Monthly Archives: March 2008

Parenting Wisdom from Captain Hook

March 30, 2008 – 8:32 pm

The kids have had spring break this week; and with a new baby around and Mommy not so spry, that translates into an excessive amount of movie viewing. Hook has been a favorite on the menu. And apparently that results in conversations like this one from tonight with Georgie:
Georgie:  Mom, was Captain Hook right?
Me:  Umm, [...]

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And Baby Makes Eight!

March 25, 2008 – 6:10 pm

Yay! He’s out. Phew! I can sleep on my stomach again, which is clearly the most important point in this entire story. Want to see a picture (of the baby, not me sleeping on my stomach)? Meet our newest monkeyhead (as his Daddy has started calling him already), Henry George Shubin:

Henry was born yesterday [...]

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NOW Would Be Good

March 21, 2008 – 9:15 pm

Actually, I was ready before, but I’m really ready now.
Yesterday I cleaned all three bathrooms, swept the floor downstairs and
vacuumed downstairs (notice mopping was not involved with any of this),
and did all the laundry.
Today I cut all five of the kids’ hair (I always know it’s haircutting
time when Georgie starts to look like the [...]

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Hurry Up, Baby!!!

March 18, 2008 – 1:41 pm

Okay, any time now would be good. Like now. Or in ten minutes. Or now. The midwife came yesterday and I’m 3cm dilated and 60% effaced. This is good in that something is going on and that I’m already done with the early phase of labor before I’ve actually gone into labor. On the other [...]

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Flu 2, Trinity 0

March 13, 2008 – 9:51 pm

Well, a week later I’m starting to finally feel human-y again. Kind of nice since I’ve only been sick for a week!!! Urgh. Of course, now Trinity is sick. When we had this nastiness two or three weeks ago, she and I and Georgie were the only ones who didn’t get it. Apparently, the bug [...]

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Flu 1, Rachel 0

March 9, 2008 – 9:40 pm

And I thought I had managed to avoid the flu when everyone else had it a few weeks ago. Apparently not! I started feeling a bit crummy on Thursday and was full on fever, cough from hell, runny nose, misery, insomnia (worse than the normal 38 weeks pregnant insomnia) by Friday. This is pretty much [...]

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Hurray for being alone!!!

March 4, 2008 – 8:40 pm

Friday morning Hubby and I distributed small children all over town and were back home by ourselves by around 11am. We spent two whole days just the two of us, and it was heavenly. The house was clean (thank you, Tanya, for cleaning my downstairs carpet last week) and is bizarrely quiet with no children [...]

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