Before BABY YOUNG

Countdown… T minus 0 It’s a day past the due date. (Boy, that was MEAN, wasn’t it?) I had a very quiet day yesterday. I finished some cleaning and some improvements in the kitchen that have been bugging me since we moved in (Larry said it looked like a professional had done it). I wanted […]

There’s a legend in my family that my mother decided she was “finished” being pregnant. Like many a Bay Area resident, she decided to take a hike up a hill. A few short hours later, she went into labor. I always recalled the story of her trudging up the Fillmore hill. It’s a fairly steep […]

Yeah, despite all my best intentions and protestations, I’ve become “that woman.” You know the one, the hysterical woman that reads all sorts of gloom and doom into every little ache and pain of pregnancy. I made it through 39+ weeks and finally I caught “the paranoia.” I think it has something to do with […]

It’s Father’s Day and only 5 days away from the due date. We have about a week before we get anxious out-of-town guests who are beside themselves excited about the new family member. In preparation, I’ve been cleaning the house, filing and paperwork, errands, etc. but I’ve decided it’s important to take long daily walks. […]

People keep saying that we’re not going to be able to do much once the baby is here and movies are certainly going to be more difficult. So, Larry and I have been trying to see all the movies we can including Ocean’s Thirteen, the Fantastic Four movie, and of course, Knocked Up. We actually […]

My entire life has been defined by “One more thing…”. When I was a little girl and my father would take me to bed, I would keep him standing there, talking to me in my top bunk (with my sister sleeping below) as I yammered on for 15 additional minutes about “one more thing”. In […]