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Wednesday, February 6, 201302/06/2013

31 Weeks Now

31 Weeks and counting! Good lord this is flying by.  I always read these tidbits on pregnancy sites and posts…

Monday, January 28, 201301/28/2013

Fruit Basket Part Deux

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fruit Basket;  Part II:  A New Hope …and by “fruit basket”,…

Friday, January 25, 201301/25/2013

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fruit Basket

…and by “fruit basket”, I mean “cookie jar”. (Part I) You see, this is how things work in my world…

Wednesday, January 23, 201301/23/2013

Orange You Glad You Took the Day Off?

Yesterday I had to take the day off from work, as I went in for blood glucose testing to make…

Thursday, January 17, 201301/17/2013

Jenny’s Got a (Registry) Gun

Watch out!  Scan-happy Jen completing one of her gift registries – anything with monkeys on it, beware!! …but just an…

Saturday, January 12, 201301/12/2013

And All I Wanted Was a Bagel with Lox…

Wow, I tell ya, pregancy is NO FUN sometimes.  Aside from having a relatively issue-free incubation period, I’ve run into a bunch of…

Friday, January 11, 201301/11/2013

Baby Shower Planning and Other Tales of Intrigue.

One of the exciting things about a pregnancy is the ensuing celebration of babe & momma, and all-things-babelicious and sickeningly…

Wednesday, January 2, 201301/02/2013

New Year’s Resolutions

Phew! So now the holidays are now just a mere blip in the history of Gregorian calendars (and folklore in Mayan…

Friday, December 28, 201212/28/2012

Just Checkin’ In from Snoogleville

It’s been a crazy week, with travelling to Corning for the holidays, travelling to Connecticut for the holidays, travelling back…

Friday, December 21, 201212/21/2012

There’s No Place Like Stress for the Holidays

It took me a while to get back here, to this blog template, and start typing.  I don’t know what’s…

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