The week before Christmas is often the hardest time of the year for me. Not for reasons you'd expect: I'm not worried about gifts, or ...
Archives for 2008
I. Baby Z has progressed from trying to pull herself forward with her lips to almost being over the army crawl. She can propel herself forward ...
I don't, A does. Less and less, and even less these days, but still. And every time he has a cold of the more bronchial ...
Baby Z can do it now: Big change from the less successful lip-crawling phase.* And non-groaning phase. Also note: how I torture my child by moving ...
My sister-in-law sent me this photo of Baby Z and her one year older cousin at Thanksgiving: I saw it and almost died of all the ...
So there's an actual report that found what anyone who's ever adjunct-taught a college course probably already knew: that adjuncting is overall BAD (via Bitch.Ph.D.). ...
Seems to be a universal problem: babies who refuse to sleep. I blame an Englishman named William Willett for our sleep problems. Well, at least partly ...
I. Celebratory I meant to write a special post to my daughter but made the mistake of keeping it in my head too long and it ...
Sweet Juniper writes beautifully about Detroit and why we should bail out the big three, and the changed landscape of where and how the stuff ...
Lately I've been trying to avoid traveling by air even when, strictly speaking, it makes more sense. When we went to Detroit a couple weeks ...
Paul Krugman's right: one of the most important areas of legislation, if not THE most important area of legislation that the next administration should enact ...
There are unbelievable amounts of tschotschkes around our house that A and I have been collecting since our respective childhoods. Or as they're known in ...
I want to record how I feel this morning, after the election. But everything I can think of writing is a bit inadequate. Nevertheless. It is one ...
We voted. In the little elementary school's gym near our house, one of our neighbors was the poll worker, and my name was, unsurprisingly, hard ...
Faustina's had a few more firsts: As of this Thursday, she can turn over, from tummy to back (which she tries to do frequently then squawks ...
Faustina laughed out loud for the first time today. I was giving her a bath tonight, trying to imitate what her father does (he's away ...
Judith Warner says about Palin (among other thoughtful things): Just look at how quickly the reaction to Palin devolved into what The Times this week called ...
These people terrify me (link found at dooce, who says pretty close to what I think of it all). About Palin: so many have said ...
Because in Internet-time this is really old news - but I'm on vacation - but mostly: Biden? Really? This, once again, makes me ponder that ...
- Faustina saw her first real fireworks last night (we missed the 4th of July ones, sadly), on the balcony of an apartment overlooking the ...
First nightmare, first time noticing hands, first time aiming hands at mouth, first quasi-giggle, first time distinctly looking over at a sound. First week her eyes ...
We are in Budapest, for the whole month of August. It turns out I did not bring quite enough baby clothes, ones that are warm enough, ...
She only likes them sometimes, when she's agitated by a belly ache (in her case: a literal one), and needs that to resolve so she ...
At the book What to Expect the First Year. For the most part it gives some really sound advice but man, sometimes it reads like ...
Turns out I wasn't imagining it: there really have been more babies recently. More babies were born in 2007 than in any year since 1957, ...
