” I got moved into a room in The Birthing Center, and I told my mother she could just take my car back to my apartment until I had the baby and would have my sister drive me back, but my mother no longer had her license and didn’t feel comfortable driving in the dark anyway. ...
When the 14-year-old – and penniless – Markova was accepted at the Ballets Russes, a generous, well-traveled friend of the family had one of her own fur coats cut down and remade for the tiny dancer, knowing she would need it. Later, Markova learned how valuable that gift really was...
' And I heard choking right after that."Herman was in a downstairs bedroom when the attack happened. He was unable to find his phone and ran to their next-door neighbor's house to get help, but there was no answer. He was finally able to use the phone of a stranger on the street....
Baby Food That My Infant Loves This post is sponsored by Beech-Nut® but all thoughts are my own. #BeechNutPartner When I was pregnant with Emma I had all of these big ideas of things I was going to do when she was born. I was going to take a picture a day her first year, ke...
The next few days were a blur but I do remember loving ice packs. Also, I remember having some of the worst food I'd eaten in years. (I was not quite up to testing recipes and so we had to "make do" with the little we had on hand and my less than stellar planning.) I noted...
Varun gazes out at the city, a fleeting blur of lights and shadows. “I think I’ve had too much of a sheltered, protected life with mom, dad and my brother always, always around. Maybe it’s time to sort of set my own thing up but still have the...
Todd enjoying his first baby ( toy ). After lunch we went to visit the Maruyama Brothers factory, I did not take pictures mostly because their were other peoples toys there and didn’t want to “reveal” something that I shouldn’t ;-P Avoiding Toy Politics and all ;-P Had a good me...
My 7yo daughter is at that stage where she needs to be constantly busy and entertained, surely a side effect from when she was a baby and we didn’t put her down for the first six months of her life. Hashtag first kid problems. So the weekends bring a fresh level of what-am-I-...
I mean, no words. And yet it was strangely, shockingly, almost understandable how things could have got so bad. Because we have allowed free speech to blur into hate speech and our print media, in its fight for survival and in the hands of amoral puppeteers, plumbs lower and lower depths...
How sweet is this flamingo wallpaper for a baby girl’s room?… {via} Classic beauty in green and white… {via} I hope you’ve enjoyed this visit to the world of our feathered friends. I’ve definitely had fun bird watching from our kitchen window. ...