierce diabetic mom-to-be refuses to let the ‘betes keep her down
I am not a shy, vulnerable, brittle diabetic. I am fierce, and I am looking for my fellow fierce, pancreatic-challenged tribe.
Heck yes you can be a mom and write a novel too!
I wrote three pages for my novel this morning. Not in the loveliness of silence and time to myself where the brain is functioning and uninterrupted. No. I wrote in the chaos of post-breakfast, children running around the house pretending to be dinosaurs or cats or superheroes or whatever it was they were pretending to be.
Terrible yellow eyes, ala Where The Wild Things Are
Spotted this simple, relatively mess and pain-free craft idea over on Se7en. It looks like two yellow circles on some ribbon until you know the context. Then it becomes something else entirely. It’s inspired by the following passage from the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak: “…And when he came to the […]
Tree and Royal Tenenbaums-inspired nursery
This nursery is so dreamy. It’s so tranquil, but with a touch of whimsy that makes me want to scour each picture looking for one more thing to love because I know I’ll find it. Taylor and Leah (some of you may remember Leah from over here) spent a lot of time designing a nursery […]