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Report Card

I took Ben to our family physician yesterday for his annual exam. It’s kind of like my report card as a mother every year. He is officially 4 years old, weighs 40 lbs. and is 40 inches tall. Height is 50th percentile, weight is 75th…but we’re not worried because he does not watch TV at […]

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The Rules

The Yarn Harlot recently published a post about how, when writing in a blog, it’s not like writing in a private journal; rather, it’s like speaking into a microphone in a really large room. It’s true – you never know who might come across your post and read what you’ve said. I am not familiar […]

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Punishment and Rewards

Well, I finished the back of St. Brigid. [Pictures later.] The Charcoal Slogalong is done about up to the armholes in front. And because I’m tired of working on those two projects for now [I will be happy doing them when I come back to them…you know, absence makes the heart grow fonder sorta thing…], […]

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White-Out

If you look out our windows right now, you won’t see anything but whiteness. No, we don’t have twelve feet of snow or anything. I think when the whole thing started after we went to bed last night, it began with rain which turned to little beads of ice on the windows. Then the snow […]

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Our sweet Ben has had eating “issues” ever since he started solids. It took forever before he would accept them (we finally had to force them on him), and then he has been very particular about texture ever since. He didn’t meet the two year requirement of 50 words and 2-word sentences that speech therapists […]

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Mommy Wars

I caught the last half of Oprah yesterday. The show was about SAHMs vs WOHMs. I went to the site this morning and apparently the topic that started the whole discussion was Elizabeth Vargas choosing to step down from her position as co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard […]

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