overwrought ice cream eater.

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nine months.

dear ziggy, i last wrote you a letter when you were six months old. since then, you have grown an inch and gained over a pound. (i.e. you weigh 21 lbs, 14 oz, and are 29 1/4″ tall these days.) at eight months, your bottom front teeth finally popped out, and they’ve had sole chewing [...]

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three.

dear jude. you.are.three today. as i write, you look like this: …which is a whole lot like the baby jude i met three years ago. my gosh, you’re lovely and peaceful. what that photo doesn’t show is that an hour previous–at 6 am–you’d woken up with wet panties. (for posterity: most nights, you keep your [...]

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wearefambly.

of four. in texass. legally.

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fambly: one more time with feeling.

right now, i’m sat at a little coffeeshop in south austin with a steaming cup and a bagel, laptop fired up and ready to be productive. this delicious scene is a whole lot like my life pre-kids, with one exception: it’s all happening at 7am. i have an 8 am appointment with my therapist, which [...]

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