Staying

You may remember that Az and I made the difficult decision to accept my parents’ invitation to move in with them so they could help us with childcare. We listed our house for sale for several months, but took it off the market during the last trimester of my pregnancy. We planned to [...]

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And I’m Pretty Sure My Slip Is Showing

My year’s worth of blogging, while in one sense providing lots of cumulative information about me, has gradually become more secretive. When I started writing I was truly anonymous, but as more of you read and responded and as I discovered your blogs too, I acquired a persona, something to live up to, a [...]

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Lesson Learned

If you are a nursing mother and you haven’t fed the little one in awhile and you decide, on your way home from the library, to stop at a pizza place and pick up dinner, do not, while you wait for your order, spend your time gazing at your baby, thinking how beautiful she is.
I [...]

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Az the Viking

I was taking JellyBean out to run an errand the other day when we noticed a squirrel at the base of our old maple. The squirrel wasn’t doing anything, just panting and watching us approach. When it didn’t race up the tree when we got close, I realized it was dying. [...]

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Blog nickname for the new baby

I’ve been thinking about how to refer to the new baby. I thought to fit with JellyBean and Sweetpea I would go with either PoppySeed or Raindrop.
Any thoughts?

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