Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I just had my first experience of being called a haole bitch and being told to go back to the mainland. I tell you, I'm finding Hawa...

I'm sitting in my upstairs office in the new house. There are 4 neighbors whose houses are in close proximity -- I can hear activity in...

So Zeke wasn't an elf in the school christmas play. He was a star, along with the other babies in the infant class. The teachers mar...

I love Zeke's school. The place is open and colorful and cheerful, the staff is lovely, and the caregivers in the infant room are won...

I was just organizing Zeke's clothes drawers, and came up with an enormous pile of onesies. This isn't counting the ones that he ...

Zeke had his first day of daycare today. It's a lovely place with a very warm and nurturing staff. The teachers in the infant room are...

 

1. I got my hospital bill for delivering Zeke. Uncomplicated vaginal delivery: $12,000. Holy shit. Thank god for insurance (though i...

not that having a bath is such a monumentous occasion, but I couldn't resist posting a photo of him in the froggy towel that my friend A...

It's one of those rare days in Hawaii -- particularly on the side of Oahu we live on -- when it's rainy and crappy out. I've ...

When I was about 5 or 6 months pregnant, I ordered some DVDs from Amazon. One was a childbirth class, and the other was called The Happiest ...

for reassuring me that I'm not a monster and that it's perfectly normal for me to not find taking care of a newborn to be particul...

As anyone who knows me knows, I am a chronic insomniac. Haven't slept well for 10 or 11 years. I usually have no trouble falling asl...

Not much blog-worthy going on these days. I spend my days and nights feeding the baby, looking at the baby, reading to the baby, taking pict...

The Hawaiian ladies are very big on getting designs on their big toes when they get pedicures. I always thought it was a bit too ghetto-fabu...

When Dave and Michele came to visit in April, they brought a wonderful children's book for me to read to Zeke called On The Day You W...

As I mentioned in my previous post, Zeke is a bit jaundiced and is receiving phototherapy for it. He's doing fine and we're going ho...

Introducing Ezekiel Monash The last 3 days have been the craziest of my life. An amazing and overwhelming combination of excitement, a...

I say this without any desire to sound like a bitchy asshole, though I'm sure to some that's exactly how it will come across. But I...