All My Bags Are Packed…

February 23, 2011

I am 38 weeks and three days pregnant. My hospital bag is packed, Becca’s hospital bag (filled with snacks and toys) is ready to go, and Mark swears that he’s doing his bag today. I finished the last bit of my work for maternity leave last night, unless one client miraculously comes through with the [...]

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How I Will Be Spending My Maternity Leave

February 22, 2011

Happy Top Five Tuesday! By the end of the day, I will officially be on maternity leave. I have four and a half articles to go, and then I am done. Because I work from home, I’m scheduling myself to be back to work, officially, in five weeks (starting at the end of next week). [...]

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Still Here, Still Pregnant

February 16, 2011

It’s been a couple weeks. My only excuse is that I have been beyond busy. And when I’m not busy, I’m too tired to come up with a decent blog post idea. Or I have an idea, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. I am about half-way through week 37. Becca was [...]

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Places She’d Rather Sleep

February 1, 2011

Becca has a beautiful Princess toddler bed. It’s comfortable, it has matching sheets, blankets and pillowcases (also princess, of course), and it’s big enough for her and an armful of stuffed animals. And she would just as soon not take her naps there. This is an almost daily struggle. Some days, I am insistent (the [...]

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Bring On the Baby Stuff

January 29, 2011

After eight months of procrastination, we are now in full baby buying mode. We have a pile of baby stuff on our coffee table, and more stuff stacked beside it. And we’ll be ordering more in the next week. Today’s big adventure was driving to Syracuse to get the playard. Babies-R-Us are having their trade-in [...]

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