http://1902victorian.com/blog Home renovation at the speed of sludge Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:42:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to BabyCenter.com, my uterus is now roughly the size of a basketball. I've never been good at sports - maybe that's why all of a sudden I feel so miserable? Let me first say the obligatory spiel - yes, of course, it will all be worth it in the ... http://1902victorian.com/blog/2010/03/08/complaint-department/ This morning my great-uncle Harvey died. I am sad because I loved him, loved spending hot summer days fishing with cane poles in his catfish pond, but also because it feels like the last part of my Papaw is gone. Harvey and Frank were the closest of the nine ... http://1902victorian.com/blog/2010/03/04/the-last-brother/ Work has been slow lately, so I've been doing a lot of online shopping/browsing, visiting June 2010 moms message boards, hovering on Facebook, and watching marathons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD. The weather has been cold and miserable, so I haven't felt like going outside much, and ... http://1902victorian.com/blog/2010/03/01/do-i-get-a-gold-star/ The baby is moving right now, and it is the weirdest feeling ever. A few weeks ago on my June 2010 moms message board, all the lucky early-movement-feelers tried to describe it to those of us still waiting for those elusive kicks. There was a lot of talk of ... http://1902victorian.com/blog/2010/02/21/well-begin-with-a-spin/ In all my years of daydreaming about naming a child, I never thought the reality of it would be so difficult. In high school when my sister and I were playing our invented game "Rad or Bad," a version of The Game of Life that evolved to be all ... http://1902victorian.com/blog/2010/02/18/ruby-with-the-eyes-that-sparkle/ Until this weekend, we had done little work on the nursery, no more than what we did about this time last year when I was trying to distract myself from the adoption wait by buying cutesy baby things. Then, when we thought G was going to be our son, we ... http://1902victorian.com/blog/2010/02/09/moving-on/