A Year Ago Today

[dr_pretentious]

I used to say my four years at college were the best years of my life. They were beautiful years, the way people's college years tend to be, with freewheeling friendships and begargoyled libraries. That campus was a great place to be nocturnal. My first October there, I learned to tell time by Orion, and the temperature by the mist rising over the creeks.

I used to describe the summer after I finished grad school as blissful. With the dissertation finally off my back, I spent my days in a state of bovine contentment so very bovine that, several times in an afternoon, I would actually moo, just because I had time to.

Oh, this year has been crazy, with the recovery from the C-section, and then losing Dan's mother to cancer, and then getting influenza and pneumonia. It's been hard, sleepless, and frustrating, and I miss my writing brain.

It's also been the best year of my life. Hands down. Gareth just keeps getting cooler, and motherhood is starting to get a little easier. I wonder if it's possible for next year to be even better than this. Surely there's some sort of cosmic ceiling on happiness. I used to think I knew where it was.

Comments

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

I am so glad that you are so happy (even despite all the rough stuff). You absolutely deserve such great happiness!

[puckmls.livejournal.com]

I'm happy for your happiness, and am glad that you are savoring it so fully.

So...

[cthulhia]

wanna do lunch next friday?

Re: So...

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely! What are your travel details?

Re: So...

[cthulhia]

thursday... drive a lot, hang out with other fans, drool (and other forms of moisture) over trent, party til I crash out, wake up early enough to check out (I'm guessing by 11?), and head to... New Brunswick, right? Probably noonish, one-ish?

(also, carpool buddy has another way home, so it's just me)

Re: So...

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Sounds workable. I have no students Friday. Gareth and I are usually fit for company around 11, usually awake and telephonable around 10. Try the cell phone, just in case the daylight saving time boost still has us out early.

Yay! We get to see you!

Motherhood at least...

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

It just keeps getting better, every year!

[karenjunker.livejournal.com]

Bright Blessings! see you next year at Iron Springs!

[laradionne.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for happiness! I'm so glad that your long-desired motherhood not only came to pass, but that it has filled your motherly desires well enough for you to feel s very happy about it!

[citabria]

I wish Gareth a happy belated birthday, and I wish you a ... um ... happy belated birthing! (No pun intended ... but it fits, doesn't it, given how long things took?)

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I'd say 34 hours of labor two weeks past the due date definitely counts as a belated birthing.

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

I think for me motherhood has been an equal mix of exhaustion and happiness. But I very much agree that babies just get more interesting as they turn into toddlers.