From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Cashing In My One Free “Hysterical Pregnant Woman” Token

June 26, 2008

I am, in a word, wasted.
And not in that good way, like when you’ve had one too many Mike’s Hard Lemonades on the Fourth of July and when you giggle, you pee a little.
In the bad way, like you haven’t slept a full night in 15 weeks and you are so hungry you could eat [...]

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Giving New Meaning To “Hump Day”

June 25, 2008

Thirty-two weeks and counting

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Green Day

June 24, 2008

We settled on a color, and Mr. C and our dear friend Al (hi, Al!) painted Shaggy’s room on Saturday.
They worked their asses off, and the result is …

… perfection.
I scored a great deal on the bedding – reduced price on a brand-new, in-the-package set – from eBay, and we set up the crib.
The Poo’s [...]

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Laundry List

June 23, 2008

What is it about Mondays?
No matter how hard I work over the weekend, there’s always a laundry list of chores waiting for me when I wake up Monday morning.
Today saw me rise with the sun. The Poo had a bad dream – a regular occurrence around here – and wound up in bed with us [...]

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Impish

June 22, 2008
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Nursery Prep

June 20, 2008

When The Poo was born we lived in a loft apartment in the middle of our city’s downtown area. It was great for young newlyweds, but not so much for young parents.
It was the middle of the year, however, and moving was out of the question. Plus, my dad had just died, and I wasn’t [...]

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The Shaggy List

June 19, 2008

Thirty-one weeks and six days.
That’s how long I’ve been gestating Shaggy Boy. And let me tell you, friends and countrymen, it feels EVERY BIT THAT LONG.
Y’all who’ve been following my tweets this week probably saw that I’m near the end of my tether with this whole “baby-incubator” thing. You know it’s bad when your midwife [...]

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My Baby’s Got Me Wrapped Up In Chains

June 17, 2008

In August it will be two years that we’ve lived in East Central Illinois.
We left behind the water and the trees and everything familiar to begin our beginning in the middle – four years into our marriage, with one child in tow, my husband went back to graduate school as a full-time doctoral candidate and [...]

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Seriously? My Hooha Is KILLING Me

June 14, 2008

This might need to be filed under the “TMI” category, but people.
My crotch is fucking KILLING me.
When we had our last ultrasound, it was revealed that Shaggy Boy’s head is lodged deep in my pelvis. Normally this would be very good news indeed, seeing as his sister was breech.
However, since I will be having a [...]

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Sleepyhead

June 12, 2008

We’ve been busy here on the north coast of America.
The days flew by, and tomorrow afternoon we pick Mr. Chicken up at the airport for a whirlwind Father’s Day weekend of baseball games, wedding showers and steak dinners. Then Monday, we mount up again and head back to the wilds of the Great Middle West, [...]

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