Many years ago I traveled Europe by myself for a little over a month. It was great fun of course, but I remember being surprised at learning that I am a creature of habit: as much as I enjoyed changing places every few days and meeting new people, I really missed being surrounded by my [...]
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Adventures in Breastfeeding
September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Breastfeeding has gone really well for my nursling and I. I make it and she eats it. The best part about breastfeeding is its portability and, of course, the anecdotes.
My favorite breastfeeding anecdote comes from the time we took Ellie to the Mac Store in downtown Chicago. We had to wait some time for our [...]
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Humans
September 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Northfield
Things got off to a slow start for us socially speaking. We weren’t foolish enough to expect bustle, but we did expect people sitting on porches, going for walks, & playing in the parks. We saw very little of that in early August: we would take Belly for a walk around the neighborhood and see [...]
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Week one
September 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Academia, Carleton
Why did we move to Northfield again? Oh that’s right — I have a job. I’ve known that in the abstract for many a month but, having effectively been off for the better part of the last four months, the reality of it only hit me this week when actual professional obligations started to kick [...]
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DJJD
September 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · EDG, Northfield
This weekend was DJJD here in Northfield, Minnesota. No, not WWJD (it’s not that kind of town), but DJJD: Defeat of Jesse James Days. For those of you not intimately familiar with the history of Northfield and the James-Younger gang, Northfield was the site of a James-Yonger gang robbery that was successfully aborted [...]
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The new regime – a quick update
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments · EDG
Well, less than a week into the new regime and I am thrilled (no seriously, it makes me giddy) to declare the program wildly successful. We put Ellie down drowsy, but awake, at around 7.45. She barely squawks before falling asleep and, here’s the best part, staying asleep. For up to 5 hours. Yay! But [...]
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The new regime
September 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments · EDG
The other night, things hit something of a breaking point: Ellie woke up for something like the third time after a mere 45 minute stretch in the middle of night and would not be soothed back to sleep. What was most striking about the 40 minutes or so Em and I spent trying to settle [...]
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More Human
September 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Ellie has slept moderately better the past two nights. Last night she gave us a 4 1/4 hour stretch (yes, it’s got to the point where we measure in 1/4 hours) which she hasn’t done in well over a week so that was lovely. After the first stretch, she woke every 2 hours but went [...]
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Sleep.
September 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · EDG
Things are tough here in babyland. Right now Daniel is pacing with Ellie upstairs: back and forth, back and forth. I can hear her protest cries and Daniel’s steps growing heavy and more stamp-y and frustrated-sounding with each circumnavigation of our small second floor.
Eleanor used to be a great night sleeper and would give us [...]
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