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5 Reasons To Keep Your Infant Out of Daycare
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been around family and friends with infants. As we chatted and caught up, the topic of illness inevitably came up. “Has Ben gotten sick yet?” The answer is no. Not once....
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Week 35: A Few Victories and a Cold That Won’t Let Go
Sorry older Ben – if you’re wondering why this post is so short, it’s because your momma is sitting at the kitchen table after taking care of you all week with a horrible cold and after a 7 hour...
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Taking on Daycare, One Baby Step at a Time.
Leaving Ben behind in the NICU was one of – if not the – hardest things I’ve ever done in my life. No parent should ever experience leaving the hospital without their baby. I will never forget sitting...
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The Walls Are Closing In.
You know how they say parenting and child-birth comes with its own form of amnesia? As in, you have a second baby because you forget how much it hurt the first time? (Ha! RIGHT! If I ever forget the...
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So You Have a Job? A Real Job?
Today I brought Ben to his first 3 hours of daycare. I drove him there with nothing but fear of fall germs running through my mind. I drove him there with the very real possibility that his...
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I Want to Be the Mom in the Video
Thursday was, to put it mildly, a very rough day. So rough in fact that it has taken me two days to be able to bounce back enough to be able to write about it. I’ve written before about my love/loathe...
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Wave of Light – Another Great Use of Social Media
Social Media can really suck the positive energy right out of you. Between our newsfeeds, twitter feeds, Google search results, hateful comments and bloggers…yikes. Sometimes I would rather not be...
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5 Things I Appreciate More Now That We’re Broke
Dustin and I were always frugally minded people. Even before the pregnancy from hell, the preemie and his medical expenses, and the unexpected loss of my income, we made frugal decisions a regular...
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5 Things I Really Miss Now That We’re Broke
Yesterday I took the high road and wrote a post about 5 of the things I appreciate more now that we find ourselves just barely scraping by week to week (or day by day…ick). I think being positive and...
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Starting Our Christmas Traditions, One Less Gift at a Time
Not even Halloween and already my Facebook and Twitter feeds are seeing many posts about alternative Christmas gift ideas and suggestions for keeping Christmas gifts from piling up in our homes. If you...
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Week 43: Lists Are the Lazy Mom’s Way of Updating Her Son’s Baby Book Blog
Wow…s-l-a-c-k-e-r. 4 weeks without a weekly update? Shame on me. Actually no, screw that. It’s been a crazy couple weeks, and where I’ve neglected this blog I’ve been pulled in a million directions...
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The One Where Ben Went to the Eye Doctor
Ben’s 1-year check-up appointment was mostly a success. He weighs 20lbs 9oz, up 5xs his birth weight. He’s clapping, pulling to stand, eating table foods, walking along furniture, and saying simple...
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Best and Worst of 2014 (because everyone does this, duh).
Once Ben was born I dedicated a category of this blog to “Ben’s Baby Book”. It served as an “in lieu of” Caringbridge when he was in the hospital and has been a really helpful way for me to keep track...
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Wisconsin Dells: Camping at the KOA, the Ducks, and Mount Olympus
Back in January, in the middle of medically required house arrest, we booked a trip to the KOA at Wisconsin Dells. 7 months later the trip has come and gone, and I’m delighted to report that it was a...
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5 Reasons To Keep Your Infant Out of Daycare
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been around family and friends with infants. As we chatted and caught up, the topic of illness inevitably came up. “Has Ben gotten sick yet?” The answer is no. Not once....
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Taking on Daycare, One Baby Step at a Time.
Leaving Ben behind in the NICU was one of – if not the – hardest things I’ve ever done in my life. No parent should ever experience leaving the hospital without their baby. I will never forget sitting...
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Why I Left L.A. Fitness: Child Care, Enter at Your Own Risk
Dustin and I recently re-joined Lifetime Fitness and we simply love going there. Even Ben, who is in separation anxiety hell, loves going there once the horrible dropping off part is past. I decided to...
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I’m Ignoring My Kid Right Now.
I put Ben down for a much needed nap around 10:00 a.m. He was sound asleep until about 10 minutes in when he had a huge coughing fit (he’s pretty much drowning on teething drool these days), started...
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Pregnancy Isn’t a Blessing: 7 Things Not to Say to Your Friends Who Aren’t...
The sensitivity that exists between those who are trying to conceive (TTC) and those who have already conceived and successfully given birth can be so high that even the strongest of relationships can...
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3 Reasons for the 2 Month Delay
Hi blog, it’s me, Sarah. We go back a couple of years, though for the last sixty-ish days I’ve been distant, ignoring your reminders to update. I promise, it’s been for some pretty good reasons. 1....
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