Mommy Talk
A Reluctant Charlotte
It's hard to go back and really think about how upset I was when I first found out I was pregnant, now that she's here, now that I love her so much. But I'm reminded every now and then of those first two weeks. Those terrifying weeks when my whole world was turned upside down. I didn't know what was going to happen with my life, my routine, my self. I didn't know if my health was going to hold up long enough to get a baby out or if it was going to hold up after he or she was here. I walked around those weeks like someone had just threatened my life.
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Breaking the Rules
So this morning I arrived to work thinking that I have on very cute and coordinated outfit. I have on a red, brown, and white dress over a brown slip, brown knee boots, and little white cardigan with pearls to top it off. Cute, right? Well, in theory, yes. Until I got to work and realized that I do not have on brown tights, but black ones. Yes, BLACK ones. Nice...
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Running Sucks
I signed up for a half marathon a few months ago, back when I fell in love with running and thought it was my new BFF.
Back-to-back blizzards, debilitating anxiety and a surprising bout of ugly depression sidelined the daily runs for a spell.
But I put the jogging shoes back on my feet this past weekend and officially started the three-month training regimen.
Turns out: I hate running just as much as I thought I did lo those many years ago...
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Coping When You Have a Disease But Your Child Is Healthy
“Children make you want to start life over.” Muhammad Ali
For me, that wasn’t possible in 2005 when our daughter, Hayden, was born. I was already more than two years into this crazy journey called Epilepsy, and my husband, the person you could call my ‘main’ caregiver, and I had made the decision to have a child...
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Victory Chant!
Seven and a half hours. Seven and a half hours! I'm repeating it over and over in my head. It's my new victory chant. It's a chant that means things are starting to work. Things are starting to fall into place. Jason and I are starting to sink into our new lives, after five weeks of blindly wading through these new waters...
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Hormonal Upheaval
I'm breaking out like a teenager and it's ridiculous. My face looks like a pus-filled pizza {yummy} and I can't see any light at the end of the tunnel (please tell me there's a light!). As soon as one zit is zapped, a relief pimple is called in to take its place. Since I closed up the milk cartons, it's as if someone is trying to help Barrett learn connect-the-dots on my face. I don't know if my body is trying to prepare me for the casting of Teen Mom or if it's getting back at me for mostly blemish-free high school years but whatever the cause of this calamity, it needs to take a chill pill (or I suppose chillax is the term the young kids are using today)...
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Armed with Makeup…and Bath Bombs, on the Eve of Womanhood
Lexi turned twelve last week, and to mark the occasion we made a mother/daughter trip to the mall where I bought her make-up and a push-up bra. No, I didn’t really buy her a push-up bra. That would have been ridiculous since everyone knows you don’t buy your daughter a push-up bra until her thirteenth birthday...
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Dogs and Babies
People told me having a child would make me realize just how un-childlike my dogs really are. Because you know how people like me--people who love their dogs just a little too much--are, who say things like "my dogs are my children" or who search Ebay for a "I'm the big brother" T-shirt for a six-pound poodle...
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Secret Behavior Revealed
There are things that I do in front of Roan that I wouldn’t do in front of anyone else. Nothing too horrible, but still, things that I’d probably be mortified if anyone else saw them. For instance, if he needs to speak to me exactly when I’m in the bathroom, he doesn’t think twice about swinging the door open and firing that conversation up right then and there. There is no one else allowed to do that. He’s also witnessed burps, though I’ve had to put the kibosh on that because it caused way too much laughter which can only lead to manners-training trouble in the future. Roan gets to hear me sing my heart out, and though I know I’ve got no sense of pitch or key, I belt songs out regularly for him...
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Green Eyes
It has been a crazy roller coaster ride these last few weeks. After months of going back and forth, trying to settle into our new one-income lifestyle and debating over the perils of selling a house right now, we’ve finally decided. We are selling out house! Phew, it feels good to get that off my chest. I’m pretty sure that by putting it out there, we’ll have much luck selling our house quickly, for the price we want. Right? That’s they way it works, isn’t it...?
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