Written on
November 12, 2008 by
Kelly
By Kelly I sat on my kitchen floor last night and played “let’s fall all over Mom” with Teyla. She’s ten months old now, which is both an indisputable fact and an incomprehensible mystery. She’s starting to purposefully interact with us; she offers me bites of her food, for example, and she loves to shriek…
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Written on
November 11, 2008 by
Veronica
By Veronica Last night at dinner my four-year-old began quizzing me about our family tree. This has been a theme for her lately. She chooses a random relative and asks questions about him or her. This time she piped up with “Mama, who was your daddy’s grandpa?” That was not an easy question to answer….
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Written on
November 10, 2008 by
Megan
By Megan I’ve been praying for a week about this day – just leaning on God to give me what I need to do what needs to be done for my little family from hour to hour on this, my first real, serious day as a mother of two. And as long as I haven’t…
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By Melodee My daughter thought 6:12 a.m. was a fine time to wake up. I thought not, so I rocked her for two minutes and put her back to bed. I think she woke up because she was cold. She was cold because she refused a blanket last night because she is four years old…
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Written on
November 8, 2008 by
Rachel
5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. This week’s contributor,…
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Written on
November 7, 2008 by
Cassie
By Cassie Last weekend was my son’s first tumbling meet. This wasn’t just a tumbling meet but also a milestone. This was the first time in my little man’s life when he was doing something independent of me. The first time I got to volunteer and bake cookies for the bake sale. My first real…
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Written on
November 6, 2008 by
Beck
By Beck It has been unseasonably warm here for the past several days, a condition – the weather guy assures us – that will pass by the weekend. Meanwhile, my kids have been delighted to head off to school in shirts and fall jackets, freed, if only for a moment, from the heavy tyranny of…
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Written on
November 5, 2008 by
Kelly
By Kelly The electricity of election night is palpable. During my years as a newspaper reporter and editor and then a TV news producer, I spent many election nights in cold, windowless newsrooms, which, on election night, fairly buzzed with adrenaline, bad coffee and jokes that remain, to this day, unprintable. (Why, yes, I was…
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By Veronica At the baby’s check-up this week, the doctor and I were both surprised to find she was growing quite well. She is in the 81st percentile for weight, a definite first for this family of skinny babies. I could not be more pleased. I congratulated my breasts on all their hard work. In…
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Written on
November 3, 2008 by
Megan
By Megan I wrote this post for FriedOkra back in the summer, before Peabody was born. I was all-kindsa pregnant, all hot and cranky and clumsy and OVER IT ALREADY! It feels good to look back on this afternoon and remember how my husband helped me transcend all my little issues and discomfort and be ethereally…
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