A birth story

last hike as a couple The day before Maya was born, Mac and I went on a lovely walk around the Patuxent Wildlife Reserve in Laurel, MD. We had spent much of the weekend finishing getting ready for baby.  I had cleaned the house from top to bottom for what I figured...

Meet Maya Rose

More Maya Rose, originally uploaded by Studiojmm. Maya Rose Shute was born at home at 3:28 pm on Monday October 29, 2007. That makes her just shy of three weeks early. We’re all doing fine. The whole household is mostly working on eating, sleeping, and going to...

No More Indian Food for Jen

Sadness. Twice now, after eating lovely, lovely Indian food, I’ve gotten heartburn so bad that it’s gotten me up several times at night to eat Tums and drink water and add pillows to the pile so I can sleep propped up on an angle.  The angle thing does...

Stuff

Figuring out what stuff to get for this kid is turning out to be incredibly complicated and time consuming, more so because we are trying to acquire most stuff pre-used. The good news is that folks have been so generous that we’ve been given a crazy amount of...

I missed feet week

You probably did too.  It’s not a national holiday or even one of those official-sounding observance months that I wonder who decides about.  One of the bloggers that I read alerted me to feet week. “Cool,” I thought. I’ve been know to take...