It has been a week of firsts. Eleanor started crawling, started waving (that weird, hand-folding wave that, for whatever reason, grown-ups use with kids. Eleanor now waves to herself because that’s what she sees. She doesn’t yet get that just as we wave to her, she should wave to us) and started saying “Da da” [...]
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Schindler’s List
February 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · EDG
They say that regular posting is the life-blood of a good blog. We have failed. But we have a good reason: we were in Chicago for three days without Eleanor. How wonderful and stressful but mostly wonderful. We were very sorry not to be able to show-off Ellie to all of our friends, but it [...]
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Looks Like Ike
February 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · EDG
We watched a PBS documentary about the bombing of Germany in WWII and what I learned is that Eleanor looks like Dwight D. Eisenhower. I mean really, really looks like him.
So we’re calling her Ike. We’re a little disappointed she’s chosen to resemble a dead, male, Republican known as a “do-nothing” president who didn’t oppose [...]
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Art Shanty 2010
February 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · EDG, Minnesota, Uncategorized
Man I love this state. Yesterday, Emily, Dan H., Eleanor, Leo and I headed west of the Cities to Medicine Lake, the site of Art Shanty 2010:
“A four-weekend exhibition of performance, architecture, science, art, video, literature, survivalism and karaoke, ASP is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social experiment, inspired by traditional [...]
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January
February 1st, 2010 · 6 Comments · EDG, Northfield
We’ve survived our first January in Minnesota. The driveway is an ice slick. The baby has a space heater. There were some days early in the month where it was snot-freezing, eye-ball icing, car engine-whining, thermostat-busting cold. The house isn’t too drafty but you can’t put Eleanor on the carpet to play until the place [...]
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You too have herpes
January 12th, 2010 · 7 Comments · EDG
Last week, when Emily picked Eleanor up from daycare, she (Eleanor) looked wrecked. She had bags under her eyes and a general look of sadness which no amount of silly dancing, singing, noise-making etc. could change. “Clearly,” we thought, “she has picked up the bug Emily had a few days earlier.”
For two days she was [...]
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Daycare, or the Great Abandoning of ‘10
January 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · EDG
Eleanor had her first day of daycare on Tuesday from 7:30 to 5. She did some life-sustaining combination of eating and sleeping and came home happy and surprisingly well-rested. I spent the day studying, lunching with Dan, cleaning and trying not to wake her up – I kept assuming she wasn’t with me since she [...]
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Home
December 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · EDG, Northfield
Alright people, I’m about to get all circle-of-life on your asses. Check it:
A few weeks ago, I found myself feeling particularly relaxed and perhaps even a touch giddy. I surveyed the obvious reasons — Christmas was on its way; I was a couple weeks into my five week break between terms; the new Eleanor had [...]
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Christmastime
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · EDG, Northfield, Uncategorized
I have been preparing for Christmas and reveling in my last 2 weeks of housewifery by being absurdly crafty (in the Martha Stewart sense, not the tricky, underhanded sense (as much as that surprises me)). I made Christmas stockings for Belly, Ellie and my mother. I knitted Ellie a hat using 2 different skeins of [...]
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It’s Cold Here
December 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · EDG, Northfield
When we told people we were moving to Minnesota, their first impulse was to quote from Fargo. Their second impulse was to make some pronouncement about how cold it is in the winter. If they were wrong about Fargo (that’s North Dakota, not Minnesota), they were right about the weather. It’s cold here. Already, we’ve [...]
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