Category: Mothers & Daughters

My girleens

Rectitude

This is strange. I found a fully developed blog post that I wrote on April 8, 2012 that I never published. I’m gonna do it now. Just try and stop me. It still seems relevant (to me, but not to you). Here ya go: I gots me a baby sleeping at my feet. This won’t last. Last week I went to the TESOL conference in Philadelphia and got to see Maw and my Stella dog […]

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Newborn

Eleni has brought forth onto this continent a new baby, conceived in liberty and as yet unnamed. He was 7 pounds, 14 ounces, 19 inches tall, 13 inches around the head. He arrived at 9:36 p.m. He has abundant black hair, as did Emmy, and is very red and wrinkly and beautiful. Eleni made it through the whole process at an alternative birth center, without any drugs. I am amazed and proud. She’s on Cloud […]

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A Few of My Favorite Things

I am going more than a wee bit bonkers. As of an hour ago, my daughter is in labor, and I can hardly stand the suspense from this perspective. As you may recall from entries four years ago, I was there at the birth of my beloved Emmy. So it’s strange to be disconnected from the events this time. Earlier this evening, Eleni and I spent a long time on the phone, as the first signs of labor began to […]

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Ninna Bonaventure

No sooner did I get back from one fabulous adventure than plans took shape for the next one. It all began with Jason’s teeth. On Monday morning I babysat Emmy while the dentist yanked out six of them. In the surgical aftermath, Jason and Eleni told me about their upcoming adventure to Monterey. Brazenly, I invited myself along. Poor Jason was too shellshocked from the operation to put up a fight. In fact, he graciously vowed that he didn’t […]

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