Posted in Raising kids on Aug 27th, 2010
At five weeks old, both babies sleep through the night. Doug and I put them down at seven p.m., and they lie quietly in their crib for a few minutes before drifting peacefully off to sleep. They do not wake again until seven a.m. Doug and I put the older kids to bed by eight. [...]
Posted in Raising kids on Aug 24th, 2010
The twins are a month old as of yesterday. Today is their due date. In honor of both occasions, I am going to regale y’all with the twins’ birth story, which sort of got lost in the drama of Ben’s stay in the NICU. I went into labor around 4:00 on Thursday, July 22. I [...]
Posted in Raising kids on Aug 20th, 2010
After a week with both boys home, Doug and I are wandering around in a sleep-deprived torpor. The babies are up every couple of hours, and it takes an hour to warm their bottles, feed them, change them (we usually have to change each of them twice and sometimes three times, the little poopers), and [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.