blakspring

I’m off to Newport, RI with Ron Russo.  We were there last year, but it was pretty early in our relationship so I just posted some pictures but hadn’t mentioned him in that post.  Which means that I couldn’t write about how, when we went swimming in the hotel pool, Ron Russo wore his boxers.  [...]

I’m now about 6.5 months along, and (I think) I’ve been really good about not writing too much about the pregnancy.  I never NEVER want to be the kind of mom who only talks about her child and seems to have lost touch with other aspects of life.  And I try to keep the preggo [...]

It’s official - Ron Russo has made an honest woman out of me.
I wasn’t sure what to expect or how I would feel on Friday.  Clearly, the impetus for the wedding was baby blakspring.  This is not to say that we don’t love each other but marriage is a big step and certainly not one [...]

These last few post-Canada days have been a tangle of work at the public library, doctor appointments, freecycling, and mini panic attacks about all the things that will be happening in the next few months.  It dawned on me a few days ago that Ron Russo and I are getting married on Friday (holy crap…Friday…pardon [...]

I’m not sure what happened to half of July because other than having a fun-filled Fourth of July weekend (yeah, I can still rock a bikini, belly and all) I feel like I haven’t done anything fun.  And considering that I am on vacation, I should be having fun.  Part of the blame goes to [...]

Well, that was an unintentionally long break.  Seems like there were constant errands to run, friends to see, and World Cup matches to watch.  I don’t have cable TV so at first I was only watching the weekend matches on ABC but one day, while flipping through my channels, I came upon Univision Spanish television [...]

A few weeks ago on a Saturday, Ron Russo and I had spent the morning at his parents’ house, then went on a 10 mile bike ride, one which left me exhausted from its many up-and-down hills.  After the bike ride we stopped by his parents’ once more and then went back to my place because I had [...]

Because Ron Russo is a teacher at my school, we’ve been pretty careful about keeping our relationship under wraps.  When we first started seeing each other, I had only been recently separated and didn’t know if this would become something long-term.  The last thing I wanted was to have gossip, whether by faculty or students, [...]

I had him for a week and now he’s somewhere in the NYC sewer system and I have no idea what happened.  A few days ago I noticed that he was very lethargic, sort of floating around near the top of the bowl but not eating his food.  His fins looked raggedy, which made me [...]

because I want this kid to murder me in my sleep in about 15 years.
Seriously, none of you need to worry.  I’ve got more sense (and better taste) than that.  This baby will not be named Kid, Human, Person, Tot, Fetus, etc.  I will also not go too far in the other direction with a [...]