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By mid-February of 2010, I was pretty sure. My husband and I were eating dinner, enjoying a quiet evening, when it occurred to him. He looked up from his plate and said, “Not to jinx it or anything, but….” He didn’t even have to finish the sentence, because for several days I had been thinking the same thing. My period was late, by at least a week ( Read more... )

Everybody wants to be a blogger, especially after they have children. If you're a woman, you're known as a mom blogger. I get the impression this means that you are somehow magically transformed into a much better blogger than any other blogger on the face of the planet ( Read more... )

My daughter is a morning person, like her daddy. She awakes pretty consistently at the butt crack of dawn (that is to say 6:00 AM) every freaking day. While she's well-rested and rarin' to go, I'd much prefer to still be sleeping. But I can't, because I'm a mommy. So every morning when I hear her cooing through the monitor, I stumble out of bed and ( Read more... )

Since my baby girl was born six months ago, I've been a pretty strong breastfeeding advocate. There are dozens of reasons why "breast is best," and yet still in America so many people perceive it as indecent and, some dare to say, gross. I just don't get it. We are the most back-asswards country in the entire world ( Read more... )

I'm not usually a big brand name advocate, but a recent experience I had with a company changed my mind a little. Just enough to write this document and post it to be shared with all my friends and family. For all of you out there who have young children, newborn babies especially, I'm highly recommending that you put some money into Garanimals ( Read more... )

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Though I well know that historically speaking Thanksgiving is a primarily Christian toned holiday, it has never felt that way to me. Despite the fact that a large majority of my family consists of followers of that particular religion, Thanksgiving is surprisingly the one holiday in which I do not feel their beliefs pressed upon me. Perhaps it's ( Read more... )

So it's been a while. Seems all I have to post on this here journal anymore are complaints and grievances. Why? Because this is the shit I can't say on facebook. Often because there are family members watching me like creepy stalker thought police. Also because most of the time what I really want to say equates to a novel chock full of ( Read more... )