Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

No, I am not referring to wine, despite it’s smooth taste and mind soothing abilities. I am referring to a little mentioned and completely under-appreciated substance that has made my life, the life of millions of women and even the lives of some men and children more comfortable.

I knew I had to come shout [...]

“Mama, wanna swing with me?”

“No baby, Mama can’t swing right now”

“It’s ok Mama, your butt is big but it still fit on the swing”

Later when I was telling The Hubster about Mira’s powers of observation Mira piped up with

“I like your big butt, Mama”

Free at last, free at last!! It’s been a LONG week spent bruising my tail bone and channel surfing through the weirdest cable line-up known to man. Until noon today I was stuck in my local anti-partum ward, cursing room service and blowing IVs left and right.

Tuesday morning I started bleeding some and [...]

This is Melanie. I am here to give an update on Fidget. She went into the hospital tuesday because she was bleeding and having contractions. The bleeding is under control now but the baby’s heartrate keeps going down with the contractions. She is hoping to be able to come home by Monday [...]

Sunday I woke up to bloated purple legs and decided to have The Hubster wrangle me into my stylin’ compression hose…I can’t think of anything hotter then 200 lbs of undulating flesh poured into too tiny medical grade compression hose. Unless of course, you spot such a sight pimpin’ around town on this: Why yes [...]