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Miscarriage is like a secret club – you aren’t supposed to talk about it to anyone who isn’t a member. There’s a slight problem with that. If no one talks about their miscarriage, how do you know...
A lot has been written about what NOT to say to someone who has just lost a pregnancy. Goodness knows I’ve read variations on that post many times, on various infertility blogs. But now I’m getting...
I don’t handle disappointment well. Never have. I get mad. I want things undone. I think Owl gets this from me. He wants to do everything by himself, and if we thoughtlessly pick him up to hurry...
Well, it’s done. I had my assessment first thing in the morning. They offered to do a second ultrasound, which I accepted – not because I really hoped they’d find anything different, but just for...
(Warning: Morbid humour and dark imagery ahead) So, you may want to ask me, Carol, what’s it like having a dead baby inside you? It’s a little weird, folks, it’s a little weird. I’ve never had a...
We all handle grief in different ways. Some people shut it in and try not to think about it. Some dwell in high drama. Some, like me, try to catch the emotions in words so that we can examine them...
What I have been hearing: “I’m so sorry, honey, let me give you a hug.” “Carol! What are you doing here at work? Go home! I would be at home curled in a ball with some Valium right now.” “I can’t...
I went in for a dating ultrasound yesterday because, without boring you with tmi details, we weren’t entirely sure when I conceived. The ultrasound technician was a chirpy young thing who addressed...
It’s about time I did this review. I had been holding off until I actually felt like taking the book’s advice. And I finally did. And now Owl goes to sleep ALL BY HIMSELF. For those who have The...
I didn’t have a lot of cravings in my last pregnancy, other than a brief longing for all things red. That was mostly because I was too nauseous to really enjoy eating much of anything. I’m a little...
Well, I began my research a while ago now, and I think I’m ready to present my findings. The show is fine. Every episode has at least one line that is recognizably clever, and it occasionally makes...
This is the worst part of pregnancy. Worse than the third trimester, sweating, swollen, 8 pound bag of snakes under your ribs part of pregnancy. This. It is the worst. Reasons: 1. Boring. You don’t...
When Owl was born, I noticed that his breath smelled a little like nail polish remover. That acetone type breath is usually a sign of diabetes in animals. In fact, since some people can smell it...
But I think I should get bonus points for managing to resist hitting “enter” on this comment I felt greatly tempted to make on Facebook the other day… Filed under: I'm Sure This Happens To...
…And another one falls. I had to think for a while about what I could say about Rehtaeh Parsons. After all, what could I say about her that I haven’t already said about Amanda Todd, or the...
So, we were at the library, and on our way out we stopped to browse the discard pile because we can’t help ourselves. It’s a sickness. Anyway, I made a couple of good finds, including another...
This was the first Easter where Owl was old enough to sort of understand what was going on. Previous Easters may have confused him some. WHY AM I DRESSED LIKE A RABBIT? Anyway, we skipped the whole...
I have to apologize to all of you for PH’s ridiculous April Fool’s prank. It is completely silly to suggest that I would devote my time and resources to Pinkie Pie, a raging extrovert and stupid to...
Dear reader, I’ve decided that, now that I’ve been writing this blog for almost four years, it needs to go in a new direction. Your comments on this recent post convinced me of that. So from now...
I am scared of dead bodies. They call it necrophobia, and I think it is a MUCH more reasonable phobia than some of the others out there, like Uranophobia (fear of Heaven) or Ophalophobia (fear of...
Click to view slideshow. Filed under: Life and Love, Pointless Posts Tagged: daffodils, flowers, forsythia, march, spring, tulips, Vancouver
I would like all of you in the blogosphere to put out good thoughts for a good friend of mine, who is getting surgery today for her thyroid cancer. My friend @Suminycricket has been one of my best...
If you read me on World Moms Blog, you’ll know that I have been fretting over Owl’s Canadian heritage of late. Owl has… questionable musical taste. He gets kudos for liking Forget You and Gangnam...
There’s a lot of talk right now about the Steubenville rape case right now, not because of the case itself – that sort of thing happens far too often. In fact the same thing happened to a girl in...
Let’s face it, small children are not very bright. I mean, generally speaking. If you pitted the stupidest person at your work against a two year old, the moron who can’t do the simplest thing...
Filed under: I'm Sure This Happens To Everyone..., Perfect Husband Tagged: communication, language, next weekend, plans, relationships, this weekend, what do you mean
We went to Comicon again this year! It was waaaaaaay better than last year. Much better organized, for one thing. It also helped that we knew our way around this year, too, and didn’t try to take...
Okay, I have found my new all-time favourite parenting book. This is one of those books that make you want to run around, handing it to people you know whose parenting makes you wince, and handing...
Owl is now officially weaned, and I’m not sure he likes it. We’d been slowly cutting down on the nursing for a while. When he was around 18 months old we stopped nursing on demand. He could nurse...
Now that Owl is two we occasionally allow ourselves the luxury of putting Owl in front of the TV for some quality programming. Over Christmas we had fun showing him The Grinch (which he loved) and...
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