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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A Baby Begins to Emerge
I read a very funny description of newborns this morning, in a handout at the new moms group I’ve been attending. It described them as a “sleeping, pooping, lump of protoplasm.”
Yup. That’s about right.
But this week, a baby has started to emerge. She smiles, occasionally “laughs” and looks around far more than she did before. […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Real Live Girl, Moving by Liza
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Two Years and Eight Months
Dear Noah,
Friday you turned two years and eight months old.
This month has been a trying one for you. We had to get our house ready to sell, and that means keeping it very neat and clean all the time. It also means putting a LOT of toys away in the garage or in closets where […]
No Comments » - Posted in Letters to Noah by Liza
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The Big News Items
Ok, I can blog about 2 big news items:
First, we are under contract to sell our house! Not for as much as we hoped, but under the circumstances and given the extreme chaos of the current market, we’ll take it. We close the first week of November, and move the week of Thanksgiving. Milwaukee, here […]
8 Comments » - Posted in The Real Live Girl, Moving by Liza
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Women on the Verge?
It has been a very exciting last couple of days.
Unfortunately, blogging about the excitement is a hair premature. Let me just say that I have a couple of threads of cautious optimism brewing right now, and I look forward to blogging about them if and when they either crystalize or crumble. Hopefully later this week.
One […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Liza
Monday, October 6th, 2008
I Can’t Decide
I can’t decide which member of our family is having the hardest time dealing with the whole house-showing business. Except that it probably isn’t Josie.
On the one hand, Jill is stuck doing most of the cleaning and organizing work. Every day before work or before we leave the house, she cleans off all the clutter […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Personal by Liza
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Cue The Circus Music
Our house has been shown 4 times since Wednesday. It gets shown again tomorrow morning. Then we have the open house tomorrow afternoon. We clean it every morning, run off when the phone rings, and have a sad little boy who wonders where his toys are.
Josie is a big 10 pounder, cute as a button. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Personal by Liza
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Hi! We’re Still OK
Well, the house is officially on the market. So far, 3 people have come and looked at it, and another party is scheduled for tomorrow. Sunday we have our first open house.
Part of what that means is that my regular computer is all packed up in the closet. I’m currently using a battery-less laptop that […]
