“You’re My Brotherloversistermotherdaughtersonfatherpu$sy-lover” — Maddoner

Today is reader appreciation day. Thanks to Robin over at Other Mother, who likes a good blog party.
So I have said “thank you” before, but I’ll say it again. I choose the Madonna option. (Watch the video. She funny.) Mostly because I think making fun of one’s self is more interesting [...]

A Conversation with my Son

We were sitting in the bathroom.
I put my hand on my belly and said something about the baby.
Cakie: You can take it out?
Me: No, not yet. We need to wait a long time, still.
C: Oh.
We read a choo choo train book.
C: I don’t feel very well.
M: Oh, what’s wrong? Do you have a belly [...]

With Thoughts of You I am Aglow

I am obsessed with two things right now:
1. Having this baby. Is it obvious? Does it show?

2. Buying this house. With thoughts of you I am aglow…

(Not the most doable thing when one is about to take four unpaid months of childcare leave.)
#2 is not really going to happen, but one can dream.
Oh, and I [...]

The Ladies

I went to hang out with the lesbian mommies-to-be last night.  I think that might be the official name, but in my head I just call us “preg lez.”  It is fun to be with pregnant lesbians and their just-as-expectant partners.
It was the first time they got to meet my son and partner, since she [...]

Bookish

Writing a book is a bit of a time suck.
I mean, a good one.
I sit down with a goal and the next thing I know, several hours have passed.  And I’m just writing the proposal.  In addition to doing lots of interviews (I have a goal of 40, but if I can do more, I [...]

The Good News and The Kinda Bad News

The good news is that my glucose and iron and everything came back quite normal.
The kinda bad news is that I should probably stop scarfing down brownies now.
PS I took down the post I put up last night. If you saw it,  I’m sad about what happened, but I don’t need to scream about someone [...]

TMI

That means too much information.  Overshare.  I really didn’t need to know that much about you, etc.  So if body fluids give you the heebeegeebees, please press the back arrow on your browser now.  You won’t like this post much.
Sooooo… I was doing the thing.  You know, with the washcloth?  The one where you rub [...]

Your Electric Kitchen

So you want my butterscotch brownie recipe, eh?
That’s funny, because I meant to blog about this on my other blog when I happened upon the recipe.
When we were in New Mexico visiting my dad, I stumbled upon a little treasure called The Electric Cookbook: Your Complete Guide to Cooking Electrically by Marguerite Fenner.  Check out [...]

Question of the Day

Should I bake and partially eat a batch of butterscotch brownies?
I took my glucose test today.  Tomorrow I find out if I have gestational diabetes.  I doubt it.  I highly doubt it.  But on the off chance that I have to start a very regimented diet of which I assume butterscotch brownies are not an [...]