My husband worked a lot of the day on a recent weekend day and that left me as the sole parent for the day. He would have to work the next 3 nights and that would leave me as the sole parent then, too.
It had been many days since I’d claimed a moment to myself. [...]
To answer a select few of the many questions emailed to me about the monster tree that fell on our house:
QUESTION: Have the police been able to identify any motive on the part of the tree? ANSWER: Not yet. We suspect foul play on the part of the wind. Naughty, naughty wind.
QUESTION: Can I help?
ANSWER: [...]
We invited a bunch of people over to our house for an impromptu BBQ for the Fourth of July. They were to arrive at 4 p.m. We ended up having to cancel when the baby got one of those fast colds that seem to come from nowhere.
At 4 p.m. (when people should have been arriving) [...]
All these years I had little interest in having a child. Our lack of children baffled our Dominican neighbors, who regularly asked me when I’d get pregnant. I was perfectly content being alone with DH and having all my time to myself and rarely having to think of another being in the way one must [...]
