Author Archives: The Waiting
Seven is a Magic Number
Another award! Really? Really? Big thanks to I’d Rather Be in Iceland (which, I would too, BTW) for nominating The Waiting for the 7X7 Link Award! Eva writes about the glories of Iceland, which I can testify are indeed pretty worthy of all praise. Check out her blog and learn more about this cool little country! […]
Beer + Nerdy Girl = Me at Eleven
Everyone has a go-to story. It’s usually from when they were in school and involves illicit substances, the police, or awkward dealings with the opposite sex. All of these are the makings of good barroom tales. Here’s mine. It’s the one about how my mom packed a beer in my school lunch when I was […]
The Things You Miss
Sometimes I fear that this space is becoming a shrine to the places where I am not. When I’m not decrying Fayetteville, I’m planning for the Bebe and all that she’ll bring to my future. There’s nobility to that. Expectation, longing, and love. How could you resist meditating on a blessing, albeit mysterious and possibly […]
Hi, Baby. This is me.
As a small birthday present to myself, I ordered Bebe’s baby book last week. Since her nursery is essentially just as bare as it was a week ago when I waxed poetic about the few things we have already stocked it with, I suppose I should have been buying something more “useful” for her and […]
10 Thrifting Tips for the Crafty and Savvy Girl
My besfrinn Cameron is a bona fide genius at conquering your local thrift store, and she just wrote an awesome post on her blog Krug the Thinker about how you can be, too! Check it out! 10 Thrifting Tips for the Crafty and Savvy Girl Be sure to subscribe to her blog while you’re there. […]
A Grain of Bebe
It is indeed a strange day when I wake thoroughly rested and with few scary thoughts in my head. I’m not complaining, and the Beebs greatly appreciates my relative lack of stress, evidenced by her fervent free-for-all kicking. She’s a swimmer. A note on her kicking that I’ve been meaning to bring up for awhile: […]
The part where I scare off all my subscribers
I have recently come across something on the internets that I feel heartily constrained to broadcast further. I’m scared out of my wits but cannot look away so hopefully bringing others into the fold will lessen the horror. Once you out evil it becomes subdued. Like the plot of The Ring, I must show it […]
The Fourth Decade
Today I am newly thirty years old. I am married to my best friend, I have a baby growing in my belly, I have seen the world, and I have the means to see more of it. And by “means” I don’t just mean cash; I mean an actual desire, which is just as integral, […]
Notes on the 28th Week
We have now entered the part of pregnancy when the products start to arrive. Although our apartment doesn’t quite look like a Babies ‘R’ Us yet, we have acquired a few new items that would indicate the presence of germy offspring to a prowler. Although I doubt it, the risk of pilfering a laptop or […]
Gap Fail
Oh, Gap. Gap, Gap, Gap. Your top priority should be getting a model for your maternity line who is believably pregnant, not who just got done eating a Thanksgiving meal. Full-length post tomorrow!
The Waiting 