Author Archives: Jessica

Baby is doing good and scheduled to come out in 50 some days.  I had to stop by the Practice Group Managing Partner’s office to let him know my plans for leave.  I walked in there decked out in standard maternity garb and just assumed, since I’ve not made myself a stranger around the office …

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“The one thing I don’t like about watching “The Flash” is that the boys have to spend the next hour afterwards pretending that they can run faster than the speed of light.”

This pregnancy is flying by.  I’ve been so busy with work and so stressed out generally that I haven’t been able to really think about it.  Andy has been replacing the carpeting with hardwood floors, but as a result, the house is a complete disaster zone since no one cleans it.  I don’t have time …

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So, it’s Saturday and I’m working today from home.  Nothing really unusual about that.  Asher is being a stinker.  Nothing really unusual about that.  I need it quieter and Asher needs a nap.  I ask Andy if he can lay down with Asher and he responds, “I don’t have the energy for that, ” and …

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“Mommy, would you please come sleep with me?  I’m starving for you!”

In response to me telling the boys to go outside and make noise in the backyard and see how long it takes for their friends to start showing up, Jude reclined back with his arms behind his head and said, “If my friends come over, I will play with them.  But, I’m not doing any …

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“So if Adam and Even hadn’t sinned, would we be running around naked?”

Some lady at church to me, “You’re getting nice and big.”

“I sense anger here.”  (Said in response to a non-angry, but slightly panicked, comment I made when seeing him drag something over the new hardwood floors.)

“Someone threw up in the sink and it’s still in there!  (Usually I’m the one who finds whatever horror the boys left for me in whatever room I enter.  There is always something — smeared poop on the toilet seat, chocolate fingerprints all over the white kitchen cabinets, pencils or toothpicks or similar hazard scattered …

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