Archive for the tag 'Milestones'

Aurora’s Two!

We decided to keep Little Miss Northern Light’s second birthday fairly low-key. I know that a lot of parents make other choices, and that’s totally fine. Considering that all three of our children’s birthdays are jammed together over a little less than two months that also happen to include Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of [...]

Her First Word

I mentioned the other day that Aurora is starting to talk up a storm, and someone asked me what her first word actually was. It does my heart good, after two prior attempts at gender-neutrality that failed utterly, to let everyone know that Aurora’s first official word was: Yup. Her word was “truck.” Just the [...]

Rewriting (My) History

I’m working on writing a book about moving aboard the boat. I’ll write more about that more on my other blog. But I’m doing a lot of cannibalizing of content from this blog and the other one. Most importantly to this post, this morning, I rewrote Rowan’s birth story. Most of my readers here know [...]

Unemployment #3

Unemployment #1 and Unemployment #2 are over at my other blog, Excellent Adventure. This morning, I am grateful that I am unemployed. Aurora is cutting teeth. By this, I do not mean she’s teething. No. She’s doing exactly what Rowan did; running a fever so hot it’s scary, being listless and uncomfortable and unhappy, and [...]

Sitting Pretty

Guess who’s sitting up on her own?