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The Outfit He Built Himself

Posted on May 11, 2010
Landon likes to assist with his wardrobe selection in the mornings. He usually picks out his tops and bottoms, with some weather-appropriate guidance from me, and then selects his socks from our sock bucket by the door. While the socks rarely match each other, they do usually match the outfit generally, and they always make me smile...

Beginnings, Endings, and Blessings

Posted on May 09, 2010
JP finished business school on Friday. The actual graduation isn't until the 21st, but he's done with class and presentations and exams, and I couldn't be happier or more proud of him. We will have been married for 5 years this September and we've had one part of our pair in grad school the whole time...

Quick Post (while I think of something to say that does not revolve around my pregnancy)

Posted on May 05, 2010
I finally have a new All Kinds of Pretty post up: "High-Heeled and Pregnant: Embrace the Belly". Because really, at this point, what else can you do with it? (And, spoiler alert- I'm no longer high-heeled. Well I am today, but I wasn't on Monday or Tuesday...

When There's Nothing Left To Do But Wait

Posted on May 04, 2010
And now I'll make a less whiny attempt at describing my 35th week of pregnancy. Oh, I still feel, and am, huge:Exhibit A (for it's Awkward posing Alone)(especially when your husband refuses to take more than one shot of a picture and gives you no warning before he presses the button)Exhibit B (for Bam! it's a Big Belly!) but I have some good stuff to talk about...

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Uff Da

Posted on May 02, 2010
I don't know how prevalent the word "uff da" (according to Wikipedia, also known as uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, oofda, ufda, ufdah, oofta or ufta) is outside of my family, but it is a marvelous Scandinavian phrase that can be used in many circumstances. For example, when you get a new assignment to review a depo transcript for certain admissions and you open up the PDF to find that it's 400 pages long- Uff da...

Soundbites To Live By

Posted on April 29, 2010
You know those motivational posters that used to line your high school classrooms? Usually a picture of some natural wonder or a cute baby animal with a deep and meaningful quote written at the bottom. I loved those. Maybe it was because I was a competitive athlete at the time and deeply believed in the power of positive thinking and mind over matter and all those other things that helped me get through the last race of a long meet or the end of a tough practice where my arms had turned to jelly...

Steam of Consciousness Update

Posted on April 28, 2010
I've been drafted onto an absurdly complicated patent law case because our battalion of IP lawyers was swamped and we needed to quickly respond to a Motion for Continuance in a federal action. A call for help was sent out for a "top researcher and writer" from our general litigation group, and apparently I was nominated...

Showered and Ready

Posted on April 25, 2010
I've probably reached that point in my pregnancy where I shouldn't go more than a day or two without updating my blog just in case people start thinking I went into labor. I haven't: But I did have a baby shower! A quartet of co-workers threw a lovely one for me at lunch on Thursday...

Week 33: Hippos and Ankles

Posted on April 22, 2010
I am now two days shy of 33 weeks, and I feel like this:It's like my body just realized I was pregnant-- really pregnant. I feel slow and large and blah. My feet got a little swollen on Monday after my flight and long day of training in Houston. I wore flip flops to our workshop dinner (fancy golden flip flops! totally work appropriate) and when I took them off back in my hotel room I could see the grooves where the straps had been...

From an Only to a Brother

Posted on April 18, 2010
Landon has been wearing his "Big Brother" t-shirt for the last two days, so I figured this was a good time to talk about his upcoming transition to sibling. People keep asking if he's excited about the baby, and it's hard to say - to the extent that he grasps the concept, he's very excited about it...

There and Back Again

Posted on April 16, 2010
I feel like I was gone for so much longer than 36 hours. Probably because yesterday seemed to run on for at least 35 of them. I'm starting to admit that maybe I can't quite do all that I think I can do and emerge unscathed- or at least without swollen feet...

A Post About the Posts I Meant to Write

Posted on April 13, 2010
So, it's been a few days. I couldn't write on Friday because Landon and I made an impromptu trip to Houston for my dad's birthday. Birthdays always make him sad and my mom has been so overwhelmingly busy with school work (both from teaching two preps and being a full time masters student) that I thought Landon and I could make the weekend a bit more cheerful...

66 Weeks Pregnant - now illustrated!

Posted on April 08, 2010
Scene: Our master bathroom, this morning.Landon: I'm a big boy. And daddy is a big daddy. And Tex is a big doggie.JP/Me: (nodding, making general noises of agreement while getting dressed)Landon: And Rosie is a big doggie. And Lilly is a big kitty...

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning

Posted on April 07, 2010
I went to bed much too late last night for no good reason at all. At 9 p.m. I had forced myself to make my favorite soup (the chicken barley chili) so it would be ready to heat up quickly when we got home tonight. Pleased with my productivity, I then wasted an hour on the couch flipping between HGTV and the Food Network...

