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Hi Michelle, so great to see your work, it is fantastic! Glad we met on Halloween.
Sweet Annie.
It was one of those unpredictable New England weather days. I woke up in the morning to beautiful, calm-blue skies; and as the day progressed, crazy, monsoon winds started to take over. I basically just turned a blind eye because I didn't want to cancel. I was just too excited. Thankfully my ...
You are so lucky to have seen him live! I hope you blew some kisses his way.
Olympic Review - Apolo Ohno
When this cutie patootie took the ice, I screamed so loud that something popped in my throat. I think I did some damage. It was sore for a few days. So, when he skated and almost fell, I tried not to scream anymore. That was a truly difficult task. How could I not root for my fellow Ameri...
So jealous! We are planning to take the kids and see the winter olympics in 8 years (hopefully will be on this side of the earth). And I love the whole blogging conversation at border patrol!
Olympic Review - The Border Crossing or When You Should Not Say Too Much
"What is your Business in Canada?" "We're here for the Olympics.""Where are you staying?" "We are staying with some friends.""How do you know them?" "From Blogging." Dead Silence. Not a good sign."Blogging?" "Yes, the internet.""What internet site did you meet them on?" "Um....no site, just thei...
SO GLAD to hear the news. Happy New Year to you and your family!
BENIGN
Isn't Benign a lovely word? Just hearing it roll of a doctor's tongue makes a day complete - makes the year complete. Jammin's eye tumor is benign....a lipogranuloma. They normally grow on the eyelid....the doctor had NEVER heard of one growing on the eyeball before. An odd place. We see the d...
Hope everything turned out alright. Keeping you and Jammin' in my thoughts and prayers.
Jammin' update
Monday, December 14th Dave and I will drive to The Casey Eye Institute. Jammin' will be sedated and a Biopsy will be taken of the growth on his eye. I'm not so concerned about the sedation part of the procedure. I'm sure he will be fine. I am trusting the anesthesiologist to be on top of Ja...
We have twins! Dova lost her two front teeth over the summer and there's been no sign of permanents yet. Guess we'll be writing the same letter!
Guess What She Wants for Christmas.....
The first tooth fell out Friday evening around 7pm. She pulled out the second one by herself Saturday morning around 11am. (out of fear that her Uncle Ed, the "expert" tooth puller, so named by his 26 year old daughter, was going to get his dental-floss and lasso the loose varmint.)
Hi Kady,
So glad you found me! I breastfed both my kids, 16 months and 23 months, while working outside the home full time. I purposely set up my daycare within walking distance from work and nursed during lunch as well as pumping for the first 10 months or so.
That being said, it all worked fine until I had to travel. Then it was pumping up 3 or 4 extra days of milk, and then pumping at the travel site, which was never as convenient as at work, storing the milk in the hotel freezer and bringing it all back. TOTAL HASSLE!! I only had to do that once, but I would simply refuse to travel if I ever had another baby (which would probably mean taking another job at this point). Giving up breastfeeding for work for this diehard would be impossible!
And now for something completely different...
Breastfeeding. I'm not particularly vested in this Momosphere argument. I breastfed both my daughters for 6 months each, far short of what the die-hard advocates advocate, but it was important enough for me to breastfeed that I did it though I was a full time law student living 2 hours away fro...
She is the sparkliest and kicks butt in the boobs department for sure. You can see them in action in our Asian Invasion photo which is in my latest post...
http://www.mommybytes.com/2009/11/ww-i-need-intervention.html
Praying hard.
MamaPop Loves Anissa (Update 5)
Hey kids, can we break away from the conversation about John Gosselin's manboobs to talk about another set of boobs for a minute? I'm talking about Anissa Mayhew's boobs. Actually, I'm talking about the magnificent woman attached to those magnificent boobs. In truth, I love that woman, thoug...
We had the opposite situation, my son was really hard to teach to read and my daughter picked it up like she's been doing it for years. Every kid is different!
Learning To Read
Buttercup is reading. Well, she is learning to read. She's doing a pretty good job. She's almost finished with Fox in Socks. When Jammin' learned to read he had an easier time. I'm not trying to compare kids, but his little mind would look at a word once and remember. Buttercup has to see...
Oh no!! I would be mortified! Then again, I would be running away squealing from any sort of baby animals in the yard. My cats play with (i.e. eat) a bunch of them (mice, chipmunks, bats and birds as far as I can tell) and I just hope my hubby takes care of the carcasses...
How Google Turned Me Into A Cold Blooded Killer.
Late afternoon, while herding chickens back into the coop, I realized a hen was missing. After our demise with Henrietta, my heart couldn't take another death. I called the kids to help in the search. She just had to be hiding in the bushes somewhere. Jammin' called from the side yard. "Mom...
We are exactly the same in terms of grades with the exception that we have no Caboose. Jammin looks really tall!! I bet he's the tallest in his class. Adam grew 1.5" over the summer and is quite the weed as well. Hope they had great starts!
First Day of School
Here they are on their first day. Jammin' starting 3rd grade. I can't believe how tall he grew over the summer. Good thing he can start out with shorts. All his pants are way too short. What was he most excited about for 3rd grade? His friends. What was he most nervous about for ...
Hey Celeste, it was great to meet you!! So glad you recognized me and you're right... Despite all the negative press, it was fun all around.
Average Jane Loves BlogHer
By now I've had more than a week to read post-BlogHer commentary, but it's not going to make any difference in the kind of post I'd intended to write to sum up my fifth BlogHer Conference experience. Over the years, my reasons for going to BlogHer have shifted slightly. At first, I was just intr...
