Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Feb 7, 2012, 12:23 am
   I recently had one of those moments as a parent where I felt truly proud of myself, like I actually might have some clue of what I'm doing here.  These moments are rare-- in fact, I'm not sure I can recall any other moment that felt this clear to me. Yes, in the grand ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Feb 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
Donovan is 4 years old today!  Well, technically thanks to international timezone weirdness his four-years-on-earth anniversary was yesterday at about 4:30pm California time (which was 1:30am the next morning in Switzerland).  But going by the calendar day, today's the Big Day. So in four y...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Feb 1, 2012, 10:30 am
  The other day while in the car I started thinking about marriage and relationships.  Zach and I have been married 8 years now, and they've been 8 pretty great years.  Sure, we have fights and whatnot but if you were to ask at any point over those years if we're hap...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 31, 2012, 12:22 am
I normally keep Quinn out of the bathroom, but today he snuck in and started reaching in for the sink.  I know he enjoys letting water run over his hands when I wash them, so I figured I'd give him a chance to just play with water at the ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 26, 2012, 11:55 pm
*Ahem, this is not a give-away post. Just to be clear. Noting my obsession with "iphoneography" two dear friends gifted me the Photojojo set of 3 detachable cell phone camera lenses for Christmas.  AWESOME! The only problem: the lenses attach to your phone via a magnetic ring that you glue to...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 26, 2012, 11:00 am
In which I use my husband, and his love of reading and utter disdain of handwriting, as an example.  Click here to read it.  =)
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 24, 2012, 11:45 pm
Sometimes it feels like all I ever do on this blog is complain. I'm currently on day 6 of an ear infection, which started in my left ear and is still worse on that side, but over the weekend crossed over to my right ear as well.  I finally got to see a doctor and start taking antibiotics yest...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 20, 2012, 12:20 am
The last ones, I promise. ; )
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 17, 2012, 8:41 pm
This photo is by far my most popular one on Instagram-- it got 24 "likes" (most of my photos get under 10 "likes"). At first I was surprised at the response-- it was just a snapshot taken one afternoon.  Then again, I kinda love this photo more each time I look at it.  It captur...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 15, 2012, 5:13 pm

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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 15, 2012, 4:56 pm
It's been a rough week and weekend around here.  Donovan's been sick. Zach and I are sick.  We're all mostly over it, but in that annoying window where you're not sick but still not exactly well, either.  Zach paid the deposit for attending Tuck, and so we're both excited about and a bit overwhel...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 12, 2012, 12:03 am
I hope my kids don't get jealous about this, but I'm pretty sure I took way more pictures of my ginger nephew than of either D or Q. He's kinda irresistible.  
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 9, 2012, 5:20 pm
About a year ago Zach started thinking about going to business school.  It's a move he'd contemplated before, though never very seriously.  But he was unhappy with his job, with the lack of options he found while looking for a new one, and with his career trajectory ahead.  So for the first time,...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 8, 2012, 4:44 pm
Not a whole lot of mental energy for words right now, so I'll just post photos from our time in Texas. That cool with y'all? ; )  
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jan 3, 2012, 12:21 am
Weeks pass and nary a word.  Sorry, little blog, you have been neglected.  I have much to write, but haven't been able to organize thoughts properly when I also have access to a decent keyboard (I loves me my iphone but am not a fan of writing blog posts on it). This is the eve of our last ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Dec 18, 2011, 5:45 pm
Quinn's 365Project is officially done! I'm quite proud to have stuck to it. People laughed when I said I wanted to do a 365 of D's first year, and then laughed some more when I wanted to do it again for Q. And yet, here it is. I've accomplished little else in the past year-- the house is almost alwa...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Dec 9, 2011, 10:00 am
One year ago this morning baby Quinn came into the world, in a tub of water in my bedroom.  Exactly how I'd imagined it.  Yet also like nothing I could have expected. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the past year has been the hardest of my ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 30, 2011, 2:27 pm
A few days ago I found this article with before & after examples of 15 photographs that had been processed in Lightroom, along with brief descriptions of what had been adjusted for each one.  I haven't spent much time processing my photos in the past, well, 10-11 months, and reading that articles a...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 29, 2011, 10:26 pm
