Category Archives: life as a parent
Enjoying the Classics..
While we have not prohibited the television from our daughter, we are fiercely discriminate about what she is allowed to watch and how much/how often. Lately Mirabelle has become a huge fan of some classics from our childhood which we … Continue reading
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Four P’s
I have realized lately I have been particularly impatient and down right disrespectful towards my daughter. Now you might look at that word “disrespect” as spoken by a parent about her child and think I misspoke but stick with me. … Continue reading
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Too “Wasted” to blog!
Just a week ago I was bragging to friends about how I felt we had finally turned the corner in our two-year struggle to get Mirabelle to sleep as normally as possible. (Obviously as an AP mom I was NOT … Continue reading
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Birthday 2.0
My baby-girl is a baby no more!! As of 11:06 pm last evening, Mirabelle turned two! Its amazing been such an amazing journey thus far. I had so many wonderful and joyous expectations about motherhood and all have been exceeded! … Continue reading
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My Best Birth Celebrity Trailer
From the makers of “The Business of Being Born” comes this next edition! I think this one is going to be good… Check it out:
Filed under life as a parent, pregnancy, video post
A week full of firsts!
That’s right, my daughter Mirabelle experienced a handful of firsts last Wednesday and not one of them was fun or exciting! So, here’s how it all went down: Wednesday around noon, we had just returned from running tons of errands … Continue reading
Filed under health, life as a parent, picture post
Couch-Commando Parenting
I was totally convicted the other day of the parenting I have succumb to lately. I don’t know if it just crept up on me or came out of left field but I have delightfully coined it “couch-commando parenting”. What … Continue reading
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“Keep your Self-Fulfilling Prophesies Away from My Daughter!”
Before the birth of my daughter, my husband and I had one of the thousands of discussions that I’d say all couples have prior to having children (or in those early days of infancy) about how we would parent and … Continue reading
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Night-Weaning (Updated)
Night-Weaning went from going almost too smoothly (which made me suspicious since NOTHING about Mirabelle’s sleep her entire life has been easy), to rough, to non-existent. That’s right, I committed the cardinal sin of CAVING as a result of exhaustion. … Continue reading
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Night-Weaning
I came to a place a few weeks ago where I just couldn’t handle the relentless night-nursing anymore and decided it was time to wean from our night time buffet. If it was once (even the occasional twice) a night … Continue reading
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