Jaw surgery update (Glamour-Shot style)

August 9, 2010

The Belle, I’m ecstatic to report, loves herself deeply.  She is impressed by all she does and wants everyone’s applause.
“Lookame!” I hear 10 times a day.  And I look and see a two-year-old who is beautiful and smart and sometimes devious.  I love The Belle’s “lookame!”
I, however, have not been yelling “lookame” too often in [...]

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Potty training in three days (or three years — whatever it takes)

August 4, 2010

I gave Miss D. a bath tonight while The Belle sat on the potty.  I let Miss D. play with her waterproof princesses, pour water from one cup to another and splash around quite a bit more than usual.  It was not a short bath.
All the while, The Belle sat on the itty bitty potty [...]

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How to Start a Blog: Five tips that will either motivate you or totally overwhelm your to-do list

August 3, 2010

I’ve been talking with my aunt lately about her blog, Posts From the Unconscious.  She is about to retire after decades of practicing psychotherapy, and she wants to share some of what she has learned during her career.  So, she started a blog and asked me for some tips on letting people know it is [...]

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Teaching four-year-olds to live in the moment

July 30, 2010

Miss D. told me the other day, “I love you, mommy, even though you had surgery.”
In the car on the way to camp this week, she said, “I have a pretty great life.”
While walking into the children’s museum recently, she randomly told me she doesn’t want to die, but she’ll be happy to see Maya [...]

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Changing the definition of beauty, one Wall Street Journal article at a time

July 28, 2010

It’s not a great time for newspapers.  Ad revenue is being lost to the Web.  Readers are getting their news for free online or not at all.  Few print outlets have figured out how to make money in the new economy.
But the Wall Street Journal is not giving up!  They’ll do whatever it takes to [...]

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Beating the heat – our sweltering Southern summer

July 27, 2010

In case you didn’t know, the deep, deep, DEEP South is really hot in late July.
August is coming.
I’m scared.
Back in the spring, I read a book that gave me a whole new list of things about which to feel guilty.  The girls aren’t outside enough.  They don’t have a treehouse.  We’ve never taken them fishing.
I [...]

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Vote for me, and all your wildest dreams will come true.

July 25, 2010

And now, a pathetic story from my high school days:
I spent four falls of my adolescence in a highly chlorinated pool, trying to pass myself off as an athlete and enjoying the camaraderie of being on a team.  I had a school record in the 100 meter backstroke for about 15 minutes.  I had a [...]

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It’s so cute (and loud! so loud!) when kids start talking

July 23, 2010

I’m over at BirminghamMommy.com today talking about talking.  Specifically, what it’s like to live with two little girls who are big, big talkers.
Sometimes — in the car, in particular – I notice that both girls have stopped talking to me and are simply talking.  Not to each other.  Just talking.  Miss D. is yelling at [...]

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Rubenesque, isn’t she?

July 22, 2010

This week’s You Capture assignment: black & white

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Jaw surgery by the numbers

July 21, 2010

13: Days since surgery
7: Nights since I consumed the glorious narcotic I was prescribed
99: Approximate number of Motrin I’ve taken since then
3: Times The Belle has inadvertently slammed her head into my jaw and made me fear the shattering of my apparently too-thin bone
4: Swear words expressed after opening the bill from the surgeon
10: Deep [...]

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