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Postcards from four years old: the stubborn chronicles

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Dec 22nd 2006 4:00PM

My four-year-old, Everett, is stubborn. Not just stubborn in the sense of, I'll wear my Batman sweatshirt with the wings to your holiday party and ...
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Postcards from four years old: how life has changed

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Oct 22nd 2006 11:14PM

I clicked on someone's blog tonight, a mom who lives near me. She was feeling mom-ed out, ready to re-realize herself as not just a mommy blogger. I ...
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When is attention to your children, too much?

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Aug 16th 2006 7:58PM

I just returned from a fun errand with Truman in the bike trailer. We hung out downtown, where everyone commented on his happy perfection. A man ...
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Blogging Baby Book: my milestones don't fit on Hallmark's pages

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Aug 12th 2006 8:42PM

I very faithfully kept Everett's baby book, filling in most of the pages before he was even born. After he hit about age one, I 'completed' it in a ...
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Adventures in parenting: speech affectations and he's not even four?

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jul 4th 2006 10:06PM

My oldest son, Everett, will be four in two weeks. And already I feel I've had a dozen years of parenting experience. He's just his own person: ...
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Linda Hirshman's 'Get to Work' distorts Blogging Baby readers, writers

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jun 23rd 2006 8:02PM

I keenly remember December 2005. It was the first Christmas for my second son, Truman. I got a new lens for my camera. And I spent the entire ...
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A mom's brush with terror on Father's Day

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jun 19th 2006 2:27PM

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon (and, as it turned out, evening) at my parent's home near the Oregon coast. The little "town" they live in, Elsie, is ...
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Breastfeeding: why I'm working time-and-a-half

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jun 13th 2006 10:59PM

Someone, in the past few months, told me, "breastfeeding is a part-time job." And as I've crossed the line from "baby" to "toddler" with Truman, ...
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Adventures in parenting: tales of traffic

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jun 9th 2006 10:22PM

My 13-month-old, Truman, is fast. He's been walking less than two months, but he dove into the mobility thing as if he was training for the Olympic ...
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Reading 'Bed Rest: A Novel' is pure pregnant fun

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted May 29th 2006 4:32PM

Bed Rest: A Novel, by Sarah Bilston, is better than I Don't Know How She Does It. Better than The Nanny Diaries. Better than Little Earthquakes. And ...
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