When Dave, Carly, and I had dinner with some friends for Xmas, he was annoyed that I was completely and unabashedly jealous of the adorable daughter of two of our closest friends. After all, she — two months older than Carly — is communicating with both her parents and strangers at a level much [...]
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Jealousy
Posted in babies, bi-racial families, family, life, motherhood, parenting, tagged Children, jealousy, Parenthood, parenting, perfect children on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dave’s Encounter
Posted in parenting, tagged family, kids, life, parenting, random on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A quickie: Dave just came upstairs for the night. As he walked into the bedroom, he said that he just checked on Carly — who’s sitting up in her crib staring out toward the door.
Dave: I’m supposed to be looking in on her, not the other way around!
Now he’s all “weirded out” about it.
I told [...]
How’d We Get Such a Good One?
Posted in parenting, tagged babies, Children, family, kids, life, motherhood, parenting, random on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dave’s sister always tells us that it’s not fair that we got such a good kid on our first try. Genetically, of course, we had nothing to do with it. That was all birthmom & birthdad’s doing. It does, however, get Dave and I thinking about that whole nature vs. nurture debate. How much of [...]
Crying it Out
Posted in parenting, tagged babies, family, kids, Naps, parenting, Sleep, Teething on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Little girl is supposed to take her nap around 1, but she took a long one this morning. So at 1, she wasn’t really ready to go down. I tried at 1.30, but she just cried for 15 minutes — clearly wasn’t ready. I tried again around 2.30, and she totally fell asleep taking her [...]
Learning to Share
Posted in babies, family, life, parenting, tagged babies, Dogs, family, Sharing on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning it was my turn to get up early with the little girl — 6 a.m.
The dogs decided to get up with us. It’s not unusual for Luke, the cattle-dog mutley, to come down and warily watch her play, but Fezzik, the husky, stays away most of the time. He can’t be bothered by [...]
Is one enough?
Posted in babies, family, parenting, tagged babies, Children, family, Parenthood on September 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Our daughter is now 10 1/2 months old. I can see 1 bearing down on us. The past year has brought us many changes — 90% of which have been positive. So now that Carly’s almost a year old — and Dave and I are soon becoming another year older, as well — we’re contemplating [...]
Back at School (finally!)
Posted in motherhood, parenting, tagged family, motherhood, parenting, School, Work on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love going back to work in August! The energy of all the kids coming back to campus gets me rallied for the year. I love signing up for the novels I’m going to teach, getting the desks in short, neat rows (after wiping the summer dust off), and putting fresh pens in the drawer [...]
Today, 6 p.m.-ish
Posted in babies, family, life, motherhood, parenting on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I feel like a horrible mom, even though I know I’m a really good one. But life can get really boring being home with Carly.
She doesn’t quite crawl yet — something I’m trying to deal with, as it’s hard not to compare her with all her baby-friends — so there’s not tons of stuff [...]
