Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Sweet little bollo,
You’re all baked now.
We’re ready for you. Please come out.
You know you want it…
That crazy voice you hear every day, the one that chases and teases your little butt whenever you shake it in my belly… that’s daddy. We can tell you’re intrigued by him. He’s a lot of fun. Every child that […]
Bolliti Panfriti,
Next Sunday it will have been 37 weeks, and you should be fully baked. It’s time to start dropping bebé… I only need to do one last trip to the baby store to be completely ready for your arrival. Everything else is waiting for you.
This week, people’s comments about the hugeness, grossness, and ouchness […]
Finally ending the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll talk about the method I followed to tape the masks for the stripes. As I said earlier, I do have relatively flat walls, so this post is not about how to effectively mask stripes on heavily textured walls. This is […]
It’s the morning of my 35th birthday, and while I’m getting ready for our second childbirth class, I realize that for the first time ever, today I’m not thinking that today, 35 years ago, I was born. No. This morning, 34 weeks deep into pregnancy (that is, 3-7 weeks away from labor), what I’m thinking […]
Just read this and what prefaced it, and all these thoughts I haven’t wanted to think too much about have suddenly started running wild — unstructured, un–figured–out still…
I’m a home–based freelancer working almost exclusively for one (very good) client these days. I have all the freedom I need. I’ve had the most relaxed pregnancy anybody […]
At childbirth classes, Vicky, our instructor (a maternity nurse at the hospital where I’ll deliver) makes all moms line up at the front of the room by due dates. I turn out to be the last one on the line, meaning the one with the farthest due date. Vicky comments on how we all carry […]
It’s so interesting to notice how interesting pregnancy photos appear to be. Since I started uploading photos tagged as “pregnancy” and “pregnant belly” to my flickr account, several strangers have added me to their pool of contacts, I’ve been asked to add my photos to different pregnancy groups, and the photos themselves are viewed a […]
This morning, over IM:
Me: Mom saw alfajores with expiration date nov 28 (the day she gets here). She asked me if she should get them?
Joey: So we have to eat them all when she arrives
Me: She reminds me that last Christmas, the chocolate house was kind of stale, and you ate it with passion…
Joey: True-true
Me: […]
Continuing the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll discuss a few more of the decisions that went into making the finished product beautiful, subtle, and exactly what I was looking for.
Previously, I talked about color. How I went far beyond my usual way of selecting paint colors only to […]
A long time ago, back in the time when Joey and I started dating, we attended a party at one of my coworkers’ home. One of my most memorable memories of that night is the visual of Joey trying to walk between a small table and a couch, of course not being able to fit, […]
The process of painting stripes was a lot easier than I expected. It involved a few decisions, a healthy dose of planning, a little algebra, and a bit of color tweaking, but the actual masking and painting of stripes in our baby’s room went a lot faster than all other steps in my very ambitious […]
Your belly has grown HUGE, and to make things worse, it grows all in one night. No previous warnings… No signals. One day, you wake up and: PUFH! You cannot longer see your feet, you don’t fit in your regular narrow passages, your spacious maternity clothes suddenly feel tight… You begin walking like a duck, […]
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