Insomnia can suck it

Just in case anyone was wondering, I was in fact awake until after midnight last night.  And awake again slightly after 4 this morning.  And laid in bed, unable to get comfortable and with Lucy forming some sort of strange Stonehenge-like shape between C and me, until I finally got up and made a cup [...]

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Babies

Last night as I said good night to C, I rubbed my stomach to find a misshapen section. ‘What is that, a chicken thigh?’ I asked him.
The mercy of getting more huge and less comfortable is that your mind finally starts to prepare you for the actual baby that is at the end [...]

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My pots are here!

Downstairs! With the doorman! As I type! Which means that tomorrow I can plant my strawberries and whatever else I have lying around that needs plantin’. I am so excited I could sweat. Profusely.
Coming back to this after opening and unpacking the pots…I am not sure what I have gotten [...]

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Energy x 50

After a Lucy-sanctioned trip to the diner, I dragged her (and my husband-who-deserves-a-medal-lately-for-humoring-me) to the Union Square Greenmarket. As we entered the park, we ran smack into the New York Healthy Birth Fair. And the sky parted, and angels trumpeted, and I came away armed with a sackful of information on everything from [...]

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And then something sort of clicked

I don’t know why, but somewhere between dinner and sleep I felt the most wonderful feeling:  contentment.  C steamed up the potatoes from the farm share and we mixed up sour cream with green onions (also from the farm) and basil from the balcony and it.was.heavenly.  Lucy had a cupful of plain basil leaves before [...]

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This Past Weekend

I can’t believe I’m posting a photograph of myself in a bathing suit on the internet.

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Trying to be ‘all deep’ just comes out ‘all vomitty’

There’s something about this pregnancy that’s turning me into a huge ball of angst. I had two crying fits over the past weekend, one because nobody ever takes pictures of me (hand*staple*forehead*) and the one immediately following because my hair gets so tangled at the back of my neck that I think I might [...]

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Disillusioned

We’re back, again, after a nice weekend out on LI and let me tell ya, it’s H.O.T up in here.  My glasses are sliding off of my nose from the sweat, and I think we may have to break down and pop on the a/c today.  And, also let me tell ya, I don’t feel [...]

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Month 2, Week 1

gas:  7.76 gal
garbage:  23.2 lbs (next week will be the huger number)
recycling:  12.4 (ditto hugeness next week)
food local:  35%
food bulk:  1%
food wet:  64%
consumer goods:  $400

Check out how much money I spent.  Included in that are:  2 new pairs of maternity pants, 3 new outfits for Lucy, rec center membership for me, rechargeable AA and C [...]

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Do you have one of these?

I spent a large portion of my life fearing that I would be perceived as ungrateful.  I still struggle with this.  I have trouble when people do nice things for me because, in my way of thinking, I don’t deserve nice things unless I do equally nice things back.  My MIL does a lot of [...]

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