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Momoirs of a Rookie Mom

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Activity #5: Keep a pregnancy journal

March 14, 2013

Did you or do you keep a pregnancy journal? Unless you count this here blog, I did not. Geralyn Broder Murray created a diary with sweet illustrations and thought starters to help you remember the agony and — in dreams with Ryan Gosling — ecstasy of pregnancy. Because those memories fade (which is why some [...]

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Don’t throw away your pregnancy test until the three minutes is up

February 28, 2013

If you want to know the accurate results of the very expensive stick you just peed on, wait the full three minutes. Maybe even longer. Both of my pregnancies were difficult to detect with store-bought pregnancy tests. I never did get a positive test with Julian, but since I was working with a fertility doctor, [...]

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How we spent Sawyer’s first birthday

February 27, 2013

We had a lot of choices when thinking about our baby’s first birthday celebration. There’s the “do what you want to do” train of thought that would encourage Alec and I to high-five the conclusion of our first year however we wanted (maybe with a night out or a weekend away!) Then there’s the photo-tastic [...]

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Note to self: Next time, give the kid a bath

February 21, 2013

My toddler came home from daycare yesterday covered in black and red paint such that he looked as though he had been in a street fight and lost. Yet I still didn’t bathe him til this morning, shrugging it off as “probably permanent and wouldn’t come off anyway”. Poor third child. ps It came right [...]

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This is where we get bloggy and tell you the juicy personal stories. Do you need a victory baby? Do you pee when you run?

Does having kids mean you can’t have nice things?

February 18, 2013

Our good friend, Karen, always has the best taste in food, furnishings, and fun trips. We have been watching her rookie year of motherhood with great curiosity and interest. She agreed to share with us a few stories of how things are changing at their house in this guest post. Thanks, Karen (and ps your [...]

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A long-winded tale of two bunk beds

February 15, 2013

At ages five and seven-and-three-quarters years old, my children were sleeping in matching toddler beds from IKEA. On one hand, I thought “Poor Julian. Almost eight and still sleeping in the tiny bed he got when he was three.” And on the other hand, I thought, “Kids in other countries don’t even have their own [...]

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It gets better: a look back at my third newborn experience

February 15, 2013

I wanted to share these raw emails with you in the spirit of “It gets better” because I can tell you for sure that Sawyer moved through this phase and now he’s a happy toddler. While I expected that the third time through, mothering a newborn would be easier, frankly, it was not. Out of [...]

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ONE love

February 14, 2013

I bought this candle after watching a Sex and the City episode in which Miranda realizes that Steve is THE ONE during their son Brady’s first birthday. I gave it to my then-boyfriend on our one-year dating anniversary as a memento of our love. Being a sentimental pack-rat, I saved it. My then-boyfriend became my [...]

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Does your baby need a better name story?

February 6, 2013

I named my sons Holden, Milo, and Sawyer because I liked the sound of each of the names with our (in my opinion, hard-to-work-with) surname and, to a lesser degree, each other. Not the best story, huh? As I was speaking to some friends last night, another mom gave the “because we liked the sound [...]

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Surprising songs that soothe babies

February 5, 2013

I owe a shred of my sanity to Ben Gibbard. My baby is calmed more than anything when I play the band Death Cab for Cutie. I discovered this trick quite by accident when driving my screaming eight-week old home from a playdate (more mine than his) and he fell silent by the third song. [...]

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This is where we get bloggy and tell you the juicy personal stories. Do you need a victory baby? Do you pee when you run?

Question: Do you want to do it all yourself or get as much help as possible?

January 24, 2013

Yesterday I was asked what my biggest parenting obstacle was and how I’ve overcome it. It’s a tough question, but I knew my answer right away. When Julian was born, I wanted to be the best mother in the history of the world. And to me, that meant doing it all myself. In the early [...]

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Flashback Friday: And so That was Christmas*

December 28, 2012

This morning over cereal, my sons conducted a post-mortem review of Christmas. At first, Holden ran to the homemade advent calendar and rearranged the order of some of our activities. He objected to my sequencing and spacing. He wanted to front-load a few things and move them closer together. He also asked if he could [...]

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