From the monthly archives:

March 2008

School Blues

March 31, 2008

So the private school we thought we were sending Rio to next year just told me that they made an error on her financial aid award, and the actually expect us to pay just under $10K a year, not the just under $5K I had thought. I can’t see that as Right Action; even if [...]

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baby kisses

March 20, 2008

Serena has begun to experiment with kissing, and is giving new meaning to the term “sucking face”, as she seems to think kissing is about puckering up, making eye contact, then diving toward my face and latching on to my nose.

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lawyer is not a nice word

March 13, 2008

Driving home from preschool today, Rio and I fight about whether or not she can ride in the booster seat. I tell her that we’ll talk to her doctor at her fourth birthday, but that right now she is not big enough to safely ride in a booster. Rio: “It’s safer than my car seat [...]

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Edjumakated

March 11, 2008

Rio has been accepted (the shock of absolutely no one) to Fayerweather School in Cambridge. This school was the most like her current preschool of all the ones we looked at, and also reminded me a lot of Sarah Lawrence, in good ways. They offered us about a 70% tuition grant, bringing the total we’d [...]

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Laziest. Mama. Ever.

March 6, 2008

Why do I breastfeed? Too lazy for bottles. Cosleep? Too lazy to put the baby in a crib. Babywearing? Too lazy to carry a stroller around, keep it clean, set t up and break it down, etc…Why is my baby napping in a sling on my chest? Too lazy to take her upstairs and put [...]

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Serena went pee in the potty!

March 3, 2008

I thought I’d try practicing this EC thing we keep hearing about before I invest in a fresh set of expensive diapers. So I bought a book and a little red Baby Bjorn potty. I have niether read the book nor tried the baby potty. But for the past three days I’ve been sitting Serena [...]

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