D's costume this year was Super Grover.  This is his first year to choose his own costume. About a month or 2 ago he decided he wanted to be Super Grover, and has actually stuck to it the entire time.  Our nanny got into sewing over the summer, and volunteered to make a cape and sew the Super grov...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 19, 2011, 9:10 am
Listening: to the sweet sound of silence.  The kids both woke up by 4:30am.  Then they both fell asleep again around 6. I don't expect it to last, so here I am in the dark, enjoying the silence and solitude. Eating: nothing at the moment. Drinking: pumpkin spice flavored coffee.  We...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 15, 2011, 1:34 am
I had the kids solo tonight, which meant staggered bedtimes, which meant D didn't hit the sack till around 9pm.  Spent an hour on the computer trying to take care of a few things, though somehow most of my to-do list still remains.  Ate dinner (forgot to earlier), unloaded & reloaded dishwasher. Â...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 14, 2011, 12:02 am
A few months ago I wrote about my babywearing collection, aka the many contraptions that made it possible for me to survive the first several months of Q's babyhood.  Well, soon after that I bought two more carriers: a Sakura Bloom Hana ring sling and a Boba soft-structured carrier. As it tu...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 9, 2011, 5:21 pm
***KNOCK ON WOOD***  The nursing strike is over!! Friday night at bedtime (after having the 2nd chiro adjustment that morning, this time a bit more aggressive of one using the activator) Q nursed, but only once he was already mostly asleep.  This was the same as he'd done twice before, so wh...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 4, 2011, 11:56 pm
You know how sometimes you look back on something and all of a sudden it seems so obvious? I just happened upon a picture of D as a baby sticking his tongue out: That's when I realized that I've never seen Q able to stick his out anywhere close to that.  This is abou...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Oct 4, 2011, 12:57 am
That's right, we have completed day EIGHT of our nursing strike.  "Two to four days" my ass.  By now I've heard enough stories of extended nursing strikes (with about equal amounts of happy endings, and weaned-forever endings) to know that maybe a lot of ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 28, 2011, 11:36 pm
Quinn is on a nursing strike.  It's been 3 days now. It started Monday.  He nursed all through the night as usual, then when he woke up at 6:30 or so I tried nursing him and he just didn't seem interested.  Which was strange, but not unreasonable as he'd just fed at 5:30.  So w...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 27, 2011, 4:12 pm
I have another post up at MariaMontessori.com, this one about the three-year cycle that is a key part of the Montessori classroom and why it's important: The Montessori primary program is designed as a three-year cycle.  Much of the material and exercises in the first year or two not only hel...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 22, 2011, 8:39 pm
Despite missing his entire second week at school, D's been doing really well this week.  Just jumped right back into the flow of things, even was super excited to stay the full day (till 2:30pm) and get to take a nap at school, which apparently really really exciting stuff.  When I dropped him off...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 20, 2011, 11:41 pm
Zach's new job is going well so far.  I love that most of his co-workers used to work at the place he worked at up till last year.  It's like a reunion in a start-up. D's better and back at school (and doing awesomely there), Q goes back and forth on seeming like he might still be fighting t...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 17, 2011, 12:29 am
It's been one hell of a week, what with D being sick and home from school all week, and Q being cranky and sleepless due to FOUR teeth all coming in at once, and Zach being gone for his business school visit/interview...  But, we've survived, and Zach comes home tomorrow (if only for 1.5 days befor...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 15, 2011, 12:08 am
One of my biggest surprises as a mother of two is this feeling of almost mourning my time as a mother of one.  I miss my time with just Donovan.  More specifically, I miss having time with Donovan where I'm not already dead tired (there must have been a time for that before I got pregnant with Qui...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 11, 2011, 12:47 am
Donovan's first week of school went extremely well.  He seemed really comfortable there from the beginning, just the slightest hesitation when we dropped him off the first day but that's it.  he was happy to go to school in the morning, and happy enough to be picked up at noon-- though he did keep...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 8, 2011, 12:17 pm
I cut my hair short again. I started growing it out last summer, because I was feeling a bit bored of it (after having the same cut for 3 years) and figured I'd take advantage of the fact that hair grows faster during pregnancy. Then I gave birth to Super Strong Grip Baby Who Lov...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 7, 2011, 2:18 pm
Today is shaping up to be The Day of Ridiculous Things Happening. First, there's the Anonymous comments left on this post that I discovered first thing after waking up this morning.  Those were good for a laugh. Second, there are reports of rabid skunks and raccoons in our neighborhood....
