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THE MOTHER HOOD
Thinner Thursday
Submitted by Mommy's Miracle blog on 07.29.10 at 8:45am.
I've tried to work out before. Do you know what has always been my downfall? Getting sick. Each and every time I get myself into a routine, sickness strikes and I fall out of it, never really getting back into the swing of things.
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Spa Day For Mommy-to-be
Submitted by Angie All The Way on 07.29.10 at 7:27am.
Last week the husband pulled out his "husband of the year" badge and purchased me a promotional package from a new down town spa, Cas Spa & Salon on Dresden Row. Perfect for a mommy-to-be to pamper herself on her first week of maternity leave waiting for baby to arrive any day :-) *mwah*
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woefully behind the times
Submitted by Days Go By on 07.26.10 at 8:37am.
Wow, and I just got used to the idea of summer....
R has a very cool pool noodle. It's white, striped with red, and looks like a giant candy-stick.
Cass, of course, is cool and disinterested and secretly lusts for one (preferably without the red stripe) of his own.
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The Labour Whisperer
Submitted by Angie All The Way on 07.26.10 at 8:03am.
So the husband thinks he has a special "baby birthday sixth sense" because he predicted the day our friends would have their baby girl last year. She ended being born on his birthday (Aug 1st) and she was due on the exact same day that I am due this year, August 5th! What are the chances!
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Cool Love
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.26.10 at 6:13am.
I am standing at the change table, changing Sylvie's diaper. Luke is behind me. Suddenly, he croons sweetly, "I loooooove you."
"Who do you love?" I tease.
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"Leash" Time
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 07.23.10 at 6:54am.
Ok, that title makes this sound crude... but it's not.
Lately, now that Jane is walking as her primary "method of transportation", I've been having these horrible "daydreams" about her getting hit by a car. I know. It's graphic. It's brutal and it ROTS my mind.
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Just say no...
Submitted by Curtains Are Open blog on 07.22.10 at 7:05am.
've always been the kind of mom who struggles to keep kids young as long as you can. We're in this society where everyone wants to grow up too fast.
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Celebrity Rant
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 07.22.10 at 6:58am.
Dear Tom Cruise,
I'm pretty certain I'm like the only person left in the world who doesn't think you're some crazy alien-loving weirdo... therefore, you should definitely send me some money. Thank you. PS - Wish you were taller or that someone hadn't pointed out to me just how short you are.
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I'm melting!
Submitted by Days Go By on 07.20.10 at 8:10am.
Like an ice cube in a tall glass of lemon-bedecked iced tea.
(mmmh.)
Yes, the weather is hot. But c'mon, it's summer! Where I live we dream all winter about heat, glorious heat that doesn't radiate from the wood stoves or the baseboard heaters, heat you don't have to pay for. Bright clear yello...
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A Nursery for Our Peanut
Submitted by Angie All The Way on 07.19.10 at 7:32am.
There are A LOT of exciting things in preparing for the arrival of a baby, but preparing the nursery nearing your expected time of arrival really brings it all together in such an exciting way!
The Bedding
I started scowering the net looking for ideas as to where to start and I figured the bedd...
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I think I can...
Submitted by Curtains are Open on 07.19.10 at 7:03am.
Sometimes my kids have me do things that are totally out of my comfort zone... and yet... I find myself doing them anyway.
For instance... last year I took the kids swimming at the hotel pool up the road.
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Giant Dollhouse Furniture and a Marbelous Table
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.15.10 at 6:34am.
This show of scaled-up dollhouse furniture, by artist Tineke Beunders, happened a couple of years ago now. Creepy that you can't see her reflection in the mirror, no?
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The Princess Playdate
Submitted by The Newcomer on 07.14.10 at 8:04am.
st hour: At The Beauty Salon. Ferocious nail polishing, choosing and discussing from over 20 different shades, including the summer’s hot colour: green.
2nd hour: Fashion Show. Two girls are models, the third is cameraman (using my cellphone) and stylist. The princess models a strapless grey an...
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Genius Idea
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 07.14.10 at 7:05am.
So, I'm making Jane's breakfast this morning and she just loves berries - of any kinds, actually fruit of any kind which is great. The strawberries that I bought are "wild" (not like party wild, like natural wild :p tee hee hee) so they are smaller than the unnaturally impossibly HUGE strawberrie...
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Good Questions Or, Philosophy & the Young Child
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.14.10 at 6:29am.
I believe I've mentioned Luke's disconcerting obsession with death once or twice -- thanks very much to commenter Merle Harris (is this you, Merle?) who suggested Jan Thornhill's I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life and Death.
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Trying to Beat the Heat
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.12.10 at 6:35am.
A new air conditioner.
And some raspberry sherbet.
It's not the heat, or the humidity, or even the humanity.
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I Give Up
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 07.8.10 at 6:44am.
