Making It Work

Blogging (And Other 9 Month Long Projects)

October 17, 2011

When I started blogging in this space, I had really grand plans for it. Then I got pregnant, and all of my good intentions were completely wiped out by the fact that I felt like I was mentally and physically fighting through quicksand (I did FAR less running and writing after I quit working than [...]

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The Holiday Season Is Fast Approaching, Must Be Time To Move Again!

October 14, 2011

I’ve always maintained that after Halloween, time starts to move faster and faster and doesn’t slow down until after New Years. There’s just too many holidays between October and January, so no matter what you do or do not celebrate, it’s guaranteed to be a busy time of year. In the 5+ years that J [...]

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The Demise Of The Potato Tree

October 12, 2011

A little over a year ago, I wrote about how I buried an old russet potato in our planter box and it grew into a beautiful flowering bush. I had intended to write the epilogue for that post a few months later, but, um, I was pregnant! And miserable! And felt like I was always [...]

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Who Needs Toys When You Have Household Stuff?

October 10, 2011

We’ve done a lot of the whole “having a baby” thing on a budget. We’re using cloth diapers, we’ve been AMAZINGLY blessed with hand me downs and gifts of all sorts, and I’ve really been stingy when it comes to spending money on baby-related items. Particularly toys. As Nathan has finally started getting more mobile [...]

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From Not Growing, To Growing Too Fast!

October 7, 2011

Nathan spent most of his first few months of life in clothes that fit like this: I think he was in mostly newborn sized clothes until about 4 months, when the 3-6 month sized clothes finally started to fit. (And man, I have a stupidly large number of photos that I could have put there [...]

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He Was Early, So He’s Late (Prematurity And Milestones)

October 5, 2011

As I’ve mentioned before, Nathan was born 3.5 weeks early, which made him a “late-term preemie” (ah, if only he’d managed to stay in the womb for another few days! Such a lot of issues he might have avoided!) Since he was just a few days short of the magical 37 weeks, I tend to [...]

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Glasses! (An Update)

September 28, 2011

Nathan had his follow up appointment with the eye doctor today, and I was proven correct – the glasses are indeed making his eyes LESS crossed (he went from 30 to 12 on the scale that they measure crossed-ness with!) but they obviously haven’t proved the perfect solution. They did a full check up again [...]

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Glasses!

September 19, 2011

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Nathan seems to have inherited his eyesight from me (sorry, Buddy!) I got my first pair of glasses when I was 2 or 3, so when his eyes seemed like they were crossing a lot, we made sure to keep an eye on it (haha, I didn’t even [...]

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So It Turns Out …

August 31, 2011

So it turns out that if you rent a bargain priced house, it’s going to come with the world’s most insane ants. And those ants will decide to live in the most inconvenient places. (Like, for example, somewhere in the wall behind the bathroom pocket door at about waist high. Or, better yet, somewhere mysteriously AROUND [...]