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My Oldest Newfoundland 22 Sep 2011 | 11:01 am
My oldest Newfie made herself at home on a slight hill in the backyard today, on a bed of dead grass straw, stuffing her face with prunes. The slight hill? I'm pretty sure it's made of years of fallen...
I quit my day job. 22 Sep 2011 | 10:53 am
While the decision was a long and sometimes agonizing one, now that I'm on my second week of no longer working on daily deadline as a copy editor at the newspaper, I can safely say that I am quite com...
I am thinking about quitting my job. 20 Aug 2011 | 02:17 pm
I am thinking about quitting my day job. There I said it. That instantly makes it more real. It represents, in a small way, a commitment to follow through on something I have been thinking for months ...
I put the poop in the pot. 6 Aug 2011 | 06:54 am
Toddler toilet training time.... On a recent well-child check-up, our pediatrician asked if Toddler FN has started toilet training yet. I said not really. We've got a pot. She can pull down her botto...
Coming back from vacation is WORK. 23 Jul 2011 | 06:13 am
If you have to work twice as hard in the 2 weeks after a 2 week vacation, is it really worth it to take a vacation? That's the question I've been asking myself since I returned home from a grand road...
Field Notes Jr - First birthday pic 10 Jun 2011 | 04:31 pm
Close to a year ago, the newfs helped us celebrate the first birthday or the youngest primate of the house. They were even kind enough to wear the hats long enough for a photo. I may have posted this ...
I'm back! 9 Jun 2011 | 09:53 am
At long last, I think I may finally feel like blogging again. The long and short of it is that my little home business of making plantable paper really took off over the last year and the last six mon...
Window into Working Motherhood 4 May 2010 | 03:56 am
Imagine that while taking a test — which you're doing finally because it is the only time you get to actually think straight because it is finally quiet and you're able to take the test — you are havi...
Every Picture Tells a Story 30 Apr 2010 | 03:55 am
There's so much I could say about this photo. It speaks volumes to how my life has both changed and stayed just the same. Also, I have been informed my blog is full of great stuff to plagiarize. I su...
A Huge Week: Developmental Milestones Galore 25 Apr 2010 | 02:12 pm
Phew! What a week. Baby Field Notes must have finally flipped whatever switch gets flipped when a whole new cognitive system comes online. All in the last week we saw some big developmental milestones...
