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From the monthly archives:

June 2007

note to self

June 30, 2007

Dear me, If you are lying awake in bed at night wondering, “Was that a real contraction?” the answer is pretty much certainly “No.” If, an hour later, you still lying awake wondering if you are too hungry to sleep, a glass of warm milk and a slice of fresh bread are a perfectly acceptable [...]

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gratitude

June 29, 2007

taking a note from the Queen, in an effort to counter the crankiness I’ve been spewing all day: I’m grateful for: – my kids – I’m healthy – my Womb-bat is healthy, and in a perfect position to be born when s/he’s ready – best. partners. ever. – bread pudding – comfy pants – awesome [...]

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ps

June 29, 2007

1. I am apparently being scary enough that my roommate just a) fixed our laundry basket so beautifully that I could not tell what she’d done to it other than it was no longer broken and fraying and then b) showed me what she’d done and cautiously offered to undo the repair if I preferred [...]

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My body is a living temple of love

June 29, 2007

love expressed as rage toward the universe and anyone unfortunate enough to be talking to me. I want my baby. I would settle for being still pregnant and being even a little bit more OK with it. Like not being so helplessly angry with everything and everyone I come into contact with. It’s like the [...]

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fun with bodies

June 28, 2007

Rio plays this strange game sometimes where she will suddenly decide to trade body parts with me. She’ll put her hands on a piece of my body, like my belly or my eyes or my hair or a foot, and then pinch it lightly and say she’s “taking” it, then press her hands to the [...]

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Adventures in Late Pregnancy

June 20, 2007

Yesterday I was having lunch with a friend in Davis Sq when a Contraction hit. The kind that takes your breath away and makes walking a not-great prospect. I asked her to walk me back to my van and she cleverly deduced that if I couldn’t walk, I shouldn’t drive and so brought me home. [...]

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Rio as baby catcher?

June 14, 2007

Rio has gotten very interested in the immanent arrival of the baby, and asks me to tell her stories every day about what will happen when the baby comes. Yesterday, she added a twist of her own. “When the baby comes out between your legs, I will hold its head,” she said, demonstrating how she [...]

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How *does* that baby get out?

June 5, 2007

During a childbirth class recently, M and I were encouraged to think about how to prep Rio for my labor. I honestly had not thought about communicating with her about the labor part at all; I’d been kind of hiding the more painful aspects of pregnancy and was hoping she would miss the bloody, messy, [...]

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Mom pics

June 2, 2007

These are the proofs from my Mother’s Day photo shoot. I need to choose which ones to order prints or negatives of. Suggestions?

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Blue

June 1, 2007

Rio, as she snuggles into my bed a little after dawn: I like you Mama. You have blue eyes. You have the same blue eyes as Nana. You have Nana’s eyes. And I have blue eyes. I have your eyes.

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