Year in Review

It's been awhile since I've done a meme, yes? This one is from VoirDire Subculture and Raising WEG, a summary of the year by way of the first sentence of every post:

Okay, I got up to July and I had to stop. This is ridiculously long. And I write ridiculously boring first sentences. [Edited to add: I should really learn to read. Really. After visiting Moxie, who did the same meme, I realized that I was only supposed to do the first line of the first post of every month, not every single godforsaken post. My god, I'm such an idiot.]

So the first half of 2006 in review, by way of first sentences so boring they will make your eyes bleed:

Four jobs I’ve had: 1.Portress in a convent, in high school.

what were you doing 10 years ago?

E. turned 8 on Saturday.

I opened up this page to post, because I haven't posted in days.

Miriam had her first bath last night (yes, she was a grubby baby, it's been over a month, I'm the worst mother on earth, blah blah blah).

Jana posted her results of this test too.

A Birthmother of One wrote (like, forever ago) about birthmothers and PPD.

It's so nice having other birthmothers in the blogosphere. For a long time I felt like I was alone.

I had my six-week postpartum check-up on Friday.

True. "But people love their cars"

This is a really hard post to write.

I have been avoiding the comments on Julie's adoption post because I knew what they would contain.

I wonder if this is a pattern.

I knitted E. a hat for her birthday.

It's Thursday and I haven't posted all week.

I didn't intend to take such a long hiatus.

Now I'm afraid I've worried you all.

My readers rock.

Back in the day, I loved astrology.

I got immediately sucked in to Literary Mama.

Remember this?

Naomi, ever the ham, entertained her adoring fans last night with her impression of Tim Gunn.

You have a hundred dollars to spend at Toppers.

I am taking a trip to LA next week.

As promised, the adoptive breastfeeding post.

About ten seconds before we touched down on the runway, Naomi screamed "We're going to CRASH!"

Yes, it's going to rain.

Three months.

It's strange to think that I spent three years of my life here, in Southern California.

Everyone's safe and sound and happy to be alive.

8:30: Baby asleep, swaddled, in bed.

Every mom of a new baby has to address the sleep thing sooner or later.

Naomi has a birthday party to attend today, for her friend Jane whose turning 3.

1. Can someone tell me what the big deal about myspace is?

I might actually like this statue, if it's wasn't supposed to be Britney, if it didn't have pro-life overtones.

I have been meaning to blog about my beloved sling for awhile now.

I have been passing the windows of this store for years and fantasizing about what I would buy for my daughter, before I even had a daughter to buy clothes for.

Updated to bring this comic to your attention. Enjoy.

Miriam takes a bottle like a pro! Hooray!

Not exactly a Jedi girl myself, but my brother Sean may want to bookmark this for future parenting (or uncle-ing!) adventures.

I love it when Naomi doesn't know the name of something and makes something up.

I said a lot of provocative things recently, and Good Enough Mum has decided to take me on.

1. I bought a nursing bra at the Gap.

The Cult of Cloth Diapering has sent a representative into my life to convert me, and doggone it's working.

I am so overwhelmed.

Who can make Risk Assessment funny? Casey can!!

After a few days with cloth diapers I know much better what I like and need.

Pretty much all Naomi ate on Easter.

I'm not blocked. I'm...marinating.

I am depressed.

Need a laugh after that last post?

As with It's a Boy, and Literary Mama, Andi has put together a collection of essays perfect for reflection on our lives as mothers and quick reading in the bathroom little chunks of time.

Come Back: "An unflinching true account of a teenage girl’s dizzying, drug-fueled descent into society’s underbelly and a mother’s desperate and ultimately successful attempts to bring her back.

I finally changed the picture up there.

Have you heard of the Shangri-La Diet?

Early mobility seems to run in our family.

You know how it feels better to wear cute underwear?

Where have I been? Ebay.

So, it's working.

There is a lovely little patch of nature- a creek with forested hiking trails about five miles long- a  short drive from where we live.

I went out to a bar tonight with a group of women from a mom’s group that formed shortly after all of our three year olds were born.

FYI: Seth Roberts has a blog.

There are plenty of people who would love to be a size 16 rather than a size 24, or whatever.

All of a sudden, summer is upon us.

I am almost halfway through Miriam's first year.

There comes a time in every mommy's life when she must kick herself out of her crazy comfy postpartum cocoon.

The other day we were having lunch in the little town I want to move to, and the waitress was wearing a discreet pentacle on a chain around her neck, signalling her Wiccan-ness to other Wiccans.

I spent all morning writing this very long post on breastfeeding and I JUST LOST IT.

Wow, this week has really gotten away from me.

I know I said I'd be back wednesday, didn't I?

For the week I spent at the shore I went back to using sposies.

Thanks for your questions, AfrIndiemom.

Could I be more boring?

Every year, usually in the summer, I run a constant list of pros and cons to living in the city.

I went out to a bar tonight with a group of women from a mom’s group that formed shortly after all of our three year olds were born.

FYI: Seth Roberts has a blog.

There are plenty of people who would love to be a size 16 rather than a size 24, or whatever.

All of a sudden, summer is upon us.

I am almost halfway through Miriam's first year.

There comes a time in every mommy's life when she must kick herself out of her crazy comfy postpartum cocoon.

The other day we were having lunch in the little town I want to move to, and the waitress was wearing a discreet pentacle on a chain around her neck, signalling her Wiccan-ness to other Wiccans.

I spent all morning writing this very long post on breastfeeding and I JUST LOST IT.

Wow, this week has really gotten away from me.

I know I said I'd be back wednesday, didn't I?

For the week I spent at the shore I went back to using sposies.

Thanks for your questions, AfrIndiemom.

Could I be more boring?

Every year, usually in the summer, I run a constant list of pros and cons to living in the city.

Comments

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LOL I always call myself an idiot too. I even tried to stop (it was my ny's res. last year and the year before) but I can't seem to.

I love reading all your first lines. You have just sucked up my entire internet time because now I have to go back and read them all AND all the links.... Great first lines!

[Jody]

After my first lines meme sounded so depressing, I considered doing each month's first sentences in twelve separate posts, just to re-assure people that I wasn't as down on 2006 as it sounded.

Then I realized I have a gazillion things to do and Christmas is five days away.