I constantly second guess my decision to bring a child into this crazy world. Not because I don’t love my child, but just because I worry about what kind of world he will be living in when he is my age. I wonder if I should consider having another child, when I already [...]

Owen’s Blog
Touring the State Capital With R2-D2
Written by James, talking about Owen’s latest robot obsession.
The Latest
The latest news on Owen.
First Day of Preschool
Owen’s first day of preschool was on Thursday!
Birth Activist
I write blog posts for Birth Activist, along with a few other women. Here are a few of my recent posts there:
New Study [...]

Owen is going to start preschool soon. He will be going two mornings a week. It is a therapeutic preschool designed for kids just like him, who have some borderline behaviors but weren’t diagnosed as having autism (if he had autism, there would be several other services available to him). Owen’s diagnosis [...]

Motrin recently pulled an ad that targeted babywearing moms. (Babywearing is when a parent wears their infant or young child in a sling, or harness on their body.) An article about the incident with a link to the ad can be found here. What is so odd about this ad is that [...]

7:15 p.m.
Me: Owen, are we gonna watch the debates? And we’ll say, “Go Obama, Go Obama”!
Owen: No, I will say “Go McCain!”
Me: What? McCain?
James: Owen, are you a member of the young republicans association?Owen: (pointing at me) You will be McCain, and Daddy will be Obama, and I [...]

Sick Cat
The matter of our very sick cat has seen some new developments. We ended up spending a grand total of about $600.00, give or take a bit. (We didn’t spend it so much as add it to our already insurmountable credit card debt.) For some inexplicable reason, he did not recover [...]

He’s officially weaned now. I went on a four day vacation and when I returned and put him to bed he asked for refrigerator milk. At first I didn’t think we had any, so I told him that, and only then did he cry for “boobops”. But he didn’t cry in a [...]

There is so much to do, and no motivation to do it. I’m drowning in photos; to edit, to get printed, to organize, to put into albums, and to frame. I have The Birth Survey stuff to work on, I helped start a discussion board for women with birth trauma and now I’m [...]

• Today I found the coolest store ever. It is an art supply store, but get this, everything there is donated. The store is about living green and reusing, and so it is filled with overstock from other stores, or just things people have donated. Everything is stuff you could use for [...]

A few months ago I was nursing Owen during the day, at night, and all morning from his first waking at about 3:00 – 5:00 am on until we got out of bed. It was making me feel emotionally and physically drained and I realized that not doing it would be much better for [...]