nerd post for a Friday

I finally downloaded the pics of our watershed hike off the camera.
The handyman and T at Clear Creek (seriously clean water in e. TN)

These are just the exoskeletons of these insects. These (and others not as colorful) were all other the place and they just looked strange as if a tiny frozen army of [...]

not exactly memorial but..

Right now I’m reading Meg Wolitzer’s The Ten Year Nap. This is the first ‘good’ book I’ve read in a while and I am going to have a lot more to say about it. Here is one quote I like so far (Penny is a successful museum curator; Amy is a stay at home [...]

on tandem nursing

So I was getting a tad arrogant about how well my milk supply has held up during this pregnancy and planned to simply continue nursing T for at least 6 more months or so (maybe longer).  We are down to nursing only at nap and bedtime and honestly it has been so easy and I [...]

i hate my dogs

I just spent an hour, AN HOUR, cleaning out my vacuums so I could vacuum our bedroom (only room with carpets the dogs are allowed). It was disgusting. And while I was doing all this I thought of one of those Parenting magazine articles where they ask new moms the best advice they [...]

another weekend in ny

We spent the weekend in NY visiting the handyman’s family. Although we did get two beautiful mornings on the beach playing in the sand and watching a group of surfers which made the handyman nostalgic for his high school summers, the majority of time we sat around ‘visiting’ as they say. I was [...]

to vbac or to not to vbac

T was born via Caesarean section. I guess you would call it an ‘emergency’ one since my water broke naturally and I labored for 9 hours. But was it a medical necessity? I honestly don’t know. My OB (who has given birth naturally twice and by c-section once herself) would say [...]

nb

I haven’t been posting much and I suppose it is because it is hard to write about your life when you are not writing about the sort of big news in your life which is that I’m having a new baby (NB) due August 1st. Part of my hesitation for talking about it is [...]

biker girl

A woman I work with gave us this bike seat for T last week and she LOVES it (so do I).  I might actually start liking Pearl again if we can go riding a lot this spring.  I am free of school and ready to have some actual fun!