I’ve been kind of swamped with our perky little business lately (holla, fellow suffering small business owners!), but I have managed to fit in some Very Important Baby Preparation Tasks (holla, 28 weeks!) in the past four days. To be precise, I have: Gone to a bachelorette party. Nothing like a bachelorette party when you’re…
You know, I am aware that in this blog I am often, shall we say, determinedly unsentimental when it comes to Moments in Parenting. To be honest, I’m a touch determinedly unsentimental in person, too. I’ve never been one of those “Look at my kid! Isn’t she so adorable!” mothers, even though I may think…
Today, as I sit at that bastion of work-at-home parents, the kitchen counter, it occurs to me that there are probably a lot of others out there considering the wisdom of slaving away at the old homestead. (Also, I am desperately trying to think of something, anything, that I can do besides actually working. Yes,…
Lately, Aura has been making references to our “family of four.” This was all adorable and good until she turned to me a couple of days ago and added, “And then we will be a family of five! And six! And seven!” Blanching with something akin to, oh, I don’t know, extreme dread, I chuckled…
Hello from the aforementioned ether. In this case, the ether is looking a lot like ill-fitting maternity pants, a kindergartner about to go on her first field trip ever (MYBABY), and a continuing small business that has me making up extra-lurid swear word combinations during school hours (which are getting shorter, you mark my words…
This past weekend, I attended the bridal shower of one of my college roommates. I was seated at table mostly filled with people I knew. At some point, the subject of possible names for our upcoming bundle of terrifying joy was broached. “Oh!” said the one woman at the table whom I didn’t know. “You’re…
Pardon the blogging silence, but we just returned from a last-minute vacation to Disney World. I remain a little fuzzy on how this actually happened, since Adam and I used to swear up and down that we would never take a child of ours to Disney before some good-enough-memory-to-remember-how-much everything-cost age. But then I go…
We had the Big Ultrasound today. We came away with two major pieces of news. The first: The baby looks healthy, with everything in its perfect place. No third head, and therefore no three-headed-hat-buying, which sounded rather expensive, if we’re going to get right down to it. The second: The baby is a… BOY. How…
So, yep. Preggers over here. First, thank you so much to everyone for the wonderful comments, e-mails, and tweets. Since we play it close to the baby-growing vest over here in the Kate-Adam household, it was really great to be able to share the news with more than my mom (eagerly poised to buy out…
You know what? I’ll let Aura do the honors. And here’s one from me.