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What I’ve Liked This Week: Sleep Training Edition
Here's a picture of some sort of spotty cat. H took it. I don't know how it's relevant to this post. Can't you draw some kind of...
jdettmann
Feb 20, 20122 min read
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You’re So Money
In other areas of my life in which I am clearly not money, I went back to the gym today for the first time since I was five months...
jdettmann
Feb 15, 20123 min read
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No Gold Medal
When we arrived in Perth three days ago, sixteen hours after Pappy’s death, we were running on what could charitably described as empty....
jdettmann
Feb 8, 20122 min read
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A New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato Chips
More guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...
jdettmann
Jan 2, 20122 min read
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Come Fly With Me
Did you know that today is International Fifteen-Minute Nap Day? I didn’t either, until May Blossom informed me. It’s some sort of...
jdettmann
Nov 30, 20111 min read
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Travel Gobstoppers
My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...
jdettmann
Nov 28, 20113 min read
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The Noise Was Coming From Inside The House
Last night H and I, for the first time in months, left the house together, at night, without May Blossom. When she was littler we used to...
jdettmann
Nov 16, 20113 min read
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Re-reading Matters
How funny, that's exactly the outfit I am wearing as I write this blog post, right down to the lipstick and earrings. Mem Fox says in her...
jdettmann
Oct 25, 20111 min read
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To Sleep Perchance Would Be A Fine Thing
Gusto: the best sleeper in the house Before May Blossom was born, I had a relatively untroubled relationship with sleep. I liked it a...
jdettmann
Oct 6, 20113 min read
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Tissue Paper Pompoms: A Bridge Too Far
This coming weekend I am co-hosting a baby shower for one of my dearest friends. I love the idea of throwing parties. I start looking at...
jdettmann
Sep 21, 20113 min read
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