From the monthly archives:

January 2009

He Sits!

January 31, 2009
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Chambana AKA Blogging Capital Of The Midwest

January 29, 2009

I sat at our local Little Gym today, nose in my book, deliciously unfettered. The baby was home with the sitter, rare for a Thursday, but The Poo had an appointment after class and I didn’t want him to distract me from focusing on the girl.
I managed to groom myself this morning, a minor miracle [...]

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Warning – Contents Under Pressure

January 27, 2009

I used to tell my mother everything, before my father died.
We were as close as any parent and child could be, and in some ways, maybe a little too close. But after we buried my dad, it became harder and harder to open up to her. She was locked inside her grief, and understandably so. [...]

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Do I Have The World’s Cutest Kid Or What?

January 27, 2009

First taste of frosting, at his grandmother’s 58th birthday party.
Photo by My Sister.

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Vigil

January 25, 2009

In a panic, she called for me at 3:30 a.m.
Why is it always the three o’clock hour that brings us such misery? Sobs of fear and pain, wails of hunger, the shrill bell of a terrifying phone call. Three o’clock, always, it is three o’clock.
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She moans and swipes at her face, mouth twisted into a [...]

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The Baby

January 21, 2009

I’m always moving.
Buzzing from here to there, filling requests for this and fetching that, dragging laundry up and down stairs, loading and unloading the dishwasher.
I stand in front of my laptop, strategically placed in the center of the kitchen, typing email replies with one hand while the other fills a bottle. I murmur my assent [...]

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My Own Worst Enemy

January 20, 2009

Nothing makes me screw up like success.
I’m like a sunny day that suddenly turns black and threatening, storm clouds gathering where before there was just blue sky. People come outside, stepping off their front porches, and turn their faces to the heavens, puzzled.
Lately I’ve been buried in work. This is good, yes. Really very good. [...]

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Frigid

January 15, 2009

We woke up this morning to bright sun, but despite the pretty daylight, my weather.com widget claims the temperatures here in Chambana are about 12 below zero.
I’m used to blizzards and wind chill, but the flat topography of the prairie here never fails to make me feel as if winter is interminable, and we will [...]

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Cry Baby Cry

January 14, 2009

I could never stand it when The Poo cried.
It was especially bad when I was the one who caused the tears. Once, when she was just a little bit of a thing, I bravely attempted to clip her fingernails as she slept. On the third nail I clipped her fingertip, as well, and she woke [...]

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No Longer Sleepless, Or One Mother’s Love Affair With Dr. Ferber

January 13, 2009

With our first child, our daughter, we never had to lift a finger to get her to sleep.
Two months after she was born, to the day, she had a bath, took a bottle, and was laid in her crib drowsy but awake.
That night, she slept from 8:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. the next morning, and [...]

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