Things I Noticed that I’m Grateful for, 1.

Will had his first Zoom meeting with his teacher and classmates. I haven’t seen him get so excited and slap-happy in ages! It was totally adorable. His teacher read to them all the book she’d been reading at school, Frindle. Georgie’s curls have been getting quite bouncy after naps with this humidity! Two things about…

It’s the first day of Spring.

...and we are isolated in our homes for this pandemic. Except we can be outside, and the good Lord has blessed us with some ridiculously beautiful weather. I got so self conscious about blogging in the last year. It seemed like such a fully self-absorbed, validation-seeming pursuit. I cringed so hard when I read old…

Little Nothings about the 4th Trimester

Georgiana is 9 weeks old. She has had what I think is textbook colic. I thought it was reflux and then I thought food intolerance. I tried medicines and gave up dairy. The more I read about descriptions of colic, and the more I paid attention to her behavior (and talked to other moms whose…

The Story Behind Her Name

Georgiana Katherine. I fell in love with this name years ago, and I was ridiculous about it. Every time an acquaintance, distant or close, had a daughter, I held my breath in anxiety that they would somehow have also discovered this rare name and might use it before I could ever get the chance to.…