How to prepare for a second baby

  It’s been a while since I’ve offered up my favorite type of advice. If you’re a parent or have even spoken aloud that you someday intend to become a parent, then you know this type of advice intimately. It’s unsolicited advice, of course. So here’s a little bit more (because there’s never enough) about…

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Crosby’s Birth Story

I shared this story over on http://www.hellomytribe.com and I’m sharing it here, too, with a little intro to say this: It is hard to write a birth story! I spent way too much time on this and I’m still not satisfied. How do you put into words an experience that is so intensely physical and deeply internal?…

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permission to be disappointed

As this pregnancy winds down (or ramps up), I’ve had this idea for something I’ve wanted to write about for several months but it’s felt risky to say out loud. And at the same time, it feels risky to not say it because soon I might forget that the feeling even existed. So, here we…

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Reflections on a year of teaching and mom-ing

    The other night I did something I haven’t done since last August. Mike folded the laundry, put away his and Luke’s clothes and left mine on the dresser, as is the system around here*. Then, I put my clothes away in my drawers. You guys! I put my clothes away! Right away! Immediately!…

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7 small things on a wednesday

This post brought to you by Luke’s pink eye* (and his long afternoon nap).  I joined a writing group. Actually, I made a new friend (via Luke, like most of my new friends these days) and then I forced her to start a writing group and invite me to it. She is a a real writer…

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