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The Truth About Babywearing — *Updated*
11.19.08 | Permalink | 24 CommentsI wasn’t going to write about this because, although I Twitter, I’m not usually on much on weekends, so I missed the brouhaha over the Motrin Babywearing commercial. {Background: Motrin ran an ad about back pain caused by babywearing that was “consdescending, patronizing and poorly thought-out.” Babywearing mothers everywhere were outraged and twittered until Motrin [...]
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marriage, motherhood, movie reviews
Quantum of Silliness
11.14.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsDick and I couldn’t get a babysitter tonight to go to the movie we wanted to see. Apparently the teenage girls in Seagull Fountain go to dances and also book up their Friday nights before school is out for the week. (The nerve.) But we needed a break from the emotionally draining business of intense [...]
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motherhood
Some days I am sure that deciding to become a stay-at-home mother was the biggest mistake I ever made
11.13.08 | Permalink | 24 CommentsToday, minutes before I exploded my new Pyrex brownie pan by turning on the wrong burner on my glass-top stove, Dick took the car to his scout meeting. He refused to take any of the girls with him, and, since he worked from home today, he never really “came” home before leaving right before the [...]
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parenting
You can tell a lot about a person . . .
11.09.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments. . . by how they interact with children in public. I’m not talking about the obvious (and unfortunately ineffectual) abuse that’s so embarrassing at the Walmart. You know, the parents who whack their kids while shouting, “Stop hitting your sister” or “I told you not to use the #@%& word, @#%$-it!” And I’m not [...]
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Spot
P.S. I love you, even if your legs are really short
spot rides her bike from jane on Vimeo. In case you think I sound like I’m twelve years old, the following video should remove all doubt. And also provide some clues as to why our home life is just one big, shiny rainbow. decorating birthday cake from jane on Vimeo.
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Spot
All the flip-flops in all the world
11.06.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsDear Spot, If you’re reading this when you’re thirteen and looking for a legitimate reason to hate your mother (as if you needed one), you might bring up the fact that I never mentioned that it was your birthday last month, three days after Susan’s. It’s not that I forgot that you turned two, or [...]
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motherhood
The One-Dish-Towel Day
10.17.08 | Permalink | 16 CommentsI have a dream. A dream that one day I will hang a fresh dish towel at the beginning of the day, and at the end of the day, that same dish towel, limp but undefeated, will be hanging in my kitchen. It will not have been sacrificed to spilled milk (SPILLED MILK! AGAIN!) or [...]
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