Waiting for Zoe

Hooray, it’s Valentine’s Day! We are going to celebrate by staying home. And I love it. It hasn’t always been this way. In fact, the…

Life is an experiment. And thus, when we created a new life, we decided to try some things. We used cloth diapers, and they worked.…

It’s the last week in our rental, and since we’ve gotten here ZMP’s going-to-bed pattern has gotten worse. Back at Chorizo House she was actually…

I haven’t cooked — really cooked — in a long, long while. A few weeks ago, we decided we had to move very quickly to…

It is 8:30 on a Friday night. You had to stay at work late because of A Thing, and now you’re home. You’re home, and…

I have a running mental list of “things no one warned me about” when it comes to parenthood. Supply concerns is one of those. I…

So here we are at the final day of maternity leave*, and I wouldn’t say the time has “flown by”, but it has certainly passed.…

Arguably, I didn’t get a chance to “nest”…except that I did. Back in November/December. That was when things went on sale and I went a…

Zoë is sleeping in my lap. Mike is going to bed. I’ll be up at 3, 6, and 9 to feed Zoë. Nursing is going…

At some point on Sunday, when we were still in a holding pattern, I opened my mouth and said with a complete lack of irony…