Night and day difference

Yesterday I was actually feeling pretty energetic, even a little euphoric, but I knew things could change quickly once I’d had a few sleepless nights. My wisdom-born-of-experience proved right: Hazel’s got night and day switched. I predicted that, since she was always at her most active when I was online late at [...]

Dean, Zina, Isaac, Mabel, Rose, and Henry are thrilled to announce

Hazel Grace
Born Thursday, February 26 at 1:39 AM
6 lbs 11 oz, 18″
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This photo of Hazel at 8 minutes old was taken by my talented sister-in-law Amy.
We are home now and Hazel is doing great and so am I.  My blood pressure got so high that it was necessary to induce labor.  I’ll likely post the [...]

Comment recycling, part 2

Here’s part of a comment I made on this post at Darlene’s blog:
The only love poems I’ve ever written were of the Roses-are-red- type. (Not that I’ve written more than one or two poems of any sort.) I had one high school boyfriend write a poem for me and it was further proof that we [...]

Comment recycling, part 1

Sometimes I don’t realize how quiet things are on my blog because I’m so busily leaving long-winded comments elsewhere. I’ve done recycling posts before, where I culled my comments from elsewhere and posted them here to get double mileage out of them, and I’ve been thinking of doing that again, but it gets complicated: [...]

I should go on semi-bedrest more often

(Warning: this post talks about mundane tasks as though they were exciting, and also uses excessive parentheses.)
I woke up this morning with more tasks in mind that needed doing than you could shake a very large stick at. Or anyway you could shake that stick really hard and it wouldn’t even make a dent [...]

Hold on a second

I asked Mabel to take Rose and Henry outside to play so they could get a little sunshine, away from the confines of television and a semi-bedridden mother.
Mabel: “Okay. It’s good weather outside. [Goes upstairs.] Come on, Rose and Henry, let’s go outside to play. No, you don’t need coats, [...]

Valentines

(My internet connection is briefly working, so I’m hurrying and posting my backlog of pictures. ALSO, I just had a NORMAL blood-pressure reading at my check-up with the midwives, which tells me that as long as I’m vigilant with the semi-bedrest, things should be good.)
Isaac and Mabel made their own valentines for their classes [...]

Technical difficulties

Two or three weeks ago our internet connection started going down about once or twice a day, with our only resort being to reset the modem. Now it’s progressed to where it goes down about once or twice a minute — right now I can’t even upload photos to Picasa because the connection goes [...]

A record number of anxieties in one dream fragment

I was living with my mom, who was living in a decrepit, rambling old house, and I was trying to fix up a livable bedroom for myself in a junk-filled room. Then I was carrying around my newborn baby on my hip. She was an enormous baby; we held her up next to [...]

In case there was any doubt that my kids really are sweet and wonderful

My mom brought the kids some fun, adorable handmade Valentine cards, along with some candy hearts. My brother Tracy came, too, and Rose wanted him to read her candy hearts to her. He told her that his price for reading the hearts would be that if there was a letter “P” on any [...]