January 2010

The Archives

• pregnancy

  Let the dreams begin

  01.28.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Last night was plain awful. I dreamt that Dick came to me and told me he’d been unfaithful numerous times but that this time he was in love and was going to have the Dave Matthews Band play at his second wedding. One of the worst parts was that my family was sure that it [...]

• marriage

  Love the one you’re with/the one you are

  01.26.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Last week on our walk I told Chrysanthemum all about Penelope Trunk’s complicated love life. I also told her about my favorite of Penelope’s posts ever — it has “language” but may be the truest elegy to motherhood ever written. If you don’t recognize yourself in her post, I envy you, but I also think [...]

• women

  Don’t think about that, think about this

  01.26.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Today, though I didn’t much feel like it, I went to a quilting bee for Haiti organized by Kalli (with LDS Humanitarian Services). I wasn’t there long; I’m not an expert quilt-tier. But even that forty-five minutes of being with fun ladies and thinking about something besides my own complaints, really helped. I mean, physically [...]

• labor & delivery, pregnancy

  An Update and Some Thoughts (catchy, huh?)

  01.24.10 | Permalink | 50 Comments

  Several weeks ago I went to my first prenatal visit. I told the doctor I was either seven or eleven weeks along, and we did an ultrasound to get a better idea of just how unreliable my memory is. It was early morning, I was drinking water like mad so I could give a sample [...]

• daughters, pregnancy

  Disconnect

  01.15.10 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  One of my best friends came to stay with us for a few days. She planned her trip before I was struck down in the afternoon and evenings by this first-trimester-stomach-unhappiness, and I have been hoping that I can be cheerful enough to not rain on her vacation. (I am great in the mornings, which [...]

• Being Mormon, homemaking madness, motherhood

  What a mother should look like

  01.03.10 | Permalink | 38 Comments

  It took two short weeks of sitting in Sunday School together for Dick and I to paint ourselves as faith-deficient troublemakers. (At BYU, this length of time was usually unnecessary; everyone knows that English majors like to ask critical questions.) The teacher today was very nice about it. He probably made a mistake in acknowledging [...]