Monthly Archives: January 2012
Here we go again…..
My husband and I have recently decided to try to have another baby. Hooray! I get to be pregnant again! Oh joy! Nine months of gestation! Nine whole, glorious months! If you suspect that the previous paragraph is dripping in bitter, acidic sarcasm- you are very clever. Or, you have been pregnant before. I’ve hated […]
This much I know
Marcia was a good girl. On her first day of kindergarten, she left her room neat as a pin, her little shoes all in a row. The oldest of three, Marcia set a good example for her sisters. She was a good student, not exceptional, but she was active in clubs and well liked. She […]
Wishing and Waiting
I padded out of my bedroom and downstairs this morning in a pair of threadbare, purple-plaid pajama bottoms, a striped tank-top( not in coordinating colors), an oversized, shapeless cardigan and a pair of heavy brown wool socks. I was not trying to escape a raging fire. I had not been found wandering aimlessly through my […]
Drinking the Kool-Aid
It seems I’ve touched a nerve in a few of my fellow community members. It seems that when you reveal in a blog post that you chose to have a traditional family arrangement; that is, a working father and a stay-at-home mother, some people get into all kinds of a dither! Broad assumptions are […]