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UPDATED: it’s gut check time
UPDATE: Over the past few days in my reader, I have read some posts regarding the (judgment implied by the) natural parenting movement. These responses seem to be stemming from one graph in particular,...
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“sunny day, sweepin’ the clouds away”
Uh, do you remember Sesame Street? I cannot BELIEVE that I forgot Sesame Street existed. I am not joking. Frankly, I am astonished at myself. I know – it’s unforgivable. I have seen some tweets going...
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the garden hose – or how i am sometimes like my dad
Well, then. This apparatus was worth the 783 cents I paid for it. I thought that since HGB LOVES swimming in the city pool, naturally he would be positively thrilled to have little backyard pool for...
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important words wednesday: pride week edition
Image via prideware.comFiled under: family, life, parenting
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adding an “s”
This post is my contribution to the PAIL Monthly Theme Post. For more information about PAIL, please click here. Everyone is welcome to read, write, and comment! As this blog in not anonymous however,...
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oh, hypocrisy!
This post is my contribution to the PAIL Monthly Theme Post. For more information about PAIL, please click here. Everyone is welcome to read, write, and comment! August 2012 Theme: Screen Time This...
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supplement: screen time
Just a Saturday morning during the Premier League season at our house. Dad and HGB time. Why yes! BJB did drag HGB’s highchair into the living room. Probably because I have a “we wear shirts at the...
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the end of an era
This post is about breastfeeding. There is even a picture! Feel free to skip it and check back on Monday for an adorable photo of HGB accompanied by witty commentary. Or, if you would like to read MORE...
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the forgotten fetus, part one
This post is about pregnancy, pregnancy after infertility and loss, and baby #2. Please feel free to skip it if you aren’t into it. I considered PWP this post, let it sit in ‘drafts’ for about a week,...
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i like big butts and i cannot lie
Great big cloth-diapered butts that is! Yes – I staged an “Octopus’s Garden” photoshoot. You didn’t? At the request* of absolutely no one, I’ve decided to outline the ins and outs of our cloth...
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“yes, i’m going to marry a carrot”– part one
From time to time, folks ask me questions about raising HGB as a vegetarian. And then, on The Twitter the other night, a giant explosion of Feed Yo Babeez!!! happened and some folks have written posts...
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“yes, i’m going to marry a carrot”– part two
As promised! I think *this* may be the “You have questions! I may have answers!” post. Warning! While I may play one on Twitter, I am not a doctor! Nor am I a dietitian. So, what we eat is just what...
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“the mom stays in the picture”
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Wordless Wednesday to comment on something that nailed me in the guts: This morning, Josey posted a news item on PAIL via The Huffington Post: “The Mom Stays in...
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the forgotten fetus, part two
This is Part Two in the continuing Saga of Woe and Anxiety on the journey to baby #2. In Part One, I discussed such uplifting topics as the terror, anxiety, and guilt of being pregnant after...
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we’re white, and we wouldn’t have
This post is my contribution to the Fall 2012 PAIL Book Club. The book: Nurture Shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. According to the summary “… a revolutionary new perspective on children that...
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the toddler zombie apocalypse
I love zombies. Or, more accurately, I love the zombie genre. From the Romero classics to the maybe-zombies of 28 Days Later. The Dawn of the Dead remake is one of my favourite movies. After breaking...
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thoughts on breaking and entering (a post about traditions)
This post is my contribution to the PAIL Monthly Theme Post. For more information about PAIL, please click here. Everyone is welcome to read, write, and comment! Please be mindful that this blog is not...
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PAIL Vlog – subtitle: EMOTIONS
Ah. That time I was going to learn iMovie, record a question in some funny way every day this week and then make A FILM. My vlog (video blog) for PAIL did not turn out that way. Instead, I just sat...
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newton’s third law of motion
When a first body exerts a force (F1) on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force (F2 = −F1) on the first body. This means that F1 and F2 are equal in magnitude and opposite in...
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wherever the grass is greener, it ain’t gonna mow itself
This post is my contribution to the PAIL Monthly Theme Post. For more information about PAIL, please click here. Everyone is welcome to read, write, and comment! December 2012 Theme: Balancing Work,...
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trolling my archives (a 2012 top 10)
As 2012 closes out this week, I noticed a weird blip in my stats because yes, I check them compulsively and so do you – don’t lie! I noticed that the greater part of my blog had been read through at...
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where do babies come from? your butt, duh!
This post is my contribution to the PAIL Monthly Theme Post (and it’s my 200th post!!!). For more information about PAIL, please click here. Everyone is welcome to read, write, and comment! Please be...
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do as i say, not as i do
“Do as I say, not as I do” If that isn’t the opposite of my parenting philosophy I don’t know what is. In theory. In practice, however, this is exactly what is happening. I expect HGB to use a calm,...
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cry it out
My baby never sleeps. NEVER. Never sleeps. He slept very well until about a month ago, usually only waking once per night to eat and be changed. The dream, right? He napped like a champ. He was easy to...
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project dreamcatcher: week ??? (tapping out)
When I started jjiraffe’s Project Dreamcatcher, I began by confessing that I quit a similar project a year earlier. Well, I am nothing if not consistent. The goal schedule is completely off the rails...
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is it good luck?
To step in dog poop? What about if your kid picks it up and throws it at you? Let’s go back. We have this conservation area that snakes it way through the centre of Suburb, and there is an access point...
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