Diet Day Three

Didn’t run. Ate three brownie bites. Yum.

Diet, Day Two

Didn’t feel like jogging this morning, but felt good once I got going. The (somewhat) cooler weather helped. Really craving a giant fluffy muffin right now. Trying to resist.
Shea and I did a beach day yesterday, but my camera battery seems to have permanently died, so I can’t upload the pix until I order a [...]

I’m on a diet

Day One
Okay, so not a regular don’t-eat-carbs-to-lose-weight kind of diet because I’m pregnant and need to gain weight, but I need to gain it a lot slower than I have been lately. I eat constantly and don’t restrict anything, including honey-coated almonds, chocolate, almond croissants, ice cream, cookies, cake, etc. And, like with my first [...]

Be Careful What You Wish For

Suddenly this week, it’s, “Mama mama mama” all day long. When Martin takes care of Shea while I’m working, Shea comes to the office and bangs on the door saying, “Mama? Mama?” until I open it up, and then he cries when Martin takes him away from me. For two months I’ve been listening to, [...]

Halfway there!

Dunno why this photo is sideways
We had a great Easter egg hunt Sunday with Shea and his friends Annabella (with TWO Ns, she informed me many times after I spelled her name wrong on the stuffed Easter duck I gave her just before she told me she already has enough toys. Gotta love the honesty [...]

Hippity, Hoppity, Easter’s On Its Way

Shea has started bring me tufts of cat hair he finds around the house. He says, “Chat! Chat!” and hands them to me, and I say thank you. He’s better than our vacuum.
He also has the signs for “frog” and “dirty” mixed up. He learned to do the sign for frog with all his fingers [...]

Me Baba, You Shea

Shea made his first caveboy sentence today. He said, “shhh, unh, wa” and did the signs for fish, stuck, water. So I followed his gaze over to the corner of the kitchen and hunted around until I found his fish sticker, which he loves and carries around and sticks on things, and which has become [...]

Pregnancy, the Best Antidepressant

One last post and then I’m going to attempt to sleep for an hour before Shea wakes up. I should be using this time to edit, but I really really don’t feel like editing at six in the morning.
Before I was pregnant with Shea, I had awful mood swings every month. Almost without fail, [...]

Look, Ma—I’m blogging!

I’ve got pregnancy insomnia. I wake up to pee (many times a night) and then lie there for an hour until I’m too hungry to sleep, then get up to eat and then I’m wide awake and at my computer reading or writing blog entries. When I was reading my Murakami novel, I would read [...]

Revision

It’s days like these that I want to just Twitter about how HARD writing is. Yesterday I wrote for six+ hours on the stopwatch, revised four chapters (although one needed very little revising) and felt like I got SO much done. Today I only wrote for an hour and a half, which was the main [...]