An Extra Letter
Dear Gracie: It isn’t the first of the month (that is tomorrow) so it isn’t time for my three month letter to you, but this letter isn’t about birthdays and milestones. At least not your milestones....
View ArticleRosetta Stone: Craigslist
Our impending move (which, uh, yeah we don’t have a date picked yet to get that done) gives us a lot more square feet and as I just can’t abide by bare walls I’ve been hunting for some new furniture....
View ArticleWho Gives The Best Hugs? {Sponsored}
This upcoming Saturday is my very first Mother’s Day as both a daughter (responsible for card sending & breakfast in bed making or at least phone calling) and a Mother. Since Gracie isn’t quite old...
View ArticleThe Ghost Spouse
As most/many/all of you know I’ve been married for a few years. “B” as he is called on my blog is my husband and we’ve been married for about three and a half years. I try hard to portray him on the...
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PPPPP
As a kid one of my Mom’s favorite phrases was “Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.” Forgot your lunch at school? She brought it to you, but not before reminding you that PPPPP. Didn’t give...
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Empty Tables
Last week we moved, as a family of 3.5 from one end of the city to another. Last night we went back to our old apartment to clean it out one last time. The place where we came home to as newlyweds,...
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Dear Gracie (Month Four)
Dear Gracie As with all the others the past month has been a whirlwind. In the midst of all your growing and sleeping and learning we moved, you got your very own room and you even started sleeping in...
View ArticleThe Final Countdown
Tonight family begins arriving in town for Gracie’s baptism on Sunday. I’m looking forward to the day and celebration and for her to wear my baptismal dress but in the interim we are in a final push to...
View ArticleTime Keeps On Slipping
I thought that after Gracie’s baptism my free time would miraculously return and I’d find my afternoons wide open with glorious blank space on the calendar. After all we’d survived having a baby, going...
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Perspective
We’ve all had a terrible job, the kind that has us counting the hours until 5:00 on Friday, and on Sunday a growing sense of dread fills your stomach until bedtime when you are so woefully beside...
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Gracie’s Yellow, Grey, & Pink Geometric Nursery
Gracie’s nursery is a 95% complete work in progress. I began working on at about the 20 week mark of pregnancy, but since we were moving in the spring we didn’t put many things together until after we...
View ArticleWhat is Best?
If you are a guy or someone who doesn’t plan on having biological kids, please, skip right over this. For the rest of you: grab the keys to the waaaahmbulance. I’m full of woe and angst and it is all...
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Dear Gracie (Month Six)
I’m not sure how it happened, but August 1st came and went and suddenly you are closer to your first birthday than to the day you were born. I’m constantly wondering where my tiny, wrinkled newborn...
View ArticleTo Good
This page of mine is a funny little place. For years I’ve sat down and chronicled bits and pieces of my life. If any of you have been reading from the beginning (doubtful) you’ve seen a lot of version...
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End of Week Jumble
It is the end of the week and I have unrelated thoughts swirling around in my head…lets get going, shall we? 1. My blog has become innundated with spam. I had to uninstall Askimet some time ago (the...
View ArticleSurviving Being a Working Mom
As a working Mom my day to day life is filled with a lot of Point A to Point B moments. Getting out the door, getting home, getting dinner started, getting the baby taken care of, keeping the house...
View ArticleOne of Those Weeks
I had one of those weeks. You know the type, where everything simultaneously goes the opposite of your way. On Tuesday we had the satellite company come out to our house to install satellite to our...
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Nanny Sharing: How and Why
The idea of a nanny share is pretty simple- one nanny, two families, multiple kids. The nanny gets paid at a higher rate per hour but the families split the costs, which means their per hour cost ends...
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Dear Gracie (Month Seven)
Oh Gracie…..I spend the first of every month marveling at the passage of time. Not screwing up my checks (yes, I still write checks) or saying “Rabbit Rabbit” but just wondering how another month came...
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Monday Musings
This fine Monday all I have for you are a series of disjointed thoughts that do not remotely relate to one another…. 1. On Sunday morning I woke up at 5:42 in the morning. I panicked, jumped up, ran to...
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