This, That, and the Mother Thing

So Conor has been sick this week. In fact, he's been running a fever over 101 F for the last 6 days. When we picked Conor up from daycar...

I am thoroughly enjoying my prednisone insomnia, so I thought I'd catch up on my blog. Although I could expound on how quickly the gla...

We went to CSS today to meet with their director of adoption services and figure out what the hell we're doing. It was a very good meet...

Despite being swamped with the beginning of school issues again, I have spent some time googling on this new regimen for infertility. A 2006...

We had a follow-up visit with our Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) yesterday. Although I was not altogether thrilled with our first visit ...

This morning, I was having a cup of coffee and reading the paper. A thunk and the pitter patter of little feet let me know Conor was up. ...

I'm so sorry to leave you with such a vulgar title to that last post. (Although, I admit, it was pretty attention grabbing) I have been...

Continuing on a week of personal revelations, I had to go to the doctor yesterday for a truly embarrassing situation. (((((sigh)))))) I know...

IVF So what about IVF? What are the pros about IVF? Well, first of all, it’s cheaper than adoption. (Who knew?) And I hope that the first...

Adoption Ok. Grab a cup of coffee because you might be here a while. Last year, after the second miscarriage we started looking into intern...

Charlotteans: If you are in the local area today, I'm going to be on WFAE's Charlotte Talks discussing cocooning--how people use tec...

On Friday, at daycare, Conor's teachers told us that they lined up the children, who still range in their skills, to go potty. Conor was...

We've got to teach our son some bed sharing manners. Although we do have many nights when he stays in his own bed all night long, if he ...

So we've been busy over here at the Mother Thing household recently, doing "things" behind the scenes. You may recall that las...

I have no spoilers and I will blog no spoilers. Nonetheless, I am VERY EXCITED to receive our Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book on S...

Yesterday, during my morning meditation, I tried a new practice focusing on mindfulness, that is, becoming aware of the state of oneself. Du...

Yesterday was Conor's birthday party. I don't know how to narrate this blog except 1) the child is growing up way too fast and 2) I...

We had another "event" this month. I will probably refer to this as the Month Where I Used A Gazillion HPTs. I took a test on Mond...

Here is a picture (from the Charlotte Observer ) of one of the trees from the VanLandingham estate that went down in the storm last week. It...

I've tried to think of some clever way of titling this entry: Stormy Weather (which only sounds clever if you're singing it. Well, a...