SubscribeThe past few days have been some of the hardest I’ve ever been through. It really honestly felt like we were being punished for something we didn’t know we had done, and the one facing the brunt of it was our innocent little Schnauzer. (If you want to know what happened, it’s all here) This [...]
Category: Parenting
What happened
On Sunday night we woke up and something was wrong. We thought it was a seizure because he had had seizures before. When Joe realized that he wasn’t walking properly, he took him to the emergency vet. I stayed at home with the baby and waited. And waited. And waited. By 4 am Joe was [...]
Live
Yesterday the baby and I went to the weekly Stars and Strollers movie at our local theatre. I was in a bit of a rush and didn’t realize until the movie started that the theatre I had arrived at right on time was showing Eat, Pray, Love. I was expecting to see Nanny McPhee Returns. [...]
One more post
This post is my own response to the challenge my husband posed to several bloggers: What if you could only write one more post? What would you want to say? For more information on the thought experiment or to read other people’s theoretical “last posts,” check out If you could only write one more post. Whether I’m [...]
Growing up
I grew up in Ottawa. I was born here and I didn’t leave until I was 20. I’ve moved away five times and it never stuck. The closest I came to home outside of Ottawa was when I went to college in Belleville. When I was a kid I had big dreams of traveling around [...]
Dear Baby,
I look at you sometimes and wonder if you will always smile after you sneeze. I don’t know what it is about the experience that you find so pleasurable, but it makes me laugh. It is one of the many things I try to make note of and remember because you’re already changing so much [...]
Not a valid opinion
Two days ago I read, along with a lot of women I talk to, the AOL article about Shaquan Duley. I read Her Bad Mother’s reaction and I read the open letter to a so-called expert on Pretty Babies. I’ve let it sit for two days that this women, a criminal profiler that should never [...]
Sigh.
(As a side note on the title, I used to read a lot of Archie comics, and there would be a speech bubble that said ‘sigh’ and I thought that meant that you were actually supposed to say the word.) My mood has been up and down over the past couple of days. I can [...]
Fat Mom
I’ve heard women say that after they have babies they feel much more in tune with their bodies. Like having the baby showed them what their body was made to do and they have a newfound respect for it. I don’t feel that way. At all. Maybe it’s because my body proved to be not [...]
Dear Baby,
Oh little girl, I remember when we used to try so hard to get a laugh out of you. You started laughing one day because I was blowing on your belly and it was the sweetest sound I’d ever heard in my life and I just wanted to hear it again and again. It seemed [...]
