Sweet Extract

I never thought I’d be one those women. I never thought I’d be someone who would nurse my children indefinitely.
I thought, at best, I would nurse my boys until they were 6 months. If I was lucky. If I was lucky enough to have babies who made it easy for me. Babies who took to [...]

Hope you are all having a merry little Christmas night.
xoxoxo Javier, Catherine, Sebastian & Nicholas

Well, we finally did it. We abandoned our babies and left town for an adults-only weekend. It IS our first anniversary, after all.
Vegas seemed like the nearest destination where we could effectively pack in such vices as fine dining (damn fine!), drinking, cigar smoking, gambling and other mature amusement that we’ve thoroughly neglected in [...]

For anyone who’s wondering if there’s a family resemblance, that’s Nicholas at one year old on the left and me at the same age on the right.
Yeah, I think I can see a little something.
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Well, pragmatism has finally come to mock me. Babies + dog = sensible car. And sensible car, sadly, does not equal a convertible… sigh.
For the last 11 months, I’ve been driving Javier’s SUV and he’s been driving the convertible. It was a reasonable compromise because the infant car seats could easily be snapped out when [...]

No longer in the huddled mass, longing to be free!

So I think there’s something to this notion of sympathy pain.

My boys are constipated. I’m constipated.
My boys need shots (vaccinations not photos). I need shots*.
My boys are teething. I’m teething… sorta. I’m suffering a mysterious tooth ache for which I’ve seen my dentist 3 times to no avail. It’s so frustrating that I’m thinking of crying and [...]

THIS is what we’re watching over and over and over and O.V.E.R. again.
(I can’t anticipate a day when I won’t be willing to suffer mind-numbing repetition just to get that fantastic smile out of him.)