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msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines NYT Recipes for HealthGrace 7 Let’s see … what consumed my day today? A clogged milk duct. That’s right. Hi, Too Much Information. Meet Internet. The last day has been spent in the company of my good friend/enemy Medela the Breast Pump, and I have never felt more utilitarian. But I must announce that as of tonight I [...]
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OK, so hopefully the point of this exercise is to reflect positively on every day and not actually POST every day. I’m playing catch-up, but at least I’m catching up. Grace 5 (Monday) Able to spend a lovely Monday afternoon working in a garden and greenhouse, pushing wheelbarrows, shoveling compost and transplanting herbs. (I liked [...]
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Today’s lunch … of: Made me feel like a kindergartener.
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Sometime last year – I don’t remember why – Kyle gave me a rose bush. I had higher hopes for this rose bush than I did the tree sapling that commemorated our one-year anniversary. If the tree sapling is the lifeblood of our marriage, our marriage has approximately minus-365 days till it loses its branches [...]
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Tomorrow will mark the beginning of “Weight Wars.” I challenged Kyle to see which of us could lose a higher percentage of body weight by July 1. This competition was inspired by superficial reasons, no doubt, but also to help us cultivate healthier bodies via wiser eating habits and more diligent exercise. We’re still deciding [...]
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My first real-clothes-shopping trip since before I was pregnant. I found out I was pregnant on April 19. This would mean that this is my first time to go real-clothes shopping in over a year! After shopping, the 2-and-a-half-hour nap with Owen on the guest-room bed. I love our guest bed so much more than [...]
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Here we go, today’s Graces: I was able to buy my brother a pair of TOMS for his birthday, which is tomorrow! Now if I could only get a pair for myself … Found out that Kyle is getting me a present. I love gifts! Lemon bars. I shouldn’t have. Time with friends on a [...]
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Friend Katie is participating in this great thing called Grace in Small Things. All you do is share five things that have graced your day, for 365 days. As someone who overdoses on pessimism, I thought I should give this a try. (Note: One day this feature will mysteriously disappear, and it will most likely [...]
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Happy Earth Day! Kyle and I try to do little things to take care of our planet – even though we have MUCH room for improvement – but I especially love it when it “pays” to be good environmental stewards … such as garage-sale hopping! Maybe it isn’t the most obvious way to promote environmental [...]
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