From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Brief Rays Of Sunshine

April 30, 2008

I gotta go potty, mom!
Do you need my help?
Nope!
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Mom, I’m so cozy in my big girl bed.
Are you?
Yeah. I’m hot like a piece of toast.

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Can I Get A Do-Over?

April 28, 2008

Woken well before dawn by hard kicks in my belly. A stumbling journey to the bathroom. Hollering from the girl’s room.
Mama! Mama, let’s go downstairs.
No, baby, it’s still early.
But it’s light outside, Mama.
Persuaded to cuddle, she curls like a comma into me on the big bed. She sleeps; I toss and turn.
The eight-o’clock hour arrives, [...]

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I Made This For Her Today

April 27, 2008

“If I lost him, Mommy, I would be SO SAD.”

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She’s All Girl

April 26, 2008
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Good News, Bad News

April 25, 2008

The Bad News
So, yeah. Yesterday.
It was, in a word, ugly. And it got even uglier, if you can imagine, after I dashed off my last post in a fury.
The Poo was asleep when I got home from the doctor, as rare an event as ever there was. Mr. C went upstairs to watch sports [...]

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I Hate Being Right

April 22, 2008

Guess who gets to go for a three-hour glucose test next Wednesday?
It was just what I’d hoped for – to sit for an additional five hours in my OB’s office just to be told what I already know – I have The Diabetis, as we call it in our house.
I failed my one-hour test today,  [...]

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Nothing Says “Happy Monday” Like A Staph Infection

April 21, 2008

I got out of the shower Friday morning to find my daughter’s face a strange shade of bright pink. I looked at her, then I looked at my sink.
My make-up. Everywhere.
She got into my Benefit face powder and went to town.
“How do I look, Mama?” She thrust out her lips in a fair approximation of [...]

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Is It Time Yet?

April 20, 2008

Two weeks ago we were watching a baseball game together when a commercial came on for Assembly Hall. For those of you not in the know, that’s the arena where UIUC’s once-famed (and still pretty good) basketball team tosses an orange ball into a net.
The commercial was not for an upcoming game – it [...]

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Whatever It Takes

April 19, 2008

The Poo sits on the potty, eating her lunch and watching a DVD on mommy’s MacBook.

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Not-So-Tiny Earthquakes

April 18, 2008

Last night I held on to the bed during an earthquake – and not a metaphorical one.
It was a very rough night. The Poo fell asleep face-down on the hardwood floor at just about 6 p.m., and woke me at midnight complaining that it wasn’t morning yet.
She won’t have anything to do with her father [...]

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