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Grandpa (a.k.a. my dad) came for his weekly visit today. Toward the end of his visit we went for a short walk in the neighborhood. "You have the blackest squirrels down here," he remarked. I couldn't remember the story of... (continued)

There's been a lot going on in the sleep arena chez nous. (continued)

This quote on Caterina.net (from The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist) really resonates with me: Most of us think that freedom means to keep our options open ... Eventually though, keeping your options endlessly open becomes its own prison.... (continued)

I updated my RSS feed to include the full entries, not just excerpts. I did this because that's the way I like to read sites in Bloglines Google Reader. I get annoyed when it is only an excerpt and I... (continued)

One of the best gifts we received before the baby came was the Happiest Baby on the Block DVD and two fleece swaddling blankets. On the DVD, Dr. Harvey Karp teaches "secrets of the world's top baby calmers*": how to... (continued)

I don't intend for this blog to be only about the baby. It will probably reflect what's going on in my own mind; i.e., 95% baby and 5% other stuff, current events and technology and other Deep Thoughts. Anyway there... (continued)

The nights are not that bad, I swear. I don't mind getting up two or three times a night to feed him; we are up for 30 minutes, quiet and calm, and we go right back to sleep. It's the... (continued)

E is traveling, so I have been a single mom for 13 days. Not that I'm counting. Seriously, how do people do this? Raise children on their own, not for 13 days bu for weeks and months and years? It... (continued)

It's hard to photograph baby feet. I tried saying "hold still, hold still," but that didn't work. So I held them still myself. And got my finger in the picture. When I got my finger out of the picture, I... (continued)

Arm extended, he stares at his fist. He wants to suck on it, but he doesn't bend his elbow. He wills it toward his mouth with all the intensity of Luke Skywalker levitating his X-wing fighter out of the swamp.... (continued)

So anyone who has a baby, or knows someone who has a baby, knows that parents are obsessed with the behavior of their little ones: their wet diapers, poopy diapers, their naps and bottles and nursing habits. For instance, when... (continued)

I should have known better than to be all smug about how well everything is going (at the end of last post). Basically, as soon as I hit "save" on that last entry, things started going downhill. Over the weekend... (continued)

I took the baby to the pediatrician yesterday. It was the first time doing it by myself -- E helped out with all the previous visits, except once, when my dad came instead. I wasn't nervous though. For one thing,... (continued)

My website turned five years old this month. Happy birthday American Robin! Five years ago, I started posting here. Four years ago, I was living "the single life" in DC while E traveled to Mali and Burkina Faso for weeks... (continued)