Aubrey and Lu are visiting Northfield. It’s wonderful to have them here and we will post properly about it soon enough. But right now, I want to share another exchange I had with my mother:
Me: The Sunday Times is in the living room.
Lucille: It’s on the floor. You must never put a newspaper on the [...]
Entries from November 29th, 2009
“Never put a newspaper on the couch”
November 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Conversations
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You can’t tell me anything
November 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments · EDG
There is a lot of hubris involved in being a new parent; while I’m still trying to teach Eleanor who the baby in the mirror is, she is schooling me.
In my “Baby & Me” class we were given a handout which listed signs that an infant was ready for solid foods. The signs included ability [...]
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First Term
November 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Carleton
Although classes ended on Wednesday, today is officially the end of term. I’m waiting for final papers to come in and then it will be two days of solid grading. Except I’m already ahead of the game because I’m dealing with Carleton students: almost half of the final papers have been turned in early. That’s [...]
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The Outsourcing
November 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · EDG, Uncategorized
I am happy to report that I was accepted into my graduate program and will start a family nurse practitioner course this January. The program is designed for non-traditional students and rural folk like me so my on-campus commitments will actually be pretty slim to start with. However, I’ll still need baby-free time to study. [...]
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Updates
November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · EDG, House, Northfield
Hi all. Sorry we’ve been slow on the blog front. Nothing worthy of a dedicated blog post has happened recently, so this is merely an update post.
1) Ellie is a getting a lot more hair. That’s her sitting in a Bumpo, courtesy of Aimee and Ives. Thanks guys (she loves it)!
2) We took advantage of [...]
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The Halloween That Wasn’t or Why I Will Gain 5 Pounds This Week
November 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
We were preparing for hordes of neighborhood children descending on our house last night for Halloween. I spent – no kidding – 30 minutes at Target deciding how much and what kinds of candy to buy. Since we were new to the neighborhood, I wanted to be generous but purchase candy that had a chance [...]
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