Category: koala update
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Koala update: Six months.
I’m not going to lie; it’s not always easy to write the praises of parenthood and the cutest Koala in the entire world when said Koala is trying to push one of the hardest substances of the body through his gums. Last week and the present one are probably the most challenging I’ve faced so…
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Welcome to parenthood.
So this is it, huh? You get through a really hard week. You get invited out for both meals for Shabbat. You breath and say, hey, we can go out the whole day Friday! You make plans together. You prepare everything the night before. You get woken up too early on Friday. Your kid is sneezing…
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Question of the week.
Q: What’s it like being back at the office? A: I feel like a freshman in high school. Everything is new; it’s still school like middle school was, but it’s bigger and more complicated. And there’s more home-work. And I’m tired all the time from waking up at 6 am to get everyone out the…
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The days I become a mom.
Not that the 36-hour labor, trash can filled with diapers and various milk stains across my good t-shirts don’t give it away, but today I really do feel like a mom. Note: Every so often there comes an activity that gives you infant flashbacks and makes you realize you are, indeed, a mom. But today……
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Travel (in snippets).
Our first-ever family vacation is over. Didn’t have much time to sleep or think over the last 2.5 weeks but I did have a few seconds to jot down a few ponderings in 140 characters or less… To sum up, from finish to start, my first vacation with Koala: for the love of all things…
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My late 20s teenage pregnancy.
The story of my recent ‘teenage’ pregnancy has come full circle this New York trip. Back in August 2008, when I was coming to New York solo for a few weeks, I knew there was a chance I’d be pregnant so I was prepared to test upon arrival. Dressed in jeans and a raggy hoody,…
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Have baby, will travel.
It is the eve of our first party-of-three family trip… involving a plane ride. That’s right; tomorrow we will be inaugurated as that young couple with a baby that you love to hate on planes. Yet another life milestone. Here’s hoping it will go well. The definition of going well is one of the following:…
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Not your momma's birthday.
Recently, my birthday passed but for years now I’ve just not been a birthday person at all. Occasionally, growing up (as my ponderous tye-dye free-thinking self), I would consider – along with saving the manatees – the idea that perhaps birthdays should be about mothers, not kids. After all, the mother is the one who…
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Adapting to new life.
The Koala isn’t the only newbie around here. It’s hit me in the last week that I am a new person. It’s been a short process (36 hour labor) and a long process (it’s about a year since I found out I was pregnant). But here I am, changed. I’m a mother. I’m a food source.…
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Someone to talk to.
I don’t know if it’s the cutest thing or the saddest thing… But when the mobile over Koala’s crib automatically shuts off after 15 minutes, he pleads with it to come back on. And then I sneak by his room in covert-mode and turn it on with the remote control (!?) and listen to him squeal with…
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Being a mom.
At this point in my life I’ve known two too many 12-year-old girls who have fought cancer and lost. The first time I was a kid. This time I’m a mom. Being a mom at a shiva call for a kid makes all the difference. There’s something about kids with cancer where they tend to…
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Life in snippets.
Time is going by cliche fast. You hear it and you hear it and then it happens to you. The Koala is nearly four months old. I’m nearly four months not-pregnant. The Koala smiles, laughs, plays. My maternity leave is over and I’m juggling work and baby. I’ve slowed down with updates here, of course.…