February 2012
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this just in: percy has become obsessed with his hands over the past few days. no longer are they merely for grasping his clothes and inserting into his mouth knuckles-deep. suddenly nothing is more interesting than smooshing them together in a variety of positions and then staring at them in total awe.
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the authors of “what to expect in the first year” on cloth diapering:
Because there’s more fussing and fiddling involved, diaper changes are generally more trouble with cloth diapers.
well duh. home-cooked meals are generally more trouble than eating at mcdonald’s every night, but i go to the trouble of shopping for food, preparing it, and washing up afterwards because,...
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percy and i went down to the courthouse today to watch daddy beat his case.
this morning, a year and a half after that first day in court, i walked through the metal detectors with our beautiful son sleeping on my chest. the court officer ran her hands between percy’s stomach and mine to make sure i wasn’t concealing any weapons or anything. i asked her if she’d ever found...
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this baby bjorn has got my shoulders jacked in a major way. add to that always sleeping on my back with him in my arms and i am seriously in pain. having a baby is making my already terrible posture even worse. i’ve never had a professional massage. i really want one. like, now.
i have the moby too which is much easier on my back, but i suck at taking him in and out of it so i rarely wear...
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i was at macy’s the other day when this woman started asking me questions about what sizes percy wore, as she was expecting her first grandchild. the conversation turned to crib bedding, and she wanted to know if i knew of a good place to buy it. i told her percy didn’t have a crib, that he slept with us, so i wouldn’t really know, but that babies-r-us looked to have a decent...
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Watchpercy lights up when i sing to him. i think he is trying to sing along! please ignore my terrible pitch and just zero in on all of this cuteness that is happening here. and, yeah, we are country as fuck sometimes, in case you didn’t know.
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it feels like my milk supply is starting to go down a little. my titties used to stay engorged or near to it all day, leaking all the time. now they seem softer, they rarely leak, and percy is sort of clueless as to what to do with them sometimes. in fact, he seems to have developed a weird fear of my nipples. it’s not strange for him to scream bloody murder when i pull one out, even if...
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i love it when percy’s all shy about smiling. it spreads across his face real slow and he looks up at me with those big huge eyes like he’s not really too sure about this new feeling that he’s having. like he’s testing it out. it breaks my heart into a million pieces in the best way possible.
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i’ve heard lots of women talk about how, when their man proposes to them, it had better be some crazy elaborate gesture that really knocks their socks off, and it had better result in a rock the size of a champagne glass. that’s what we see in movies and on tv, so that’s what we’ve learned to expect, i guess. that’s not quite the way it happened for me.
which is...
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no, you just made an entire tube of pillsbury buttermilk biscuits into one gigantic monster biscuit and ate the whole thing in under five minutes.
i did go back into the kitchen and eat a raw carrot afterwards, if that redeems me at all.
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i had a bunch of mint left over from making tabouli so i chopped it up and threw it in some brownies as an experiment. they totally taste like weed brownies! i think i am having sort of a placebo effect moment right now and reliving the year 2000. this is like the mocktail of stoner desserts. i’m into it.
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i got an ask about essentials for maximizing space for a couple having their baby in a one-bedroom apartment. but you know my long-winded ass cannot contain the answer to that question in an ask box, so here goes.
when you are pregnant for the first time, if you are anything like me, you have no idea what you are going to need, and the gazillions of choices are confusing. even more so if you live...
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i am of the opinion that if you are fortunate enough to be able to afford to eat bacon every day, then you should probably just go ahead and do that.
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i just read some really ignorant commentary about lauryn hill not being “right” or deserving as a role model for young women because she has more than one baby daddy. i’ve read similar ridiculousness about erykah badu, attacking her character for having three different babies by three different men, or for having them out of wedlock.
men in the hip hop community do not get this...
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when i have percy with me and we are forced to share a space with someone for any amount of time, and we happen to interact, be it a stranger sitting next to us on the train or a remote acquaintance, and that interaction does not include said person practically pissing themselves over how totally fucking adorable my baby is, i automatically assume said person is heartless jerk and/or just a plain...
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i went to a la leche league meeting this morning. i really wanted to enjoy it, but listening to a bunch of women discuss their breastfeeding problems in minute detail for two hours was a little much, although it did seem like those who needed it were finding the help they sought, so i reckon it served its purpose for them. as we don’t have any nursing issues per se, i just said hi, sat back,...
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“My greatest accomplishment was first of all, having my son. And I did have him...”
– Anna Nicole Smith