I've been away a long time. Not physically, just internet-ly. But perhaps it's time to return. I won't make firm promises about writing every day ...
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So, umm, let's work on finding all this funny... this morning produced the following series of adventures for our toddler: first, she got hold of and ...
Z is now a walker. She taught herself to walk carefully, meticulously, and with lots of caution designed to avoid encounters with anything that might ...
I know that's not a word. Or anything close to it. I just keep thinking of that school strip search story, and just what component ...
1. I realize they mean well. And yet it's safe to say that few people have done more damage to my mental health than pediatricians since ...
It's in the air: worry. For some of us, it's about our children. This is new territory for me, and one that keeps it coming with ...
Current firsts: In addition to the word 'lamp,' Z recognizes the dog's name. She now likes putting things into and taking them out of containers. Endlessly. Until ...
All day I kept thinking: in their shoes, I'd fear for my life too. Except there's a difference: I hope I would not have accepted money ...
It works fine for us: being silly. One could say we are good at it. To wit: (Z did not suddenly grow all that hair: it's ...
Our pediatrician's appointment today could, all things considered, have gone better. We did indeed fail the nutrition portion of today's exam, although developmentally all's well ...
Our plans for the future are slowly emerging after Baby Z's birth, temporarily renting in New Jersey, me quitting working, and A starting several very ...
A little while back there was a momversation I meant to respond to about whether marriage or motherhood is harder (see also dooce's post, and ...
Apparently, not only is high fructose corn syrup generally evil, it also contains mercury (originally seen at Mom-101). Not that my brain is affected by ...
My daughter, she is obsessed with me. In her eyes, I can do no wrong, when I come back after being away for a couple ...
The week before Christmas is often the hardest time of the year for me. Not for reasons you'd expect: I'm not worried about gifts, or ...
I. Baby Z has progressed from trying to pull herself forward with her lips to almost being over the army crawl. She can propel herself forward ...
My sister-in-law sent me this photo of Baby Z and her one year older cousin at Thanksgiving: I saw it and almost died of all the ...
Seems to be a universal problem: babies who refuse to sleep. I blame an Englishman named William Willett for our sleep problems. Well, at least partly ...
At the book What to Expect the First Year. For the most part it gives some really sound advice but man, sometimes it reads like ...
Turns out I wasn't imagining it: there really have been more babies recently. More babies were born in 2007 than in any year since 1957, ...
She is still my little beauty. Despite a heat rash (passed in a day), newborn acne (beginning to clear up), and the loudest farts I've heard ...
She was born on Sunday, May 25. I went into labor on my due date and, a scant 36 hours later, I had my baby. I ...
I rather loved the dooce interview on the Today show this Wednesday. Not because it was good. It was awful: Kathie Lee Gifford ought to ...
Women over forty are having more and more babies in Britain, writes the Guardian (via Jezebel). Conception rates are rising among women and even men ...
The other day I finally got up the nerve to tell off someone who really pissed me off about a year ago. I know, I ...
