Vajanuary
God, I’m such a bad blogger. I remember a time when I used to eagerly rush home to write a post. I’d keep a notebook in my pocket and dash down thoughts and observations and try to whittle them into something clever and, I daresay, profound when I [...]
Insemination Day
8:53 am Not a single soul in our house slept well last night. Little A got up twice to complain about a scratchy throat, H had tummy pains and had a dream that she barfed up an elephant, N was tossing and turning and Mama S and I [...]
Five Weeks
Having no reserves of patience left, we caved and ordered some urine strips on Amazon and had them sent to our UPS box in Niagara Falls, NY. On the week we were scheduled for our pregnancy blood test, which also happened to be the weekend of our first Les Coquettes [...]
Twelve Weeks
I think I've been suffering from an identity crises. It's been a long time since I've visited Schnooville, and since those days of writing with wanton abandon I've learned to censor myself, compartmentalize my personality into a series of personas, hold my tongue, stay in my house, and generally be [...]
Enter the Dragon
Today we participated in an annual tradition at the girls' school - the Michaelmas Celebration. This event celebrates the slaying of the dragon by St. George, and is honored each year by grades one to four, with each grade playing a significant role in the pageant. The reason for the [...]
Power Outage
I'm exhausted today for no explicable reason. I slept well last night, with a decent bed time. So strange... At 2:30 this afternoon the power failed, fortunately right after I completed the work projects on my to-do list for the day, so I did what any reasonable person would do [...]