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Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 12:45PM Just between you and me, I’m mighty impressed that I’ve kept this blog up for so long. And yes, several months IS a long time. Ask anyone who’s had a sucky pregnancy. But my posts are going to be a little sparse for a while for the following reasons:
1. I have a 2.5 foot-tall tyrant climbing bookcases while juggling knives and
Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 7:40AM This year’s Christmas wish-list reflected the life changes that having a four-month-old son has unleashed on my world. I asked Santa for a full day of skiing with my husband, a nursing bra that supports activities other than sitting on my duff and the ability for my husband to grow mammary glands. My list made me feel a little selfish but it’s indicative of some of the obstacles new moms face getting out of the house for some desperately needed fresh air and exercise.
I tend to have a tenuous hold on sanity if I don’t get outside and work my body hard several times a week. I’ve never been particularly talented at any one sport, but still f
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 5:20AM I am exhausted from warding off postpartum depression. Every day I get out of bed, sword drawn, ready to slay the dragon of depression. I fight it off with great energy in the morning, but when darkness falls, the dragon is pretty much singeing my eyebrows with his breath. (If you’re wondering about the whole dragon thing… I like making myself sound like a medieval warrior fighting fantastical
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 6:02AM I grew up on the other side of the mountains but my two sets of grandparents lived in Ardenvoir and Chelan, so we’d always drive over here for Christmas. My favorite holiday tradition was going “tree hunting”. We’d all pile into Grandpa Chuck’s pickup (before those pesky seatbelt laws made it illegal to fit as many people as possible into the cab of a truck) and head up random logging roads searching for the perfect tree.
In my family, a perfect tree was defined as a) having at least five branches so the