Cucumbers

My sister-in-law has been saying that she has more cucumbers than she can eat and I told her to send some my way. So last night I found this bucket in my kitchen when I came home from visiting the neighbors.
Hmm… don’t think I can eat fifty-some cucumbers all by myself – I’m the only [...]

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Eight weeks

Eli has been giving us social smiles since eight days of age, but this is the first clear, awake picture we’ve caught with him smiling.
My mom wants to get a birth announcement in the local paper with a picture of both Jubilee and Eli.  I’m thinking we’ll use either this one…
or maybe this one.

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Seven weeks

My little man is almost seven weeks old now.
Before my daughter was born, my best friend’s number one piece of advice was, “Take lots of pictures. They grow up so fast.” Ain’t it the truth.
This picture cracks me up, because the moment I saw it, I was reminded of a picture my husband took of [...]

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Five years

As of last week, we have been married for five years. The fourth year, I think, was our hardest, but this past year has been our best year yet. I think we’ve been together long enough that 1) we now see eye-to-eye on most of the big issues, childrearing being the biggest one, and 2) [...]

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I am in love

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Career thoughts

So yeah, I admit it. Going through childbirth and having a baby around again has completely revitalized my interest in becoming a labor and delivery and/or postpartum nurse. That is the reason I “sold out” and went to nursing school, after all, before getting sidetracked into NICU and Peds. Witnessing the Scariest Birth Ever as [...]

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I like this

“…a pitcher longs for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”
From Marge Piercy’s poem, “To Be of Use”

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