A causal chain: c-section => constipation => clogged commode Good thing we have our second toilet running. Very happy that Xy’s plumbing is working though.…
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Trying to bring this journal up to date… We spent two nights in the hospital and were discharged on Saturday just after noon. We got…
Xy woke up around 3:30 Thursday morning and discovered her water had broken sometime during the night. This took us by surprise just a bit,…
We think the baby dropped sometime yesterday or the day before. Xy is feeling a lot better and seems to have a lot more energy.…
Xy’s in the ninth month of her pregnancy now. She’s tired of carrying the extra weight and all the other many attendant discomforts. Pregnancy is…
Xy’s officially completing her seventh month of pregnancy today. She’s doing fine, aside from occasional heartburn. It’s been amusing how everyone (even her, even me)…
What have I been doing over the holiday break? Painting. Every day. Yes, even on Christmas. I’ve finished painting the walls of our living room.…
We’re coming to the official end of the second trimester today. I was joking recently that we were in the third stage of advanced denial.…
Just found out the sex of our impending child, via text message from Xy. However, I’m not posting it here. We need something to announce…
For various reasons I’ve made an effort over the years to eliminate God-talk from my everyday speech. I try not to make casual reference to…
I guess today’s a good day to make the official announcement. Xy’s pregnant. She’s almost into the second trimester. Word sure has gotten around since…
Round about this time last year, I wrote about a certain development in our lives. Many people took that as an announcement of sorts, though…
I’ve been trying to get my head around what happened. The timeline looks like this: Xy and I started Officially Trying in early May. She…
Sometime around 2:30 or so this morning, I was awoken from my deep and blissful slumber by a cry from Xy. She was crumpled on…
While we were attending a workshop on restoring windows at the Preservation Resource Center this morning, Xy went to the bathroom and discovered she was…
Xy did a pregnancy test this morning, and it read positive. She say she doesn’t believe it. I think she’s just shocked into denial. I’m…
I’ll be living the bachelor life this week as Xy’s in DC for a teacher conference. I love Xy, and in these months after Katrina…
Kelly Kuglitsch (nee Slinkman) and her lovely husband Paul visited New Orleans for a wedding. We shared a nice meal at Pascal’s Manale, but Kelly…