Posts Tagged ‘personal’
10
Aug
It’s National S’mores Day!
Categories: Just for fun
That’s right, there’s a holiday for everything. Today is National S’mores Day, which means I felt a moral obligation to eat some. I know that part of the fun of S’mores is roasting the marshmallows over an open flame, but whenever we do that, I eat like a hundred marshmallows. So I developed a recipe… read more!
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5
Aug
One.
Categories: General
I remember when I buckled you into your car seat for the first time, heading home from the hospital. I thought, slow down, remember this. By the third time around, I knew already. It goes way too fast. Last summer, I sat with you asleep against my chest, feeling the high and trying to memorize… read more!
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4
Aug
10 things I love about breastfeeding
Categories: Baby, Nursing & Feeding
When I was pregnant with my first baby, someone asked me if I would breastfeed. “I guess so,” I replied. My mother, within earshot, shrilled “you guess so??” And this was how I learned that I actually come from a long line of breastfeeders. My mother breastfed all three of us, and even her mother… read more!
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1
Aug
31 and out.
Categories: General
Once upon a time, there was a girl… fine, a woman, who dreamed of owning a toy store (with some baby gear, too). She joined forces with her husband, her brother-in-law and many other talented people. She thought it would be easy, and it wasn’t. She thought it would be fun, and it was. It… read more!
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30
Jul
Day 30 – phil&teds Dash Stroller
Categories: Baby, Strollers
We’ve been selling phil&teds strollers since the very beginning in 2004. Back then, I ordered them directly from New Zealand (loved their accents), and hardly anyone had ever heard of them. We were one of just a handful of retailers in the United States. Now, of course, they’re all the rage, and I’m a proud… read more!
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21
Jul
Day 21 – Monte Luca Glider
Categories: Baby, Modern Nursery
This is a story that’s taken me almost 11 months to tell, mostly because the humiliation has just recently worn off. Almost. At the ABC Kids Expo this past September, I was in rough shape. I was barely 4 weeks post-partum and terribly sick with what we would later discover was Crohn’s Disease. I could… read more!
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