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A random night of tucking babes in, kitchen cleaning and massive stomach upset.  The cure for the latter?  Stillness on the couch with some good reads.  I stumbled across this ode and my heart quivers.  It is sadness and joy [...]

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I wrote this post the night of my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I drafted it and never posted it, probably too exhausted to think straight.  This blog has been seriously neglected but I’m surfacing slowly from the world of diapers, spit up and insane gas (baby’s not mine) and it has felt good to write again.  [...]

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I’m due with our second daughter any day now, or as my cousin put it T minus 11 days (or really 10 days at this hour!).  And in this last stretch, I have become rather consumed with this new baby.  A big thing since I have many times throughout this pregnancy forgotten I was pregnant [...]

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I’m 31 weeks now and nearing my time to leave work.  While I should be really excited to have the entire summer off with my girls, lately I’ve been a little down and out about it.  See I’m one of those moms who LOVES maternity leave.  I’m in no rush to get back to the [...]

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I always knew I wanted children but I was never clear what my journey there would be like.  In my teens and early twenties, I believed I’d live a fun and exciting life and hit 30 single and alone.  I had settled in my mind to make 30 my breaking point and if there was [...]

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After my post yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with @Blacktating who blogs “breastfeeding news and views from a mom of color.”  Her blog has great content and it’s a great example of how Twitter connects people with similar interests.  She felt that it was better for the formula companies to say nothing at all [...]

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I’m not a crafty gal by any means but for Dessa’s first birthday I got my shit together and made an album with photographs of her first year of life – from the hospital to her birthday.  It’s one of my favorite things because my memory is awful and I forget all the time how [...]

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