Category Archives: navel-gazing

Happy birthday, baby!

Our cheerful, fearless, and persistently bald Simon has been with us for a year. He is really a great tiny friend to have. In related news, my pregnancy from hell ended a year ago! It still feels like I was pregnant longer than I’ve had him–and I only recently realized I’ve been eating extra helpings [...]

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a year ago today …

… this is what we were doing. I can feel it in my body.

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a job, an income, and an emotional rollercoaster

Happy: Eric has received–and accepted–an official offer of employment. We will soon have an income and a dramatic drop in our background economic insecurity. Yay!!! Scary: Stress & ambivalence! This takes different shapes for Eric and for me; I’ll leave his stuff private and just dish on mine. My internal monologue runs along these lines: [...]

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