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msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines NYT Recipes for HealthIn the sake of transparency, let me tell you why I haven’t written much about being a mother: Being a mother is hard. So very hard, for many reasons. But for now I’ll share with you only one of those reasons, lest you think I’m a horribly incompetent and irrational person. (Which, to be fair, [...]
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I’ve had really good intentions of posting. About two weeks ago, I sat at this computer for approximately two hours trying to upload photos, watching with fried nerves as it froze up again … and again … and again. Yet I diligently and, please note, patiently continued to restart the computer repeatedly, to no avail! [...]
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Today I pulled out a ruler, just to help me visualize how very long you are. As I’m now 28 weeks pregnant, you’re almost 15 inches long, all squeezed into my body. What a miraculous gig you’ve got going on in there. Yesterday I emailed your dad, pointing out to him that in less than [...]
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Let’s see … It’s only been about one month since my last post, so I could be doing much worse. It’s just, you know, vacation is lots of fun, but then you return home and there are only fifty-five million things to do. Like … WORK! Work was crazy, and then the HOUSE! The house [...]
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The hour or so prior to making my pregnant announcement to some girl friends was an hour of Sweat, Loss of Appetite, Stuttering Words and Lack of Concentration. I was inexplicably scared, because to tell people you see frequently that you’re pregnant is … admitting that you’re pregnant. Not to mention the fact that Kyle and [...]
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Okay, okay. So my blogging lately has been a little “lacking” and maybe I have “slacked off,” but, really, isn’t time just flying by? And I’ve been SUPER productive during the interim. Like, by being guiltily engaged in the racy world of mindless television! (Haven’t you too been exchanging your cognitive functions for the cleavaged drama [...]
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I read an interesting thing today: During the second trimester, many pregnant women dream about cuddly, baby-like animals, such as puppies, chicks, and kittens. Friendly creatures in your dreams are generally thought to signify that you’re tuned in to your instincts. Menacing animals, on the other hand, may represent ambivalence about the strange new creature [...]
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Prediction: Baby will be dropped at least once by its loving, yet frightened, father.
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On March 28, 2006, life slowly ticked by whilst I was “Living Alone”: You can leave two half-full or half-empty glasses of water sitting on your wooden dinner tray. You don’t have enough money to buy a dining table, so you use wooden dinner trays, but you have to sit on pillows when you use [...]
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So I really didn’t plan on my blog turning into a “pregnancy blog,” and it’s still not. It’s just that all I write about is pregnancy. I guess it’s because, what better to write about than the time I got home from Aqua Moms and cried on my bathroom floor for 10 minutes because the shower door [...]
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