Tag: children
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The Firstborn is here! … now I have to tidy up.
.It’s release day! The Firstborn is born, a bouncing new book, ready to be read and enjoyed! (To help matters along, I’ll just get all the links and such out of the way.) Want to buy the ebook? (Ignore the fact that I sound like I’m selling knock-off watches from the trunk of my car):…
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How to be Pregnant (in Regency England)
My next release, The Firstborn (yes, I WILL find a way to slip that into every conversation from now until… oh, let’s say summer) features a baby named George. He’s chubby and smooshy and spits up on people at inopportune moments, but let’s go back a bit and examine what it was like to be…
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Watch Me Ruin Everything
Today is Monday. Tomorrow is Tuesday. Constantly – CONSTANTLY – there is a list of things I need to do, have done, should be doing, running on a loop inside my head. I did history lessons with the kids, time to do reading with Ola, now I have to change the baby, and then I…
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Real Women Have… Shapes. All Kinds of Shapes.
**This was originally written on July 10th, 2014** I was probably doomed from the start. My parents were both slender. My father was 6′ 3″ and almost too skinny to join the Navy. My mom was 5′ 6″ and not even 100 pounds. So once the baby fat wore off, I was a bit of…
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May I Throat-Punch You Now?*
I have four kids. I’m saying that now to get it out of the way, because it will come up throughout this post. I have four kids, ages 6 (almost 7), 5, 3, and 3 months. Of course, when you have children, that means that anyone and everyone can come up to you and deliver…
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And Then It Snowed
It’s funny. A few days ago, I referred to the coming weekend snowstorm with a bit of a tongue-in-cheek attitude when I called it the “Storm of Doom.” And here we are, those few days later, with over 30″ of white stuff on the ground and the schools are closed and bridges are closed and……
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Another Week Slips Away
My kids are upstairs, running around between batches of schoolwork. My son is sitting on the potty, playing Angry Birds on my banged up, scratched up tablet, because it’s one of the few things that will get him to sit long enough on the potty for anything to “happen.” It’s been one of those…
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A New Year, New Chances, New Goals, No Naps
Here I go again, always saying I’ll get back to blogging and to keeping up with things, and then life gets in the way and I feel like the only things I’ll have to talk about are my kids and what my kids are doing and getting my kids to eat new foods and my…
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Monday
First off, I need to stop abandoning my blog so much. I have so much mind dribble and it needs to go somewhere, so I’m not sure why I resist funneling it all into here. So consider this a quick recap post of the last few months. And then some. In various news items (and…