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Am I Having a Miscarriage? There’s No Heartbeat
The subject of this post has nothing to do with why I’ve been MIA for the past few days. The reason I’ve been so quiet on this here blog is that I volunteered to evaluate charter applications for the state. Last year, they only gave me three to score; this year, I had to do six. Each one is between 250 and 500 pages. So between reading applications, working, getting Magnolia Montessori For All up and running, and watching TV at the end of the day because I’m too mentally exhausted to do anything else, I haven’t had much time for Feeding the Soil. The bad news is that I’m … Read More
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Finally Embracing Motherhood
Right after Henry was born, my father-in-law asked Matt, “Could you ever imagine yourself loving anything more than him?” I remember feeling so thankful that he hadn’t asked me the same question. I knew I was supposed to say that I could never imagine myself loving anything more than my newborn son, but, honestly, I didn’t even know my newborn son. Yes, I was overwhelmed with gratitude that he arrived safely in our lives, and I was overcome by the sheer miracle of the universe replicating itself through my own body, but I didn’t immediately love Henry the way I grew to love my life partner, Matt, or even our… Read More -
Dream It, Do It: Update on Our House
Things are progressing well with the design of our new house. I met with the architect again to talk through the changes we asked him to make to our house. He made some really smart changes to our changes. Based on the most recent design, we asked him to make a few more adjustments, such as stretching the second bedroom closet all the way across the wall and creating a hallway closet by commandeering a bit of the closet from the second bedroom.He also had a few more suggestions:- He wants to lower the ceilings in the two bathrooms and the foyer to 8′, so he can move the