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  • Addendum to postpartum body woes: Part 3

    Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to turn into a multipart series.  It just . . . happened.  Here’s a short summary: 1) Realized that I was not only not losing weight, but gaining it (slowly)…

    June 10, 2014
  • the weekend so far / body woes follow up

    Josh and I are both off this weekend.  I cannot express how much I LOVE these two-parent weekends!  Based on our call schedules, they theoretically occur 42% of the time, but feel more rare…

    June 8, 2014
  • postpartum body adventures

    I was going to finally do the long-promised planner post — I even took pictures in daylight today! — but both Laura and Ana wrote about weight loss recently, and I feel moved to add my current thoughts.…

    June 6, 2014
  • out of steam

    Ana wrote a post earlier in the week about lacking energy to get in everything she would like in the essential realms of work / kids / marriage.  As I read her post, I didn’t…

    June 4, 2014
  • lessons from the archives

    I decided to browse through my archives today, reading through the months where Annabel was the age that Cameron is now.  I wanted to see what was different and what was the same. A…

    June 2, 2014
  • Some Things I Would Like To Do Someday: A List

    try a barre class see Arcade Fire in concert do a systematic “listen-through” all of the music we own be involved in running / developing a clinical study of some kind cook through another…

    May 30, 2014
  • mostly good things

    good things ➤ work.  I’m feeling more caught up at work.  I was on call Sat/Sun of the 3-day weekend, which allowed me to hole up in the office and complete charts.  VERY NECESSARY.…

    May 28, 2014
  • avoiding the checklist mentality

    A “Perfect” Weekday . . . After all of my grousing, yesterday turned out to be a much better day.  C slept 9 (nine!!) hours straight (6:30p-3:30a) and I went to bed at 9.…

    May 23, 2014
  • hi

    so yes, yesterday was my birthday. It was an extra busy regular work day, so until the evening I wasn’t in much of a celebratory mood.  But we still had a nice time with…

    May 21, 2014
  • 34

    Feeling overwhelmed tired (a bit) stressed thankful…

    May 21, 2014