Archive for December, 2009
Handmade Christmas Ornament Swap #1
In an effort to start holiday traditions for our family, I am participating in two handmade ornament swaps this season. The first was with our friends from my local attachment parenting forum. I met this group of friends when we first moved back to Kansas City in the fall of… 
Kieran’s Second Year
I started to suspect that my water was leaking on the morning of December 10, 2007. I met Tom for an early lunch, and we gaped at one another – astonished by the fact that the previous 37 weeks was going to culminate in a baby – over plates overflowing…
Kieran’s First Year
At about 12:00p.m. on December 10 two years ago, I realized that my water had, indeed, broken. So began 31 hours of labor. I can recall the faintest scraps of that first 24 hours in vivid detail . . . -a red light that lasted for an eternity on my…
Ho Ho Ho, How Do You Santa?
We have decided not to “do” Santa with Kieran. By that, I mean we’re not going to help Kieran believe that Santa is a real person, and we won’t be following the news reports of “sleigh spottings” on Christmas Eve. More likely we will explain that there is a story…
Tough Love? No Way, Baby!
(This post is the first post in the Second Tuesday Parenting Blog Carnival. If you are participating, please add your name/URL to the widget below this post.) “We’re glad to see you . . . We’re sorry you had to come.” So says Time Magazine to our newborns, who are…
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