Category Archives: birthday

The Day Between

This is going to be one of those posts, in which the words come swirling out in no particular order, and since it’s too late to edit it, they will just remain that way – unless your brain knows how to unswirl them better than mine. I am feeling lost. Again? As usual? Something like…

Our winter wonderland

What is it about us that we can avoid laundry, dishes, bills, and work like the plague, but lose ourselves for hours trying to master a new technology? That was me this weekend, attempting to figure out how to use iMovie for the first time.  I started small, making a short 60 second video for…

thirty and three

Have I mentioned before how much I love birthdays?  I think I have.  But the last few have been…well… disappointing. I spend too much time lately feeling inadequate, like I’m not sure what I’ve really accomplished so far or where I’m going next.  I feel mediocre.  But on my birthday, it is magnified so that…

Birthday weekends

A little over a year ago, we were given a choice of birthdays for Theo, since he refused to flip over and had to be delivered by c-section.  They offered us July 8th as one of our options, but that is Sebastian’s birthday, so I vetoed it.  I don’t really care for sharing things like…

Our story: the next chapter

It’s really strange to know for certain that your child will be born the next day. After weeks of hoping we could get this baby to flip or wondering if I’d go into labor on my own, it became clear the night of July 9th that one way or another, the baby was going to…