Category: Motherhood

Questions, Confusions, Dilemmas… Oh My!

There have been many things I have been unsure of in my life. Many. Rarely has anything ever been an easy decision. I like to drag things out, think them over, you know, generally annoy everyone around me for a while while I work things out. I remember the...

Life’s Simple Pleasures

If you’re looking for my introduction, scroll down to the next post. I love it when we change the clocks forward an hour. The loss of one hour of sleep is so worth gaining an extra hour of light in the evening. It makes me feel like summer is...

Finally

A few years ago I started thinking about having children. They say you never really know when the time is right but I was trying to work out some things in my mind. Most of them were highly personal things but I was consumed with an issue that I...

It’s The Little Things

It isn’t every day that getting through the day is an accomplishment but when you are suddenly a mom, a working mom and a single mom all at once you start to feel like superwoman as well. Yes A. is out of town and I went back to work...

Don’t Say It Was So Bad…

As I type this post in the last few hours of 2008, I think about all the people who would look at this year and wish it had never happened. The state of our country (and our planet for that matter) is pretty bad although we’ve elected a man...

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

As I write this it’s exactly 26 hours and 6 minutes until Christmas. I haven’t been so excited since I was about 10. Last year around mid November I was out shopping for Christmas gifts when I got to the people on my list I was dreading buying for–...

Stuck in Limbo

It’s strange being at a place where you know you belong but not really “being” there. I know that doesn’t make any sense. I haven’t taught since the last day of the 07-08 school year so, last June. I’m going back in January. The last few weeks however, I’ve...

Body Image Takes a Twist

I will let you all in on a little secret. I gained 53 pounds while I was pregnant. Fifty-three pounds. You heard me right. That’s an increase of 40%. And since I was last weighed on a Wednesday and gave birth on a Sunday it is entirely possible I...

The Last Year

Well now that we’re moving forward I thought I’d take some time to look back. You see very personal though it may be, I feel like I should share a bit of my pregnancy journey and what better time to do it than almost exactly a year since the...

Pregnancy is Like a Roller Coaster

Don’t get me wrong, some roller coasters are a lot of fun. I’m just not a fan of them in general. I don’t so much mean the emotional aspects of pregnancy either. That’s a given. But in the wee hours of the morning this morning, as I spent yet...