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 [...]

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 [...]

rioja on a friday night

This is “our weekend” with my boyfriend’s girls. Usually these weekends are packed with nonstop action, nonstop feeding, and lots of money being spent. But the older daughter is away at summer camp, and since I have to represent the library tomorrow at the 15th Annual Harambee Festival (a unity celebration in the African American [...]