being not doing

I don’t think I’ve ever had a single year as full of ups and downs and major life changes. I became a mother. I had a home birth. I had to stay overnight in the hospital once for my own illness and again for the baby’s. I had surgery and had to go to the [...]

I started this post two weeks ago to say that holiday preparations had begun and were progressing nicely. In between now and then the sprout got his first cold and needed to be held all the time, making it oodles more challenging to get ready for Christmas and leaving no time for actually writing about [...]

Five days after my last post, I had a baby. I knew I was going to have a baby, but having him come three weeks early was a surprise to all of us! After a somewhat challenging 24 hours of labor, I gave birth at home in a birth pool, as planned. My midwives were [...]

I just spotted a new life bird, a Philadelphia Vireo, moving through the trees in my backyard, a gift of both the fall migration and the weather being cool enough for me to open the blinds while I sit at the computer. It stayed long enough for me to make it outside with both the [...]

Things, as we know, don’t always go as planned. The big news around these parts is that I’m pregnant, expecting a baby in October. That’s not the unplanned element; the unplanned part was the way in which this situation (and all the accompanying ailments, small and large) coincided with a terribly hot spring that has [...]