November 2010

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• baby Molly, childbirth, labor & delivery, motherhood, scout

  Birth Story, finally

  11.16.10 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I think this is the part where I get to say, demurely and modestly, of course, that thank you, thank you, yes, no applause please, I birthed that baby without any pain medication. But all I can really say is that that is some PAINFUL stuff, and if I hadn’t been blessed with a pretty [...]

• motherhood

  Wanting the fourth as much as the first

  11.13.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Today I held Lucy on my lap, she got my whole lap to herself, as I read her the same book from the library three times. Yesterday I weathered Callie’s tantrum over the hard words in her reading-practice book with tempered patience. She settled, finally, into the couch and into letting me help, and sounded [...]

• Susan

  From Slacker Mom to Hot Glue Gun Barbie in 24 Hours

  11.03.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Yesterday I was drying Callie’s hair before afternoon kindergarten, feeling pretty on top of things because I’d actually had her bathe even though it wasn’t Sunday, and I had ambitious plans to trim her fingernails during lunch. Callie asked if she could have pigtails, and I said sure. Then she said that she’s the only [...]

• Being Mormon, politics, the world

  Election fraud comes to Seagull Fountain

  11.02.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I told Tom someone must have heard that I planned to vote FOR the swimming pool General Obligation Bond, so they took my name off the rolls. I was pretty skeeved. I voted in that very same room (at Callie’s school) two years ago, so I know I’m registered to vote here. Maybe Brother X [...]

• fatherhood, scout

  I used to think washing the dishes was the sexiest thing a man could do

  11.01.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Tom likes to wear the baby, to church, at the store, around the house, because it is the best way to keep her happy, i.e. put her to sleep. Our babies don’t like pacifiers or riding in the car (unless there’s no slowing down or stopping involved), so your soothing options are basically: a) breastfeeding, [...]