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November 16, 2015

Let Me Tell You About My Grandma

Since giving birth to Ada Verastic, grandma has been staying with me. After she came, she was gone for about a week because she had a cold. Grandma can come and go as she pleases because she only lives about 10 minutes away from me. Anyway, she's my only living grandparent, and really, the only one I met because her husband, my grandpa died before my mom even got married, and my paternal grandpa died before I was born (I think). My dad's mom, however, was still alive when I was born, but she Read More

November 11, 2015

That Time My Gut Saved Me From Dating A Liar

I believe that everyone has intuition and gut feeling, and that women especially have more. Whether or not we use it, that's a different issue. Anyway, this story happened in 2008, I believe. It was here in Baltimore, in the month of October. It happened when Funmie and I went for a 9ice concert, and I met this Yoruba guy. I eventually nicknamed him Spongebob because I thought he laughed like Spongebob. If you don't know what Spongebob laughs like, then watch this 16 second video Read More

November 9, 2015

Meet My Baby, Ada Verastic

Here she is in all her glory. I had big ideas of the kind of [first] pictures I wanted to take of my baby, and I did not even care how much it cost. I made the appointment to go take the pictures on Wednesday, October 28th 2015, which was a day after her naming ceremony. But when that morning came, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I didn't want to wake up just yet, and I definitely didn't want to wake my baby up and give her a bath. Well, grandma would have given her a bath. But it still Read More

November 4, 2015

Journal #10: October 2015

Welcome to November. This will be my shortest journal entry ever because for the month of October, I had the greatest accomplishment of my life. There is nothing else I can write next to this accomplishment that would compare. In October 2015 - specifically on October 20th 2015 - I became a mommy. I loved this baby before she was even formed, and I loved her more when she was inside of me, but now that she's here and I can see her, touch her, and feel here, I am literally overwhelmed and Read More

November 2, 2015

Breastfeeding Breasts Are The Best Breasts!

Let me start by introducing my breasts. They're not huge, but they're definitely not small either. While we're on the issue of breasts, I might as well be as transparent as ever. I'm a 38D. Let me rephrase that: I was 38D before I got pregnant. I was told by many over zealous mothers (read: Solachi) that once I get pregnant, my breasts would explode. Well, I got pregnant and that didn't really happen. They got bigger, sure, but nothing like what I was expecting. I didn't even notice their Read More

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