A.R. Geiger

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  • The Most Exciting Moment of March

    I was planning on doing this post a week ago. On the first, actually. You know, a nice long post at the very beginning of every month to assure you all that I’m still very much alive and that I haven’t hidden away and determined to communicate with people only via social media posts. I…

  • Working Mum

    I had a week of meetings this month. Long meetings. Hot coffee turning cold, conversations through lunch, white boards erased multiple times kind of meetings. Creative meetings. The kind with lots of ideas, people laughing, and problems that take hours to fix and are so, so satisfying once they’re solved. It’s always one of my…

  • Getting Out

    When I discovered I would be having a baby mid-November, I was terrified. Don’t get me wrong. We’d been trying to get pregnant for months. More than a year, actually. But the thought of having a newborn in a tiny house that is solely heated by space heaters and a wood stove just at the…

  • True Love

    In honor of Valentine’s Day this year, I would like to let everyone know that, before we started dating, my husband used to come over to my house periodically to hang out and watch a movie with me. The very first time he did this, I poisoned him with a questionable shrimp. Accidentally. I accidentally…

  • Returning to Normal

    Do you know something? I haven’t worn my wedding ring in three or four months now. I took it off around the end of October, I think. Or maybe before. My hands were swelling, my Preeclampsia was progressing and soon would land me in the hospital for an unexpected and unwanted induction, and the eczema…

  • Story Time

    I read aloud to my baby a lot. Baby books? Yes. We do the silly voices and the bright colors and the black and white contrasts for his little eyes to develop. But I’ve been reading him full chapter books since I was twenty weeks pregnant, and I don’t intend to stop now. This month,…