Nantucket
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: CDC Reports Examine Childbearing Patterns in Three Different Eras, The Unecessarian Overworked America: 12 Charts that Will Make Your Blood Boil, Mother Jones — Yet another example of why I wonder what is so “great” about living in America. Reading kids’ books: Do we love them?, First Time Second Time — “Will…
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Doing “Mop”
First a note: I meant to get this post out last week, for World Breastfeeding Week. This post is a reflection on my breastfeeding experience so far and includes photos of breastfeeding and personal details about my breasts. If any of that makes you uncomfortable don’t read it; click away and come back tomorrow. 🙂 —– Today…
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Report Card
I feel sorry for my poor neglected blog, but it seems like it’s been one thing after another these past few weeks. And this last week was all about World Breastfeeding Week. I spent all my spare time before and after childcare planning and executing. It all started with, last Saturday, an informational table at the farmer’s…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Bedsharing Rocks, Gregarious Peach — I love the joy in this post and the photo of those delicious baby toes (and cloth-diapered bottom!). Even though I greatly enjoy not nursing all night or feeling squished off the bed, I do often miss having Miss Nora in bed with us. If only…
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A to Z
This is going to be one of those ridiculous boasting parent posts. But really, Nora never stops amazing me. I hadn’t heard her say anymore than ABC and then tonight in the bathtub she just whips out the whole alphabet. And she can, by the way, count to ten, too. I just have to say,…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Campbell Soup fights the salt wars, Food Politics — Campbells decides to add all the salt back in to help their bottom line. “Make no mistake: food companies are not social service agencies. When it comes to a commitment to public health, the bottom line is all that counts.” Phone Therapy…
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At It Again
It’s after midnight and I have a million things on my to-do list. Next week is world breastfeeding week and I have been busy, busy, busy planning the week’s events. I’ll be teaching my first ever breastfeeding class which is really exciting but also a little nerve-racking. I went around town putting up fliers, my…
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And The Rest Of It
As I wrote in my last post, we had a grand old time on vacation in New Hampshire, doing all kinds of new and exciting things and spending time with my family.But not everything was easy swinging, as is life with a toddler… It goes without saying, horseshoes were not the only things being thrown.…
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From One Island to Another
It’s been quiet around here, because I was away on vacation with no internet access. I had intended to write posts and have them publish automatically while I was gone, but with everything else that needed to get done before I left, it just didn’t happen. I hope you didn’t miss me too much! We…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Avocado and cucumber gazpacho, Running With Tweezers — I HAVE to make this! Google’s impressive healthy food program, Food Politics — Really interesting. I like the vending machine pricing strategy: “one cent per gram of sugar, two cents per gram of fat, four cents per gram of saturated fat, one dollar…
