We’ve got a dancer in there!

Yesterday afternoon I sat in a meeting with several members of a client’s upper management and twice as many representatives of a government agency. It was a productive meeting, but I was nervous the whole time — because the baby decided that this important meeting was the best time to practice his/her jump, jive, and [...]

Checking things off the list.

Craigslist can be Win or Fail. This weekend, it was both. Mostly Win, but also some Fail. I already mentioned that the stroller was a Win. Sadly, the elliptical was a Fail. There’s a reason this guy was selling it for $250. We passed. But Craigslist (well, really, Craigslist inspired by our neighborhood listserv) redeemed [...]

Stroller win!

I picked up our new stroller yesterday. I feel like I’ve accomplished something, getting one of our bigger items.  Not that we’ll be using it for months and months and months, but we have it. And that’s something.

Working Craigslist

I’ve been monitoring several Craigslist searches for months now, looking for certain items that I don’t want to pay full price for in preparation for the baby.  I’m picky — unless it’s a really expensive item, I generally don’t want to have to haul myself out to a really far-away suburb for it, and I [...]

They weeble, they wobble, they won’t fall down!

I will be 24 weeks tomorrow.  I feel like, in the last week or ten days, I am suddenly pregnant. Pregnant women talk about “popping” in early pregnancy, and I definitely remember that around 16 weeks, it was suddenly obvious that I was pregnant and I couldn’t really hide it anymore. But now, I’m experiencing [...]