Little Waves

This morning I could hear Charlotte amusing herself in her crib for quite a long time this morning. Usually she calls out for us within 5 minutes of waking up. When I peeked in on her, she was just laying there, playing with her own hands and wiggling her fingers, and talking quietly […]

In the past week or so I’ve discovered that I am once again struggling with having Charlotte in day care. Only now it’s for a completely different reason than when she first started day care.
At first, of course, I was completely despondent about leaving my child to be cared for by other people. […]

Dave forwarded me a link at CNN to an article explaining the paradox of maternal happiness. According to the article, mothers report being happier since they’ve had kids, yet child care does not rank that highly on their list of pleasureable activities.
“Kids do bring joy,” says Daniel Gilbert, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Harvard […]

It is so hard to listen to your baby cry.
Today is Charlotte’s very first Fussy Day. By this I mean she has been fussy most of the day, mostly due to lack of sleep. And I am lucky, because she’s 6 1/2 months old and I can honestly say that today is her […]

The original plan for Mother’s Day weekend was to head down to Port Aransas for some much needed beach time. Instead the whole family got sick - Charlotte had an ear infection, I had walking pneumonia, and Dave had sinus issues. So instead we spent a quiet, low-key weekend at home.
Still, it was […]