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motherhood

It’s Different This Time

May 21, 2009

Yesterday I mentioned that my hair is coming out—and it is.
My alopecia areata is back to its nasty habits. Last week I started getting pimples on my scalp and the areas just behind both my ears feel hot and itchy. Then I ran my fingers through my wet hair and got a wad of it [...]

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Ow! Stop Sticking That Fork In Me!

May 19, 2009

The babyman is growing fast. We’re rapidly approaching month 10 of life with a baby boy, and while we are thrilled and delighted with each new stage of his babyhood, we also breathe a sigh of relief with each new milestone met.
No more baby bathtub! No more receiving blankets! No more night-time feedings!
With each developmental [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: “Plastic Curtain” Dividing One Midwestern Family, Children Claim Violation of Rights

May 11, 2009

Known as The Plastic Curtain, some Midwestern citizens say this barrier is a violation of their rights.
CHAMBANA—Nearly 20 years to the day after the Berlin Wall fell and communism began to wither and die across Eastern Europe, another divisive ideology is tearing one Midwestern family apart.
Forced to take action, Chambana mother Mrs. Chicken resurrected the [...]

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Restless

May 5, 2009

My van has a flat tire so we three are stranded at home today.
The shop was full up today and tomorrow; the earliest they can fit us in is Thursday. Tomorrow I’ll fill the tire to get to a doctor appointment and back home again, but it will only stay inflated long enough for that [...]

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On the Hunt

May 1, 2009

Preschool is almost over for the year, meaning that my work hours are about to be sharply curtailed unless I find a new babysitter.
Our current sitter is about to graduate, so yesterday I placed my twice-yearly add on the job board at the Huge Midwestern University. I asked for Mary Poppins, tongue only halfway in [...]

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The Supervisor

April 28, 2009

When I was pregnant with the boy, I worried (and wrote) incessantly about my fears that The Poo would suffer after his birth.
I feared that she would feel displaced, that I wouldn’t have enough time to spend with her, focused on her, the way I did when we were just three. I love her so [...]

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The Blue-Eyed Purple Paper Eater, or How I Totally Dodged A Bullet

April 26, 2009

The baby likes to fuss and grump before he falls asleep, and to help him occupy himself before The Sandman knocks him out, I leave a couple of toys in his crib.
Until last week, I also left a board book or two.
The Poo always loved books; she would take a couple to bed with her [...]

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The Good Enough Mother

April 24, 2009

This wasn’t our best week.
It started off with a grumpy Sunday, which melted into a series of out-of-sorts weekdays punctuated by too-short naps and runny noses. All four of us were stressed out, and we took it out on one another, as families do.
My babysitter asked for today off, to surprise her dad for his [...]

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Best. Spam. Ever.

April 15, 2009

Before the events of last week, I wasn’t sure about the future of this blog. After all, even my spammers are bored to tears with all my moaning and groaning:
I can tell that this is not the first time you mention the topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?
It’s a [...]

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Begin, Again

April 13, 2009

I’ve struggled this week to write a post after my last one—it seems heartless to write a post about some mundane little thing. – Fairly Odd Mother
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This morning, more heartbreaking news, another baby lost to his mother forever. Another mother I don’t know.
And yet. Still, there is an ache. Or is it, as Catherine wrote [...]

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