August 2010

Breaking one of my cardinal rules

August 31, 2010

I have a few rules for this blog.  I don’t write about my family, outside of telling stories or showing my appreciation for them.  I know that as good as it would feel to open up this editor and pound out a post about a fight or an annoyance (like when Craig says he’s going [...]

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“Uh… WHAT, Mom?”

August 31, 2010

I swear when she looks at me like this, my mind lurches forward 14 years and I’m telling her that she will stop texting her friends at 2:00 am or I will take the phone from her when she goes to bed.  And, at the very moment that we have this discussion, my mother will be confused [...]

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11-Month Letter

August 30, 2010

Dear C, 11 months old.  One month shy of a year since we met you and became proud parents of a beautiful little girl.  While we have been proud of you since you were minutes old and wrapping your hand around Daddy’s finger and our hearts around your pinkie, it has only been in the [...]

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I have a village

August 24, 2010

So, you think you have a system.  You think you’re so smart and have it all figured out.  You think you’re so lucky to have the quickest morning drop off routine, just waltzing across the yard to your mother-in-law’s house and dropping off the baby who is so happy to see PapPap that she doesn’t [...]

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Giving up the bottle… now what?

August 23, 2010

Ok, Internet.  We have a bit of a situation around here and I’m requesting your help.  I don’t know what to feed my kid.  That’s right.  I’m stumped.  At almost 11 months old, she’s down to one or two bottles a day, so that leaves me with three meals and at least one (sometimes two) [...]

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A former farm girl goes back (sort of)

August 18, 2010

Growing up my summers all crescendo-ed with the county fair.  A quasi farm girl (meaning I had animals but didn’t actually grow up on a farm… more like the animals lived in my backyard) I got up early to feed; had to make sure water and hay and feedings were done before my social activities [...]

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Her favorite place to play…

August 16, 2010

Two weeks ago, I brought the wee one in from the pool, stripped her down and then realized I wasn’t quite ready to dress her yet.  So, I plopped her in my bathtub.  It’s a big space, there are thing she can play with (after I moved the razor and the candle that sits in [...]

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Hello, Fall!

August 11, 2010

The week that football preseason starts is always a tough week for me.  I get pretty used to having Craig around in the evenings and weekends throughout the year and the second week of August everything changes.  For a few weeks, until the routine of the regular season starts, he puts in obscenely long hours. (although, [...]

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Another milestone down…

August 9, 2010

As time sprints forward towards C’s first birthday, I’ve been thinking about all the things I have to take from in the coming weeks or months.  Her bottles.  Her pacifier. My sanity.  It’s not just that I want her to stay a cute snuggly baby who babbles and sits in my arms instead of a [...]

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Tea Pot Dance

August 5, 2010

C got this teapot from her cousins over the weekend, and the cuteness that followed just had to be captured.  I don’t know if she is dancing or trying to fly, but she’s having a damn good time. 

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