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DIY: Happy Birthday Flag
I decided to jump on the blogger bandwagon and take photos of my son to commemorate some of his age milestones. I’m not as diligent as the folks over at Young House Love, so I will not be taking his photo every single week. Instead, I’ll do it once a month for the first year and then once a year for every subsequent year. The vision is that he will sit in the same chair and hold the same flag each year. I can already see his begrudging 13 year-old face when I ask him to pose for that year’s photo…… Read MoreI wanted to make the project as simple
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Enter to Win
Henry – The Gambler from Sara Matthew Hoss Hop-sing Clem on Vimeo
My zany Partner in Awesomeness is hosting a Dance/Sing Along Video Contest over on his blog![Editor’s Note: Please don’t ask me what the prize is. It’s the same kind of thing Matt gave me for birthday after birthday and Christmas after Christmas until I finally decided that I couldn’t stomach a lifetime of said present and I finally had to have the baby-I-love-you-but-you-need-to-get-better-at-picking-out-presents-since-we’re-in-this-for-the-long-haul conversation.]
You can view our entry above and head over to his blog to enter!
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Savoring This Stage
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The difficulty of those first few weeks of new motherhood is already starting to recede into the horizon like tall buildings shrinking into dots as our train barrels ahead.
We dance to the same rhythm each day. We breastfeed on the couch in Henry’s room. I caress his wispy hair, always smiling at his perpetual bed head. Then we move into his awake time. Sometimes he lays on his stomach, straining to lift his head to look at the black and white accordion book stretched out all around him. Other times, he is on his back, learning to track movements by watching his mobiles. Or we plop ourselves on a
