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They love him, fight over who gets to hold him, fi

They love him, fight over who gets to hold him, fight with each other, fight with us, fight rest time and bed time, fight not winning their board game, so lots of fighting but lots of love 🤷🏼‍♀️🤪🤦‍♀️ #newbaby #reallife

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Someday I will walk up and down stairs, respond to emails, and help brush the big kids’ teeth but right now it’s okay to be completely soaking in these tiny profound painful joy-infused immediate postpartum moments. #nellmuses

Appreciative for the baby our family needed so bad

Appreciative for the baby our family needed so badly, for serious pain meds because whoaaaa c-section, for incredible nurses and doctors, for family who stops everything to tend to us, for teachers who love up our older kids at school, for a priest who brings us the Blessed Sacrament, and for another day of life to experience the surprise that is love multiplied. #nellmuses

Worth every minute of it ✨ 37 weeks, hatched lik

Worth every minute of it ✨ 37 weeks, hatched like a baby bird in the OR, 8 pounds, 9 ounces of velvety baby snuggles✨

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I’m scheduled to give birth on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. There is a profound tension that my body has grown, housed, and fed another person for 9 months, a surprise guest, our lucky number 5, to be birthed on a day like that. My broken, battered, beat-up body will be cut open to make way for new life. It’s been the hardest pregnancy and the most deeply joyful because I think I’ve finally learned what it means to be open to life. However that openness has manifested for you with loving wildly, gardening fruitfully, writing profusely, parenting thoughtfully, may we all learn the lesson. #nellmuses #37weeks

If we don’t have rule of law, we are in trouble.

If we don’t have rule of law, we are in trouble. I didn’t always plan to go to law school, but modern US History in high school was a fav, as was Constitutional Law, both taught by the most fiery passionate teacher. After I majored in Creative Writing (poetry manuscript as my thesis, guys), somehow instead of an MFA, I wound up at law school. And I loved it. I loved practicing it, too. I loved witnessing federal court and then later appearing in state court. We have a justice system, a legal system, imperfect as it is, that keeps us from the chaos of mob rule, graft, and paybacks that plague many nations. Seeing the disruption of the electoral process was surprising in some ways, not in others. We need to be able to trust our system, imperfect as it is, instead of turning to chaos and violence. The two lawyers in this household have talked a lot about this since the election. I don’t share every opinion here nor should I. But my rambling takeaway is: effective and functional rule of law is critical for our republic to function. Ok back to making beds and folding laundry. #nellmuses

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