Category Archives: Life & Style
Validation
It’s funny how sometimes all we want or need is to be heard. I’ve felt pretty alone with my day to day struggles, with my “difficult baby,” when all my friends seem to have easy babies. Babies who nap, who … Continue reading
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Re-Reflux Rebound
I’m on a reflux rollercoaster and it’s not a fun one. Its a redux of a redo of a rebound of three years ago when we went through this with my daughter. It sucks. It’s hard to explain to anyone … Continue reading
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Random Weekly Roundup
Workouts: Monday – rest Tuesday – home weights and pelvic rehab DVD, lunges and squats WITH BABY ATTACHED Wednesday – planned to go for a run when husband came home; received tragic text that he was an hour later … Continue reading
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32,1
In a few days I will be 32. It’s not a huge milestone birthday, but it’s another year. Another reminder that the older we get, the faster time goes. [Except when you need to muddle through the first year of … Continue reading
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Workouts and Blowouts
Alternate blog title, am I right or am I right? It’s amazing the gross things you talk about, sing about, accept as routine as parents of little babies. When we change Henry’s diaper, Anna comes running over. “I want to … Continue reading
The Daily
Daily life is very slow around here. Not too much happens, although it’s sort of exhausting at the same time. I used to (pre-two kids) have long to-do lists and set appointments. It was a little bit of this and … Continue reading
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Feeling…Fat
The title says it all. Unfortunately. As someone who never really thinks about what I eat (besides whether or not it’s delicious, that is) or worries about my weight or body, I’m feeling pretty uncomfortable in my own skin right … Continue reading
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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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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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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.
