is this for real??? June 30, 2008

I just received this email:

Dear MomofHenri,

Thanks again for shopping at Toys”R”Us & Babies”R”Us. We’re pleased to tell you that your item(s) has been shipped!

If there are remaining items in your order that were not shipped at this time, you will receive a similar email notification when they ship. You can click on the link below to review the status of your entire order, including any items that may have been shipped separately.

Item: 4484966
Description: Simplicity Kingston 4-in-1 Crib - Chocolate/White
Quantity: 1
Status: Shipped via: FedEx Ground

YOU MEAN HENRI IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE HIS OWN BED?????? I thought this dream would never come true!

anxiety? what anxiety??? May 9, 2008

no lie. this was my dream this morning:

after going out to a club with mvp and PK, i somehow got separated from them and started walking. i walked and walked and walked forever and ever, stopping to ask people where the T was and turning around, backtracking, etc. a horrendously long walk… eventually, i’m walking down a pier. i get to the end and all i see is water everywhere around me. endless miles of water. i’m so depressed. i can’t believe i walked all that way and now i have to turn around and walk back! then, all of the sudden, i’m in the water…i think someone floated by and gave me a raft, because i wasn’t sinking and i wasn’t swimming/drowning. i was sitting in the water, this bright blue water with the sun shining down on me. i looked up at the immense landscape of water all around me and said to myself, “i’m going to miss mother’s day.”

seriously! that was my dream!

i don’t know…do you think i’m making too much of this, my first mother’s day???

when i’m not being a mom… February 20, 2008

update: henri is a cutie pie January 6, 2008

i may not be blogging much, but i am recording my time with henri in other ways.

a good way to test if you are fully recovered from the C-section… December 10, 2007

…is to fall down your icy front steps.  If you can get up by yourself and your uterus is still in place, you’re good!  However, don’t try this too soon.  You don’t want to go to your midwife and tell her you threw yourself down the stairs 2 days after having a baby.  Wait at least a couple weeks…

“you just haven’t had enough problems in your pregnancy, so… November 6, 2007

…we’re going to do an ultrasound at 40 WEEKS to determine if the baby is too large to deliver at our [apparently tiny] birthing center.”

i’m not sure if bostonians are just too high strung or if the birth center is under lock-n-key b/c they don’t want any big lawsuits. but, they’re fucking up this NORMAL, HEALTHY, SMOOTH, NON-STRESS pregnancy thing i got going on.
bitches.

don’t ask; don’t tell September 21, 2007

i think the birthing center has conveniently forgotten that i’m NOT breastfeeding, even though i told them that at my first or second appointment.  this seems to have happened because i changed midwives halfway through; the first one must have never documented that i said such blasphemy, and i haven’t brought it up with the second one because i feel like i already fought the battle…

anyway, it will be a surprise to us all how the after-birthing-feeding-experience goes, i guess.  but it’s not like they won’t let me take him home or anything.  right?????

what’s in a name? September 10, 2007

i am leaning towards “thourphy” for the last name.  it has a kind of special ring…right?