Reflections | Making It Work

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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What A Difference A Year Makes!

February 14, 2011

A year ago today, I started this blog. J and I were living in a 1 bedroom condo, we were both working full-time, and I was just starting to look into our finances and talk to doctors about getting pregnant sooner rather than later. Today, I’m sitting at my computer in the middle of the [...]

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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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Smart vs Wise – Making Decisions and Big Changes (An Announcement!)

July 5, 2010

I’ve always tried to make the right decisions. I worked hard in school, got good grades, did well at my job, learned to make responsible financial choices and sacrifices and plan for my future. However, after 27 years of priding myself on being so smart, I’m only just now beginning to understand how terribly unwise [...]

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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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Happy Blog-aversary To Me!

April 17, 2010

My first post went up on 2/14 (yes, I started my blog on Valentines Day, we are just that romantic of a couple!) I know today is 4/16, but I don’t mind celebrating events a few days late! In any case, I’ve been up and running for 2 months now and I’ve had over 400 [...]

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Why It Was Vitally Important That I Cut All My Hair Off

April 7, 2010

Sometimes in life you can change the direction you’re going in without too much of a fight, and sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can muster some upward mobility again. I think I’m mostly a “hit rock bottom first, and then really turn things around!” kind of girl. That phrase always brings [...]