Lux et umbra vicissum…

I finally got brave enough to give Branwen her first haircut. The child never stops moving, so even though her hair was getting into her eyes all the time (it’s not thick, but parts of it were getting longish), I was scared to death to cut the stuff. As I sat feeding her lunch and […]

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A little less than a month ago, I was in the pediatrician’s office for Branwen’s one year appointment and he was trying to talk me into getting flu shots for the girls. “I don’t have them yet,” he said, “but I should have them by the time you bring Alexis in for her three year […]

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This will be the seventh month that Joel and I will be trying for our third child. It took us a year to conceive Alexis and six months to conceive Branwen, so this isn’t unusual for us, even if it is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. (Actually, our first baby was conceived in the […]

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Can’t go into it too much or I won’t get to bed at a decent time… again. We missed Alexis’ doctor’s appointment this morning because I forgot that Branwen would need a breathing treatment before we left home and had to do it last minute. I called them on my way and they said, very […]

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I found out on Sunday that the AFA (American Family Association) is calling for a boycott of Procter & Gamble. Focus on the Family is supporting the boycott as well. Upon looking into it a bit more today, I see that the AFA is actually just calling for a boycott of three specific product lines […]

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I finally got Alexis to pedal her tricycle by herself if only for a few pedal strokes. 🙂 Wanna know how I did it? Well, the child has been begging to ride the silly thing in the street because she sees the other kids riding their bikes in the street fairly regularly. I’m not going […]

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We’ve named Branwen’s teddy bear Geronimo because he jumps out of the crib so often. Speaking of jumping out of bed, every once in a while Alexis has a terrible middle of the night. A few hours after going to sleep she’ll start fussing and crying, often pretty loudly. When we go in to try […]

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Once again, I have other things I should be doing, but I wanted to at least follow up on that roofing story. For a bit of background, I should mention that we’ve had a leak in our roof for about a year now. I started trying to get someone out to fix it the day […]

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I want to get to bed early, so I won’t go into my day (which included a charming interlude where roofers were going to perform a desirable yet unauthorized action upon my roof… more on that tomorrow, hopefully). I did want to post something brief, though, because Joel had a really good post earlier today […]

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I don’t know which is sweeter, knowing that Branwen didn’t cry at all in the nursery today or knowing that we managed to accomplish everything with the ten 2 year olds we had in class. We got smart this time and didn’t bring them all to the table at the same time for craft. Instead, […]

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