A couple weeks ago, we met some friends at a park for a play date. Sylvia hadn’t seen these girls in a few months, and it was so fun to watch them all playing. My how much they’ve grown! I grabbed Deb’s camera and went to town taking pictures of the two-year-old cuteness. We [...]
One of my very favorite stores in Madison is Happy Bambino. Part beautiful pregnancy and baby store, part parental resource center, Happy Bambino was a cornerstone of my early motherhood experience. When Andrew was a newborn, I attended a weekly mom’s group at Happy Bambino; and it was in that cozy sunlit room, surrounded [...]
I’m really glad that we elected to have Andrew’s umbilical hernia surgery done when he was five. He’s done so well, and he’s bounced back so fast! By dinner time on Wednesday, he was hungry and eating and talking like normal. Our sweet neighbors brought by a stuffed frog for Andrew, and after dinner, he [...]
Andrew’s in a much better emotional place than he was a few hours ago. We got home around 2:30. It helped so much that the nurse let him have the time he needed to snuggle with his dad and wake up more and finish his movie. He got dressed and got to ride a wheelchair [...]
Andrew is snuggled up to his dad on his hospital bed, watching The Incredibles on a portable DVD player after his umbilical hernia surgery. I’ve come to discover that a movie can have the power of a tranquilizer for a five-year-old. Andrew got pretty agitated as he woke from surgery. He really wanted the IV [...]
I’m writing to you from the lovely UW Children’s Hospital. Andrew has been in surgery for the last 45 minutes, so I’m expecting to hear from his doctors at any moment. He’s been doing great today! Here are some photos and video (if it works!). Here we are heading in at 8:30… The little guy [...]
My boy is having minor surgery on his herniated belly button tomorrow morning. I’ve tried not to think a lot about his operation recently. Writing out “minor” and “surgery” together seems a little oxymoronic when you’re talking about a wee 5-year-old cub. Andrew’s surgeon is going to be Dr. Dennis Lund at the UW Children’s [...]
I just got back from a three-and-a-half mile run. I should put an exclamation point at the end of that statement since I can’t remember the last time I ran that far. It’s been pre-kids for sure:) For the last nine weeks I’ve been attending Dustin Maher’s 5:30am boot camps. And I loooove them. Which [...]
While reading a fellow-photographer’s blog the other day, I learned about a school of thought called Humanism. She was saying that she wasn’t religious but that her beliefs could most closely be summarized by the Humanist Manifesto. After reading it, I would kinda say the same thing about myself. I especially liked this sentence, “We [...]
Each weekday morning for the last month-and-a-half, I’ve been driving through the dark streets of Madison at 5:15am on my way to my morning fitness boot camp. There are many, many reasons that I’ve loved going to boot camp, but one of them is the time in the car listening to NPR. My kids, you [...]
