December 2010
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Letter to My Children About Their Sleeping Habits
(Not a Lazy Recycling of Old Material from May 2010 because I have a one-week-old baby… but a “Best of Mammalingo”)
First off, I have to tell you both how much I love you. You have surpassed my wildest expectations about what it would be like to have kids. It sounds trite, but I really feel like the luckiest mom in the world. But, sweet boys, please know that I’m tired. It’s not because you are...
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Merry Christmas
To those of you who celebrate Christmas, I wish you a happy and peaceful holiday. And, while we’re at it, Happy New Year to all of you too. Speaking of next week and the week after, I have asked author Eric Ruhalter of The KidDictionary to be a guest contributor on Mammalingo, and he has graciously agreed. So, if you were planning to take a vacation with limited Internet access, I suggest making...
Boy Crazy
I’m home — and now a mother of three boys! As my husband said, the trilogy is complete. But, someone needs to tell tell that to my three year old who took one look at me today when I walked in the door and asked, “You’re having another baby?”
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If I Wrote the Sleep Books
I have a short post on Babble.com today where I poke a little fun at sleep books — http://bit.ly/dMv3YI
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"If I Could Turn Back Time"
Okay, so, let’s say that you had access to a time machine. (It’s almost 2011. I am sure someone has figured this out.) If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice on your first day as a new parent, what would it be? I was thinking of this because I’m about to (any day now — and if you saw me in person, you’d nod in agreement) have baby three, and I was thinking...
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My Breast Pump: Why Did Words Suddenly Appear...
Back in September, I asked all of you if it ever sounded like your electric breast pumps spoke words — like mine had. Many of you responded either to the blog or by email. To all of you who contributed, thank you again. If I was a crafty gal, I’d make up t-shirts for us. But, alas, I’m not crafty. However, I did write up a short essay about it for the parenting website, Babble.com. The essay...
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