Our Baby Notes

Goodbye, Friends
Pregnancy
The thrill is as overwhelming as the uncertainty that dominates your time.
"Do we need that?"
"Breast feeding or bottle?"
"Diaper Genie or Diaper Champ?"
Plus binkies, onsies, unsolicited advice from strangers, and on and on. Your every thought is of just how life-altering that [...]

Six Fitness Tips There are those days the alarm goes off, you hop out of bed, grab your workout gear and workout with total exuberance. And then there’s every single other day. My friend in High School used to say, “I had a fight with my pillow and my pillow won.” She wasn’t much [...]

As I wrote before, starting a family changes the way that a person looks at the world. I find myself considering pro-activity in a totally different way now. Much of it revolves around things financial. But this is normal, isn’t it? Adding a little helpless body to the family provokes feelings of selflessness and a [...]

I don’t mean that in the typical sense. All of my family has been telling me, “Your life has changed forever now” and “Now you can’t just go out and do what you want to do”. Both these and more I will agree with. But, to be perfectly honest, I find my life changing in [...]

Gross
This afternoon as Magoo appeared to be settling in to build a summer home in the city park porta-potty, I got to wondering, “Why do these delightful young people have such a fascination with all things gross and disgusting?”
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What I’ve Learned
I’m so pleased to be joining the fantastic team of bloggers at The Parenting Post. I’m Shannon, and I’m the mom to four kids, ages eleven to three. I’m so pleased that I have the chance to meet up with you here each week. Over a decade into my own [...]

What Did You Bring for Me, Mom?
I just came back from a 5-day trip that was all about me. Okay, it was about work, but it was all about my work. I had adult conversations without being asked to get anyone a meal, drink, or take them somewhere. (Well, technically I did, [...]