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Things I’ve Learned From Potty Training My Kid

Cyrene — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:00:37 +0000

It’s been a few months since our daughter has been completely potty trained enough to go to sleep at night without diapers on. In fact, we got our cues from her when she, quite simply and directly, asked me to not put a diaper on her one night, and although I feared we might wake [...]

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Priceless Little Gems – Sophie-isms 2

Cyrene — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:12:39 +0000

I am loving being able to communicate with Sophie more and more these days. It is just amazing to watch and see how her mind works when she formulates answers to questions, or tries to her hand at storytelling, or imitating her Sunday School teachers as she tries to ‘teach’ her Angry Bird stuffed toys. [...]

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Nanny Trauma: The Day the Nanny Hit Our Daughter

Cyrene — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:50:36 +0000

I used to tell anyone and everyone who would listen that we probably had the best nanny in the world. She wasn’t perfect – she had her flaws, of course – but she was someone that I got along with fairly well, basically since she was as OC as I was when it came to [...]

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Wordless Wednesday #4 – Brand Spanking New Web Design

Cyrene — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:44:15 +0000

So, my incredibly talented and, might I add, very patient husband has gone and outdone himself with this pretty new design for my blog. I just have to take another moment to ogle: One thing’s for sure, it’s certainly awesome to have a web designer for a husband! While I’m not exactly what you could [...]

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This Hat I Wear

Cyrene — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:17:19 +0000

I have had to wear lots of different hats in my life – the daughter hat, the sister hat, the friend hat, the single, unattached hat, the worker hat, the carefree hat, the wife hat… you get the picture. I’ve worn innumerable hats for a long time; some are occasionally easier to wear than others, [...]

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Shape Up Slowly After Baby Comes (Guest Post)

Cyrene — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:15:01 +0000

A new baby is wonderful and all-encompassing experience for a woman. It’s natural to feel more than a little overwhelmed. Getting up for midnight feedings, breast-feeding, keeping up with all the laundry and other chores can leave a new mother very little time for anything else. Getting back in shape sounds great, but it’s hard [...]

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Priceless Little Gems – Sophie-isms

Cyrene — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:29:17 +0000

Those who know me well are probably tired of hearing me say how amazed I am at how quickly the time has seemed to go by. It still feels like I just gave birth to Sophie yesterday – and now I can’t believe she’s approaching 2 years and 7 months. Yeesh. No matter how much [...]

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Two Great Lessons Re-learned

Cyrene — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:23:40 +0000

I just learned two great lessons again: 1) Things rarely go the way you plan or hope they would go. While I was looking forward to taking on my full-time mom role for the next two weeks, I hadn’t imagined that I’d be up all night nursing my feverish princess. But there I was, and [...]

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4th

Cyrene — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:57:33 +0000

There are many moments in my life that has perfectly etched themselves into memory whether I made a conscious effort to do so or not. Quite a few of them, I could do without – from the hurtful to the regrettable to the downright embarrassing. But there are also those beautiful events that have brought [...]

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Our Dearest Little Miss

Cyrene — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:00:47 +0000

Wow. You’re 2 years old today. I still cannot wrap my head and heart around it – it seems like it was just yesterday when your arrival made us a family of three… but here it is. I’m pretty sure you have no idea what this day means to the people around you and you [...]

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