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5 Reasons To Keep Your Infant Out of Daycare
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been around family and friends with infants. As we chatted and caught up, the topic of illness inevitably came up. “Has Ben gotten sick yet?” The answer is no. Not once....
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Giving Forward – Benjamin’s Bills
Yesterday was a day full of frustration and defeat. For the millionth time I spent a few hours on the phone with hospitals and Hennepin County fighting for assistance for Ben. Unfortunately, our last...
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I’ve Entered a New Circle of Hell: I’m a Sick SAHM.
Last summer I caught a nasty cold…while I was pregnant. It was a miserable experience to have a cold and not be allowed to take any of the “good stuff” to ease my way through it (and by “good stuff” I...
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Week 35: A Few Victories and a Cold That Won’t Let Go
Sorry older Ben – if you’re wondering why this post is so short, it’s because your momma is sitting at the kitchen table after taking care of you all week with a horrible cold and after a 7 hour...
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Taking on Daycare, One Baby Step at a Time.
Leaving Ben behind in the NICU was one of – if not the – hardest things I’ve ever done in my life. No parent should ever experience leaving the hospital without their baby. I will never forget sitting...
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The Walls Are Closing In.
You know how they say parenting and child-birth comes with its own form of amnesia? As in, you have a second baby because you forget how much it hurt the first time? (Ha! RIGHT! If I ever forget the...
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Week 37: FINALLY! A post worthy of all caps.
Nothing but great news, news worthy of obnoxiously typing in ALL CAPS! Ben is a movin’ and a groovin’. If we had carpet, he’d be crawling, I’m almost positive. He’s making leaps and bounds in his...
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I Want to Be the Mom in the Video
Thursday was, to put it mildly, a very rough day. So rough in fact that it has taken me two days to be able to bounce back enough to be able to write about it. I’ve written before about my love/loathe...
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Wave of Light – Another Great Use of Social Media
Social Media can really suck the positive energy right out of you. Between our newsfeeds, twitter feeds, Google search results, hateful comments and bloggers…yikes. Sometimes I would rather not be...
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Week 43: Lists Are the Lazy Mom’s Way of Updating Her Son’s Baby Book Blog
Wow…s-l-a-c-k-e-r. 4 weeks without a weekly update? Shame on me. Actually no, screw that. It’s been a crazy couple weeks, and where I’ve neglected this blog I’ve been pulled in a million directions...
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I Promise That Someday, We Will Pay It Forward.
Over the past 4 months Dustin, Ben and I have been recipients and witnesses of tremendous amounts of generosity. Garage sale donations; a successful garage sale in both sales and donations to our jar;...
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A Preemie’s Birthday, A Momma’s Nightmares
I’ve been warned that having a preemie turn 1 (or celebrate any birthday, but usually 1 is the worst) is a hard time for the preemie parent. Sometimes the painful pieces can outweigh the happy ones....
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It’s Ben’s Party and We’ll Cry (or puke) If We Want To.
Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours before Ben’s party, our washing machine broke and flooded our entire basement. Dustin and his mom were down there for about 4 hours with shop-vacs and fans trying...
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The One Where Ben Went to the Eye Doctor
Ben’s 1-year check-up appointment was mostly a success. He weighs 20lbs 9oz, up 5xs his birth weight. He’s clapping, pulling to stand, eating table foods, walking along furniture, and saying simple...
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Best and Worst of 2014 (because everyone does this, duh).
Once Ben was born I dedicated a category of this blog to “Ben’s Baby Book”. It served as an “in lieu of” Caringbridge when he was in the hospital and has been a really helpful way for me to keep track...
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Why Once You’re a NICU Mama, You’re Always a NICU Mama
We NICU parents are a pretty special breed of people, second only to our little preemies who came out early but determined to survive. NICU is a hellish experience, whether you’re there for a week or...
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It’s about Faith, Not Church
Yesterday we took Ben to Mound’s Spirit of the Lakes parade. It was a much calmer experience than taking him to the Minneapolis Pride Parade last month, but still a good time with the family. There...
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How Do You Make Friends as a SAHM?
Most of the time I have the ability to buckle down and deal with whatever it is life has thrown at me. Maybe I don’t deal with it well, and maybe I don’t deal with it right away, but after experiencing...
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5 Reasons To Keep Your Infant Out of Daycare
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been around family and friends with infants. As we chatted and caught up, the topic of illness inevitably came up. “Has Ben gotten sick yet?” The answer is no. Not once....
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I’ve Entered a New Circle of Hell: I’m a Sick SAHM.
Last summer I caught a nasty cold…while I was pregnant. It was a miserable experience to have a cold and not be allowed to take any of the “good stuff” to ease my way through it (and by “good stuff” I...
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