Nursing Buddha

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So Monday is my return to work. I am spending most of my time nursing and having staring contests with Baby Buddha. I feel extremely fortunate we make a good enough living to afford this time home with her, but also more than a little resentful that in these United States I am entitled to [...]

So I’ll be honest…I ate more than this the last two weeks. Yup, this has pretty much become a blog of baby pictures. She’s really more visually interesting than anything I’ve eaten lately anyway. Plus I just like looking at her. So there. Baby Buddha is two months old on Wednesday. She’s officially big enough [...]

This is the face I wake up to every morning: I really like this face. I like her face, her jangly legs and arms, her soft and bendy ears, her rounded elbows and knees, her delicate belly, her jelly bean toes. There’s an unexpected intimacy to parenting. I had no idea what to expect. If [...]