Being a Student of Fear
The only time I have been more scared of grad school than I am this semester was during my first semester of my M.A. program six years ago.(Aside: Holy crap, that was SIX YEARS ago???)That first...
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Bapple
Nate's vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds lately. He's never been the most verbal child. He literally runs laps around the kitchen every night, has been climbing since he could pull himself up...
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21 Months
Dear Nate,Today you are 21 months old. In just three months you'll be two years old! But right now you are so much fun that there's no need to look forward.The most exciting thing right now is seeing...
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Photo Fun
Nate loves to watch himself in the face-side camera on my iPad. He sticks his tongue out at himself, makes funny faces, and sways back and forth to watch himself leave the screen. If I wasn't 100%...
View Article7 Quick Tuesday Takes
1. Yeah, I quit this month's NaBloPoMo. There's just too much going on with work and school to get daily posting done in a manner that I think is quality and worth both your and my time. Unlike...
View ArticleQuestion Time
My friend, Nicole, has a blog - Constructive Compulsion - and it is probably the best-written blog I read. She works as an editor and I tremble at the thought of ever having her look at something I've...
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Wednesday Ramblings
I love Greek yogurt because it's given back to me the ability to eat "fruit on the bottom" yogurt. The kind I grew up eating has way too much sugar in it, but the Greek yogurt ones are tolerable and...
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Tech Irony
I've had Instagram envy forever. I downloaded it on my iPad, but it's just not the same on there - you need it on your phone, as you're on the go. So my joy was enormous when Instagram announced on...
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Movement
My job recently moved me from one campus to another in the opposite direction from my house (although roughly equidistant, just a couple of miles closer). My initial reaction to change is often a snap...
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Nate's (and our) 1st trip to the ER
I know it was bound to happen sometime. Apparently emergency room visits are all the rage with parents of young children. However, the hubby and I have very little emergency room experience. I think I...
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22 & 23 Months
Dear Nate, Today you turn 23 months old. Obviously, this means you'll be TWO YEARS OLD a month from today - but instead of getting wistful about that right now, let's talk about the last two months,...
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From the mouths of babes...
Or the mouth of one babe, in particular... There are so many things Nate says now that make me laugh or smile. On the talking spectrum, he's right where he should be, which means he knows a lot of...
View ArticleYou must change your life.
Tonight is the last evening of school for me for this semester and I am truly looking forward to it, mostly because one of the two classes I took this semester was frustrating in ways that I have not...
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Two Years
Dear Nate,Today you are two years old. It's a bit unreal because on one hand, we've been calling you a two year old for a couple of months now because you really didn't seem one anymore, but on the...
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Hey June, don't let the door hit ya...
I love some of the euphemisms that we use in English. Like, "Boy, today has been A DAY." Well, yes, every day is a day. But we know that it means it's been a remarkably bad day. In that vein, June has...
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Safety Zone
If you read this blog in a feed reader, you may have been bombarded over the weekend with my past 10+ posts because I just migrated from Squarespace 5 to Squarespace 6 and am not tech savvy enough to...
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Two and a quarter
Dear Nate,Today you are two and a quarter years old. It seems apropos to write an update today since "quarter" is one of your newly attained words. One of your favorite things to do these days is play...
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The View from 37
I turned 37 nine days ago. To celebrate, I packed up Nate and myself into my car and headed to Maryland for the weekend to visit the amazing and wonderful friends I have there who I haven't seen in two...
View ArticleI'm a cowardly Facebooker.
The point of social media is to connect with people, right? It's different media - chats, images, posts of varying lengths (Tweets, blogs) - meant to create connections between ourselves and...
View ArticleNate's Latest Requests
"He is really bossy now."~my brother, regarding NateNate is definitely in a stage now where he's delighted that he can ask us to do things and we'll comply. "Mommy? Milk please?" He asks for help when...
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