The Green Room

I’m scared to go back to work tomorrow.

It’s an odd feeling knowing that someone tried to blow me up last night. I hadn’t been to the tree lighting since I was a little, little kid, but Ryan wanted to go (now that Hanna’s here, he’s very excited about doing holiday stuff together), so, there we were. I didn’t know anything about it [...]

Things that I am thankful for: 1. Babies. All of them, everywhere, but especially little Miss Susquehanna. 2. Husbands, for all the wonderful, and even some of the not so wonderful, things that they do. 3. Cats, for being understanding. 4. Washing machines, for making item #1 so much easier to deal with. 5. Alice, [...]

Watching a baby have a nightmare is heartbreakingly terrifying. Hanna’s only just beginning to come to terms with the world outside, how is she supposed to know that what happens in her head when she’s asleep can’t hurt her? I don’t know what she could imagine already that would wake her screaming from a dead [...]

We are the luckiest parents in the world. Hanna is only 10 weeks old, and she’s already reliably sleeping through the night. And not the way the baby books describe it, where ‘sleeping through the night’ means 5 hours at a stretch, she’s managing a good 7-8 hours, about 3 nights out of 4. She [...]

Hanna has started smiling at me when I put her down on her changing table. I think she’s figured out that she’s about to have a clean bottom again. Either that or she just really likes the low ceilings in her room.

Is it wrong to wake your baby up because you want to cuddle? She should be hungry by now anyways, right?

When I went to put the diapers out this morning (yay for diaper services – all the fun of cloth diapers and none of the mucky laundry!) I discovered that the couch is gone! I don’t know if the city took it (they haven’t responded to my complaint yet), but I can’t imagine that someone [...]

Who do I call to complain to when the crappy people from the apartment building next door decide to dump their old sofa in front of my house? It’s bad enough that they and their guests are always parking right in front of my house, taking up two parking spaces because they don’t know how [...]