This past weekend was our first with really nice weather, perfect temperatures, and lots of stuff to do. It was so much fun to take Charlie out to places where he could explore - and run himself ragged, of course. One thing I love about our neighborhood in Philly is that there is an in...
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When I was eight years old, my parents put me and my then-five-year-old brother in our yellow Volvo station wagon and told us we were going somewhere special. I can still remember getting to the George Washington Bridge and knowing we were heading into New York City, a place I'd been man...
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Before I get into this week's post, I have a message to the Baby Fever Gods - what do I need to do to get you off my kid's back?? It's SPRING...this should not be happening. He's a good boy. Stop making him sick. I'll make whatever offerings you want. Just let me get some sleep a...
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I'm back after a nice week off to deal with ear infections (Charlie's THIRD), messy houses, work insanity, and the variety of other things that I'm sure all of you are enduring as well. Charlie had a fantastic first birthday week, with two cakes, more Little People toys than any boy woul...
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Dear Charlie,
I can remember folding freshly-washed baby clothes labeled 12M and tucking them away in the backs of drawers, marveling at how far away a year seemed to be. But here we are. Today, you turn 1. And oh what a beautiful year it has been.
Amazing, isn’t it, how one li...
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I had a post partially written for this week, all about what to do when someone else's toddler hits your toddler and the bully toddler's mom doesn't seem to care about it. But then I got blindsided by double tragedies and my focus was interrupted by the strange grief that comes when you ...
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Pretty proud of himself!
I think that parents should celebrate their own small victories, so here is my latest: I survived a whole week alone with Charlie while my husband was away for work. Stop laughing at me, all you work-at-home moms and dads out there. I wasn't so much scared abo...
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So let me set the scene from this weekend.
It was 4 a.m. on Saturday night...
Wait. Let me stop right here. I can no longer say that 4 am is night time, can I? 4 am is perfectly viable day time now that I'm a parent. It's within the window of "wake up" for a kid, so it has th...
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