Last week when this whole drama at the clinic was unfolding I was chanting to myself “not-now-not-now-not-now” because I was fucking BUSY and I had a race to run and I REALLY did not have time to fall into a hole and I KNEW that’s where it was all headed.
Yesterday my first FB status read [...]
Holy hurling two year old. I need to get better at knowing what it means when a kid attaches themselves to my legs, and trust that burning up skin means fever and not just that my hands are preternaturally cold.
Three hours after the first chunks hit the couch, Thing Three is chirping happily on [...]
Two years ago this summer I slowly began to struggle with everyday tasks: lifting the baby, getting up off the floor, opening a bottle, buckling a car seat. Eventually my joints swelled to cartoon proportions, preventing me from closing my fists, or wearing tight shoes. I stopped going to the gym because moving my knees [...]
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I’d almost forgotten about last week when I had a decent [...]
