Team Smith

Dear Cassidy and future Baby Smith, I am sure that bloggers across the world are firing away about a news piece gone viral today. http://gma.yahoo.com/k-e-diet-brides-using-feeding-tubes-rapidly-080053646--abc-news-health.html In case this link is non-existent by the time you read this, long story short, people are using feeding tubes for rapid weight loss in a short amount of time. This is your mother talking. If for some reason this ridiculous trend is still around when you grow up, and you think about doing this to your self, please know that I will spank you and put you in timeout. You do not diet to fit into a dress, or suit. You pick an outfit that highlights your best attributes and get it tailored to fit your body, not the other way around. No matter what size you are, as long as your are healthy, not putting toxins into your body, and exercising, whatever size you are is beautiful and perfect in God's eyes because God does not make mistakes. There is a flattering de...

Y'all didn't know I was pregnant in that last post!  Best birthday present ever. At that time I was starting to feel queasy and could not eat half of what we cooked. By the next week I wasn't really eating anything at all! This time around I have felt super sick. And tired. To the point where I would come home from work and just sleep. It has been a rough 8 weeks :-) But as of now we are 13 weeks and 4 days and starting to feel better. I recently went to Boston for work. I did a presentation and celebrated the arrival of the proofs of a book we have been working on for a while. My partner (Patrick Connelly of Smith College) and I focused in on one particular decade in the history of student unions but the whole team worked on everything too. I was way excited to meet them in person as for a year and half we connected through email and conference calls! It was like meeting a long lost brother! During that trip I started to feel a bit better. Mainly due to doses of Zofran, ...