She’s nothing like the rest of us
Belle: Good Morning! I’ve come to return the book I’ve borrowed!
Book shop clerk: Finished already?
Belle: Oh, I couldn’t put it down. Got anything new?
Book shop clerk: Not since yesterday!
Yesterday, totally by accident, I discovered the most wonderful used bookstore. And it is located — get this — half a block from my office.
I was heading back to the office after running an errand, and turned up a street I don’t normally use. It is the kind of bookstore I like best — where everything is crammed onto shelves, covered in dust. It’s like treasure-hunting.
I wandered around it in a happy daze. I scooped up three books in the few minutes I could spend there, and now I’m counting the minutes until I can go back at lunchtime.
Darling Husband had better get started on those built-ins — this could get ugly!
Our babies, our teachers
I know that sometimes I get too caught up in the preparation of having a baby — duh, this whole blog is all about my preparation! It’s just my nature to try and organize the world.
But I read this beautiful line the other day over at Small Fry & Co., and it really spoke to me:
You can’t prepare completely for being a mom, because Heavenly Father sends you your own personalized teacher. Mine is a beautiful blondy, with the most sparkling blue eyes, who loves to give hugs and kisses and who constantly surprises me. — Small Fry & C0.
Dear Baby,
I am sewing quilts and saving money and reading all the right books, in an attempt to get ready for you.
But I know I won’t ever be truly prepared for your arrival. You are going to shake up our whole world, and we can’t wait.
I’m ready to learn from you.
xoxo
Math woes
It’s a good thing having a baby does not require a standardized math test.
I read something about needing 400-milla-somethings of folic acid, and my Materna bottle said it only contained 1 mg. I panicked for a second, wondering if I needed to take an extra supplement.
But … duh … turns out the 400-milla-somethings actually equalled 0.4 mg, so the Materna has more than I even need.
God, I suck at fractions — OK, math in general.
Also, I am down to my final couple of Materna tablets, rattling around in the bottle. I’m going to need to buy more tonight.
What kind of person runs out of Materna before they even start trying???
P.S. On the bright side, their website says you should start taking it at least 12 weeks before trying to conceive, and it is actually less than 10 weeks before we begin Operation: Baby. Finally, my over-preparedness is within a reasonable timeline!
Daddies and daughters
One of my colleagues just stopped by my office to chat. He was telling me how his wife spent Friday night away, as a Mother’s Day treat, and he spent the weekend with his little daughter.
He gushed — well, as much as men can gush — about how they went to lunch, rode bikes, and picked out a present together. How he loves spending “Daddy-Daughter” time.
Yeah, I melted.
Reason #6353 why it would be so perfect to have a girl: I can just picture the same adorableness between Darling Husband and our daughter.
Actually, her namesake is a vampire …
Hello, bloggie friends! I hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day weekend. I spent Saturday night with Mom and Little Sis, and it was there that my new obsession was born.
Not a very original obsession, unfortunately: Twilight.
I know, I know. I am the last person on Earth to succomb. I have owned all four books for a month, and have yet to finish one. I picked up Twilight and kept putting it down because the writing kind of annoyed me. Can you say “over-written”?
But Little Sis is a champion Edward fan, and her obsession made me curious. Surely, there was some merit to it, so I agreed to watch the movie.
Wow.
For those of you who haven’t seen it — if there is any female left in the world who hasn’t — I don’t even know how to tell you why I liked it. It was just so fantastically, obsessively romantic.
I guess it really is the Romeo + Juliet of our time — remember how Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes were just perfection together?
So now, of course, I am all hyped up on possible Twilight-inspired baby names:
- Rosalie (“Rose”)
- Alice
- Claire
- Jane
- Charlotte
They are all deliciously old-fashioned! I already had a thing for the name “Alice,” and now I also really like Rosalie — except what if non-Twilight fans couldn’t pronounce it? And said “Roz-a-lie”?
Who am I kidding? By then, everyone will have read it.
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