Updates below.
Damn, I think I need to form a band just so I can use that name. I’d better get right on it teaching Maya guitar. Or maybe she could be the drummer.
Via Feministe, this suggestion made me shake my head and laugh (something I do more every day, it would seem):
Is there […]

Now that’s more like it — reply from a different contact.
Now *this* is how to tell someone why you decided to send them an email:
Thanks for the reply. I was really impressed by your profile. My masterpiece is someone such as yourself who has beauty as well as an intellectual side. Physical attraction is only […]

“I’m glad I didn’t have a girl. She wouldn’t get to leave the house until she’s 30!”
The Happy Feminist posted about this kind of comment, and she boils it down (mostly, anyway) to a father’s perception of a daughter as a sexual being — in this case, one that should be preserved and protected […]

From Hugo:
…we must remember that to follow Jesus is to match our language and our lives.
His post happens to be about the deceptive tactics of some “crisis pregnancy centers,” but the idea applies across the board.
On topic, this is exactly why I chose to keep the pregnancy that resulted in my little girl. […]

From Dooce:
Sometimes Jon and I talk about what life was like before we had a baby, before the dog, before the ongoing chaos of those responsibilities. And I remember during those first months of Leta’s life when I had a hard time going ten minutes without giving in to a nervous breakdown how I sometimes […]

On All Things Considered today:
Think Partnered Parenting Is Hard? Try Going Solo

by Lori Gottlieb
All Things Considered, March 29, 2006 · Commentator Lori Gottlieb is a single mother. Most of her friends who are moms are married. And that’s where the trouble begins. Gottlieb is tired of hearing them whine about how awful their husbands […]

From Operating Instructions:
Larry called me one night at the end of my pregnancy when I was just desvastated by the thought of the hole in Sam’s life bacuase he wouldn’t have a dad, how much that was probably going to hurt and how I wasn’t going to be able to do much about it. […]

If you care to see what we’re looking like these days, I just got a ton of photos back from the photographer.

Slideshow here.
Oh, and my wtfwjd? sticker arrived! Now, am I *really* going to put it on my car? Hmmmm…

Today I learned something. If you enter an email address along with your comments for a blog that uses Haloscan, your email address is displayed. Most comment systems I’ve seen ask you to enter your email, but it’s only visible to the site owner. I’d neglected to notice that Haloscan differs.
I learned […]

My daughter hit nine months today, so we’ve been busy doing the doctor thing, and my thoughts have more been on her instead of the topics that fit here. Good lord, she is so freakin’ tiny!
While at the doctor’s office, my pediatrician noticed a “hip click” on Maya’s left side. We’re being referred […]

As I state in my 100 Things list, my daughter’s biological father isn’t involved in our lives in any way, shape, or form. Here’s part of that story:
December 31, 2003: New Years Eve 2004
I join my cousin and her bf at a local restaurant/live music venue. Lord knows, we’ve spent years going to […]

My absolute favorite cleaning tool has eight legs. It cleans the highchair to a sparkly finish. It also picks up the most minute pieces of baby dinner out of the carpet (yes, I’ll still steam-clean later).
Ah, dogs are good.

Note: this is a post moved over from my old blog.
I’ve been a little neglectful in updating this over the past few days, so now I’m going to have to give a synopsis of what’s up in my life.
Last Wednesday (January 21), I discovered that I am pregnant. I shocked myself with my immediate thought, […]