One of my chief concerns as a new mom was whether I was doing enough to properly stimulate and aid little Lucy's development. How do you "play" with a newborn? Well, all the literature and websites and nurses and doctors said basically the same thing: all you need...
6 weeks ago I went through this. 6 weeks ago little Elisabeth Lucy came into the world. 6 weeks ago my pregnancy was OVER! 6 weeks is a not insignificant amount of time. Yet I still find myself, on a fairly regular basis, thinking, "Wow. I love not being...
Happy Holidays!. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Elisabeth's first Christmas was great, if relatively uneventful. She behaved splendidly (sleeping is the best-behaved of behaviors, I do believe) in church at Christmas Eve service, until around 45 minutes...
3 and a half weeks! I truly wish I could blog more, but I also wish I could brush my teeth before noon and that's not going to happen, either. So better make this one count. Forever ago I wrote about my dad wanting Elisabeth to call him "Boss". I responded with a...
Yesterday Elisabeth* turned 2 weeks old, and so far has made it through her first weeks relatively unscathed - a miracle, if you ask me. I have two younger brothers. I started babysitting when I was 12. I have always been comfortable around babies - taking care of...
