From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Being over-expectant

September 27, 2009

I find myself 41 weeks and 1 day preg­nant today. As Delene was born 11 days after her due date, I had made up my mind since the very begin­ning of this preg­nancy that this baby was going to be late too. I told every­one that too. I wanted to save myself the hard realization […]

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Raising an Adventurous Eater

September 19, 2009

My 2 year old son Oliver eats just about every­thing.  The other day, Janda and I had lunch at Aran here in Regens­burg, and Oliver had fresh Ger­man whole grain bread spread half with tomato-garlic spread and the other half with a tuna-artichoke mix.  He’s eaten caviar, blood sausage, raw onion, boiled beef with horseradish, […]

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Separation while extended nursing

September 8, 2009

I fig­ure I’m a lit­tle unusual in the mod­ern, west­ern world.  At 25 months, my son Oliver is still breast­feed­ing, and last week­end was our first extended sep­a­ra­tion since his birth. I’ve left Oliver for a few hours before, even for almost a full day, but he’s never spent a night with­out me.  I was a […]

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