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 [...]
Archive for the tag 'Milestones'
December 23 2009
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 [...]
February 9 2009
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 [...]
