It’s 12:45 a.m., Friday December 7, 2007. A mere 45 minutes past my due date. Scant hours after I decided to take a chill pill and B…R…E…A…T…H…E…. And POP! Hello bag of waters!
So we’re off to the hospital….

Due date has come and is about to go. No one thought I would make it to my due date, much less past it. My mom’s been here for over a week. Other eager grandparents and friends are calling, IMing, texting every day to “check on my status”. Um, status is: when there’s something to […]

The past six weeks have been an absolute marathon of baby-arrival preparation. It started with the overwhelming task of turning our home office / library / quinn’s art studio / catch-all room into a nursery. This included two garage sales, several postings on craigslist, a LOT of rearranging of the rest of the house and […]

So Disneyland was everything we’d hoped for. We started our first day accidentally pulling out in front of someone on our way into the parking garage and got a half eaten bologna-on-white-bread sandwich chucked on to the hood of our car. It was awesome.
Day 1 was over 100 degrees F.
On the bright side, […]

We leave tonight for our Southern California end-of-summer vacation. Quinn’s school starts late this year so we’re taking advantage of all the other kids being back in school and hitting Disneyland next week. (Going to Disneyland in the heat of summer with the HORDES of other people pretty much results in a deep hatred for […]

So I’ve been feeling Baby2007 moving for about a month now. At first it was super subtle butterfly flutters that were difficult to distinguish from gas bubbles. Then it was fish flopping which has slowly progressed in frequency and intensity, with the occasional bump and jab. Overall, though, the little resident has been pretty mellow. […]

It’s a girl!
Although right now I could swear it’s a fish.

This was five weeks ago. And yes, this is an internal view of my uterus and that is a baby.

It’s now been about 10 days since Quinn sped away in the back of my parent’s Hyundai sedan in full command of the back seat with drinks in his drink holders, snacks in the snack tray, piles of books, toys, crayons. They took their time driving back up North stopping to see family along the […]

So last night I had my third dream this summer about the first day of school. Quinn’s first day of school. Of kindergarten. Is this strange?
Any day now we’re supposed to receive the email from his preschool teacher telling us which of the two kindergarten classes he’s been assigned to. Which teacher he’ll have (Miss […]