posted by K | filed under 9 Months of Awesome | 4 Comments

Lately I’ve been in the habit of touching my belly a lot, partly because it’s so cool there’s a baby in there and partly because it’s so weird there’s a baby in there! I’m always poking around, trying to figure out this bizarre new shape of mine, especially when I’m lying in bed trying […]

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Yesterday I wore jeans for the first time in two weeks (I’ve been living in two pairs of magical and wondrous black pants with a high spandex quotient), and oh dear - they don’t fit anymore. Two weeks ago, I could still button my various pairs of jeans, though it was more comfortable to […]

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Every time people asked me when we were finding out the baby’s gender, I always said, “On the 21st … I hope, if the baby cooperates.” But I never actually considered the possibility that it wouldn’t. Of course, we’d be able to find out. After roughly one million years of waiting for a child, […]

posted by K | filed under Pets, 9 Months of Awesome | 9 Comments

Wow, based on the comments on my Baby Name Drama post, I see a lot of people have had issues with this baby name thing!
The common thread in your sage advice is “do NOT tell anyone the name until the baby is born.”
That sounds like it would work. I imagine it is hard […]

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Before we were actually having a child, I pored over baby name web sites and books, blissfully combining names without a care in the world. Somehow, I never had a clue that once the process of naming an actual child began, I would suddenly start caring about other people’s opinions besides mine (and D’s […]

posted by K | filed under Adoption, Family & Friends, 9 Months of Awesome | 3 Comments

1. Somehow, out of all the people in the world, I managed to meet and marry the only one I’m never tired of spending time with. Even with my most beloved family and friends, I need a break after a couple of days, because that’s just the kind of irritable meanie I am. But […]