Category Archives: motherhood
seeking shelter
Q uneasy about how to serve the bunny cake ‘start with the tail, he won’t miss it! easter 2009 we are unitarian-universalists. we are very lucky in that, except for the fact that the closest fellowship is about 40 minutes … Continue reading
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almost
they are almost home i am almost ready perhaps just like the first moment i met Y just like the first time i held Q i will never be ready there is no ready? set? go! life, especially motherhood is … Continue reading
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myself – found
this morning about 10 am drinking cappuccino sans mommy guilt earlier in the week, when it dawned on me that i would be alone for these five days the umbilical chord stretched a few hundred miles i sent out an … Continue reading
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today
as you can see, i am not scraping paint in my bedroom or cleaning out my pantry i will need to do laundry and to clean out the fish tank … Continue reading
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choices
thinking about friday night saturday and saturday night, sunday and sunday night and then monday when they are finally home do something on my own? i hate on my own. having only one child is so easy peasy that i … Continue reading
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freedom
i’ll take this work this being a mom who works in city and travels on the train and seems completely lost because her family, the family she lives with are hundreds of miles away i’ll take this because i think … Continue reading
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family history
we are all a part of each other’s stories - history - we are linked - forever the street where a grandmother recalls walking as a child to visit her own mother in a hat shop which is now a phone store the … Continue reading
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only
we are q’s first parents but we have no way to know if we will be his last, only, favorite, we will be our second child’s second parents is he less because he is our second? are we less because … Continue reading
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the plan (while we wait – day 10)
The Plan: (written last night on train coming home) try to be on train by 6:30 AM (caught the 7:28) arrive in Grand Central subway to work up the stairs to street stop for coffee or send receptionist to get … Continue reading
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me (still waiting with evelyn but not counting-day nine)
this years christmas tree still up in late january when my mother came on her way to the innauguration ‘what’s this going to be’ she said ‘you’re valentines tree?’ dedicated to evelyn who once said something that reminded me how … Continue reading
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