june – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 That word is eat https://orangette.net/2014/04/that-word-is-eat/ https://orangette.net/2014/04/that-word-is-eat/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:08:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/that-word-is-eat June has mastered a new word, and that word is eat.  It’s one of many things I like about her. Because Brandon works most nights, I get up with June most mornings. I have developed a condition that my friend Andrea calls Bionic Mom Hearing, so I sleep with earplugs and a pillow over my head. It’s a sight I think you would enjoy. But she manages to wake me up anyway (MAAA! MAAA!), so I get a bottle of milk from the fridge (prepared the night before, a small gift to my future self), retrieve her from her crib (“UP! UP!”), carry her across the hall to our bed, lie down and listen to her little mouth working at the…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/04/that-word-is-eat/feed/ 77 As loud as I wanted https://orangette.net/2012/12/as-loud-as-i-wanted/ https://orangette.net/2012/12/as-loud-as-i-wanted/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:30:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/as-loud-as-i-wanted Ah. Okay. Where were we? Everything is happening at lightning speed. I have to get back to writing it down, or I’ll forget.  One morning, you wake up and you’re 33 years old, with two dogs and a spouse and a refrigerator full of esoteric vermouths and amari, and the next morning, you wake up and you’re 34 years old, with two dogs, a spouse, and a 12-week-old child in a bouncy chair on the floor in front of the refrigerator.  The other day at a doctor’s checkup, I actually told the nurse that I was 33, because I forgot that I’d had a birthday. 33, 34, same thing. In any case, I’m still a baby when I get a shot.…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2012/12/as-loud-as-i-wanted/feed/ 422 All right https://orangette.net/2012/10/all-right/ https://orangette.net/2012/10/all-right/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:18:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/all-right Well, well, well! I’m typing this with a baby strapped to my chest! Still trying to figure out how that happened. I hope you’re well. Things are all right here, I’m relieved to report, especially given the fact that I had exactly zero experience with babies prior to birthing one three short weeks ago. I have never felt so simultaneously capable and incompetent. It depends on the day. Sometimes the hour. But we’re figuring it out, with help and handholding and deliveries of soup and Szechuan pork and plum cake from our parents and friends and our adoptive family at Delancey and Essex. It helps that June has the world’s best cowlick, and that she makes pirate faces when she’s…

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