Archive for March, 2007

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

meta-mommy, part deux

yeh, i know. my fancy French numerals in these post titles aren’t exactly turning this into continental philosophy or anything. but, when i theme, folks…hell, i might as well theme grandly. i woke up this morning to find that honours had been showered upon me…and no, for once it wasn’t just baby pee. even better. […]

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Monday, March 12th, 2007

meta-mommy, part un

so, i’ve been thinking. yep. more than i let on. admittedly, the thinking these days happens in shorter, more sober, and more interruptable increments than it used to back in the glory days my former life. and most definitely, my thinking gets less press than it used to. Oscar hasn’t expressed any particular reciprocal interest […]

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Friday, March 9th, 2007

happy international stay-at-home mom day

yep, a new holiday. i made it myself, from scratch. :) i woke up yesterday morning with two – yep, not one, count ’em, two – massive pimples festering under my tender skin. these are not minor blemishes. these two are nasty and out for vengeance. my attention was first drawn to the new tenants […]

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Thursday, March 8th, 2007

what goes around…

you guys are great…and i thank you. grace in times of sorrow is one of the hardest things for us humans to learn…how to just be, with someone else’s sadness. i know this, but still trip over myself trying to find silver linings in other people’s misery, whenever random sadness sideswipes me in casual conversation. […]

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Monday, March 5th, 2007

i am not quite good, thanks for asking

“… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come. when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” – Kahlil Gibran maybe it’s the lack of sugar in my system, or a February thing that’s held on like a bad cold, but i have […]

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Thursday, March 1st, 2007

goodbye, jujubes, my old friends…

it is my secret belief that all mommy blogs have a diet blog lurking somewhere deep within them, just yearning to break free. childbirth is to the female body rather what chrysalis is to a butterfly cocoon, except that those stretched, ripped-open carcasses get left for trash after the flutterbies elbow their way out, thankyou […]

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