Mine to Command

The title of the blog is a line from the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. The blog itself details how I discovered that fertility was not mine to command...

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Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Halloween Fun

When I was in the trenches of infertility treatments, I considered myself to be a “serious blogger”who only wrote about “serious” issues rel...

Saturday, 20 October 2018

Right Now October 2018

Reading: Blogs, which is where I got the idea to do a ‘Right Now’ post. Watching: I just finished the fourth season of The Affair , and it...

Saturday, 22 September 2018

The Pre-School Progression

The final days at Kate’s old Pre-School were difficult emotionally. And awkward. I didn’t tell the other moms that we were changing Pre-Scho...

Friday, 31 August 2018

A Day in the Life Summer 2018

Day in the Life 24 August 2018 Papi 72 Grami 69 Husband 43 Jane 42 Tyler 4 Kate 3 0139 Oh shit! I missed getting up at 11...

Monday, 13 August 2018

Three Years

I first heard the term “terrible twos” when I was a teenaged babysitter and experienced them first hand with one of my charges. As subsequen...

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

La Fiesta

Toward the end of last year, as Kate was into all things Peppa.Pig, I began to contemplate a Peppa themed birthday party. I wasn’t exactly s...

Wednesday, 25 July 2018

My Cut Present

In the early years of my career, I worked in Labour and Delivery and performed many vaginal deliveries and assisted in many Caesarean sectio...

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jAllen: I am the typical 'I thought I never wanted to have children' woman who turned 35 and the ovaries turned on the maternal desires.

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