friday night.

h is asleep next to me. every pet is curled up near or on the bed, as a severe thunderstorm with fantastic lightning just passed. sparky is wide awake and stretching out the right side of my abdomen. i sit back and watch the show. for the first time, i see [...]

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back on top.

it’s a gorgeous day here in austin, texass. everything is in full bloom and smells like honeysuckle. i’m sitting at mother’s cafe, enjoying a garden patch salad with homemade cashew tamari dressing and 16 oz of fresh squeezed orange juice. mmmmmm.
the cafe is conveniently located down the street from my midwife, so [...]

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my lovely baby bump.

a proper entry is forthcoming, hopefully within the next 24 hours, but for now, i was able to capture the loch ness monster, aka, the bum of sparky. see the oddly shaped bump within my bump, just below my hand? behold, the bum.

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calling the whole IVP

send your love, your hope, your prayers to sara and erin and a. today.

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family portrait.

Friday evening. Nearly 7 o’clock. We are in bed already. H is asleep next to me, a lump under the blankets, breathing slow and constant. She will be pleased to know that she is not snoring. Charleydog is curled snugly in a ball, sleeping between us. And Salcat stretches out [...]

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!!

send your love and excitement and easy delivery thoughts over to it’s taking a village! here comes the tot!

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31w3d

as i took this picture, i was being punched in the belly button by a ferocious fetus.

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day one.

maternity leave ticker is removed.  this is it, baby.  the promised land.  so far, i’ve slept.  most of the day thus far.  curled up with pets.  and now i’m off to pick up h from school.
so it goes…

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31 weeks.

today, i am 31 weeks pregnant. i just got off the phone with my midwife (who, incidentally, has 2 broken wrists from falling down stairs. yikes.). i am beginning a new regimen of kyolic garlic, hawthorne tincture, daily epsom salts baths, and more consistent 20 minute daily walks. why? over the past [...]

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neti neti neti yes!

so yesterday, as i languished while watching the pregnant man episode of oprah–with lots of eyerolling while simultaneously glad that thomas got to tell his own story–a commercial came on for the sinu.cleanse neti pot.  i giggled at the unlikely spokesperson of obscure country star suzy bogguss*, but thought that i should add a neti [...]

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