Everydaystranger

Tomorrow is Halloween.
Halloween, the 31st of October, the day that the babies were due.
Halloween has always been my favorite of the holidays, the usher of the great joy that is the Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year’s home run. I have decorated the house in Halloween style, and am on my fourth Jack-o-lantern since October began. Glowing [...]

This morning, completely exhausted after a short night of sleep and more in need of coffee than any human being ever, I head downstairs.
I am met on the stairs by Jeff, with sleep-tousled hair and sandman in his eyes.
“Can I go say good morning to the babies?” he asks. “I’ll be quiet.”
“Of course you [...]

Some mornings I walk Gorby in the local woods. He loves it there, and he deserves it. A number of people (including Cheryl, Kenju, and CTG) have asked how he’s doing with the babies, and the truth is, he’s very insecure. He sits by them when they’re downstairs, he follows them when [...]

A great deal of my life is spent thinking about the stepkids. If you’re a stepmom – and not one of the evil variety, of course – then this is the way of things. Your world has a whole lotta’ step in it.
I’m lucky enough to have three women that I correspond with [...]

Three weeks ago today Nick and Nora were born.
15:54 and 15:56.
Three weeks ago, which makes the babies not only 3 weeks old, but also 39 weeks old. Once I hit Halloween and their official due date, maybe I’ll be able to stop thinking of them as preemies. They are very small, both of [...]

Just a quick one from me as the babies have been a bit fractious the past day -
First off, I’m not big on the drama mongering for other people or anything, but there are two people out there who, I think, could use some support and love.
That Girl, who stops by often here, has been [...]

So the weekend’s over. And in general, weekends are relaxing, easy times. Weekends, on a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the highest, should be about an 8 in terms of chill factor.
So why was my weekend a minus 6?
It started off innocuously enough. On Saturday, Angus’ father and stepmother were coming [...]

The babies, as you know, came 4 weeks early. They also came on the heels after a Melissa and Jeff visit, so we weren’t exactly ready with the nursery as we had to preserve Jeff’s room as long as possible due to the stream of sensitivities we deal with on a daily basis (said [...]

Nick and Nora’s existence has long been a contentious subject. The day we found out that we were going to have twins is not a day that I look back on with happiness and light about. I know most women post airy-fairy lovey-dovey posts about how great life is, how amazing twins are, [...]

Twin 1 was the healthiest baby. No worry about Down’s Syndrome so no need for a CVS, large-sized, robust. Placenta placed perfectly, positioned perfectly, Twin 1 had everything going.
Until Twin 1 moved into my pelvis and Twin 2 decided to squish the crap out of him.
The 4 weeks before I delivered, Twin 2 [...]

The midwife came by yesterday and took stock of the situation.
I’m pleased to say that she took in Angus and I and the two little moppets and said that we were, without question, the calmest new baby family she had ever seen. She said that more often than not she comes into a house [...]

There are many, many things I’m learning about myself since last week. If you thought this site was intorspective before, then welcome to emotional spelunking. It’s all a new can of worms, babe.
The first night that Nick returned to Nora and I on the delivery ward, we had our first doozy.
Nora and I had [...]

I always remember the film “Look Who’s Talking”, not just because it was a film packed full of Scientologists, but because there’s a scene in the beginning where Kirstie Alley is reading a baby book that tells her that most women get the baby blues. She frowns, cocks one of those freaky eyebrows of [...]

Outside of our front door of our home is an old light, which has a glowing lightbulb inside of a glass-walled holder. I look at it at night and think it glows, as the light seems to be suspended by nothing. For 5 days now, I’ve had a glow inside of me just [...]

Nick and Nora were born via emergency C-section today. Everyone is fine, if a little tired.
The Story of the Lemonheads
-H.

I’ve been to the doctor’s.
The babies are nice and big and healthy. They are also completely out of room. That, and a vaginal delivery is out of the question, now – the little boy is still head down and ready to go. The little girl, however (aka “Mommy’s little breath stealer”) has [...]

For the locals not watching Brothers and Sisters on E4, you may want to skip this post.
I’ve had a rough 24 hours over here-the third trimester symptoms continue. The contractions are strong and I bought a blood pressure monitor yesterday which is showing the highest numbers so far. I spend time hanging face [...]

06 October 2007
The End of the Beginning
I started this blog as a way of trying to write about something that had become a part of me, namely my desire to be a mother. I needed a quiet place in blogland to do this, somewhere I could be anonymous, somewhere that certain people from my other [...]

Going into this pregnancy, I can tell you there were a lot of pre-conceived notions that I had about being knocked up. Most of them have been blown out of the water completely, but the truth is I think I had to experience pregnancy before actually knowing what the hell this whole “carrying a [...]