Hanna has had an amazing day. And by amazing, I mean amazingly well-behaved given the circumstances. You see, my dad got his firewood delivered today, and Hanna and I got drafted in to help get it all stacked. Dad and I are basically the only ones in the family who have weekends off, so there [...]
Today, Hanna went to the County Fair with Mama and Grandma and Grandpa. She got to ride a pony (again!), feed two alpaca, three sheep (one of whom head-butted her, but Hanna just got up and tried to feed him again), two cows and myriad goats, she got her very own ice cream cone (chocolate [...]
I think my mother is finally starting to get her revenge. Hanna is turning into a whiny, grabby, temper-tantrum-throwing little bundle of awesomeness. I know this is a normal stage of her development, but oh my goodness. Bedtime takes an hour and a half of screaming now before she quiets down. Her biggest joy when [...]
I am occasionally glad that I come from a long line of packrats, even though it means coming to terms with the fact that my own house will never be free from clutter. Today, my parents brought over the little rocking chair that my grandmother bought for me when I was little, and the toybox [...]
Oh my goodness, travelling with a baby. On the flight out Hanna did ok, she was restless and then she slept, but on the flight back Hanna was that baby. She yelled because she couldn’t run around and she yelled because she was tired and she yelled because she was yelling so much that she [...]
Now that Dad has figured out that he can use the internet at my house and unlike the library, I won’t kick him off after an hour, I think I’m going to be seeing a lot more of him. Why he and Mom don’t just get internet at their house I don’t know, especially now [...]
We ended up not going to OMSI today, since Ryan got off work later than originally thought, so I spent most of the day with my mother instead. Mothers are good at cheering people up. We had ice cream and went exploring, and found a beautiful house with a wraparound porch and a western red [...]
Oh, and did I mention that my father got laid off? Today was his last day. Apparently my parents have known that this was coming for a month, but they didn’t bother to tell me because I have ‘other things to think about.’ I don’t think my mother would have told me even now except [...]
So. I’ve been trying to come up with a clever way to break this story, but the more I think about it, the harder it gets to say anything, so I think I’ll just skip the preamble and get straight to the heart of the matter: I’m pregnant. There is a bun in my oven, [...]
We went out to Indian food for my mother’s birthday last night. All six of us. I don’t know what’s stranger, my family all being adults now, with the wealth of new conversation topics and honesties that implies, or the mere fact of how we’ve expanded. It isn’t just me and my parents and my [...]
