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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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Bottlefed, Breastfed, And Now, A THIRD Option! Bottled Breasts!

June 28, 2011

There are a lot of things I found odd or interesting about pregnancy, but one of the biggest surprises to me was that at some point during my childhood, the gestation of a baby changed from 9 months to 40 weeks. (It’s probably just semantics and based on when you start counting the weeks, but [...]

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Note To Self – Be Kind To Self

September 29, 2010

Oh, the best laid plans . . . When I was planning to leave work and stay at home during my pregnancy, I spent a fair amount of time thinking about the kind of structure I would impose on myself once I was no longer employed. As hard as I try to be comfortable with [...]

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Less Than One Week of Work Left – Then What?

August 17, 2010

When I made the decision to quit my job at the end of the summer, I hadn’t gotten pregnant yet and I had a lot of worries related to what I should do next. Should I get a job? Would it even be ethical to start a new job, knowing beforehand that I could be [...]

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The 7 Link Challenge!

July 15, 2010

Today’s post on ProBlogger was a challenge to create a link list to 7 particular kinds of blog posts (hence the name, The 7 Link Challenge!) It sounded like fun, so here is my contribution to the pool! 1) Your first post – Welcome To The World, New Baby Blog This one was really hard [...]

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A Child Friendly Explanation of Autism

May 23, 2010

I work with kids with autism, and describing what I do on a day to day basis can be tough to explain to people. I usually end up listing the diagnostic criteria and just saying that we work on correcting those deficits and excesses. The hardest thing, though, is trying to explain to other kids [...]

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Shout Out To Great Servers!

May 20, 2010

The Famous Dave’s near our house has a great Wednesday Wing night (25 cents each!!) in their bar area, so we go every week. The first few times we went it was just because it was a great deal, and therefore a fun and economical new date night. The service was actually kind of crummy [...]

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Sometimes There’s Just No Substitute!

May 11, 2010

I’ve never had truly terrible acne but I’ve for sure had difficult times with my skin, and for the last five or six years I’ve been a dedicated Proactiv user (it really does work as well as the infomercials say!) However, with the smack-down I’ve put on our budget, I’ve been trying to find a [...]

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Let’s Get Nostalgic!

April 25, 2010

I was walking to my car last week with my keys in my hand, preparing to push the button to unlock the doors as I approached, when I started thinking about what life was like before car keys had buttons on them! Remember when you had to actually put the key in the door to [...]