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A Brief Weekend Observation
Did anyone else notice how, about a week ago, Freshly Pressed didn’t change for almost a week and a half? And now it’s been changing every other day? I’m still new to this game. This game = blogging AND being observant Have a happy weekend!
Pregnancy Headquarters
Time to show a little appreciation for the place where it all goes down (or, err, comes up) during pregnancy: The bathroom! The lobby bathroom at the Field Museum in Chicago was recently rated the best public bathroom in the US. Now, you may shirk this off as a dubious honor, but when you think […]
1,000!
Wow! We made it to 1,000 views! Amazing! Thanks for being interested, y’all :) Stay tuned for a *real* post tomorrow.
Sadness and Love
What can I say? I just love my husband so, so, so much. I love him all the more when things aren’t easy. And things aren’t easy for him right now. On Friday night, after struggling with Crohn’s disease and several other conditions for years, Ben’s dad passed away in his sleep after having been […]
So many thoughts, so many ways not to write about them
Why is it that the more I have floating around in my brain and the more I feel compelled to put down, the harder it is for me to do it? I’ve been quite preoccupied with that question lately because out of all the challenges I’m facing in my life right now, that’s the one […]
A Study in Pregnancy Guilt: Coffee
I’m pretty clueless about the whole pregnancy thing. Among my close friends and family, I am the first person to have a baby in a really long time. The last baby I spent a lot of time around – my cousin Maddie – was born in 2000, and no, I can’t recall a lot more […]
Telling the Folks
So last night we decided to make it “official” that we are expecting (as if the real baby growing in my belly isn’t official enough) by telling our parents about our little friend. We put it off a little longer – a couple months – than I think others may think standard to notify close family […]
Let’s Just Get the Topic of Morning Sickness Out of the Way
I really hate to give the topic of morning sickness more than its due. Nausea is the enemy. The best way to fight it is to continue with life as usual and give it no chance to stake my day as its territory. If you surrender to it, it wins. My husband – a very […]
A New Kind of Crazy
The first thing I did when I found out I was pregnant was go to the library and check out nearly every book I could on pregnancy, birthing options, and pregnancy recipes. The first thing I noticed when I started reading the books I took out was that nearly all of them cater to very […]
Food Feud
My husband and I recently moved to rural North Carolina (actually, I guess it’s not really all that rural, strictly speaking, but it is quite a departure from our last three home cities: Seoul, Chicago, and Memphis) because he took a job teaching English at a local college. When we came here, the question of […]
The Waiting 