"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in dumb things I have done, Holidailies 2013, Parenthood on Dec 4th, 2013
I finally heard the clue phone ringing and picked it up. Little chap is teething, of course. Drooling? Check. Gnawing fingers? Check. Biting whilst nursing? Check. Slight rash around mouth? Check. Shitty mood? CHECK. So, I’ve bought him some baby acetaminophen and a tube of baby Orajel, and we shall hope for the best. When […]
Posted in Holidailies 2013, Parenthood on Dec 2nd, 2013
Today was a FFS day. A serious, no joking, double-barreled “Oh, for fuck’s sake” sort of day. Mostly because young Joseph has firmly and loudly refused to sleep. At. All. No naps, and now, here it is nearly 9:30 p.m. and he’s still grizzling away. If someone offered to shoot me, right now, I’d be […]
Posted in Notions and Rants, Oh, for fuck's sake, Parenthood, Ruby the Dog on Nov 21st, 2013
I’ve been doing a lot of walking since Joseph was born. While he was still in NICU, I would duck out for an hour or so daily and hoof around the Volker neighborhood to get fresh air, to keep my head about me, and to work off the hideous cankles that fluid retention had bestowed […]
Posted in Delight, Fashion, Parenthood, Take A Look At This on Aug 30th, 2013
I was goofing around on Flickr earlier this evening and came across three Daguerreotype photographs from the mid-1850s (probably, judging by the hairstyles and dresses) of women breastfeeding their babies. I thought that these three photos were quite beautiful as a tender moment was committed to a sheet of tin with the top technology of […]
Posted in Parenthood on Aug 28th, 2013
Today, I went through Joseph’s dresser and weeded out all the Newborn bodysuits and phased in the 0-3 month garb. He’s two days shy of two months old, but adjusted for his prematurity he’d be approximately three weeks. Joel and I tried to measure him this morning – he’s probably 20″ long, maybe. He’s so […]
Posted in Parenthood, Sewing on Aug 26th, 2013
I’ll show you some things I’ve made recently. First things first, I’ve got a baby’s butt to keep covered, so I did the mundane, cheapskate thing and made a bunch of diapers. Using this pattern: I made two dozen diapers. Most of them are just boring, plain white: with blue topstitching, but some of them […]
Posted in Adventures, Gratuitous Cussing, Parenthood, Up The Pole on Jul 26th, 2013
1. Hallucinated 2. Passed out* 3. Gone home with a boy I’d never met before It sounds like I’ve been having wild and salacious times, but in reality, that’s a misleading lead-in to a labor-and-delivery anecdote. On June 28, I was heading down to KU Med for a routine pre-natal appointment, wherein I expected to […]