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• Greetings • When my firstborn was in preschool the teacher did this letter of the week thing. She’d send home a brown paper lunch bag in which you would send back a thing that started with that letter. I am sorry to say that I spent a lot of time
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I have a friend who was pregnant the same time as I was, both times. We share a ton about our lives because it’s easy to check in with someone who is going through what you are. Sometimes this type of relationship can get touchy when you realize you’
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• Greetings • Two weeks ago I sent out a newsletter that very few of you got? I am told that sending this at a later hour and adding subject lines to the newsletters may help. If you missed it, enjoy this belated Valentine’s issue, delicious like a two-week-old
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• Semi-Valentines Greetings • Last summer I paid $10000000000 to have a birthday party for my kid at an inflatables place. A few days before the party I began to sweat the whole goodie bag situation. I asked a witch friend, whom I consider to be more on the traditional, rule-
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• Greetings • Trigger warning: Poop. Don’t worry. There are no pictures and I’m not going to talk about poop in overly graphic or cutesy ways. But if you hate poop, scroll on. In fact, maybe this isn’t your issue as we are also going to talk butts. There
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• Greetings • My three box service startup ideas, based on this completely unstaged photo in my basement (this I swear to you: I will never get good at internet photography): Old towels: When the sump pump breaks, the toilet overflows, someone is barfing on the floor, or the kids are playing
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• Year End Greetings • This is the last issue of 2018 so I decided that in honor of Baby New Year, I’d fire off a bunch of pieces I have about and by new moms. It is the great crossing over, and it’s so insane that even though this
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• (Holiday) Greetings • It was Christmastime, during my last few years of being child-free, when I first started thinking about having kids. I still shamelessly let my mom buy and wrap gifts “from Santa” for me but began to suspect this is for kids in a way that somehow led
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Greetings I am not going to get into Thanksgiving because haven’t you had enough already? What, do you need a recipe for a leftover turkey frittata? But I do want you to do me a favor this holiday. Most of you will be going to someone’s house for
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Greetings Date night fights. Do you ever have these? They began sprouting up in our marriage in earnest on my first kid’s first birthday. We went to a wedding, excited to drink and dance and have fun and wear fancy clothes for the first time in a year, but
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Greetings I have two pregnant friends, one on her second kid, the other with her third. Both are over 40, with advanced degrees, day jobs, little kids in school. Both have told me they feel bad because they’re not more excited or grateful about the pregnancy, which makes me