Today

Today was a nice day. My mom and dad came and took care of A. so Wifey and I could go Christmas shopping downtown. We went to the Market, and up a few blocks to all the big fancy stores that can make a girl feel like Holly Golightly. We had lunch at a little [...]

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Allow Me To Escape For a Moment, #1: Croatia

I just LOVE cataloguing, categorizing, organizing. It’s so fun and brings just the touch of CONTROL I need in my disorderly soul these days. So here we have a new category to contain my escapism. After 28 days straight of driveling about my daily life, I today must instead go somewhere beautiful. Seattle is so [...]

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Things That Didn’t Work, #3: Peas

We gave Mister Finn peas and he looked at us in utter disgust, insulted, like “WHY would you put this in my mouth?” Then he gagged dramatically and threw up.  Bananas had a similar fanfare.  There is an element of betrayal in his facial expressions. Too bad when this happens because then we have to [...]

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Thanksgiving

It was a beautiful day at my mom and dad’s house. Wifey, Mister Finn, Winnie the dog and I were there with my parents, my grandma, my uncle J. and his new boyfriend B., and B.’s sister and her new baby. Last Thanksgiving when everything was sucking, I was desperately wishing with all of my [...]

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Naming this bird

I shall, from now on, also refer to A. as “Mister Finn.”  Finn is A’s middle name. Mister Finn is singing, chirping, squawking nearly every moment he is awake. It is as though we have a 15+ pound canary in our house. Especially when he hits those high notes, which he seems to prefer. I [...]

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Birthing Vicariously

One of the sneakiest mean things about having had a difficult babymaking experience is the jealousy I feel towards women who get to do it the “right” way. You know, with a birth plan that consists of any luxurious detail other than “everyone gets out alive.” I know, from reading all of my premature-baby/fucked-up-pregnancy support [...]

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DO NOT TOUCH THE BABY

Of course, I don’t say this when I greet my neighbors. I say “Hi” like a normal person, and then when they reach to touch my baby with their friendly dirty germy paws, I say nothing (thinking WHY must you touch the baby?!)  because I can’t really believe it is happening (again), or I don’t [...]

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Things That Work, #3: My Honey

Here she is hard at work, doing web design work for a downtown non-profit arts organization. That’s her super cool boss on the other side of the modern-day non-cubicle. At this time of year in Seattle it’s dark by 4:30. We picked her up from work the other day.

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I’ve Been Tagged! Yay! Now What Do I Do?

I am so excited!  My first time!  Jen at Unique But Not Alone tagged me, and here is my task: 1) Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer 2) Choose the 4th picture 3) Explain the picture 4) Tag 4 other people so here it is, the 4th photo in the 4th picture folder: [...]

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First Pumpkin Patch

Thank heavens time is non-linear in Blogland because this happened about a month ago! Uncle K came up from Portland and we all went to a pumpkin patch out in the farmlands. It was a beautiful, warm day and the mood was celebratory. For in a vine-tangled field of symbolic, giant, orange squash bobbing beneath [...]

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