http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:00:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=80 when mairin was a wee infant she had a sleep issue: she would only sleep in my arms with her mouth attached to my breast. this worked for her a lot better than it worked for me, so i started reading about the various schools of sleep-training and waded my way ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=79 used to be, most saturday mornings, i'd roll out of bed around 6:45, down a cup of coffee, and roll out on my bike for the saturday am club ride in st paul, aka the weekly world championships: full of strong guys, a fair amount of posturing, and speed. i ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=75 so you know how when someone you care about is sick and they don't want to call the doctor because they think it's minor, you make them call anyway? but when you're the sick one you know damn well you don't need no stinkin' doctor, thank you very much? yeah, ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=74 when i was pregnant with earl in 2005 i didn't look it. i had gained only eight pounds by the time she was delivered and had only been wearing maternity pants for two days. if i was at all ugly then, it certainly can't be blamed on the pregnancy. a year ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=73 as many of you know, my sense of geography is not that keen. i attribute it growing up out west where the states are BIG and the borders are STRAIGHT LINES and nobody really cares about what goes on with those witty urbanites all the way out on the east ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=72 several months after earl died shannon and i marked our first “days” as a mother and father. s’s father’s day card from that june says “my dad loves bikes!” it was about all we had, in those days — not his cycling per se, but our non-parental identities and activities ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=71 for some bizarre reason we are no longer able to add images directly to a post. but for pics of the handsome devil and his life in utero, visit our flickr site. http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=68 in this episode: shannon's an emotional spazz, in more ways than one; mairin suffers for it. carole is calm, quietly supportive of the quite possibly emotionally unstable father of her children, and expanding quite maternally; gus continues perfecting his gussitude on schedule and without fanfare.   scene i: from yesterday morning, just before going to the ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=67 one of my favorite things about blogging is having friends in the computer who understand me. i don't know anybody IRL who has been through what i have (well, except shannon, and it's not that he doesn't count, but it's not quite the same, you know...?) but there is a ... http://nkotb.chabriessmith.com/?p=64