I wake from a nightmare at dawn, tangled in damp sheets. I was pregnant, just starting to show. Tired, swollen, and depressed, I wanted to go hiking to boost my mood, but I was ravenous and needed to eat something first. All I could find was a fluorescent buffet bar in a hotel lobby, loaded [...]
Entries Tagged as 'family'
Three-peat?
April 13th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: babies · family · how many kids? · motherhood · siblings
Arts & Craftsy Mama
October 6th, 2010 3 Comments
Some things come naturally to me: hiking up a mountain, say, or kicking up into a handstand. But hosting a playdate AND making Princess Headdresses for three small girls, this is not my natural maternal state. I would rather go out and dig in the garden, weed the flowerbeds, run in the woods. I get [...]
Tags: Amanda Soule · arts & crafts · Creativity · family · Halloween · Martha Stewart
Survival Mode
May 18th, 2009 No Comments
We’re over the stomach flu, but Tim is in the hospital with a mysterious Staph infection in his knee (possibly MRSA). He’s been there since Saturday night, on IV antibiotics. We are in Survival Mode. I pulled a deer tick out of A’s neck yesterday with my eyebrow tweezers. She yelped and yanked away, and [...]
Tags: family · hospital · Staph infection