Jane's got a rash. Started on Sunday on her feet and now it's all over her except her face. It's little red bumps every where - on her hands, bottoms of her feet, everything.
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Mysteries Solved
Submitted by Type Alice on 07.7.10 at 6:17am.
We’ve finally got some answers about Ash’s suspected food sensitivities. The “Food Specific IgG Antibody Assessment” (a blood test) confirmed that he’s:
Highly reactive to:
Egg White
Egg Yolk
Garlic
Kamut
Pineapple
Rye
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Time Flies
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 07.6.10 at 7:03am.
Got caught up looking at what seem like "old" pictures tonight... Reminiscing about an amazing year.
June 2009... this must be where "slept like a baby" comes from because that's basically all she did at this point. Sleep, eat, sleep, eat, poop, eat, sleep.... 8lbs, 8oz, 21 inches long
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Super Sexy
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 07.2.10 at 7:44am.
Currently, I sound like a mix between an 85 yr old smoker and Miley Cyrus... super sexy. I never get sick but apparently I am also going to have the "year from hell" as far as transitioning to daycare and getting every sickness known to man. Everyone keeps telling me NOW that the first year of da...
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I rocked the soak!
Submitted by Motherhood: Surviving Bliss on 06.30.10 at 7:20am.
Seems like a silly phrase "rock the soak" until you do it... then you will get the hype behind this phenomenon! Without exaggerating a tiny bit I can honestly say this is simply the best laundry EVERYTHING.
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The Sick Situation
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.30.10 at 7:16am.
My first week working again was definitely challenging but not in the way I expected. I expected to be exhausted, worn out, overwhelmed, etc. Instead, it was just utter chaos! Of course, Jane's basically been sick since she started daycare which is awesome (sarcasm, duh) and I picked her up after...
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wetly
Submitted by Days Go By Blog on 06.28.10 at 8:23am.
The pool is up, and running, and is being enjoyed for the fourth time today.
Four times of rough housing, floating, diving, carousing, swimming, hitting each other with pool noodles, inventing new games and screeching for the sheer joy of it.
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On Heat. And Marriage.
Submitted by Crooked House on 06.28.10 at 6:22am.
The family is sitting in the car, waiting for the air conditioning to kick in
Luke (whining): I'm hot.
David: Nice to meet you, Hot. I'm Fred.
Luke (whining louder): I'm hot. I'm really hot.
David: Nice to meet you, Hot. I'm Fred.
Luke (starting to cry angrily): I'm HOT!
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Back to Work
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.25.10 at 7:08am.
Seeing as I haven't written since Monday, it's got to be obvious that being back at work means less time (duh) for "me" things. And, technically, today was my first full day so I haven't even gotten into the groove yet! :) I will say, I'm enjoying being on the go and busier and such. I will also ...
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Sylvie Recommends: CAT!
Submitted by Crooked House on 06.24.10 at 6:34am.
Sylvie has a new favourite book that she can't stop babbling about. It's called Cat by Matthew Van Fleet and everyone in this house has now become deeply, intimately familiar with it.
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Verclempt...
Submitted by Curtains Are Open blog on 06.23.10 at 7:32am.
We take these darlings home from the hospital... a whole lifetime of love and adventure ahead of them. We learn to swaddle them, bathe them, ponder their every need.
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All Expo'd Out!
Submitted by Motherhood: Surviving Bliss on 06.22.10 at 8:13am.
We survived the family expo! Not only survived but we had a great time. Met some wonderful people such as Tara at Pure Images, The wonderful ladies at Skin Fix, and caught up with Tanya Sheilds too! (she's the one that photographed Riley at 12 days old)
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Murderous Molars
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.22.10 at 8:08am.
I'm exhausted. Jane has three molars coming in and I want my child back (my pre-teething, super sweet, always happy, no trouble child). Instead, the last few nights I've gotten, probably, less than 3 straight hours sleep with 5 hours of waking up pretty much every 15 minutes because Jane's screec...
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Will It Ever End?
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.18.10 at 7:35am.
Oh my goodness, will the teething ever end? Seriously. Jane's miserable. She's got a top and bottom molar coming in and, as a result, she's a child I've never met before - cranky, whiny, fussy... it's awesome. It's not really annoying or anything, it just makes me feel so bad for her.
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Sick Day
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.17.10 at 7:45am.
Jane woke up with a fever today of 38.8 (Celsius). So, we're headed to the docs at lunch time. Poor little thing. And, of course, I'm stressed out (aside from the fact that my baby is sick) because she was supposed to have two full days of daycare today and tomorrow so that she'd be totally ready...
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Happy First Birthday, Vie!
Submitted by Crooked House on 06.17.10 at 6:48am.
Today this child turned one year old. Luke, who strongly believes that children display dramatic signs of growth on the day of their birth -- he was certain his arms and legs were demonstrably longer on his own birthday -- was surprised to note that she didn't look much different today than she d...
