My sweet darlings turned two today (Sept. 25th). I am humbled by my daughters. The entire experience of becoming a parent — a year passing before a pregnancy, two miscarriages, a final successful twin pregnancy — has made me feel more powerful and way more vulnerable than I could have imagined before the idea of [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Two Years
Posted in leashes for children, parenting, raising twins, tagged two years old on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You used to say you loved me, used to hate to leave me…
Posted in potty training, tagged urine on September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s good for you, babe. You’re feelin’ alright… Well you just roll over, and turn out the light….
Not sure why that Kris Kristofferson/Barbara Streisand song is in my head, but it is. Probably to help distract me from an utterly useless nap the girls took almost two freakin’ hours to indulge in. Beenie took off [...]
I’m done with hate, for now.
Posted in art, parenting, raising twins, tagged painting studio on September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Saturday night I was full of hate. Not toward any one person, just hating that I couldn’t go out for a freaking hour and a half without some kind of toddler disaster occurrence pulling me back home. Hating the lack of freedom I now have as a parent. Hating my incredible lack of time to [...]
HATE
Posted in hate, tagged hate on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post is dedicated to Damon Locks, who I do not in any way hate.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE [...]
Dear Mimi
Posted in Maryland Zoo, naps, parenting, photography, playdates, raising twins, tagged eating chalk on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why, my darling daughter, do you cry? Is it the horrible containment of your diaper underneath a swimming diaper that makes you weep? I’m sorry, but you must wear something on your bottom when you take (or don’t) a nap — if you don’t, you may pee all over your crib just like you did [...]
Rearview Sunset
Posted in baltimore, photographs, photography, tagged rearview mirror, sunset on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Atlantic Ocean: III
Posted in parenting, raising twins, twins on September 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This trip, where we rented a cheap-0 beach house (with a really gross bathroom) for a week after Labor Day with our two two-year olds is a curious experiment. As hubbo says, “It’s just a change in scenery, not a change in anything else…”. You know what? He’s right. I was depressed for about two [...]
Atlantic Ocean: II
Posted in parenting, raising twins, tagged Rehoboth Beach on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here at my Delaware beach, my next-door neighbor’s Internet connection is a bit wonky, so I must type this into another sort of document and await a stronger signal. I have to say it is a different experience writing into a doc rather than a blog portal – less of a sense of immediacy and [...]
Atlantic Ocean: I
Posted in delaware beach, parenting, raising twins, tagged toddlers out to dinner, vacation on September 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m on the screened in porch on the front of our beach house. We drove here from Baltimore during probably the worst part of tropical storm Hanna this past Saturday afternoon. There was one point, going north on I-95, over a bridge, (who knows which one since I couldn’t see anything) where I truly did [...]
Anxious
Posted in parenting, raising twins, travel with twin toddlers, tagged hurricane hanna on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am. Anxious. Supposedly we’re leaving tomorrow morning around 11 a.m. to drive to a beach in Delaware, about 3 hours north of Baltimore. In what by then will be Hurricaine Hanna. Thanks Hanna. As if packing up two toddlers isn’t hard enough. When hubby and I are running around trying to get shit together [...]
