http://www.end-of-story.net/blog The personal blog of Kiara Gilbert Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:05:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an excerpt from my book, Guide for the Young Single Mother. It's only the first draft; I'll be adding to it and re-writing parts of it when I get to editing after I've finished the book's first draft. This is copyright Kiara Joy Gilbert, 2009. Baby blankets are an ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2009/05/1025/ Here's a poem that will be in my anthology of parenting poems, titled Poopy Diapers (And Other Parenting Poems). This is the poem that inspired the title of the book. Poem and book are copyright 2009, Kiara Joy Gilbert. Poopy Diapers Oh, poopy diapers! How I loathe thee; let me count The ways that ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2009/04/parenting-poem/ Hey there. :) So it's been a while since my last post (over a month!). Life is still good. I've had some curve balls thrown at me the past few weeks, but everything is starting to calm down. Today has been spent playing with my daughters and updating this website. I ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2009/04/its-been-awhile/ Well, life's been pretty busy lately. Alex will be two months old on the 21, and she's already acting like a much older baby! Let's just say, most babies do not sleep through the night this young. She does. I've started using that Johnson & Johnson Bedtime Bath stuff with ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2009/03/life/ I had the baby!! I am now the proud mommy of two little girls. Alexandria Brooke was born on January 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM (two days before my due date!). They broke my water at nine AM that morning, because I was having contractions every five minutes, but they ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2009/02/alexandria-brooke-is-here/ I'm so excited - I'm almost to my due date!! Saturday I was in the hospital for a while; I was having Braton Hicks (fake) contractions. I ended up being a little dilated (something that not's supposed to happen until right before you give birth). Since I'm only 33 weeks ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2008/12/six-weeks-two-days-to-go/ So I've been re-reading this wonderful trio of books that my grandmother got me, called the Key Trilogy by Nora Roberts. I'm on the third book, 'Key of Valor'. I like it the best, because the main character in it is the one whose most like me. Her name is ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2008/10/key-of-valor/ So I suffer from Restless Leg Syndrome. For those of you who have never experienced it, I envy you. I get it all the time, and it intensifies when I'm four or more months pregnant. I only get it right before bedtime, which sucks. Sometimes I can ignore it long ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2008/10/restless-leg-syndrome/ New layout... while trying to fix something on the purple theme I coded, I screwed it up. :/ I have absolutely NO idea what I did, so I have no idea how to fix it. Back to the drawing board. *sigh* Please, for the love of all that you hold dear, ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2008/10/quick-list-of-updates-and-such/ Okay, I think I've gotten the layout converted to fluid correctly... at least, it looks good on my monitor. :) Hopefully it'll work with other resolutions; I'm going to check it on my mom and my grandmother's computers tomorrow while they're at work. I haven't started on the CSS yet; ... http://www.end-of-story.net/blog/2008/10/updates-new-content/