Monthly Archives: December 2012
Letters to Henny
Dear Henry, Soon you will be three months old. Yet, it seems that you’ve been around forever and a day. How does that happen? How does it work that you’re only 13 pounds yet you’ve come into our lives with … Continue reading
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This Is a Post About Boobs
Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend thinking about our boobs if we are breastfeeding moms? Sometimes I feel like the majority of my day is spent catering to the demands of my boobs, and my babies demands for … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas
I hope you and yours had a good one. We did. Things that happened include: A picture of a crying six month old Anna made its way into December Parenting magazine via a Diapers.com ad and a photo shoot with … Continue reading
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This Blog
”My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in … Continue reading
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Things Getting Weird
The past week has just been weird. Mostly bad weird. The world is kind of screaming and falling apart, as Jeff Mangum would say. And I say what he says, since he’s a genius and all. I can’t get over … Continue reading
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Every Day Is Opposite Day, and My Dog Is a Cold-Blooded Wet-Nosed Attempted Murderer
So every single Internet over-sharer parent ever knows that as soon as you proclaim your baby sleeps well, they go and eff you over that very night. It’s the phenomenon responsible for radio silences from Facebook friends on their newborn’s … Continue reading
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Getting Creative
By the end of last week, I was starting to spiral down into a pretty bad funk. A funky funk. An angry, tired, oh-so-tired, funk. Something about sleep deprivation makes my outlook pessimistic, makes my problem-solving skills disappear. My brain … Continue reading
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Things Kids Say
If you had asked me before I became a parent, at what age do children start the whole “Why, why why” endless questioning routine, I would have guessed five or six. Wrong. Anna started in with the whys at two … Continue reading
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Writer, journalist, mother, marketer, freelancer, wife, mediocre runner, racer, super beginner triathlete, gym-goer, dog owner, Spin instructor, fitness columnist, recycler, lifter of non-pink weights, one-time failed academic, feminist, eater of good and bad food.
