Posted in Amy on October 24th, 2007 11 Comments »
I went to sleep on the 16th pregnant, filled with excited thoughts of the baby I’d seen in ultrasound a week earlier. Heart flickering, little proto-limbs flailing. I was weeks further along than I’d thought, but the doctor assured me that it looked perfectly healthy and my spotting was nothing to worry about. Come back [...]
Posted in Amy, Navel-gazing, Random life on January 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
Did I really write “crisp but not cold temperatures” in that last post?
Uh, sorry about that, rest of CA. Just to show how wrong I can be, we’ve had below-freezing temperatures at night for what seems like FOREVER (but is at most two weeks). Houses here just aren’t built to handle the cold. Single [...]
Posted in Amy, Jacob, Navel-gazing, Parenting on December 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
Before I say anything, Jacob would just like you to know:
dadadadadadadadadadadadada…
…DaDaDaDaDaDaDaDaDaDaDaDa…
…DADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADA!!!!!
(Got that?)
*****
Anyone who has shown even the slightest willingness to let me whine at them over the last 6 months knows how tired I am of nursing. At the same time, I appreciate how important it is to Jacob and I don’t want to [...]
Posted in Amy, Jacob, Jon, Uncategorized on November 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
This weekend we spent a wonderful Sunday with our friends Stacy, Neil, and Asher (6 months). The farmer’s market up in San Jose is larger than our Thursday market, and I tried two new foods there: Chestnuts, which we roasted tonight and which are fabulous, and pineapple guava, which I think is disgusting.
We then [...]
Posted in Amy on November 5th, 2006 6 Comments »
Ten years ago today, my mother died. As the years go by, my memories of my mother as a separate person, as Deborah Thomas, are fading. I’m left with impressions, with the remembered aura of snuggling with her, with emotional residues of the way she made me feel. It is terrible and painful to lose [...]
Posted in Amy, Fun, Jacob, Navel-gazing on October 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
Son, I love you more than words can say. Nevertheless, here are ten things that I really wish you’d hurry up and learn.
Triscuits are not an interior design element.
Egg salad is not a fashion accessory.
When you are so exhausted you can no longer walk, the solution is not ‘try to nurse, [...]
Posted in Amy, Jacob, Jon, Move, Work on June 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Jonathan has recently accepted a position as an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. This will allow Jon greater research freedom and me the ability to stay home with our children. We’ll be moving there in mid-August.
Given that this move will take us far away from our families, I’m starting this [...]