An update on my friend Jen Bortel’s baby, Sam. After having open-heart surgery on December 22, Sam went back into the OR on Monday to have a pacemaker fitted. He came out of that surgery well, was off the ventilator by the time he left the OR and–best of all–he came home today. Way to […]
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Most Sundays Matt’s band practices from 5-8 p.m. in our basement. Since Simon came along, that leaves me looking for a place to grab dinner and hang out for the evening, as the downstairs is too loud for Simon when the band is going strong. So the routine is that I head over to my […]
I’ll be 37 in about 2 1/2 hours, and for the first time in a long while I feel truly different on a birthday. The last time this happened was when I hit 30. It doesn’t seem that long ago, and yet I’m now closer to 40 than that earlier benchmark. When I was 30 […]
Tuesday, January 2 was my first day back at work from maternity leave. Besides saying hi and chatting with my colleagues–many of whom I missed–my first order of business was to find out when/if my friend and colleague Jen had had her baby yet. She was expecting to have a boy in late December. Jen […]
New Year, New Me
Posted in Jessica on Jan 2nd, 2007
What a difference a year makes. Two even more so. New Year’s 2005 Matt and I hosted a get-together in our San Francisco flat. I wore horrendously expensive jeans I bought at a North Beach boutique, an equally horrendously expensive top made by a local designer, and heels I got in New York City’s East […]
Man, we’ve seen a lot of babies this year. A lot. Literally. Like, if there were a vacant lot down the street and we all dropped our babies off there it would be really, really full. And then we’d all go to jail for child endangerment. But what I’m trying to get across is that […]
Just look at that baby in the cute sweater. Or is that the cute baby in the sweater? For sure, the turtleneck is not the most flattering look for those with short necks, double chins, and huge heads, but I still think Simon is doing a great job modeling his cool monogram cable sweater and […]
For the past 10 weeks, Simon has slept in a sweet little Moses basket. It was a gift from my Aunt Leona to my sister-in-law Stacy before the birth of her daughter Olivia. Olivia slept in it for several weeks, as did her sister Madeline, brother Benjamin, and cousin Samantha after her. Once Simon came […]
It’s Christmas Day, and Simon’s arrival has put a decidedly new spin on things. Like most Jews that I know, I have a complicated history with the holiday. As a kid, I loved that it got me out school for two weeks, but didn’t always relish standing out from the crowd. And believe me, when […]
As I grabbed what seemed like an entire fistful of hair that had fallen out of my head this morning, I began thinking about pregnancy’s under-advertised upsides. For many women, your hair and skin never looks better than while you are pregnant, and for me this was certainly true. For the first time since I […]