by Amy | Oct 13, 2012 | My Family, Parenthood
My friend Jen, clever mother of two, sent me helium balloons on my birthday because she knew how much Viv would enjoy playing with them. I don’t know what kind of crazy advances they’ve made in Mylar lately but this one hung on for five weeks, floating...
by Amy | Oct 8, 2012 | Infertility, My Family, Parenthood
We’re deep into the IVF process now, and this past weekend, doctors harvested my eggs. They didn’t even buy me dinner first. Dave and I conceived our first child naturally, in a cartoonishly ideal way: on vacation in Waikiki, waves crashing outside our balcony, the...
by Amy | Oct 2, 2012 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
One of my favorite Saturday Night Live bits ever was Seth Myers and Amy Poehler doing “REALLY!?!” during Weekend Update. I’ve found myself channeling them a lot this week. I mean, the fertility doctors we’re paying to get me pregnant have...
by Amy | Sep 26, 2012 | My Family, Parenthood
Have you ever seen The Stepford Wives—the awesome original or the campy/crappy remake? I got to thinking about the robot that would replace me if I lived in Stepford, and how easy it would be to program it. There are only about 30 things that I do all day – I just do...
by Amy | Sep 20, 2012 | My Family, Parenthood
What happened to my little baby? Here’s my tween I mean toddler looking bored while hanging out with her parents… Asserting her own fashion sense (that’s a t-shirt worn as a tube top over another t-shirt in case you want to steal her look)…...
