Kim's Kitchen Sink

I suppose I should recognize the passage of time, and the fact that we've crossed the artificial border between Last Year and This Year, but frankly it all feels sort of nebulously fake still, so...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2021/01/oh-hi-were-in-new-year.html

Oh hi. It's been almost a month since my last post , where I mentioned that I had planned to sign on to write Wes' birth story, but instead accidentally deleted the many, many words I'd typed ove...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/10/surprise-its-birth-story.html

Before I begin, I want to acknowledge that today I was going to post Wes' birth story. Yep, we had that baby. He was born in April, right in the early days of the pandemic, and I spent 2.5 months...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/09/conversations-with-my-preschooler-god.html

The last week has been rough. Margie knows that baby brother is coming soon, and naptime and bedtime (and really any time she can't be glued to my side, except when she's watching Daniel Tiger) h...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/04/breaking-my-heart.html

My kid is in preschool. I feel incredibly lucky to not be beholden to a homeschooling curriculum like so many of my friends who are trying desperately to continue their children's education while...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/04/learning-at-home.html

Today was a hard day. We stayed up too late last night, which was fun and different in the moment, but regrettable in the morning, even though Margie slept in until 8am. And I've just been tired ...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/03/some-days-are-harder.html

I fluctuate between feeling completely normal, enjoying the beautiful little moments where my kid conspiratorially tells me a story from Daniel Tiger ("he imagined he was in a cave with a real gr...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/03/on-being-selfish-whatever-that-means.html

Yesterday, we unpacked some more bags from our quick trip to Tahoe. We baked bread. Made stock and soup. Picked flowers in the garden. Did laundry. Today, we unpacked some more. Ran the dishwas...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/03/the-unknown.html

It's been almost a year since I last posted. It's been a busy year, I guess, but frankly, I just haven't made time to blog. I've had ideas, but not inspiration. I've been meaning to write in a jo...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2020/03/weird-times.html

Today is Passover. And Easter. And three years since my dad died. I feel compelled to post something on social media because that's how we're supposed to perform our grief these days, to say, in ...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2019/04/three-years.html

PART ONE I really like our weeknight dinner routine. Most nights, I get home by 5:30, which gives me about half an hour to get dinner started before Margie and Will get home. Making dinner is gr...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2018/10/some-things-about-parenting.html

It's been almost a year since I published anything here. In the meantime, I've gone through two  (2!) acquisitions , seen friends through several weddings, mourned the loss of a family member, ...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2018/09/qualifying-done.html

It's been almost two weeks since my last post , when I was determining whether The End Of Pumping was upon me. I haven't pumped in two weeks. I'm done. I think I can safely bring the pump home fr...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/10/and-here-we-are.html

Here I am in Week 3 of Weaning From The Pump. And I think...I am not pumping today? Am I done now? Like, forever? Last week, I pumped once a day, for 30 minutes. Monday and Tuesday, I was all f...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/10/first-day.html

When I first started pumping, I had an oversupply of milk. For a long time, I was one of those people who had an abundance of milk; the joyful burden of leaking breasts and spraying milk all over...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/09/1367-words-about-pumping-and-weaning.html

I don't know what happened last night. There's a lot running through my head this morning, and rather than send a flood of eleventyfive tweets, I figured I'd write a blog post. It's been a while,...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/06/the-glamorous-life-of-this-working-mom.html

Last night, Margie gave me the sweetest birthday gift of all: nearly 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep. She's started occasionally dropping her midnight feeding, which means that she sleeps from aro...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/05/33.html

One year ago today, my dad died . So did Prince, and my family quietly mourned our own loss amidst the swirling grief of the world. As did the families of all the other people who passed on April...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/04/one-year.html

While I have recently taken most of my pre-pregnancy clothes out of storage, and thankfully, much of it still fits, there's still this ever-constant issue of what shirts to wear. I look at every ...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/04/bun-maternity.html

Well here we are, one week into the official world of Sleep Training. Night 1 Night 2 The other nights have gone like so: Night 3: Asleep within seconds. Fussed herself to sleep a couple t...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/04/sleep-training-one-and-half-weeks-in.html

You may recall (since I just wrote about it yesterday ) that we've started sleep training. I was pretty nervous about Night 2, because I'd heard that the second night can sometimes be harder th...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/03/sleep-training-night-2.html

We are one night in to sleep training (something had to change ). We spoke with the Kaiser Health Education sleep specialist, and she gave us some really great support. We talked about Margie's...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/03/sleep-training-one-night-in.html

I'm not coming from a good place as I sit down to write this. I'm not my best self, or even close. I sat down to start writing this over a week ago, when I was about two weeks into a really tough...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/03/lets-always-talk-about-sleep-lolsob.html

Margie is 6 months old today, and I'm full of feelings. Rather than try to eloquently and poetically describe my current mental state, I thought I'd share some recent highlights and lowlights. ...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/03/6.html

As I sit at my desk at work, rehydrating with tea (wait, is tea actually dehydrating?) after pumping, snacking on dry Cheerios like I did as a toddler, I can't help but...wait, what was the rest ...

http://www.kimskitchensink.com/2017/02/pumping-mama-my-lansinoh-smartpump-and.html