Year: 2006

To my Girl as you turn 3 *updated with cake picture

How did someone so silly and funny and full of joy come from me? You always seem a little bit too radiant, too intense, too full of life compared to the others around you. Your light seems to burn a little bit more brightly than every one else’s. You love […]

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It’s a girl

Well, one week ago I gave birth to a baby girl, at 3:10 am, in my MIL’s bathtub, with my husband, MIL/doula and midwife in attendance, in what was quite possibly the most beautiful perfect birth I’ve ever seen, and it was mine. She was 6 lbs 4 oz, she […]

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Here we go

So sometime in the next couple of days, unless things reverse themselves, we should be meeting Schmitty for the first time. AAAAHHHH!!!! This is about 3 weeks ahead of schedule so I have a ton of things that aren’t finished the way I want them to be but that’s what […]

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Ramblings of my sleep deprived brain

The modem and my computer just suddenly stopped talking to each other last night right as I was posting again. That post is locked on to my suddenly internetless computer so I bring you something else on the Genius Husband’s machine instead. Happy Hanukah. We enter the holiday week with […]

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Baby thoughts-3 1/2 weeks to go

Look, I have a picture of my pregnant belly. Actually I have a couple more of other subjects too thanks to last weekend borrowing a digital camera. My Milly took this one. So here is your first close-up of Schmidtty. You see, the Boy is convinced that this is also […]

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It was bound to happen someday

This morning the relative quiet of the predawn dimness in our bedroom, when the children are still sleeping and the alarm hasn’t yet gone off, was shattered by a three-year-old voice suddenly asking, “Mommy, what’s daddy doing to you?” all content © Carrien Blue

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the “not fake” family letter

I love getting yearly letters from friends and family, I like the photos and the updates, I like to stay in touch. I also like the inner chuckle I get when I read the subtle bragging that some people include, the aside references to the shiny new car, the number […]

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Humble Pie

Ever hurt someone unintentionally, over and over again, not knowing that you’re doing it? Ever find out from someone else and learn that they haven’t said anything because they love you and want to cut you a lot of slack because they know you’re going through a difficult time right […]

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Random bits of weirdness from this week.

After a sibling fight the Girl came running to me describing all of the dire means by which she had been insulted and concluded with, “He took my feelings away.” My SIL came into the room with blue stained hands after a Tie-dying project. “I killed them, all of them, […]

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