the nonhipster mom

I almost feel normal again. It's a new normal though, not the normal that I felt slightly more than two weeks ago, when my biggest worry...

Dan and I, when we lived in D.C., used to have these conversations about what do we do when something happens to our parents, when they can...

Hand to God, I am often the stupidest person I know. Also, one of the most easily amused. In re-writing the lyrics to this song, I learned s...

I don't want to have a baby on June 13 th . My friend Mark died on Friday, June 13 th , 1997. It was a very bad day, the capper on a ve...

My mother doesn't know about this blog, and if you know my mother, I would greatly appreciate you not telling her. Heather Armstrong fro...

She's coming. There's something about the end of pregnancy. It is June 4th, and I am 35 weeks and 2 days pregnant today, and yesterd...

Part Three is here . One of the first things they do after the birth is over and the sewing up and the general painfulness is over is turn o...