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From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Sometimes you just have to jump in the leaves

November 20, 2009

It’s been a great season for leaf jumping: dry, warm, mostly sunny. The leaves pile up in big gold drifts of fun. And the kids pile into them, like kids do. Love it!

Tagged as: rio, serena

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Birthday Rum Spiced with 21 Hot Peppers

November 17, 2009

Bridget’s dad had a birthday party over the weekend. I helped him celebrate by drinking rum spiced with 21 hot peppers. That was even better than I thought it would be, and I thought it was worth walking across town for. Dead simple recipe: Grow little hot red peppers all summer. Watch them ripen. Harvest [...]

Tagged as: baby, birthday, bridget, witchcraft

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Creative doll repair or Pocket Bondage Princess?

November 12, 2009

I came downstairs today to find this in Serena’s hand. She was cooing over her precious ‘daughter’. Serena is obsessed with these little dolls. Their heads break off easily and can’t be reattached via normal means. Serena refuses to give up on the dolls, and keeps presenting their parts to her daddy saying, “Fix! Fix! [...]

Tagged as: funny, serena, toys

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Strollerderby, Hospital rejects birth plans

November 11, 2009

I’ve just joined the staff at Strollerderby, the “mother of all parenting blogs”. One of my first articles, “Hospital Rejects Birth Plans”, has started a little comments riot over there. To whit: A hospital in Provo, UT, has posted a sign telling women that if they want a birth plan, a doula or a Bradley [...]

Tagged as: birth, blogs, feminism, homebirth

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You ate the bride’s bouquet?!

November 11, 2009

Last month, while the world celebrated World Food Day, I attended a good friend’s wedding, and, with help from the rest of the wedding party, raucously ate the bride’s bouquet. Eating her bouquet? My friend, concerned about the environmental impact of the cut flower industry, carried a beautiful bunch of flowering kale down the aisle. [...]

Tagged as: food

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Brigid, healthy happy and growing

November 10, 2009

It’s been a few weeks since I posted about Bridget, the baby whose birth I attended a little over a month ago. Everyone’s warm wishes and prayers were abundantly answered. Bridget is home with her family, nursing and growing and looking at shadows and lights. She is in every respect entirely like a healthy new [...]

Tagged as: baby, bridget, rio

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Not quite “Non-Consumption”

November 9, 2009

I posted recently at Wise Bread about “frugality fatigue”, the idea that Americans are tired of being frugal and breaking out their wallets for a little party time. I might resemble those remarks. In the past few months, I’ve bought: The car. The first new bras I’ve bought since my last baby was born. They’re [...]

Tagged as: finance, frugality, money

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This is the litter in my neighborhood

November 6, 2009

This is the neighborhood I live in: one where the night life leaves empty whiskey bottles under the play structure at our neighborhood park. But its good whiskey. In other playground news, Rio took up the torch of mysterious medical problems with a swollen knee that has stopped us from most playing outside in the [...]

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Learning her letters

November 2, 2009

Serena was running down the gallery above her sister’s swim class when she caught sight of something that stopped her cold: a plaster bust wearing a baseball cap. She walked around it very carefully. She got down on all fours to examine it from below. She pointed and looked meaningfully at her mama, who is [...]

Tagged as: education, reading, serena

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Adding Disqus comments

November 2, 2009

A few of you probably noticed this over the weekend: ChildWild has a new comment system. I’ve enabled Disqus comments on my blog, in the hopes of making things more conversational. The main reason I chose it was so that readers can login and be notified when people respond to their comments. I’m hoping this [...]

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