Four weeks since my last post. I knew it had been a while, but jeez. I’ve been sort of floating in limbo again. In no particular order, the things I’ve been meaning to write about but haven’t: My decision to very gradually wean Missy. If she’s fully weaned by the time we’re ready for our […]
This week, all our regular activities were back on, after a two-week hiatus because of the Easter Holiday. (Primary schools here are on a trimester schedule, and the summer term always starts after Easter. During school holidays, most other community activities, even those for young children, also take a break, which can make for some […]
In Montreal, it seemed all I ever wrote about was snow and ice. Our first winter here was relatively mild, although, by all accounts, wetter than usual. We’ve had a few warm days, but until this week, it hasn’t really felt like spring, despite the daffodils that have been blooming everywhere since late January. The […]
At home, baby girl is rarely quiet. If she is, I know she’s up to something. Otherwise, she’s chatting, squealing, laughing, stomping all day long. A few weeks ago, she and I went to meet the closest thing I have to a friend in this city at a cafe. Not only was she quiet, but […]
It’s baby girl’s half birthday. Six months! There’s still a part of my brain that cannot fathom the fact that I have a six-month-old daughter. And another part that revels in the reality of her existence every day. We celebrated this milestone with a taste of her first solid food: avocado. The idea of baby-led […]
We were invited to a picnic on Saturday afternoon. Despite the very un-picnic-like weather, we went. There was another couple there who had a five-month-old boy. His father held him, and Hubby held baby girl, close enough so they could each get a good look at the other. Baby girl reached out, touched his face, […]
I feel like an impostor. I sat down to breakfast with two friends today so we could plan a baby shower. My baby shower. Baby showers aren’t for people like me. They’re for the fertiles, those women who take for granted, even while their baby is still in the womb, that their child will be […]
Yup. The pantsless hug. It happened today, just after my final ultrasound at the fertility clinic. If Dr. C had looked down, he would have seen my ass crack. (God, I hope that didn’t happen.) But you know what? I wanted that hug. It was a bittersweet day, and I needed that final embrace from […]
Awkward Moment #1: When I arrived at the clinic this morning, there were 1 ½ couples already waiting. The second half of couple #1 showed up just after me. This was not the awkward part (although I did wish, for a fleeting moment, that Hubby could have skipped out on teaching and come with me for […]
Yesterday we had lunch with Hubby’s dad, uncle, brother, sister-in-law, and nephews–two sweet, silly boys who tried to impress me by counting in English, with words for “butt” and “pee-pee” in their own language thrown in for laughs. Unfortunately, other than the word for “horse,” those were the only words they said all day that […]
Something Out of Nothing 