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War, Satelites and Gravity

By KJ / Friday, May 26, 2006

Those are some of the subjects I discussed with Sam today. Yes, I explained war to my almost five-year-old as he sat in the “way back” of the minivan.(I’m not sure whether to thank NPR or the president, but I really can’t listen to Dan Zanes all the time.) I got to bellow it, because it’s a little hard to hear back there, and he kept asking me to repeat myself. Apparently I wasn’t making any sense, and it took […]

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Joining the Fray

By KJ / Thursday, May 25, 2006

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Lily lets me READ!

By KJ / Tuesday, May 23, 2006

I wrote a book about reading to babies–and it’s been months since Lily has really let me read to her. She brings books, yes–but after a page she’s off for another book. She’d rather “read” to herself–and she does, she sits and talks and turns the pages–but like everything else, she just doesn’t want anyone to do it for her. But tonight, ar long last, she let me read. I happened to grab a handful of board books she hadn’t […]

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Protected: How Not to Be a Novelist

By KJ / Monday, May 22, 2006

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Raising Lily, Reading

By KJ / Tuesday, May 16, 2006

It’s a Girl edited by Andi Buchanan. I’ve just read most of the essays in this book, and I’ve loved them. Why “most”? Because I couldn’t read the last few–the ones about letting go. My oldest child isn’t quite five, and even thought there are plenty of moments when letting him go–ANYWHERE–sounds pretty good, the truth is that I can’t even think about them grown up and even a little bit gone. I’ll trust I’ll handle that somehow when it […]

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Fairy Tales

By KJ / Saturday, May 13, 2006

Fairy tales just aren’t PC, friends. They’re violent. Kings kill princes, fathers fling their daughters out in the snow, the wolf chows down on Grandma. They’re horribly insensitive to gener issues. Girls want to marry the prince, and even if they manage to do something clever or save themselves, marriage is their portion. Fathers promise their daughter’s hands without consulting her, beauty and charm are all important, etc. They’re heavily dependant on social class. Servants live belowstairs, masters above. Paupers […]

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What Moms Eat

By KJ / Saturday, May 6, 2006

Yesterday we ate lunch in the grocery store cafe. My planned lunch: an avocado roll and some sliced pineapple. The lunch I ended up eating: 1/2 box of chocolate-flavored graham crackers shaped like bunnies in the car on the way home. Wyatt had to be nursed, Lily had to sit in my lap and unroll the avocado from the rice and squish it and I had to be constantly vigilant so that my over-stimulated spawn didn’t run the other eaters […]

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The glamourous result

By KJ / Wednesday, April 26, 2006

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The cut

By KJ / Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The cut, originally uploaded by kjda.

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The bribe

By KJ / Wednesday, April 26, 2006

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Wyatt!

By KJ / Thursday, April 20, 2006

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I Have Been Tagged

By KJ / Wednesday, April 19, 2006

So, although I’m taking the blog in a new direction (with a new look!) any day now, I will take this opportunity to tell you, as demanded, 6 Weird/Freaky/Embarrassing Things About Me. And then I will tag 6 people. And then they will come back and tell me that they’ve written 6 Weird Things about themselves, and I will go and read them, and snort. But this is my new improved blog about feeding the Devils’ minds and bodies! So, […]

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Easter Candy: Doling Out Sweets and Treats

By KJ / Sunday, April 16, 2006

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Hocus Refocus

By KJ / Saturday, April 8, 2006

This has definitely become something of a navel-gazing blog, and the more navel gazing I do, the more I start to notice that much of my navel probably ought to be kept private. I didn’t set out to do quite this. My plan was to post more finished, funny, essay-like entries, but I can tell you right now that those take time–and, of course, that’s not time that comes from my kids, laundry or sleeping efforts. It comes straight off […]

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Patience: Not My Virtue

By KJ / Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Today was solo time day for Sam and Lily–well, solo plus Wyatt, which is what they both want. Lily got to take Wyatt to music class–well, she didn’t have any choice there, because I didn’t have a sitter, but she did want to. He actually laid on the floor between my legs, eyes open, watching everything and apparently had a wonderful time. Lily showed him off–It’s Wyatt! And did more than she’s ever done in class before. They made my […]

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C-sections: Behind the fashion curve

By KJ / Sunday, March 26, 2006

Lily had another tough day, partly because she skipped her nap, the evil little being. On the plus side, it was my first day without narcotics. They wouldn’t refill my prescription, curse them! No way ordinary tylenol would work! Well, actually, it did–and I’m less groggy, too. So maybe they know something. Other thoughts: The people in charge of c-section scar placement have not kept up with the new lower waistbands. And it’s not the scar I’m worried about–it’s the […]

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Things get better

By KJ / Saturday, March 25, 2006

You know, this is the good part. Lily had a much better day today, not asking for “nappy” quite so much, took no for an answer a couple of times and actively chose to stop nursing, even though Wyatt was still at it, so that she could play with Sam. And both went to bed beautifully. I’m happy to nurse her, pleased to still get to hold her that way, as long as it’s not every time I nurse Wyatt! […]

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Hoo, Boy (although Hoo, Girl is Probably More Apt

By KJ / Friday, March 24, 2006

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Wyatt, Baby Extraordinaire, Arrives

By KJ / Monday, March 20, 2006

So, not a false alarm after all! I will post a picture, I will share the whole story, just as soon as I catch up on my sleep (right–that will be sometime in 2008, so maybe just a little sooner!) But suffice it to say, labor indeed. But no faster, unfortunately, than with numbers one or two. It seems like my body pretty much has all kids the same way–no shooting them out like watermelon seeds for me! (Some woman, […]

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Musings on the False Alarm Frontier

By KJ / Wednesday, March 15, 2006

All right, I might, repeat might be in labor. Don’t t all excited now, and (mom) don’t call me. These things happen, or, sometimes, they don’t. If we have a baby later I’ll let you know. When we have a baby, I guess I should say, but I DON’T KNOW IF I believe that anymore. Anyway, so the contractions are regularish, bearably painful, not really even close to go to the hospital level…and I’m bored. I do not think I […]

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