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Labeling a Life of Work and Family

It seems I’ve forgotten how to blog…and maybe dial the phone, too.  Thank goodness for Facebook where I can at least post an occasional status update or photo as a means of reassuring my mother (all...

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Behavior Modification, Santa and the Elf on the Shelf

It’s the time of year where I’m due for at least one blog post about how we’re fumbling our way through winter holiday traditions and figuring out what works for our family.  I wasn’t originally...

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Nursing in Public

Yes, that’s an arbitrary nursing picture with ***gasp*** a boob in it.  Given the topic of this post, it only seems appropriate to share a picture of my little Zara Bea doing her favorite thing.  If...

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Breathless

There are moments as a parent when I just don’t know how to breathe. Sweet moments when the breathlessness accompanies deep rivers of love, like when I melt at the perfect baby girl nursing in my arms....

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Building a Parenting Library — Recommended Reading

I mentioned awhile ago that I received a $500 grant to start our La Leche League library.  I had a lot of fun thinking about the books I would recommend to local moms and what was helpful to me the...

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Exhaustion and Mommy Guilt

In my 28 years, I have moved nearly 20 times.  I lived in nine different houses in three different states before graduating from high school.  Once I went to college, I did the traditional move every...

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Wordless Wednesday: That Moment When You Want to Drive Around Forever

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I’m Starting A School!

The last few weeks have been quite the evolution for us regarding homeschooling.  Chris and I have had many discussions about what teaching our daughters means for my schedule and time, and how that...

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Divided Attention Is Better Than No Attention

There was a post on Motherlode last week arguing that we should give kids our undivided attention or none at all.  The author called for parents to  eliminate the “vast middle ground of half paying...

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Torn: Stay at Home Mom, Working Mom, and Everything In-Between

  credit Tuesday has become one of my favorite days of the week.  We get up, I pack lunches for not one but two little girls, then I drop them both off at their respective schools and return to a quiet...

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How It All Began

I’ve received quite a few questions about how we balance working and not-working in our family and why we’ve made the choices we’ve made regarding childcare and work. Many of our friends are currently...

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30 Days of Thanks: Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg will be so pleased: today the thing I am most thankful for is When Facebook came to my college (back in the day when it was only for college students), it took me a while to warm to the...

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Toddler-in-Tow…Or Not?

This evening on Motherlode, KJ Dell’Antonia asked her readers if children ever belong at an adult party.  The question was in reference to a situation where one family’s babysitter canceled, so they...

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Standing Up For Nora

This week has been full of ups and downs.  I was sick, then I was better; Nora was sick, then better, and now, after an hour and a half of sobbing and her not even able to nurse, we’re concerned that...

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Film Friday: “That”

When I was editing the videos for last week’s film, I was struck by how much Nora’s speech and communication has changed from last year.  Now she talks in full sentences, knows more words than I can...

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Looking for Words of Wisdom

I’ve mentioned here and there that Nora is a shy and relatively slow to approach person, but I haven’t spent a huge amount of time talking about it aside from the post about feeling bad for not...

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Shyness Update

(What we do with grocery bags.) Not long ago, I asked for some advice about Nora’s shyness and if it was normal for a child her age or excessive.  I got a ton of comments, Facebook messages and...

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Almost Three

In some parts of the country, school has already started.  In less than four weeks, Nora will be headed off to preschool two mornings per week and I’ll be truly committed to homeschool preschool three...

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Building a Parenting Library — Recommended Reading

I mentioned awhile ago that I received a $500 grant to start our La Leche League library.  I had a lot of fun thinking about the books I would recommend to local moms and what was helpful to me the...

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Exhaustion and Mommy Guilt

In my 28 years, I have moved nearly 20 times.  I lived in nine different houses in three different states before graduating from high school.  Once I went to college, I did the traditional move every...

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