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The unglamourous side of birth
Submitted by Motherhood: Surviving Bliss on 06.16.10 at 7:16am.
Rather then type out a long blog about my birthing experience I'm going to do it in point form. There are things people don't tell you about prenatal, birth and post natal "experiences" that I think they should have a book about.
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Lions and Tigers and Bears! OH MY!
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.15.10 at 7:25am.
We went to the wildlife park on the weekend. What a blast! I probably enjoyed it more than Jane but she seemed to be quite happy herself. I wish there were more things like that where we live - zoos, aquariums, etc. That's the problem, sometimes, with living in smaller areas - none of the luxurie...
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sweet child of mine
Submitted by Days Go By on 06.11.10 at 8:08am.
Rosey has been fighting a cold. Or a virus, although I really think her vomiting (which has only happened a few times, and only seems to happen just before bed) is mostly due to nasal drip irritating her sinuses.
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Did you know...
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.10.10 at 7:22am.
Did you know that teething causes cold-like symptoms? I did not know this. Here I am thinking that Jane's been sick once a month for the last 4 months and not understanding why she's regularly getting this running nose (clear fluids only) with no other cold symptoms (cough, etc.). Her first cold ...
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Family Crest: Attacking Baby Swans
Submitted by Crooked House on 06.10.10 at 6:43am.
My cousin Tonya (of Pauline's Cookbook, a blog devoted to our grandmother's cookbook specifically and Slovak food, family history, and culture more generally) is in Eastern Europe doing a little research.
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Birthday Breakdown
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.9.10 at 7:20am.
I have no time anymore.
Here's the quick version of what I learned about birthday parties:
(1) If your child isn't walking, don't bother with an expensive birthday dress - Jane wore hers for 20 minutes and was getting super pissed that she couldn't crawl in it. I took pictures, let everyone see...
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I forgot about this…
Submitted by Type Alice on 06.9.10 at 6:42am.
I’m on my third IUD in the past two years. I started with Mirena, but because I was (and still am) nursing, I didn’t like the idea of taking anything hormonal regardless of studies that said it was safe. I also had it removed because Clive and I thought it might be a good time to get pregnant again
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Daycare Day#1
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.8.10 at 7:19am.
Ok, don't think I'm going to let the birthday party experience go by unspoken of but my sis and fam are still here today so I don't have tons of time... It's a "must do" for tomorrow! :)
Today Jane started her transition week to daycare. Day one has Mommy and babe coming and staying together for...
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Exit...Stage Left
Submitted by Third Street Studio on 06.4.10 at 7:28am.
My Gorgeous loves to dance and sing - basically anything dramatic. She often performs rock star shows for us with her pink guitar. She begins by going into the kitchen to 'get ready'.
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Whirlwind Trip to Scotland
Submitted by Crooked House on 06.4.10 at 6:20am.
Last Wednesday evening I made a whirlwind trip to the Scottish countryside to help my dear childhood friend Sara celebrate her marriage. I am now back home, feeling very whirled and very winded and very excited about taking David and the kids back there as soon as we can swing it.
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Two Cakes Down...
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.3.10 at 7:23am.
Two cakes down, only cupcakes to go... I'm getting in touch with my inner baking-diva today, preparing for Jane's birthday party on Saturday. My kitchen is a complete disaster... and not just from me baking, from Jane playing. She gets into the cupboards and keeps herself occupied while I bake.
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Parenting, Infant Care & Breastfeeding 101
Submitted by Angie All The Way on 06.2.10 at 7:46am.
In Halifax, our health care offers a series of pre-natal classes for pregnant women and their partners. There is an "extended" series where you go once per week for around 8 weeks and there's also a "condensed" version where you go for two afternoons. I had heard from several people that they d...
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betcha I forget this, and soon
Submitted by Days Go By on 06.1.10 at 7:58am.
How do I manage to get absolutely nothing done and still be busy as a bee? A question for the ages.
Last weekend was fun, albeit boy-less - Saturday he had a sleepover and Sunday, the kids went with their auntie to see Peter Pan in the theatre (Mama! They flew!!) and a good time was had by all...
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Busy Day
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 06.1.10 at 6:45am.
Can't "chat" right now - busy day ahead!
Jane's got her 12 month vaccines today (even though her birthday isn't until Saturday), plus Dan's getting a physical cause he's "always tired" (which has almost gotten him murdered on several occasions :p) and I am hoping to get back on "the pill".
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A Day in the Life...
Submitted by MOmMy bRaIn on 05.31.10 at 6:59am.
Was thinking this morning as I took care of one of the hundreds of things I do during the day... perhaps I should share this. For the Moms-to-be (pregnant or not) - so you get an understanding of your life post-baby. The more experienced Mommas may enjoy reflecting back on the craziness that was ...
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