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Second Trimester Lessons
Hopefully she’s not green. This second trimester has been SOOO much better than my trimester. 1. Can we talk, again, about how much I love eating stuff I want? I talked about this in the first...
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Meditation on Morning Sickness
My third trimester approacheth, and with it, morning sickness. It sucks, yet in the midst of that suckage, there is an opportunity for meditation and awe. (This won’t be too gross, I promise.) We all...
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A Due Date
Some of the, sometimes, worst things about this adulthood trap are the deadlines that follow us around. Some of them are smaller and less pressure than others, currently, I am under the most pressing...
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They Should’ve Warned Me
Sahara:I think I’ve talked before about the horrible Doom’s Day advice I’ve gotten since I learned about the Wee One coming, advice that fit comfortably into my jacked ideas of motherhood. But then...
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It’s not everyday…
That you learn when your life is going to change. That you can pinpoint the moment your life will change. Yesterday, Cohiba and I got some of that news. February 27th, we already knew about – Wee One...
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Processing Change Through A Painting
It begins and ends with love. When I first learned I was pregnant, I was lost; overwhelmed by swirling thoughts of anxiety and fear. I sought insight from dear friends and internet strangers, and one...
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Oh, Time, Please Slow Down
Almost a year ago, I reblogged a post entitled “I Write to Stop Time.” It is in this spirit that I sit down to write tonight, one week the night before my daughter is born. One week. I want to stop...
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My Yumpy Sock
My mother’s family has a particular brand of baby talk, as I imagine lots of families do, and part of ours include special names and pronunciations of things, and I have recently been calling up one of...
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Third Trimester Lessons
Evelen Charlotte’s here! To complete the Trimester Lesson Trifecta, (Parts One and Two) I am now posting (after Wee One was born) some lessons I learned in the third trimester. It was easier than the...
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The First Time I Walked On Trembling Feet – Wee One’s Birth Story
As I’ve written before, I had reservations when I got pregnant about actually having a baby, but after prayer and meditation, I began to believe that parenting was something I could do, something that...
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