From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Idle Hands

April 30, 2009

Last year my mom gave me a really nice sewing machine, after I experienced a strange spurt of craftiness. I discovered hand embroidery after looking for something with which to occupy myself after The Poo went to bed—something besides Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls.
The ease of that type of crafting whetted my appetite for more. [...]

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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

April 29, 2009

But I love him anyways.
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The Supervisor

April 28, 2009

When I was pregnant with the boy, I worried (and wrote) incessantly about my fears that The Poo would suffer after his birth.
I feared that she would feel displaced, that I wouldn’t have enough time to spend with her, focused on her, the way I did when we were just three. I love her so [...]

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The Blue-Eyed Purple Paper Eater, or How I Totally Dodged A Bullet

April 26, 2009

The baby likes to fuss and grump before he falls asleep, and to help him occupy himself before The Sandman knocks him out, I leave a couple of toys in his crib.
Until last week, I also left a board book or two.
The Poo always loved books; she would take a couple to bed with her [...]

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The Good Enough Mother

April 24, 2009

This wasn’t our best week.
It started off with a grumpy Sunday, which melted into a series of out-of-sorts weekdays punctuated by too-short naps and runny noses. All four of us were stressed out, and we took it out on one another, as families do.
My babysitter asked for today off, to surprise her dad for his [...]

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This Is What My Heart Looks Like

April 22, 2009

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Beat The Clock

April 21, 2009

I am up against a wall this week. I have about 100 deadlines to meet by Friday, to the tune of more than 5,000 words, y’all.
Them’s alotta words.
My house is filthy. Case in point: yesterday, I got home from writing at 2:30 p.m. At 5:30, in the midst of dinner prep, I discovered the toilet [...]

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When Mourning Comes

April 20, 2009

Sundays were always the hardest day.
Sunday was the day we used to spend with my parents, lazing around their big house on the water, reading the New York Times and eating the fresh-baked treats my mom always had waiting for us. Or we’d run errands with them, making fun of them and lobbying to be [...]

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

April 18, 2009

Yesterday

Today

I will love you for all the tomorrows we have, my darling girl.

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The View From Here

April 17, 2009

The emotions of the past week left me feeling a wee bit wrung out. I imagine you feel the same.
But I get to spend my whole day with these faces:

Did you know that I actually really love being a mother? Yeah, I didn’t really know that until tonight. Holding Shaggy—or trying to, anyway—as he [...]

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