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Suddenly, my children are old. My daughter puts herself to sleep every night with a couple of books, gets up in the morning by herself, picks out her own clothes, brushes her own hair and dashes out the door with no problem. My son doesn’t nurse anymore, plays on the computer by himself “Mommy, you …

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Am I having my third or my fifth child? It’s my third, it’s my husband’s fifth. And depending on where you know me from, I’m either out of my mind crazy to be having my FIFTH, or oh, that’s sweet, you’re having your third. I feel like it’s a bigger statement, this is my fifth …

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Forgive me yet another post on weaning… but it boggles my mind that Sam’s actually done nursing. Really, really done. I’m still floored. We’ve got a couple of issues surrounding no longer nursing – one is the lack of an afternoon nap, I’ve got one cranky kid. I used to be able to put him …

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The Jewish religion, some say, is founded on Shabbat. It’s the most holy day of the week, more important that the High Holidays, than Passover. My perception is that it’s the foundation – God asks that you take one day a week to hold up, to stop doing everything and just exist. Focus on friends, …

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Sam’s been really in the process of weaning for, oh, let’s say, the past two years. But the past month or so, he’s really cut down. He was still nursing at least once or twice a day, but only for a few minutes, and every now and then, he’d skip a day entirely. Last night, …

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My poor girl has hives. No real reason that I can discern, she’s been getting them since she was tiny, two or three times a year, she goes for a week or so with waves of hives. It’s more likely to happen in the winter, and once she starts, she’ll get them off and on …

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Day Three of She’s Not My Job in the mornings is going well… Jess was exhausted and refused to get out of bed today. Marc calmly told her that we were leaving in forty minutes and if she wanted to get dressed and have breakfast before school, she should get up. If she didn’t, he’d …

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It was touch and go for a while there… but Jess made it out the door without a fit. She was up too late last night and there were several moments when I know if I had been the one in charge we would have ended up screaming at each other. But Marc told me …

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Feeling a LOT better this morning… for a couple of different reasons. Yesterday, I spent the whole day with just Marc and my two kids – I think sometimes I get overwhelmed with having a thousand people here and just being able to relax with my family made things better for me. Plus we started …

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I’m not a girl who tends towards depression. I actually really don’t have a lot of patience with depression (freely acknowledging that I have no actual experience with clinical depression). Garden variety sadness isn’t my thing. I’m not perpetually happy, frequently (in the interest of honesty) I can be bitchy or irritable, impatient, lazy. I’ve …

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