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 5, 2011, 6:10 pm
My boy starts at his Montessori school tomorrow.  We had originally hoped he would start sometime in March, so by now it's kind of more of a "FINALLY!" kind of feeling than anything else.  I'm so excited for him, because I know he is so ready for this.  So ready to learn everything he will learn,...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 1, 2011, 11:47 pm
A few months ago I posted about starting Quinn on solids.  Since then he's really taken off with it.  Just tonight at dinner I think he ate about half an avocado along with several crackers and some mac and cheese.  He's definitely gotten past the point of just playing with his food and now seems...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Sep 1, 2011, 12:44 am
Short (hopefully) update since there's kind of a lot going on over here, but I'm also trying to avoid doing much at the computer since I kinda hurt my left wrist and I don't think typing is all that great for it. First off-- D's doing pretty great at potty training. Far from independent, for v...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Aug 26, 2011, 3:06 pm
This week I stumbled across a series of posts written by Mocha Momma, talking about racism today. As a white woman (which is who I identify as-- I am the daughter of a Chilean and spent my first 10 years living in South America, but have always been surrounded by an overwhelmingly white community an...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Aug 26, 2011, 12:43 am
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'll be writing about trying to potty train for damn ever.  Or until my kid can change his own diapers.  Whichever comes first. Ok, in all seriousness I do expect him to be fully potty trained (when awake) within these next few weeks.  Because, well, he has ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Aug 24, 2011, 12:29 am
I think my favorite age to photograph has got to be infancy.  It's ironic, since so far that's been my least favorite age for parenting.  But, as a photographer parent babies are just THE BEST. While pregnant with Quinn, I very much looked forward to ample opportunities to photograph my own squish...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Aug 22, 2011, 11:43 am
We are back from our week in the mountains and beach.  It was a wonderful time, with gorgeous weather and views, and fun family time.  I'm sorting through all the pictures, but here are just a few I uploaded from my phone over the course of the week. ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Aug 12, 2011, 11:23 pm
So, we're back.  We flew back home yesterday, with my mom and Philip on the flight with us.  They sat in a different part of the plane and had Quinn with them almost the entire time.  I don't know if it's his age or the comparison against Quinn, but by now Donovan is such an easy traveler.  This...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jul 28, 2011, 9:19 pm
I'm finding myself looking back through old blog posts a lot lately-- both posts here on this blog, and the monthly letters I wrote to D up to his second birthday.  I'm fascinated by this curiosity, this need to look back and see what I was doing and feeling when D was a newborn, and infant, a youn...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jul 22, 2011, 12:41 pm
About a month ago I wrote about how Donovan was pretty much fully potty trained (during waking hours-- I don't expect him to be out of diapers for sleeping for a long time). We have, of course, hit a few snags since then. First, he went from being independently potty trained (getting h...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jul 17, 2011, 8:39 am
Over the past 3 years I have been able to watch Donovan develop a very loving relationship with his cousin, Ryan. The way they love each other and are always so excited to see each other melts my heart every time. Well, this weekend we had even more cousin-related heart-melting, as we got to meet m...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jul 11, 2011, 11:39 pm
My mom had a hip replacement today. Reports are she's doing awesome and has even already gotten up and walked a bit on it. Was very glad to hear it, as I was more than a bit nervous about the whole thing (even though I knew she'd be fine). Quinn's rolling out all sorts of milestones all of a sudden...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jul 10, 2011, 12:39 pm
A little over a week ago our computer broke. *gleeful laughter erupts as Apple-haters rejoice at the thought of an iMac not working, HARDY HAR HAR* We had a short power failure and I don't know if that did it, triggered another problem, or was just a coincidence, but right after that our iMac ...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jun 30, 2011, 12:22 pm
Donovan seems to have forgotten all about how to use the potty as of this whole week. Quinn's still confused about how to crawl/scoot, and it's still pissing him off. Zach worked 12+hr days at work this week (thankfully over now, back to normal). My patience and energy seem to have...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jun 26, 2011, 6:28 pm
The other day I remembered this rug from Ikea, that usually spends its days in D's cabinet under the stairs.  I have a ton of pictures of Quinn sitting up or on his tummy gnawing on various toys, so I was feeling like it was time to try something new just for fun... so we spent 20 minutes try...
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Marcy posted an article on Life is Good - Jun 24, 2011, 11:26 pm
Ok, you guys. It's now been a week and a half since we started the hard-core potty training, and.... dare I say it?  Dare I declare success?  I keep waiting for D to suddenly decide that this potty stuff is so last week and totally regressing. But, so far, so good.  He'll maybe have one ac...
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