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Since the new owner of BME has removed most of Shannon Larratt’s life work from the site, including the well known article, Love at First Bite, featuring Clive and I way back in 2005, I was given an HTML copy of it and have “republished” it on my own domain. You can read it, [...]

Before Clive and I left for our honeymoon we signed a lease on an apartment that I’d been eyeing for months. The owner was renovating the entire thing, and I really liked the location (two blocks from our current place) and literally right next door to my sister. We share a chimney. I met [...]

Dear Ash,
This was the month you went from baby to toddler. The change literally happened overnight- one day you were a babbling, happy baby and the next day you had your first temper tantrum because I wouldn’t let you take a glass of water from the nightstand onto the bed. You threw your entire [...]

Here’s something I don’t understand: people who don’t care about the environment. Now, I don’t expect everyone in the world to be a composting, recycling, cloth diapering, all-natural cleaning products, plastic-avoiding person (like I am), but the people who really, honestly don’t give a shit about doing ANYTHING? I don’t get you. How [...]

Ash had his first temper tantrum yesterday, the first of many, many more to come, I’m sure. He wanted to bring a glass of water that had been sitting on the bedside table onto the bed to play with, and I said no firmly and he threw himself onto the bed, face first and [...]

Within a recent article about a child dying from Shaken Baby Syndrome, they list the following steps:
How to deal with crying
Steps to take if a baby is crying and you are getting flustered:
• Lay the baby on its back in its crib
• Put the crib rails up
• Leave the room
• Close the door
• Distract [...]

Dear Ash,
You’re 11 months old today! HOLY COW. This has been a crazy month, one where the focus was mostly on your father and I- who tied the knot. I’d been planning our wedding for about four months during your naps and when you go to bed for the night, and the day [...]

Warning: Preachy, judgmental post below.
One of my favorite mommybloggers recently wrote about her six-month old son still waking in the middle of the night (from what I can tell, he’s only waking once- at 3am). She wants him to stop waking up so that she can get a good night’s sleep. She’s a working [...]

Dear Ash,
This month the name of the game was TEETH. A couple of teeth started coming in at the end of your eighth month, but I can comfortably say that you got SIX TEETH when you were nine months old, the last coming in a couple of days before turning ten months old. [...]

A mere three weeks until our big day!
I mentioned a few entries ago that people had RSVP’d on very late notice, and now people are informing us that they can’t come. Four people, actually, in the span of about 24 hours have taken back their Yes RSVP and changed it to a No. Both for [...]