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Eating more healthfully
So, in time, we do get to things. Eventually. The baby, soon to be 2.5, more time, space, more ME all around it seems. Even Fotis said that I don’t have to knock myself out to be some advancing...
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Florida
So, we came down to Florida with the boys for 6 days — leaving today. They all skied. Fotis is doing great, becoming the best skier he could be at this point in his life. His technique has dramatically...
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Can’t sleep
I am up. It’s 3 am. I am visiting my parents overnight as I have some early morning appointments in NY before heading back to CT. I am in this bunk room where the boys sleep when here. Water makes this...
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7
On Saturday the boys turned seven. For me, five was equivalent to 18, six was 21, so here, at seven we are really dealing with their 25th birthdays. Alas. I lived. They thrived. Ice cream cups for...
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DVF for Gap
Today online Diane Von Furstenberg’s Spring 2013 Girls collection for Gap premiered. There are so many gorgeous, bright, happy items. They sell out quickly, so please refer to the link below. Got some...
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Greekster 2013
This past glorious weekend in CT was our Greek Easter. It came pretty late this year, which was good weather-wise. Our Aunt Martha and Uncle Alex came as is our tradition. Aunt Martha helps prepare...
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A new old way to give birth
If I could do it again, and perhaps not having twins twice, I would give birth at home with an experienced, compassionate midwife, and avoid hospitals altogether. I’d take back the power that women...
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Hope springs eternal
Marina Krim and her husband Kevin announced that she is expecting a boy in the fall. Her pregnancy is a huge ray of hope in their family’s healing, after the gut wrenching events of last fall. Her...
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How to “mother” oneself, right out of your own nest
In Cheryl Richardson’s recent newsletter she wrote that you know you are doing a good job mothering yourself when: You stop making excuses for doing what you want to do. You let your desire be enough....
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Catch up if you can
So I’ve neglected the cute, meaningful or outlandish things that the kids say. And I need to catch up, or they will just vanish into the ether. 1. Christiane (age 4) in the car on the way to school...
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Phil Ochs
We had the anti-war folk singer Phil Ochs playing in our beach house growing up. We listened to Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Joni Mitchell. The album we had of his was I Ain’t Marching Anymore....
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