Getting Knocked Up

I’ve started this post a hundred times in my head and can’t find the words to introduce the most monumental, life-changing, beautiful moment of my life. However, today is Miles’ official due date and I’ve decided that its finally time to put his birth into words, even if they do not give the feelings I [...]

Miles Cummings Colvert August 25th, 2011 –  9:21am 5 lbs 4oz – 18″ long Perfect in every way – I have a lot of catching up to do around here but this little man has kept me pretty busy the last month, so please bear with me while I settle into my new life and [...]

Wow, I guess it’s been a while since I posted last.  It has been strange lately. Sometimes it seems like everything is going by me at yellow-jersey speed while I struggle to catch up on my tricycle, and other times it seems like my days are being played out in super slow motion. I am [...]

I have been woefully misinformed about “planning,” maybe life in general. I used to believe that I could write lists, pencil stuff in on the calendar and use excel to organize any data I so desired and I believed that all of this would result in some order, some efficiency, and maybe some harmony in [...]

I guess I’ve been hesitating writing this, maybe I am in some sort of denial… embarrassed maybe. Last Sunday around 3am I went into preterm labor. It’s something I never thought I have to think about, could never happen to me, right? Wrong. I didn’t know it was preterm labor at the time. I woke [...]

Okay- Now that I am getting settled into this pregnancy thing I have taken a moment to look back and I’ve come to realize that pregnancy is a beautiful, crazy, amazing, odd, and spectacular time. I feel like a different version of myself, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. I thought now would [...]

I am officially in my third trimester. Honesty, I doubted that I could ever say that. Maybe somewhere deep down in my heart I believed it, but the feeling was hidden under piles of worry and sadness.  Each week it seems a layer of that worry gets lifted and it’s an astonishing feeling. My eyes [...]

I like to organize things, no big deal, right. However, since the smell of Dreft began wafting through my house last Friday, it has become a BIG deal. I decided that I would wash some of the baby clothes and blankets I have bought so far as we are finally getting the nursery pulled together, [...]