Latch/Unlatch: What I Did With My Eldest While I Nursed the Baby

I don’t entirely remember nursing Trucker and watching Cake alone at the same time when he was really little.  Someone else was almost always around in the beginning.
I remember wishing I’d spoken to Cakie about how he could “help” when I nursed by stroking the baby’s feet or singing a song or something before the [...]

Why Do I Blog? Ask Me Something Besides That, K?

Why?
I just finished reading Bri’s post about BlogHer.  BlogHer seems to be like some kind of grown-up summer camp with booze and goody bags.  It sounds fun, but also uncomfortable.  After all, as much as I enjoy meeting people, especially people whose writing I admire, meeting fellow bloggers also usually makes me a little uncomfortable.  [...]

I Am On A (Not-So) Lonely Road

Traveling, traveling,  traveling.
I spend a lot of time wishing I were traveling.  I get jealous often, in a not-mean way, of folks like travelher, who make it a priority.  I have entire summers off.  But my partner does not.  And now I have two kids.  So I could travel alone, leaving my honey with two [...]

What I Have Given Away

The glider.

I sat in it so many times with Trucker nursing.  Then taking him off.  Then gliding him to sleep.  We’d bought it when A was eight months pregnant with Cakie.  The woman who sold it to us lived in one of those highrises in Bay Ridge that you can see from the BQE.  It [...]

Half-Assed Housewife’s Handy Tip of the Day #2

Don’t throw away those pitiful stumps of tasty cheese that are left over from your party cheese tray.  Stick them in the fridge. (Even if they got a little — er– sweaty.)
The next evening when you are too exhausted from the party to cook, break out that wine bottle with just a little bit left, [...]

Tide and Turning Around the Car Seat

My baby is one.
It is bittersweet, I tell you.
I don’t even know how to feel.
The week leading up to his birthday, I was anxious and stressed and a tad angry at nothing in particular.
We had a lovely party with many babies and adults swarming about the apartment eating good cheese and my sorry-attempt-at-copying-Magnolia-icing cupcakes.  Later [...]

Half-Assed Housewife’s Handy Tip of the Day #1

Use an ice cream scoop (the kind with the little button the swoops the ice cream out of the spoon)  to put cupcake batter into the cupcake cups.  It comes out perfectly proportioned and you don’t need to lift the bowl or mess with spatulas.
Also, did you know what will happen if you put a [...]

Last Year Today

I blogged twice.
I lost my mucus plug.
My honey had put me on her own honey-imposed bed rest. Because my feet had turned into sausages the night before.
The day before I had written a draft of how I’d hoped my birth would go.
All week, as I’ve been running around planning Trucker’s first birthday party, I’ve also [...]