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  • weekend anticipation!

    Josh and I are both off this weekend!  EXCITED. Basking in the anticipation right now 🙂  I love it when we are both off!   These weekends theoretically comprise 47% but it still always…

    June 5, 2015
  • Whole30(ish)

    So I’m 3 days into a Whole30.  I’m sure I haven’t been following every law to the letter (example: I use butter without clarifying it to make my morning eggs.  OMG!).  However, it has forced…

    June 4, 2015
  • Summer Bucket List

    (Totally inspired by Laura Vanderkam, which is not unusual around these parts.  Also: review of her new book will be in a post in the next few days!) Family Take family vacation to NC (Yes,…

    June 3, 2015
  • KidStuff: leaving the baby stage

    It’s been a while since I wrote any sort of update related to A&C.  It’s amazing to me how quickly things have changed over the past 3-4 months.  Especially with C, but with both…

    June 3, 2015
  • notebooks

    For my birthday, my college BFF/organization soulmate Vickie sent me an obscenely adorable Smythson notebook.  I haven’t written in it yet, because I have not decided what would be worthy, but I am looking…

    June 2, 2015
  • ALL IN: a weekend report

    This weekend was awesome.  We (we = me+kids) did something every morning — Saturday we hit an indoor playground, Sunday a playdate outside, and Monday our favorite children’s museum (Young At Art – we are…

    May 26, 2015
  • ALL IN

    It’s 3-day weekend time!  With both kids!  And Josh is on call! And I’m actually pretty pumped. I really liked Laura’s post yesterday, in which she started by discussing ways to gracefully exit a conversation (her…

    May 23, 2015
  • 35

    I just went back and looked at the posts I wrote on my 25th birthday, and my 30th.  All I can say is: I’m sorry I’m so cheesy so much of the time!  Especially…

    May 21, 2015
  • Not-so-simple living

    I feel like such a contradiction sometimes.  I am very attracted to the idea of a very frugal, minimalist lifestyle.  But only in theory.  Because when I actually attempt to consider what life would…

    May 14, 2015
  • Protected time

    When you are an academic physician (which I am not, but stay with me), there’s this mythical concept of Protected Time.  This time is not used for outpatient visits or leading on the wards,…

    May 12, 2015