Why am I soft in the middle, the rest of my life is so hard

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 22 Comments

I gave myself a year. After I had Rowan, I decided I wasn’t going to stress out about losing the weight I gained during pregnancy. I wasn’t going to join a gym. I wasn’t going to go on some crazy starve-myself diet. For the first year, I was just going to focus on being a [...]

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Toddlerday

Posted on March 29, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 11 Comments

I was prepared for the worst. I had special snacks and treats and never-before-seen toys and trinkets. I wore easy slip-on shoes and left my laptop at home. Along with a stack of diapers and an emergency change of clothes, I stuffed into my backpack a metric ton of patience in anticipation of traveling alone [...]

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Flying solo

Posted on March 24, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 14 Comments

A couple weeks ago, I was driving back from dropping Roth off at the Nissan dealership to pick up his new-used car that had just been serviced when I looked back and noticed that Rowan had somehow finagled his left arm out of the car seat restraints and was red-faced and flustered as he tried [...]

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Not your mom’s smooth jazz

Posted on March 22, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Every time I told someone who we were going to see in concert last night, I’d get that blank, wait-who? stare. It surprises me that not a lot of people know of Jamie Cullum and his music, which we’ve been enjoying for many years now, and yet the utterance of his name just doesn’t really [...]

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Nature boy

Posted on March 20, 2010 | Category: Saturday Snapshot | 2 Comments

Here, Rowan channels his inner Mark Wahlberg* at breakfast this morning by chatting it up with a ficus tree. Right before this, he tried to offer it one of his Cheerios. Hey, at least it was a real plant. *From The Happening, one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of all time. Equally hilarious Andy [...]

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The toddling gourmet*

Posted on March 11, 2010 | Category: The Toddling Gourmet | 9 Comments

It’s no secret that Roth and I are pleased as punch that our son, so far, is a stellar eater. Really, there’s nothing we’ve given him that he hasn’t gobbled up with the zest and zeal of a seasoned foodie. We recently watched in delight as he nom-nom-ed his way through a Chinese New Year [...]

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I hope you have a big trunk …
because I’m puttin’ my bike in it

Posted on March 9, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Before Roth’s car accident, we had no immediate plans to get him a different car until at least my car was paid off. This is why we sunk $700 of maintenance into his Acura, in the hopes he could continue driving it for another three or four years, and THEN we’d think about taking on [...]

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Cinenigma

Posted on March 5, 2010 | Category: Cinenigma | 17 Comments

The other day, I discovered the Taste Preference section of our Netflix account. There I was prompted to choose what types and which genres of movies I prefer to watch through an exhaustive series of Never, Sometimes and Often buttons. Some of the options for the subject matter section were pretty hilarious, like “Monkey” (think: [...]

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Winner, winner

Posted on March 3, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 2 Comments

First off, thanks to all for your support of my new blog space to the tune of 50+ comments! Of course, I’m sure the prospect of an easy giveaway sweetened the deal and got a few of the quieter followers to speak up. For the most part, everyone seems to like the new look, and [...]

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The good, the bad, and the goofy

Posted on March 2, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Let’s get the bad out of the way first, shall we? About a week and a half ago, Roth was in a pretty bad car accident. Thankfully, he was not injured, but his car — his beloved 1997 Acura Integra, the car just three days prior he spent $700 on for a new timing belt [...]

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