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Spartan Mobility
Big things are afoot here at the Sweet household, or maybe I should say aknee. Henry has taken his first tentative crawling steps even if he moves at an adorable snail’s pace and you don’t even realize what he’s doing … Continue reading
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The Personality of a Mother
I’m on this Myers-Brigg tip lately. And yesterday was Mother’s Day (whoops, better call ya mama) so I got to thinking. I stumbled across this international study of INTP women once that shows we have the highest dissatisfaction rates with … Continue reading
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How Jackie Got Her Groove Back
(Production delayed) Warning: shameless hussy selfies ahead. Also, I need to preemptively apologize because for reasons unknown to my conscious brain, this post was not written in respectable English, but rather a weird patois of textLOLbloggerFitFluentialspeak and I really don’t … Continue reading
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I Got Time For That
I. Got. Bronchitis. And, yes, I got time for that. Since I have no choice. Vector #1 (daughter Anna) brought a horrible adenovirus into our midst last week, and after a week of her being very sick and very, very … Continue reading
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Highbrow/Lowbrow
So remember New York magazine’s highbrow-lowbrow matrix? I realized that all my tastes in media and entertainment run consistently on the outside perimeters of taste. I love the lowest lowbrow and the highest highbrow and the stuff in the middle…is … Continue reading
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Beyond
So a few hours after I wrote my love song to the idea of the Boston Marathon, bombs went off and we all know the rest. I guess I have a lot of thoughts about everything that aren’t important, really. … Continue reading
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Beantown/ Slow Runner Dreams
I’m not a fast runner. I’m not athletic. I was never good at sports. I never even played sports. But I love to run. And I want to exhaust all my limited resources. I want to see how far I … Continue reading
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Detritus
Here are some thoughts that are washing up on my wrecked beach of a brain today: My baby is crazier than ever. Last night was one of the worst overall sleeps in the history of Henry ever. Six month old … Continue reading
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Negative Fifth-World Problems
So I’d like to complain about some things that will make you want to throttle me and send me on a two-week volunteer vacation to Rwanda to remind me that my life is great and I shouldn’t complain about a … Continue reading
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Crawling Toward Fitness
I’d say I’m making baby steps back to the fitness level I’d like to be at, but it would be a lie. I haven’t even really started walking…I’m still learning to crawl. I’m still getting my sea legs of trying … Continue reading
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