Where I worked featured on TV show
Click the link to watch a TV episode featuring the historic village museum where I loved working this past year! You can just watch the first minute for a...
Author: Heather Paige Hunt
Anticipating Summer’s Pending Ending
The crisp clean cold of winter cannot be replicated by an air conditioning unit. Nor can the toasty warmth and smell of a furnace imitate summer heat. We ...
Pregnancy Diaries: Counting Kicks
Husband of pregnant wife: “Honey, can you move around a little less at night. You’re keeping me awake.”Pregnant wife: “Sweetie, I ...
Pregnancy Diaries: You know you’re 9 months pregnant when…
Started my ninth month yesterday.You know you are nine months pregnant when you try to squat to accomplish a chore, but fall down 30 seconds later.You know you ...
Take a Guess at Where I am Standing.
I look up from my food stand burrito to see bright yellow river taxis, jet skiers playing in the wake of the brighter orange Staten Island ferry, crazy kayakers...
Questioning My Questions
I reread my post: http://heatherpaiges.blogspot.com/2011/06/provocation-of-thought-during-prayer.html today. From where does this sense of entitlement spring? H...
Fancy Little Smoothie
I just made the fanciest little health nut smoothie I’ve ever encountered: blueberries, strawberries, spinach leaves, 1/2 nectarine, banana, yogurt, 1 raw...
…but I can’t say I like it.
Two of my favorite sites are leaves falling in late autumn and blossom petals falling in late spring. (I also enjoy watching rain fall and snow fall, but those ...
Hurricane Irene
Apparently sudden drops in barometric pressure often cause women to go into labor. I am glad to say that we made it through the hurricane without this effect. L...
Pregnant from the back?
As I left Starbucks today, a woman that had been sitting behind me for 2 hours stopped me, “When you stood up, I was shocked to see that you were expectin...
Sandy Hook. And my belly.
I accompanied Chris to a First Aid/ CPR class at CG Station Sandy Hook yesterday. The class was helpful, but draining enough to warrant a nap on the beach after...
Common Question: So, how are you feeling? (often accompanied by belly touching,
which is actually okay as long as I know the person because I am pretty touchy myself.) Answer: Well, I am feeling pretty darn pregnant. I am not ready for him ...
Activity of the Day:
Lay down and read a book with my apple sauce bowl sitting on my belly. And watch it move. bap bap rooole woooddaddoop bup bup.
Pregnancy Diaries:
Chris came home from work to me cooking. He plucked some food off of the underside of my belly, “Did you know that was there?” Embarrassed, I answer...
An excerpt I recommend:
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/motherhood-is-a-calling-and-where-your-children-rank
“Tut tut it looks like rain.”
When I open the shades on both the living room window and the breakfast room patio door, one can see straight through our apartment. And when I open the glass o...
provocation of thought during prayer (personal journal entry transcribed on whether or not God is good)
These questions have weighed heavily on my mind since Levi Masalin’s death and were furthered by a recent sermon by Thomas Wong, pastor at Point Community...
NYC with dear friends
Last year we had a reunion in Maine, where I lived at the time: http://heatherpaiges.blogspot.com/2010/02/lovely-friends.html. This year we selected NYC, so I w...
Wedding Anniversary Flag
A few months ago, Chris informed me that he wanted our baby to be born in Texas. I, in turn, informed him that that would involve a 9 months pregnant woman flyi...
Ultrasound
If you don’t know my husband, this will tell you a little about him.The ultrasound tech asked, “And what does that look like right there?”With...
The move
Stayed up until 3am with dear friends in Connecticut then rose at 6am to get to church in New Jersey on time. There, we found that 10 men planned to help move u...
Only People Matter
Many pursue wealth & ownership, dream jobs & experiences. But no one grieves over losing money in the stock market or missing a job promotion. No one...
Alice Austen’s House
It looks like a doll house- with carpentry like lace lining its dormers and gables, diamond-pained glass, and stout chimney- sitting in the grass where an 8 yea...
radio interview and music video
Also listen to the linked conversation between a survivor and the director of Houston Rescue and Restore as they explain the framework of the domestic commercia...
“Heavier”
When my name is typed into corrective text messaging, a phone’s first guess is “Heavier,” not Heather. For once that is applicable. My belly s...
“Ba ba black sheep, have you any wool?”
“Yes sir, yes sir, 8 bags full!” Remember the unsheared sheep at the orchard last week? Well, I called to inquire about the price of their wool and ...