Archive for the ‘Audrey’ Category

sick mama

I thought I would get sick sooner in the school year, but here we are, my first cold of the fall. And I didn’t even catch it from Freya, I’m pretty sure it was Audrey’s snotty little face. Good thing she’s so freakin adorable. Anyway it’s hit with full force today. Stuffy and sleepy oh […]

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mothering

Today is my first Mother’s Day with little Audrey. She’ll be one year old a month from now. As her birthday approaches, I think sometimes about her birth, how it doesn’t feel like it was eleven months ago. I remember my labor so distinctly. It probably helps that I took the time to write out […]

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baby fat

Audrey is so very plump. Perhaps at the peak of her plumpness, her arms and legs wrapped in deep, soft rolls and creases. She gorges herself on milk and burns very few calories doing her hitched crawl around the room. I observed that the second front incisor has now worked its way through the gum, […]

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the teething

Audrey has cut one top incisor and one bottom incisor. It mustn’t feel very good because she has been complaining quite a lot in her sleep and can only be consoled by the boob, meaning much sleeplessness for me. A night full of broken sleep for me also means a night full of bizarre dreams. […]

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tidy

This weekend I finished a couple of cleaning projects that have been on my list for a while: tidy and organize the downstairs closet, and swap out winter coats/shoes/scarves/hats for spring ones. The closet was a mess, had gotten to the point where we were just opening the door and throwing things inside. I basically […]

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tough time

Both girls are sick, coughing, runny noses, and little baby had a fever all night. I put a humidifier in Freya’s room in the hopes it might help her chest. She complicated things last night by goofing around on her bed and slamming the back of her head into the nightstand. Audrey was restless all […]

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sometimes I just want to throw the TV out the window

I’m listening to the ballgame on the radio; spring is coming. Today and tomorrow Brian is away in Seattle most of the day. I’m here with a little girl who is ONCE AGAIN sick. Seems bad this time — her voice is hoarse and nose extra snotty. Sigh. Getting very tired of the back to […]

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what we did today

I got up before seven as I usually do, and drank my hot coffee while catching up on Community and Parks & Rec on the Tivo. Let Freya sleep in. Then we all ate breakfast together, dressed, and Freya and I went together to Bainbridge Island while Brian stayed home with the baby. We drove […]

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walking

In December, I became determined to get back into walking for exercise. But the weather was of course horrid for the most part, so I thought I’d take up the American sport of mall walking. We have a moderately sized indoor shopping mall in Kitsap, only a few minutes drive from Freya’s preschool. I dropped […]

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routine

Trying something new here. Maybe I miss having a job? Maybe I miss purpose, routine, things like that. I know I miss a paycheck. But yes, staying home to raise my babies IS worth it. Anyway, in an effort to combat stasis, I will be blogging twice weekly and treating it like a job. Tuesdays […]

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