Being the Bunny

Posted on April 04, 2010
I like being the Easter Bunny. I may wield a little less power than I do as Santa Claus, but there's so much less hype and pressure. We enjoyed a very low key Easter weekend. Landon was back to 110% within hours of his surgery and has remained that way ever since...

Surgical Success, for Landon anyway

Posted on April 02, 2010
Landon has successfully gained a set of ear tubes and lost a set of adenoids! He was amazing through it all, though due to an act of complete idiocy by his mother, the day was a bit more drawn out than it should have been.His surgery was scheduled for 10:30 a...

The Stork Is Scheduled

Posted on March 31, 2010
My c-section is scheduled for Friday, June 4th, which means that regardless of what else happens, in 65 days I will have held my baby girl. This makes me smile in a very big way.I mentioned my decision to opt for a c-section this time around in a very early pregnancy post, and as happens with these issues, people had opinions...

Because Every Holiday Deserves A Cookie

Posted on March 30, 2010
In honor of Easter, and partially in honor of me being pregnant and requiring a constant inflow of sugar,* I decided we should decorate Easter cookies this year. So I broke out my Swedish great-grandmother's recipe, which I had attempted for the first time at Christmas, and made a small batch of dough...

Our Day

Posted on March 27, 2010
I was flipping through my archives the other day and came across two posts of my schedule as a law school mom: one from Landon's perspective at 6 months old, and another from mine at 9 months. They were fun to read, even if the second one made me tired, and I decided I should memorialize our current schedule in a blog post somewhere...

It was a good run...

Posted on March 25, 2010
After two years of nearly perfect health and a grand total of only FIVE visits to the pediatrician (3 required check-ups and 2 ear infection visits; there was a time when we had 5+ appointments a month), Landon will be reentering a hospital to have his adenoids removed and new ear tubes inserted...

For My Little Sunshine

Posted on March 23, 2010
Baby girl's nursery is about 85% complete and I'm so happy with it. It's a cheerful, sunny space and I'm so excited for our daughter call it hers.The walls are "Daisy Spell" yellow and while they turned out quite a bit brighter than I anticipated, I've come to love them...

Landon, right now

Posted on March 22, 2010
I know I promised nursery pictures, and they are ready to go, but after working on Landon and his sister's baby books over the weekend, I feel a strong need to freeze time just for a moment on focus on Landon and what he's doing right now -- because this kid, this former baby who made me fear all future babies, is pretty much 33 lbs...

It's Like a Little Bit of HGTV

Posted on March 20, 2010
Hopefully that title doesn't get your expectations too high- this is going to be more like HGTV on a crash diet with bad lighting, no film crew, and a single very un-trained designer who took band in middle school just to avoid the disaster that would have been her in Art class...

28 weeks (measuring 31 weeks) and counting

Posted on March 19, 2010
The belly, it is growing. I am 28 weeks along which means my baby is officially viable with a "90% chance of entering Kindergarten with no ill effects from her premature birth." So you know, a nice bench mark, but she better not have any plans on exiting anytime soon...

SoCo Field Trip

Posted on March 18, 2010
We rarely eat out of the house mid-week, and we even more rarely travel out of our neighborhood to the more Austin-y areas of Austin, but tonight I just spent the most lovely few hours with my boys on the fun and fabulous sidewalks of South Congress. JP called on his way home from an afternoon swim lesson to ask if pizza sounded good for dinner...

New Project

Posted on March 16, 2010
About a week ago Sarah over at Harry Times asked if I'd like to be part of a mom-authored, mom-focused style blog. She'd invited several other women of varying ages, sizes, and backgrounds and hoped to get posts on stay-at-home styles, working styles, maternity styles, etc...

Spring Break 2010

Posted on March 15, 2010
We kicked off JP's last spring break with a quick trip to my parents' lake house. Landon adores his Papa and Gigi and was SO EXCITED about the trip. We couldn't leave until after 1 since JP was taking a midterm, but Landon was very patient and helped me pack and clean the house all morning until finally at around 11:30 he had the brilliant idea that, "Mama and Landon can go in Mama's car! We no need Daddy...

Deep, Cleansing Breaths

Posted on March 10, 2010
I should start out this post by saying that JP doesn't read this blog. He could, of course, and I've even bookmarked it on his computer, thinking he should have easy access to anything a stranger in Minnesota might be reading about him. But when I asked him a few months ago if he ever read it he said no, not since Landon was born...

On Second Thought

Posted on March 08, 2010
maybe there's something to this nesting thing after all...Lately I've been consumed by a need to DO THINGS. All things. Everything I can think of that could possibly need doing. I write out to-do list after to-do list, crossing off a few items each night and more on the weekends...

Observation

Posted on March 04, 2010
While leaving daycare this evening:Landon: Where is Matthew's daddy?Me: Maybe he's at work?Landon: Noooo, only mommies go to work!

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