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Monthly Archive for February, 2008

The Limitations of Blogging

I’ve got over 200 pages invested in this blog to date. My original goal was to post the occasional update and cute picture. Once I got rolling, it took on a life of its own as I became driven to write about my experience being a new mom. Before too many months sped by, I […]

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Tantrum!

Poor Simon. He had a really tough day on Sunday, and nothing I could do made him happier. His day started off fine, but he woke up from his morning nap late and on the cranky side and stayed that way for a full three hours. Lunch didn’t fix it. Singing didn’t fix it. Hugging […]

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Knitting Karma

If my Aunt Marcia is up in heaven watching over her family, I sincerely hope she’s so busy keeping track of my Uncle Sam, her three children, eleven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild that I’m lost in the mix. At her funeral just over six months ago, I promised her family that I’d finish up her […]

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The Bedtime Ritual

I am, to say the least, a creature of habit. While I’m not afraid to change jobs or move across the country, I am pretty wedded to the smaller things in life. If you take away my morning tea and newspaper, for example, I tend to get crabby; I can’t function without a morning shower; […]

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Snuggle Bunny

Oh goodness have we ever hit a sweet spell in baby-cum-toddlerdom. Simon has spent the last few days in a super cuddly phase, and I am eating it up. Ever since Simon achieved mobility around the one-year mark, he’s been torn between forces compelling exploration and independence and ones urging close ties to his caregivers. […]

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His Cup Runneth Over

Literally. Simon has been interested in drinking from a cup for ages. Unfortunately, he’s much less interested in the age-appropriate Born Free sippy cup filled with milk than he is the red plastic tumbler we use to douse him in the tub. For at least three months, Simon has strained to lift the Maker’s Mark […]

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A Snow Bunny and a Crabby Valentine

Last year for Valentine’s Day, we loaded a then four-month old Simon into our car, drove to Jim and Evie’s house, and watched him have the best, most social and flirty day of his life to date. Last year, he was My Funny Valentine. This year Simon was already at his grandparents’ house for their […]

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Progression in the Wrong Direction

When Matt and I were in physics class 21 years ago (21 years ago!), our fabulous teacher G. Dewey Beadle once joked that a bad grade of Matt’s indicated “progression in the wrong direction.” It’s a physics joke; you’ll have to trust us that the joke was funny. (You really do, as I remember laughing […]

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I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, an eater’s manifesto. Anyone who read The Omnivore’s Dilemma won’t be surprised by Pollan’s suggestions, summed up simply as Eat Food (whole foods, not processed food-like substances), Not Too Much, Mostly Plants. I’m not there, but I’m working on it. I don’t eat fast food. I […]

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A Rocky Start

Already a tad nervous about my trip, I set out on Tuesday afternoon for Indianapolis. I normally hate road travel, but this time I convinced myself that the trip would be fun. After all, when’s the last time I had two and a half hours to sit and listen to NPR while not also doing […]

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