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Better Than Your Average Sequel

It’s common belief that movie sequels are rarely, if ever better than their predecessors. The greatest exception, of course, being The Mighty Ducks, D2, and D3.  In that case, things just keep getting better. I’m already teaching Jacob to “quack . . . quack . . . quack . . . quack, quack, quack, quack! […]

October 14, 2011

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Parenthood, Young Married Mom

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The Walking Wonder

On Monday, I took an adorable video of Jacob walking. He was still excited about what he’d begun to do the night before, and he was giggling in that giddy way he has, like he’s having so much fun he might just explode. By the end of the video, he’d made his way across the […]

October 12, 2011

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Toddler Jacob

As freaked out as I was last week when I got my first “Your Toddler: Week 1” email from BabyCenter.com, I’d like to state for the record that toddler Jacob is, in a word, awesome. It feels like a switch was flipped sometime last week, either in him or in me. Suddenly this little baby […]

September 28, 2011

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