Today Noah started day care full-time. For the past two months he’s gone a couple days a week, just to ease into the situation. My wonderful sister and other generous family members had been pitching in to take care of him since I went back to work full-time at (gasp) 7 weeks — which, heartbreakingly,…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
What Mommy DOESN’T miss when she ISN’T at work
Dear Noah, Today Mommy didn’t go to work! I was able to get you up, feed you, dress you — and then stay. All day. On a Thursday! It also happened to be my birthday. My first birthday with this smiling face in my life. So we took the opportunity to catch up, share a…
What Mommy misses when she’s at work
Dear Noah, Today Mommy had to go to work, like every Monday. It’s never easy to leave you, your sleepy eyes looking up at me, touching my face, smiling. It’s never easy to hand you over to someone else, someone who isn’t Mommy, and know that I’ll miss an entire day of your life.But I…
The birth story
3 a.m. on 2/6/09: My due date A small trickle of liquid woke me up. I went to the bathroom (mucus plug? bloody show?) and encountered something much less disgusting. A pool of amniotic fluid on the black and white-checkered floor. I put a blue towel between my legs, waddled from the bathroom to the…
Six months to the minute
Today is August 6, 2009. It’s 9 p.m. Six months ago, from this very minute, I was in full-fledged labor. It was probably around this time that I remembered a comforting piece of advice:Just when you think you can’t go on, it’s just about to be over. Good advice, I thought. Until I asked how…
Round-belly roundup
“What are you smiling about?” Justin asked me. We were laying in bed, my leg lazily thrown around him, our stomachs pressed together. Noah was sleeping in his crib. It was just the two of us, the way it used to be, staring at the ceiling as darkness gradually seeped into the room. “I just…
