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Feb. 11th, 2005
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Screw the diet. Screw the schedule
Feb. 11th, 2005 12:38 pmI'm walking to Kieran's and having a pot roast sandwich with their wicked mashed potatoes on the side. And probably bread pudding for dessert. And I don't care that my lunch is supposed to be only 45 minutes long.
I badly need some comfort food.
I badly need some comfort food.
Fierce mother love
Feb. 11th, 2005 05:24 pmSarah Brady, I am so desperately sorry.
Pregnant woman kills attacker.
You had to kill to save your child before you could even hold her in your arms. I am so glad that it will be you who will hold her, and not your murderer.
One of the biggest mental shifts, I discovered, about becoming a mother is that your locus of self-preservation totally changes. You now no longer care so much about doing anything to save yourself. You will instead now do anything to save your child. That is part of the reason I am now taking karate. I don't think I would have, or could have, before I became a mother. But faced with a threat to my darling daughters? Watch out, because I'm deadly dangerous.
Lois McMaster Bujold said that when a mother gives birth, she is like Kali the Destroyer: simultaneously bringing both one life and one death into the world. I am so sorry that you were faced with another woman who wanted to steal your birth, and so you were forced to deal out her death.
I fervantly hope that when you soon hold your baby in your arms, rather than cradled underneath your heart, you will see that it had to be done. Forgive yourself; there was nothing else you could have done.
Oh, and congratulations on having a daughter. I know you will teach her to be as fierce and strong as you.
Pregnant woman kills attacker.
You had to kill to save your child before you could even hold her in your arms. I am so glad that it will be you who will hold her, and not your murderer.
One of the biggest mental shifts, I discovered, about becoming a mother is that your locus of self-preservation totally changes. You now no longer care so much about doing anything to save yourself. You will instead now do anything to save your child. That is part of the reason I am now taking karate. I don't think I would have, or could have, before I became a mother. But faced with a threat to my darling daughters? Watch out, because I'm deadly dangerous.
Lois McMaster Bujold said that when a mother gives birth, she is like Kali the Destroyer: simultaneously bringing both one life and one death into the world. I am so sorry that you were faced with another woman who wanted to steal your birth, and so you were forced to deal out her death.
I fervantly hope that when you soon hold your baby in your arms, rather than cradled underneath your heart, you will see that it had to be done. Forgive yourself; there was nothing else you could have done.
Oh, and congratulations on having a daughter. I know you will teach her to be as fierce and strong as you.
Back from the doctor's
Feb. 11th, 2005 06:01 pmThe strep tests and flu tests were both negative. So no anti-virals for you, baby. You just have to wait it out.
Let's hope she doesn't need three weeks like her sister and Daddy did.
Let's hope she doesn't need three weeks like her sister and Daddy did.