Quarantine caterpillars
I read an essay by another mother reflecting on the endless munching which accompanies days in this life lately, and her use of the main character from everyone’s favorite baby book as metaphor was apt. Hungry little…
Palm Sunday at Home + Life in the Quaran-time
Probably you think I’m going to share some profound and well thought out explanation of how we’re hallowing the sabbath here as a peaceful family of 8, but in reality it’s 9 am, 3 out of 6…
Shelter in place, day 1
Because we were one of the early wave of school and parish closures here in Denver, and because both Dave and I can work from home to some degree, we’ve been living that quarantine life since about…
Social distancing feels more like close encounters of the kid kind + glutting yourself on news media does not a functional human make
Hi. Hello! 2 blogs in 3 days, told you it was going to be a renaissance of sorts. I have progressed, over the past 5 or so days, from something resembling benign curiosity in world events to…
The great (blog) awakening
So we’re all trapped at home with houses full of children and little to distract us from the intensity of daily life and oh, yes, by the way, watching the news and/or pretty much spending any time…
My 6 kids aren’t a burden, my selfishness is
I already feel like a doof just from that title alone because oh, really, Jenny, that 11 week old baby upstairs qualifies you to address the world as a mother of six? Technically, I mean, yes, yes…
The birth of Benedict
Been meaning to get around to this for a month or two, and now that we’re enjoying a nontraditional vacation at Children’s hospital NICU, I’ve found the time. (And boooooy did I find the time. If you…
What I read in 2019 (a booklist for highly sensitive, graphic-violence-and-casual-sex-averse recovering intellectuals who read to unwind but also learn and tend to get obsessively into one author at a time)
How’s that for a title? Descriptive, right? I’ve been putting this off and putting this off and putting this off because writing book lists is, like parenting a newborn, exhausting, and by nightfall all I want to…
Some thoughts on body image during pregnancy and postpartum, and the ego-shattering expense of motherhood
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Seriously, though, it was the worst of times for about the last 3 weeks of Benedict’s pregnancy, which seemed to stretch interminably out over major…
Welcoming Big Ben
Sweet Benny (Benedict Reid Uebbing) is now 3 days old after a whirlwind of a weird labor ending in a surprise c-section and almost 10 solid pounds of chunky baby goodness. Some stats on our newest arrival:…
