“The embryonic heart begins beating, though it can’t yet be seen on ultrasound.” Holy shit! It has a HEART BEAT ALREADY? Today I started surfing Amazon.com for baby books. They preview the first 42 pages of many of their books, so I can just look right in there and read the intros. Most of the […]

“Five weeks menstrual age (3 weeks after fertilization), the embryonic period begins.” There’s a pregnancy calendar at Yahoo.com. The thing will be 7mm long by next Thursday! My due date is sometime during the first week of December, although I guess first babies are always late. I suspected Saturday that I might be pregnant. Sunday, […]

In July 1999, Farmer Doug made us go to the birthday party of a ten-year-old in Batavia. The party was at a place that turned out to be for sale and Brett & I fell in love with it. Twenty-seven acres, two ponds, fruit trees, a thousand row feet of established asparagus, a stand of […]