My Exciting Night in the Big City

Alternate title: Animated Feature
If you’re ever pregnant in the big city with a toddler asleep in the other room, you might try what I did for entertainment tonight:
Lay on your back on the couch.
Put the toddler’s stuffed doll on top of your big pregnant belly.
Wait until the baby kicks.
Watch the toy dance on the [...]

Hijacked Poem

so much depends
upon
the clean load
of dishes
glazed with tap
water
below the empty
cabinet
(With thanks to William Carlos Williams.  It is almost poetry month.  Get out thy quills, chickees!)
PS Sorry, this is also posted at my other blog.  If I’m going to publish a poem anonymously, I need to do it in as many places as possible for some [...]

To Do List

Tagged by Lo.
Here are the rules:
Step 1. Reference back to the blog that sent you.
Step 2. Make a list of 5 things that you have to get done this week, no matter how small.
Step 3. Get 2 other people off their asses to get their shit in order.
Five things I need to do this week:
(This [...]

By George, I Think He’s Got It!

I’ve been wanting to explain the whole impending big brother thing to Cakie for some time, but I also wanted to wait until he initiated the conversation. He started by falling in love with some babies. Nelly also gave me three really good “I’m a big brother” books. Cake fell in love [...]

Good

Here’s some good stuff:
1. Friday.  Good Friday is good.  Cake is at daycare and I have a whole unplanned day with my honey.  We won’t do anything exciting, probably.  But the prospect of a free day is exciting enough in itself.
2. Crazy play dates. I go to an informal playgroup some Thursdays.  Usually three or [...]

Shoes Blues

I am a bit of a shoe fiend.  Not Imelda Marcos-style, nor in a Carrie-In-The-City Manolo Blah Blah way.  I’ve been in constant pursuit of the perfect pair of comfy, stylish, all-purpose shoes for most of my adult life.  (I’m sure I’m not alone.)
I don’t know if it was the wearing of many cheap pairs [...]

Woah, Nelly.

My friend Nelly is very demanding.  She demanded a belly shot.  Since she is my official superhero for giving birth vbac  style at home, I must oblige.  (She also gave me permission to sleep on my back the day before my midwife did.)
So here’s my 23rd week belly.  One more week, and I’ll be six [...]

My Second Trimester Body aka Alien Posesssion

Ok, this big-ass belly is not really part of me.
I mean.  It is weird.
Strangers know that I’m pregnant.  They ask me the due date.  They ask me his name.  Yeah, lady in the cafe in Philly where I’m eating a criossant before a funeral, I’m going to tell you his name and not tell my [...]

A Not-Very-Deep Post

A lesbian couple on Top Chef!  Oh my god! Two worlds collide in a very yummy manner.
Some producer out there really knows where the true drama potential lies.
I love Top Chef.  I love the lesbians.  I love food.  I hope they don’t get eliminated before the drama begins.
Yes, people this is what your adventure-filled childless [...]

On Mothers

It was a rough week.
I had two losses in my family.
On Monday, I found myself sitting not in front of my room full of seven-year-olds, but in front of a marble statue of the Virgin Mary at a funeral.  I was thinking about these two deaths and lives: one, my step grandmother, the other my [...]