It might make you grit your teeth and make smoke pour from your ears, but I am thrilled that health care reform passed. Let me tell you why. I’m one of those uninsured Americans everyone’s always talking about. And it hasn’t always been this way. My parents had health insurance, so I was always covered [...]
Archive | March, 2010
She seems normal to me
by Amy on 16. Mar, 2010 in The Kid
Living in a small town, you don’t have a lot of choices when it comes to pediatricians. Fortunately, Scott had been through this three times already with his older kids. He had taken all of the kids to the same pediatrician and was pleased. When Sophie was born, she was the only game in town, [...]
Exercising her independence and making her mother a little crazy
by Amy on 10. Mar, 2010 in The Kid
So I really wasn’t ready for this whole Miss Independent Thing to happen so early. I figured I had a few years before she started asking for the car keys and permission to go backpacking across Europe. We are now at the age of Let Me Do It Myself. The latest development? The child with [...]
Just when I was getting the hang of this
by Amy on 03. Mar, 2010 in The Kid
Being a mother of a baby isn’t so bad. Of course, it hasn’t been easy. There’s been the sleep deprivation. Coming to grips with the physical aftermath of childbirth. The identity shift. The new and terrifying responsibility of a brand new life. The sleep deprivation. The first time I held her in my arms, I [...]
