Pregnancy Update: Week 26
As I write this we are 13 hours away from jetting off to Cancun for our very first babymoon. What is a babymoon, you ask? It’s like a honeymoon but you take it before you have your first baby because … Continue reading
Author Archives: Camille
Nomenclature
The baby is a boy. (This will come as no surprise to you if you follow me on Instagram, where I also post fairly regular photos of my ever-growing midsection. It’s not pretty. But you’re welcome to join me if … Continue reading
Posted in Married Life, mediocrity, oh brother what next, Poor Kyle, pregnancy, what a nightmare, woe is me
Tagged baby names
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Whether or Not to Find Out the Baby’s Sex
And secondly, that what little element of surprise *might* exist in a revelation with only three potential outcomes can exist at 20 weeks just as profoundly as it might exist at 40 (or 38 because we’re thinking happy thoughts here). Just because I intend to find out five months before the baby is born doesn’t mean it will be any less thrilling than if I’d waited until it shot out of my wide open crotch. Continue reading
Five Things. Mostly About Babies.
Here is a list of things I like today: 1. This picture of my niece. I know she looks grumpy here but actually she’s not. It’s a hilarious picture, at least to my biased aunt-ish eyes. It makes me want … Continue reading
Pregnancy Update: Week 17
Back when I announced I was pregnant I sort of expected that people would be annoyed by pregnancy update posts. I didn’t plan on writing too many of them for fear of alienating what few readers I had left (after … Continue reading
Posted in change, family, I hate change, Married Life, pregnancy, woe is me
Tagged 17 weeks pregnant, pregnancy pimples, pregnancy symptoms
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Siblinghood
Women only [call each other sister] when they have called each other a lot of other things first. —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Did I ever tell you I was blessed with the World’s Greatest Sister? All of you have … Continue reading
Posted in family, in all seriousness, introspection, It's All Good, looking back, The Original Archives
Tagged sisterhood, sisters
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Every Pity Needs a Party
In my prenatal class the other night (yes I’m taking prenatal yoga, it’s my childhood yuppie dream come true), while chatting with my fellow pregnant classmates before class started, the topic of registering (i.e. for baby gifts) came up. Classmate: … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, change, do what I say, It's All Good, Married Life, mediocrity, mondays suck, pregnancy
Tagged baby shower, pity party, pregnancy
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