Q is our New Orleans Baby.  Goose is our Hurricane Baby.  Olive is our Blog Baby. I suppose you could say that I got knocked up by my love affair with social media.  Maguire and I had finally decided that we were done having children.  Two was...

During labor, there is a small window of time in which a woman can receive an epidural to alleviate her pain.  Once you have progressed beyond that window, however, an epidural is no longer an option.  Regardless of how much pain you are in or how...

Little Wonders - Rob Thomas *In celebration of our daughter’s birth and in thanks for all of your love and support, those are our kids’ real names in the photos above.  Please don’t mention them in the comments, as I’d...

(Updates publishing at bottom of post + more on twitter) My hands smell like Dreft.  I am surrounded, on my bed, by a foreign sea of pink.  My belly periodically morphs into the shape of an almond, pointy end suggestively aiming toward the door… ...

Did you notice that?  A flash.  A glimpse?  An unexpected swell. Olive is due within weeks, if not days.  All of my emotions have settled directly into my chest and occasionally push the breath right out of me.  When I least expect it, they flood...