From the monthly archives:

December 2011

The Gift of Waiting

December 31, 2011

With every pregnancy announcement, I have to admit I felt a little twinge of something like envy. How can everyone else be so darn fertile? The truth is, though, I think those two years of waiting were a gift. In many ways, I recognize that waiting gave me something that these other women don’t have. Here is a list of just a few of the blessings that came with having to wait.

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Why We Don’t Get Professional Family Photos

December 20, 2011

Ben and I have established a game plan for when I get tempted to have professional family photos taken. You know the ones I’m talking about. They’re all over Facebook. The ones where the family is holding hands and frolicking through apple orchards in full bloom, or at the lakeside, or in a forest bursting [...]

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Sex After Baby, Part Two

December 15, 2011

I’m talking about sex again. So here’s another preface for people who know me in real life:  if you don’t want to know about my sex life, you may want to skip over this one.  It’s scary writing about this stuff, you guys! But a reader asked about it, and I decided that if one [...]

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Motherhood and Sexuality. Or, How Motherhood Has Changed Everything

December 6, 2011

Sex is different now that I’m a mother. Not just in the way that sex feels, because of what my body has gone through, though that too. It’s not that my body has merely changed; it’s that it is a wholly new and different thing.

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