Category Archives: Like you care

With the not noticing.

Posted on 02/22/2012 by Jenni Chiu

Hot Nerd: (stroking my hair in bed) Oh, look at that! You got something sparkly in your ear.

Me: (touching the stud earrings I was wearing) Um… yeah. (listening to the monitor from our older son’s room) I bought these with that gift card my mom got me for my birthday. Read more...

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged making out, married life, taking for granted | 3 Comments

Best 15 minutes in a long time.

Posted on 02/20/2012 by Jenni Chiu

I sat there in my parked car in the garage for a few minutes. There was no three year old asking endless questions. There was no wailing baby in the backseat. There was no husband grilling me on which way was North, which way was South, and how much of the monthly budget money I had left. Read more...

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged housewife, isolation, motherhood, Pat Benatar, stay at home parenting, We Belong, What the hell am I doing? | 14 Comments

This colic too shall pass…

Posted on 02/12/2012 by Jenni Chiu

We’ve just passed the four month mark.

It’s as if the Gods smiled down on us and said “Let the colic pass.”

Knock on wood.

The biggest piece of wood I can find…

Like a Sequoia.

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged colic, cuteness, Meatball, YouTube | 8 Comments

I was going to tell you a story…

Posted on 01/16/2012 by Jenni Chiu

I was going to tell you a story…

But I showered instead.

The four day old crust was begging to be sloughed off.

Then I was going to tell you a story again…

But I ate something.

I’ve learned to shove my face when I have any spare moment – a wild animal. Read more...

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged colic, motherhood, parenting is war, postpartum, sleep deprivation | 12 Comments

Kicked. (Last of the 8 lines)

Posted on 11/29/2011 by Jenni Chiu

* Last of the 8 line posts spurred by this one >> 8 mm.

*****

Love affair with Texas Ranger = kicked.

Dependence on boob umbrellas = kicked (Can we say like leather?).

Ingestion of multiple pain pills = kicked.

Preoccupation with the FrankenPussy = kicked… well maybe one last look. Read more...

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged 8 lines, breastfeeding, excuse to link to my own posts, postpartum, PPD, vagina | 8 Comments

Prodromal labor, false labor, pre-labor – suck it.

Posted on 10/03/2011 by Jenni Chiu

´”How far apart have they been?”

I looked at my digital stop watch, “5 minutes, 3 minutes, 12 minutes, 25 minutes”.

I was excited. Even though the contractions were very irregular, something was definitely happening. The contractions were fairly strong and on again off again all night long. This baby was on it’s way soon! Read more...

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged Birth, false labor, pre labor, pregnancy, prodromal labor, What the hell am I doing? | 29 Comments

It’s not weird if you’re old.

Posted on 06/15/2011 by Jenni Chiu

I sat on the toilet the other night pondering how my life has changed since I was in my early twenties. Well, obviously my life has changed… but I don’t think I ever thought about how my opinions would change, or judgments, or sense of normalcy. Read more...

Posted in Life, Like you care | Tagged change, getting old, What the hell am I doing? | 12 Comments

Ridiculously random updates- the meat edition.

Posted on 06/01/2011 by Jenni Chiu

It’s time for another round of ridiculously random updates. So here are some things that I may or may not have remembered to tell you about. Seriously… I don’t remember… pregnancy brain is a very real thing.