About
I’m a graduate student in the humanities, living in a small college town in the midwest, who found myself unexpectedly “in the family way” in the summer of ’08. Nine months later (okay more like seven, since it took me 8 weeks before I realized I wasn’t just hungover) Henry was born. Since then, I’ve been trying my best to be a mother, graduate student, and sometime blogger, usually in that order. I write about Henry, but also try to document my experiences as someone accidentally joining the culture of pregnancy and parenthood. I never thought I would have children, and certainly not birth them, and yet, here I am. Not only a parent, but, egads! blogging about it.
PS: Though my top-traffic posts have tended to be those that make passing reference to brands like Jamba Juice, which is somewhat disheartening, others find their way here desperate to get their children to sleep. I am no expert, but I detailed our night weaning/sleep training process here.
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I think that, on the mother/dissertator/student/worker front, we are long-lost life-experience twins. I wasn’t so much never planning on children as I was thinking about it in a “Oh, that? I’ll do it when I’m…forty” kind of way.
Also: I was kind of excited to find your blog. Okay, really excited. I was just lamenting that lack of “such as us” in the blog world.
Also also: you are very funny, and your baby is freaking adorable.
“We called them Hank the Holiday Ham and Huck the Holiday Yam.”
Oh my, I just saw this at alittlepregnant.com and cried from the cute and from how touching it is. I’m so glad both Hank and Huck are doing well now.
hey – followed a link from Marlena’s blog. Nice to find you. I, too, found myself unexpectedly in the family way just as I was starting grad school at what I assume to be your same university. glad to find you. off to poke around.
Oh so nice to see I’m not the only student who planned not to have kids and OOPS, now here’s baby boy. I found you by way of night weaning, and I’m glad I did! Now please, keep blogging!
I too found your blog reading your experience with night weaning and then I was hooked. I read some of your other blogs and man can I relate. I love how you are so detailed and use words I can understand especially when you CAPS them…gives it that dramatic feel and pulls me in. I laugh and cry. My daughter is 14 months now and I don’t think she ready but then again I don’t think her daddy is ready either for night weaning. It’s a tough journey but now that I have to stop eating dairy, eggs AND PEANUTS because of her allergies I’m miserable and want her to wean for her safety and my peanut butter cookies hehehe. Well happy blogging because I’m happy when I read it. Thank you