A Wandering Eyre

Today, I am packing up the car with animals, Wee Bairn, myself, and all the crap that must accompany us for a three day jaunt from home. Mr. Rochester will be following us later in the day. He has work and bachelor party festivities tonight. Sadly, I am fairly certain there will be no disreputable [...]

If you want to know what is going on with the Rochester clan, and let me warn you we do nothing the easy way, please go read Defying Genetics. If you are waiting for snarky Jane to return, please continue your holding pattern. –Jane, getting used to the routine of the NICU

I am convinced that the more pregnant you are, the more your brain can only focus on babies. I think, biologically, this prepares you for having to concentrate on a wee person’s survival for weeks. I mean years and years. What was I thinking?! As a result of having what my more experienced friends call [...]

I have thoroughly enjoyed the small vacation of sorts that I have been taking the last month or so. I have immersed myself in the domestic needs of the Rochester household and concentrated on the business of gestating the child in my belly. I have not missed work, but I have missed being caught up [...]

(picture inclusion with a nod towards Helene Blowers) This post has been a long time coming. If all works out accordingly, this post will be published directly after or right before I hand the interested parties my letter of resignation from the University of Houston Libraries where I have worked for three and a half [...]

This is the round-up post minus the soapbox elements. In this post, I write about the things I liked about my trip and the things that made me feel good about ALA. There were, of course, some not fabulous things about Midwinter, but I am putting those in their very own post. Just for you, [...]

Mr. Rochester and I have set up a family blog, Defying Genetics, for our friends and family who live too far away to hear and see frequent updates about our growing clan. I wanted a place to put more family type things and I thought I should separate that space from this one. Follow along [...]

A mundane update about me, because really, it is all about me, you know. I had a fun weekend filled with tree trimming and house light hanging. Mr. Rochester could really care less about either, but I adore them so that he perches on the ladder while I hand him gutter clips and the next [...]

Where else but here, lovely readers, would you have a manifesto for ALA followed by this: I think Baby Rochester needs this book in home their library. A whole book about how poo works. Awesome. All hail The Queen for sending this my way. –Jane, reading to children is important, reading to them about poop [...]