Briar woke up at 1:25am. Screaming. Standing in her crib, grasping the rails and just screaming. My eyes felt like they were being slashed with razor blades. You’d think I’d get used to the middle of the night cries and they’d stop hurting so much. But no, it was like I was back in week [...]
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Every day. I get to be with Briar for some amount of time every day. Every day she looks up at me and fills me with hope and joy.She has changed everything. I hope when she looks at me she sees everything. I wish I could keep her safe her whole life. Make sure know one ever hurts [...]
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Briar has for the last week or two, taken to waking up with a start anytime between 3 and 5am.She arches her back and wails at the top of her lungs. Totally inconsolable. It seems to be an uncomfortable gas issue so we take turns patting her bottom, rubbing her belly and just soothing her. [...]
Saturday, September 24, 2005
This is going to be quick as I am trying to cook dinner and squeeze in an entry. So Briar had her Yakima Grandma out here for a week.Quite a pair, the two of them. Singing. Throwing their hands in the air above their heads. Squealing. Screeching.Laughing.Just generally making, “Boy do I have fun making noise [...]
Friday, September 23, 2005
Two things to know about La Casa de los Magees: I hate the doorbell song. Briar loves to operate her portable radio/cd player. I’d bet money Sean and Abbie both know what song was playing to cause her to curl up with such delight and somehow had a direct hand in coaching her to seek out this particular [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Our week without a sitter continues. It would be one thing if I could really stay home or if Sean could really do design work with her at the office. It’s a struggle. She is, as she has always been, an angel. But she’s one. She needs things. She needs attention and stimulation and most [...]
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Pictures to tide you over until I can do a proper entry. I think it is safe to say, that as far as first birthdays go, it was right there with the best of them.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
We are a couple of very lucky girls. This picture makes my stomach do somersaults.He is looking at the camera (me) with a cool confidence and a little secret. This is the face I get. Those are the eyes that look at me and say: Family. Wife. Partner. Friend. Lover. Mother of my child Briar is totally [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Our hike. It was a moderately challenging hike, considering the circumstances: Sean had Briar on his back, Dean was his usual defiant self, Abbie was coming off what might be described as a slightly uncomfortable night’s sleep, and I was feeling a bit fatigued. As you see here, the pay off for the hike was exceptionally [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2005
I have an absoultely insatiable hunger for the sound of Briar’s laughter and the feel of her skin against mine.Lucky for me that by just squeezing her and nuzzling my face in her neck I satisfy both needs! She simply cannot be anything but cute-asleep or awake. Even as she begins to dip her pink [...]
Monday, September 26, 2005
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