OMGosh, what happened to your little baby? Who replaced him with a toddler? I demand to know!
Look What I Can Do, Mom!
Eat Corn on the Cob..... Brush My Own Teeth.... And Ride A Tricycle.... Well.... Sort Of - I still need a little help....
I have a love/hate relationship with my external flash. Sometimes it is wonderful, and sometimes I can't quite master it, like I can my camera. I need to take a course! But in the end, I think it enriches my photography, so if you can find a used one, it would be worth it.
Flash: No stopping me now!
I've been looking at my photos, trying to decide what to do. I am supposed to get my mark for my course this week and then I have to decide if I take another one or not. Tuition is just over $200.00 and is tax deductible which makes it easier to pay. The challenge is that for the advanced cours...
Here I am, ahead of the curve, wearing my "Stupid Raisins, Stay out of my Cookies" shirt: http://www.mommybytes.com/2009/07/never-too-old-for-threadless.html
I know a trend before it starts ;)
Bloggers: Will They Use Their Powers for Good or Evil?
TWEETDECK -- In a flurry of keystrokes and a fierce show of power, several alpha bloggers unexpectedly turned on raisins yesterday under the hashtag #bloggersagainstraisins. The first tweet came from Yvonne Marie of Joy Unexpected. Within minutes, others followed suit. "Raisins could have been...
That is a wonderful name for an island! Happy Love Thursday.
iloview
the name of a tiny island on our lake with two old chairs for your viewing enjoyment. i love this rocky little island. i love the message. i love view. iloview. it seems to me a very important message, it is really how you look at it. what you see when you look out at your own life....
My friend has chickens and I was confused at first when I saw a lot of the hens having combs and wattles, but apparently that is normal. The one rooster that he did get was really aggressive and bossed all the other hens around. THAT'S when you know.
Chickern Soup In Our Future?
Yesterday, I was enjoying the cool of the morning so grabbed my camera and decided to take some pictures of our slowly fattening chickens. They get so happy when I let them out of the coop. They run around and look for bugs. Sometimes they follow me around the garden hoping I'll dig up a wo...
You are so funny with your feet sticking out. But I'm telling you, those tiny fish are deathly afraid of your shark size body!!
Proof I CAN conquer fear....sort of
A long time ago, I posted 100 little things about me. One of those things was I have a fear of fish. Hmmmm....let me rephrase that: I have a fear that fish will bite my toes. Sounds silly - but I can't stand to have bare toes exposed in wild water. Bathtubs and swimming pools are not an iss...
a) http://www.mommybytes.com software geek / mom blogs about her life
b) Greater Boston area
c) I thought that the 5 boroughs of NYC were the whole of New York state and couldn't understand why they didn't look right on the map.
I want you need you got to have YOU comment to this post!
Imitation is not plagiarism the most sincere form of flattery right? So I see this tweet from Schmutzie yesterday and because it involved a propah use of the word "incumbent", I was obligated to click through and comment. Apparently, I'm easily persuaded and bear a strong sense of imagined obl...
Amazing!! The stories this tree could tell..
Angel Oak
Tough to choose. I really like my recent birth story, but that is oh so "mommy blogging". So I dug into the archives and pulled out my phone interview with Google. That doesn't come around too often in our circles. All through the interview, I kept thinking, I'm am SO going to blog this!
http://www.mommybytes.com/2007/06/google-interview.html
Playing favorites & mission possible?
{Here from @Paula_Deen's wayward tweet? She meant to link here!!} I've got a challenge for you: Can you choose your all-time favorite post? Not one of your favorites, not your top three, but Just. One.? If you're like me, this is asking the near impossible. Recently I submitted writing s...
Awesome shot! We definitely don't get vistas like that in New England.
The Middle of Nowhere
Driving along Highway 78 (the Steens Highway) in the South Eastern section of Oregon is much like the beginning of a Horror Movie: A family vehicle traveling down a lonely desert highway. The only signs of life are the turkey vultures floating above in the sky searching for a meal. After 30 s...
OK, under my cool collected exterior is this: Where are the bathrooms at the Chicago Sheraton?? OMG do I really have to speak in front of all those people?? Which conference room should I hide in to do my conference call at work?? Shouldn't I be baking those cookies for the BlogHer Boston area get together tomorrow instead of surfing the web??
Can't wait to meet you in person... even if we are hiding in the bathroom together.
We interrupt all this June-ness for a mild panic
Last year I had only just begun to hear of this thing called BlogHer and I certainly never considered going to their conference until after it was over and I read about how much fun it is. And then I was obsessed and spent all of late July feeling cheated that I hadn't been part of the thing. An...
Oh, the anticipation, it makes me want to have another baby (or not)! When I had a girl, it was just space between the legs, no winky. I've never been on the edge of my seat when it came to ultrasound pics, nice post!
Baby Lumps
Get the Google Audio Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! {Audioblog} Download 'Baby Lumps' read by the author ... Modesty becomes you, little baby. We went for our 20-week ultrasound yesterday, all set to find out if we were having a baby boy or girl. Q, 4, an...
I signed Mr. Linky and I will also bring my mom if she is up for it! Can't wait!
The 3rd Annual People's Party 2009
It’s time to party like it’s 1999! Back before anyone was concerned about things like stats and comments and review disclaimers. Back when People were People, not metrics to be valued or ranked. We love People! And you are all invited! Shake off all of the peripheral distractions of the b...
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