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Archive for July, 2008

the naming convention

Baby girl is taking her sweet time getting here.  (And keeping me up at night – do you see what time I’m posting this?   4am?  I had to take a field trip to the kitchen because I was STARVING.) But!  Maybe she’s been waiting for this: Swistle Names Our Baby That’s right, I called in reinforcements.  The [...]

what else don’t I know?

Last night, I noticed that Alex’s fingernails were longer than mine.  With OCD style laser focus, I decided that they needed to be cut.  RIGHTNOWNOWNOW. It’s not that I was noticing for the first time or that I’m too lazy to keep up good grooming.  It’s become a ritual dreaded by all because Alex has taken against [...]

summer shots

Even though I’m hot and cranky with bad frizzy hair caused by Southern humidity, some of us are thoroughly enjoying our summer so far by: Skidding down the waterslide at the pool… (That’s my arm and the only part of me in a maternity bathing suit you’ll get to see) Dumping filthy-hasn’t-been-changed-in-3-weeks wading pool water all over [...]

a year in my life

If you are my friend, you know that I am terrible about remembering birthdays.  And anniversaries.  Sometimes I’m off by a day or so, more often I don’t even get the month right. Thus it’s fitting that I forgot my own blog-iversary.  On July 5, 2007 I posted my first entry.  It was a tentative toe dip [...]