Adventures of a Mom with a Wife
from making the baby to raising the child in a 2 mom family
They arrived! Meet the flock... Minerva, the Black Copper Marans hen, 11 weeks old, dark chocolate brown eggs Henrietta, the Buff Brahma hen, 8 weeks old, regular brown eggs Robin, the Ameraucana hen, 7 weeks old, blue eggs Olive, the Olive Egger hen, 11 weeks old, olive green eggs. Here are some group shots. There… Continue reading Introducing: Our Backyard Chickens!
We have seen 3 home daycares so far. The process has not brought out the best in my marriage. It turns out we differ on several important parenting issues and discussing the pros and cons of each daycare has brought these to the fore. It has been a tense week. Surprisingly, I loved two of… Continue reading The daycare search continues…
Tonight was the Annual General Meeting of the not-for-profit I have chaired for the past two years (and have been an executive director of for three years). I resigned tonight. It felt amazing. The organization is Out On The Shelf (www.outontheshelf.com). It's a queer resource centre and library. When I joined the board we were… Continue reading I Resigned
She started out so content and happy, playing independently for the whole day. I got so much work done. It was weird. She didn't seem to need stimulation to keep her occupied, but instead wanted to sit quietly by herself and play gently with the same two toys. During a diaper change I noticed that… Continue reading Avery’s first illness
It's been a long time since I've written a fuck my life post. Last night my wife and I started talking about changing/creating the sleep training plan. The plan I was implementing was such a slow plan, and we were thinking about trying something more serious, more structured, and faster. Just the mere thought of… Continue reading FML
Sleep has been miserable. Nonexistent, really. Avery has been rashy and fussy. I went off of the Cow's Milk Protein Allergy diet after 6 weeks to test out her tolerance and she definitely reacted less severely, but the eczema never did go away completely. She seems to be able to tolerate small amounts (maybe she… Continue reading It’s Eggs! Avery’s struggle with food sensitivities
Two words: Acceptance and Adaptation. This post is not prescriptive. I can't tell you what will work for any other baby than my own, and even with my own, I'm still learning as we go. Also, the solutions we found to survive the 4 month sleep regression aren't permanent sleep solutions - eventually we… Continue reading How we survived the 4 month sleep regression
Our donor family is due with their second child in March, so I've been doing shopping for a baby shower gift - so fun to be shopping for baby stuff again!! And my wife has been busy making them a felt mobile kind of like the one she made for Avery. While shopping for them… Continue reading Week in Review – mostly sleep stuff
I feel like a sheet of paper, trembling in the cold breeze that comes through our drafty walls. Or like Bilbo Baggins so eloquently said, I feel like butter scraped over too much bread. I am fucking tired. The last couple of nights have been near all-nighters. The only sleep I get is in the… Continue reading Sleep deprivation
Back to work Last week was a little hectic. I was back to work and had a couple of work meetings to attend: one with the baby, one without. The meeting with the baby was fine. It was on campus and she mostly sat quietly on my lap for the whole thing. When I had… Continue reading Week In Review
