On Sunday afternoon I gave my mom a call. She is still living in Alberta, so I try to call her when Nate is in a playful mood so that she can hear his expanding vocabulary. For the last week or so he has been making a new noise…it sounds sort of...
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Family
Milestones across the miles.
Bittersweet.
Motherhood is so bittersweet.
I want Nate to grow up so badly, but I also want him to stay exactly the way he is forever.
I want him to go to bed upstairs in his crib so I can have some time to myself in the evening, before eleven o’clock at night, but at the same...
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Into 2010.
Wow. 2009 is nearly over. Hours from now it will be 2010. That sounds so much more WAY into the future than 2009 did, doesn’t it? I mean, entire MOVIES have been made about the year 2010.
This is the time of year that the commercials on television shift...
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The first month.
Nate is four weeks old today. I can hardly believe it. This is how it’s going to be, isn’t it? Time is going to go so quickly and soon my little tiny baby boy is going to be gone, replaced by a bigger baby boy, then a toddler, then a kid....
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A family.
Nathan James (we call him Nate) was born on Tuesday, Novmeber 24, 2009 at 8:13 pm. He weighed 7 lbs., 2.5 oz. at birth. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s made us a family. (Click to enlarge.)
I’ll be sure to tell his birth story soon but we just got home from...
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