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Signs

A certain song on the radio, a pink and blue sunrise, a well-timed and encouraging email from a friend. An onion ring.

One month ago today we found out that we had lost our baby. The image that stuck in my mind that day was of Joel eating crackers while sitting on the midwife’s […]

Unlucky Charms

This morning we cracked open our March 2005/St. Patrick’s celebratory box of pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, blue diamonds, purple horseshoes, rainbows, and the yucky brown bits that always reminded me of Meow Mix as a child. Those yucky brown bits are just as shunned and yucky today as they were when […]

My advice: don’t take my advice

Several months ago I very publicly advised newly-pregnant (with twins!) family members to refrain from telling people the names they would chose for the babies until after the births. This is what I wrote back on November 29th, 2004:

Do not tell anyone the names you have chosen for the baby (ies), or the […]