Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is the courthouse where I changed my name!
I’ve changed my last name to Wifey’s and Mister Finn’s, so that everyone in our little family has the same last name.
It was a really interesting process. We name-changers were banded together as a temporary community and shuffled through queues and official stamps and a hearing. There [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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I got my Mother’s Day present three months early– kind of like how I got my baby three months early. I couldn’t wait til May, so I opened it in February on A.’s birthday, a few days after it arrived in the mail.
I was surprised to find myself wanting a “mother ring.” {Incidentally, Wifey was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Today is Mister Finn’s “adjusted-age” first birthday! I feel a real sense of accomplishment (here is a healthy one-year-old boy!), and relief (having made it through the most tender fragile baby months) and excitement: now we get to play.
This boy is so fucking wonderful. He is this tender morsel, a nugget of heaven I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We had a lovely, mellow, rainy Easter up at my parents’ house. They live on a peninsula that used to be an island, which might become an island again someday! You never know, with Earth.
We dyed eggs.
The colors were very attractive.
I was thinking about Maddie a lot that day. And death, and babies, and whether [...]
