I’ve gone baby-crazy, I realize. Today I listed to 10 minutes of a co-worker’s random anecdotes about her two young sons, and was completely charmed and enthralled, whereas in the past I would have inwardly squirmed with boredom while trying to appear politely interested. Sometimes I’m amazed at how I’ve been taken over by it–and at [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Babymania
Posted in Parenting, pregnancy, tagged Parenting, pregnancy on December 18, 2008 | Comments Off
The “hardcore atheist” test
Posted in Atheism, Atheist, Polyfidelity, polyamory, tagged Atheism, Atheist, polyamory, Polyfidelity on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, I guess I’m just a baby atheist, based on this test (see results below; my “yesses” are bold, the rest are “nos”). Or rather, a nonobservant atheist. I’ve been reading a lot of blogs tagged “atheism” since I started this blog, and that pulls up blogs on both sides. I didn’t realize there’d be [...]
Nausea, labor, breast-feeding, parenting and other terrifying prospects
Posted in Parenting, Polyfidelity, polyamory, pregnancy, tagged Parenting, polyamory, Polyfidelity, pregnancy on December 16, 2008 | Comments Off
AS and I were talking about our upcoming plans for a baby. It’s almost ludicrous the number of scary, painful-sounding and puzzling aspects there are to parenthood. We were kind of laughing about it all. I was telling her that I feel very positive and am almost looking forward to the nausea, because I know [...]
Parental leave confusion
Posted in Budgeting, Parenting, Polyfidelity, personal finance, polyamory, pregnancy, tagged Budgeting, Parenting, personal finance, polyamory, Polyfidelity, pregnancy on December 9, 2008 | Comments Off
In order to figure out how much money I should try to save up for having a kid, I need to figure out how much time I’ll be off work without pay. I took a glance through the employee manual and am more confused than before I looked at it. Apparently I can have 2 [...]
How much do I need to save?
Posted in Budgeting, Frugality, Parenting, personal finance, pregnancy, tagged Budgeting, Frugality, Parenting, personal finance, pregnancy on December 5, 2008 | Comments Off
As someone who is dedicated to reducing debt, and preventing any new debt from happening, money is top of mind for me when I think about having a baby. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t just thrown my birth-control pills away and started trying this minute.
My family, having three full incomes, has been able [...]
Questioning everything
Posted in Parenting, pregnancy, tagged Parenting, pregnancy on December 1, 2008 | Comments Off
I’m really glad I started this blog, because even though I’m at least a couple months away from becoming pregnant, at least a year away from becoming a mom–and that’s all assuming that I get pregnant as soon as I try and carry a baby to term on my first try–every couple days I come [...]
