Just wanted to share this precious photo that J took of Nadia & Zoe. They are the best of friends.
I’ve not been posting as promised, but I find motherhood to keep me very busy. I always knew I wanted to have children, but I never knew I would enjoy being a mama so very much. [...]

Father’s Day

Although already a father to two other great little girls, today is J’s first Father’s Day as a father to  my child. This parenting experience has already brought us closer. We share in the same joys, the same worries, the same sadness when it comes to Nadia. From the moment she was born, he stepped [...]

hello, world! Nadia is 4 weeks old today.

So, yes, I sort of dropped off the face of the earth back in November. I think I just became totally consumed by the pregnancy. (And a little website called The Bump.) And when you’re carrying around New Life in your belly, blogging just starts to seem trivial. (At least when you had nothing of [...]

is this normal?

I am SOOOOO exhausted. I need you ladies who’ve already been through pregnancy to tell me if this is normal. I mean, I know fatigue is normal, but I could easily sleep 10-12 hours a night AND take a nap sometime during the day. I can barely focus at work because I feel so run [...]

i have Big News

Has anyone noticed that I’ve been MIA? It’s been an incredibly crazy last 10 days. In addition to having several projects due for work and a conference presentation, I felt like complete and utter crap. Thursday I was so inexplicably tired that I couldn’t get out of bed. I called into work and slept all [...]

wiped out

Looks like I might be having that garage sale after all!
As previously mentioned, my sister moved to Texas last week. She had been living in my mom’s house. Mom now lives in the Detroit area and pays a big rent. She can’t afford both her apartment rent AND the mortgage on the house here, but [...]

saying goodbye

As mentioned in my last post, my sister moved to Texas this week. It’s something she’s been wanting to do for years, and her husband’s family is down there. But she had planned to wait until she was done with school in a year and a half. In July she decided that she was going. [...]

love, love, love

Meet the boy. I love, love, love him. This photo was taken shortly after we first started dating in 2006. He’s my best friend, my partner, and my love. Someday we will travel overseas together and sip wine on a beach while the hot Mediterranean sun sets on us. Maybe, if we’re lucky, we’ll be [...]

Dead dad club, or, reflections on Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies

(my dad & niece, 2004)
About a year ago, a friend of mine sent me a link to a blog named The Dead Dad Club. I lost my father to leukemia in 2006, and the friend in question had lost her father to cancer a year earlier. She is the quirky sort of girl who knew [...]

anonymity

Welcome to what will become my little corner of the Internet universe. I have other little corners as well. (A myspace corner, a Flickr corner, a goodreads corner, a blogger corner … boy that’s a lot of corners… ) But, inspired by my friend Sus, who has issued pseudonyms for her children and husband, and [...]