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Postpartum Update: Day 4
I’m writing this update on day four of our expanded family. So far, so good! The “cocoon stage” isn’t my favorite, but I need to remind myself to savor each stage as much as I can. It’s such a special, quiet time as a family, and it will pass all too quickly as the boys grow.
My healing is coming along well, but it’s still difficult to experience the discrepancy between what my mind wants to be doing and what my body is actually capable of doing. I need to find more ways to enjoy this down time. Right now I primarily occupy myself with Facebook, which is definitely not… Read More -
A Birthday Celebration
We’re getting ready for a birthday around here. I’m writing this post in advance and scheduling it to run next week on my due date (which is today for those of you who are reading this on Wednesday, June 26th), so it’s hard to know whether to talk in the present or future tense!We’ve been talking to Henry constantly about his brother’s imminent arrival. He knows that baby Tate is “in mama’s uterus” and that he’s going to come out my “vagina.” He knows that the only thing his brother will be able to ingest is milk from mama’s “nipples.” We try to help him understand that… Read More -
Realizations
Our family scrapbook starts in 2006, a year after Matt and I started dating. The other day I was completely unmotivated to do anything else, so I started flipping through the scrapbook.The book contains page after page of adventure. There are trips to Baton Rouge for Spanish Town Mardi Gras (complete with elaborate and fun, hot-pink costumes). There are camping road trips to Utah and Idaho and Vancouver and California. There’s a sailing trip around the Greek Isles (with a stop-over in Paris). There are Random Acts of Kindness Scavenger Hunts and trips to the mountains of Colorado to celebrate birthdays with friends.And then there’s… Read More
