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Right Now (7 Months)
The little-one-who’s-not-so-little turned 7 months old yesterday. A whole month more than half a year. It’s mind boggling. Right now, he is still super smiley and he laughs a lot. He has five teeth; I...
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Advent Tour: Christmas trees and me
[This is my first time participating in the Advent Tour, which is a little embarrassing. Why haven't I participated in something so right up my alley before, I ask you?] Growing up, we always went to...
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Lightning blogging
I saw the ladies at Mason-Dixon Knitting start the year with 15-minute-limited blog posts. I thought that I might actually be able to scrape together 15 minutes, and mused that even small posts of this...
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I can haz books?
Yes, the little guy is in full pull-books-off-the-shelves mode, and I’m at a loss as to what to do! I’d cleared the bottom shelf, but now he can reach the next one (and not just on this bookcase)....
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Swap hat received!
I talked previously about the hat swap I participated in with my due date group on Ravelry. Well, the hat for A arrived this week, all the way from Germany! I love it, it’s perfect. It’s soooo soft,...
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11 months
My baby is 11 months old. Not a baby much longer. His nose has changed a bit, it’s no longer the baby nose. We’re planning a birthday party. (Need to get those invitations done!) He claps, he waves, he...
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Back
We announced the shortlists for the 2013 INSPY Awards on Monday, in case you missed it. The lists have some really great books on them again this year, check ‘em out! I spent the remainder of Monday...
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A very dot-ty party
The birthday I’d been looking forward to and planning for months has come and gone! My little boy is 1. I planned his birthday party around the idea of Damien Hirst’s spot paintings, although it...
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Thursday list
A list of randomness today, perhaps? This month is crazy busy — at least it feels that way to me right now. A’s birthday, two rounds of house guests so far and more to come, Paul‘s birthday, and my...
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Fiber Arts Party debrief
So, I had this party. I had the idea for a fiber arts party for my birthday this year, but I wanted all these people to come. And with a February birthday, I didn’t think asking people to drive and...
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15 months
In the tunnel His hair is the color of corn silk. So soft and shiny, and with colors ranging from white to gold to strawberry. And he has a lot of it. It’s getting long in back, but it’s still not...
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Grandma
My grandma died this week, after two weeks in the hospital. She was 85. At her funeral, I gave the eulogy: Whenever we were at Grandma’s house, I always woke to the smell of bacon. Was there ever a...
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Best of Reading for 2013
I’m borrowing shamelessly from Trish at Love, Laughter & Insanity (who got it from Jamie of The Perpetual Page Turner) so I didn’t have to come up with the questions, too. Just the answers will be...
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Sunday Salon
I was chatting with my husband about how long it had been since we each had blogged (as one does). I was thinking it had been a month or maybe a month and a half. But come to find out? It’s been longer...
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Books that have had the most impact on me
Back in December, when the current meme of Top Ten Most Influential books was going around Facebook for the first time, I made a list but never got around to sharing it. I was just tagged (this time it...
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NaBloPoMo?
I offhandedly asked on Twitter a week or so ago, “Is NaBloPoMo still a thing?” Today, being November 1, I went in search of the answer to the question. And while the official Twitter account for the...
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