How to milk a birthday in seven easy steps

Posted on December 23, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

1. Get your parents to take you to a garish, family-style Italian restaurant. 2. Make sure they tell the waiter it’s your birthday, too. 3. Before the entire dining room can even finish singing “Happy Birthday dear Rowan,” dive right into the ginormous whipped cream frosted cupcake. 4. Before your parents realize the enormity of [...]

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Place your past into a book

Posted on December 22, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

I know this homemade movie is hardly groundbreaking, nor does it even begin to scratch the surface of his first year. None of these photos or videos are never-before-seen – in fact, all of them are on Flickr – but it’s really something special to see them all again in chronological order, set to music [...]

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One

Posted on December 17, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 18 Comments

Dear Rowan, Today is your birthday. I can’t believe I’m typing that, but there it is. You are now 1. Unfortunately, you are spending a good many hours of your birthday at daycare while your dad and I are at work in order to keep the lights on and the fridge full, but this is [...]

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Santa baby

Posted on December 15, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 9 Comments

I have to admit, I was kind of hoping for a meltdown of epic proportions. But Rowan was as cool as a cucumber meeting Santa for the first time. He walked right up to the guy and was like, “Hey, what up?” Then he was totally distracted by that candy cane, trying to figure out [...]

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Not the baby

Posted on December 10, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Up until very recently, Rowan was the only baby at his daycare. He was just shy of five months old when he started, and this whole time, he was the youngest one there by a good many months. I’ve maintained that this arrangement has been a developmental boon for him, no doubt playing an integral [...]

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Cut, color, cut

Posted on December 2, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Remember when I was featured on Hair Thursday, oh, TWO MONTHS AGO? Well, it only took two hair appointments with two different stylists in two different states, but I think I FINALLY achieved the fresh, updated look I was hoping for when I first requested begged for Sarah‘s assistance. (You can see the before and [...]

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Full circle

Posted on December 1, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Ten years ago, I took a job as a counter girl at a restaurant that specialized in pies. I distinctly remember my first few days there, as it was right before Thanksgiving, and everyone and their mother came in to pick up their pre-ordered fruit and meat pies for the holiday. It was my job [...]

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