Last summer, when we found out we were expecting, we needed a way to explain to Alex what was going on, when there wasn’t going to be any visible evidence for months to come. So we came up with a list of all the big, memorable events of a year that had to pass before…
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Random Musings from the Pinnacles
Long vs. short writing projects Lately I’ve been chafing at how little writing I’m doing aside from blogging and The Novel. If I had 4-5 hours, I could easily spend them, and I’d get more projects done despite working on said novel. That, however, is not my life. So I’m just trying to get…
Read MoreYou never stop learning
Every pregnancy, I’ve learned something. The first time around was my introduction to round ligament pains and not being able to get out of bed without rolling off. I learned the that taking metformin all the way up to the 20 week mark causes weeks of roller coaster sugar imbalance. And of course, there…
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Openings. Why do they have to be sooooooooooooooooooo hard? Since the beginning of November, I have probably put in six hours on the opening five pages of my novel. Actually, that doesn’t sound like much, now that I think of it. Maybe it just seems endless. Knowing there’s a problem. Trying to back…
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It was a week ago today. I was sitting at the computer, much as I am now—except, being naptime, there was less noise and no distraction at all. I was deeply focused on my novel, on arranging and rearranging words, thinking through subplots and character motivations and character voices. And then: blip. A…
Read MoreHigh (and low) lights of a weekend
It was an unnaturally long weekend, beginning Thursday night with Julianna wheezing and gasping for air—with a nebulizer and albuterol (thank Heavens we had it on hand) and Christian keeping her on the couch all night. He stayed home from work Friday, and his boss was heard to tell the staff, “Guys! Hell’s frozen over!…
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A note to my baby at 12 weeks What I know about you after three ultrasounds: You have a big head. All children do at this age, but I’m going to say that yours is going to remain big, because your daddy and your big brother have big heads. You have well-defined…
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“For you, darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day.” —Ps. 139: 12 It’s been on my mind, but I didn’t realize just how terrified I was of losing this baby until I had waited an hour and a half past my appointment time last Friday. It was an unusual backlog,…
Read MoreThe Third Pregnancy
For the last three weeks, everything I have wanted to blog about has been related to pregnancy, but I couldn’t, because we weren’t announcing yet. Now we are. What is different the third time around? For most people, who have had two normal pregnancies and normal births, I don’t know. I can only share…
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Kathleen M. Basi 