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State of the Nora: Nine Months | Not Like Texas
https://notliketexas.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/state-of-the-nora-nine-months
State of the Nora: Nine Months. Man, this kid changes FAST. The only thing that’s been consistent is that she’s basically a crappy sleeper. But I won’t launch into another 1,600 words about the sleep habits of my darling child, I promise. Suffice it to say I am tired. My Nora wakes up talking and smiling every morning before she even opens her eyes. She’s a challenge, she’s a joy, she’s the best thing in our life. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are co...
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CDP Exchange: A Few Getting To Know You Questions | Not Like Texas
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CDP Exchange: A Few Getting To Know You Questions. I’m posting this as part of a getting-to-know-you effort for the CDP Exchange. Which, as far as I know, is still open for registrants if you want to click that little link there and check it out). If you aren’t participating in the exchange then please just enjoy getting to know me a bit better or feel free to skip this entry entirely. Maybe one day I will blog more reliably (haaaahahaha. Ha.). Who was your favorite celebrity as a child? I’d love t...
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We did some sleep training | Not Like Texas
https://notliketexas.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/we-did-some-sleep-training
We did some sleep training. Because I’m even more terrible at doing anything with the photos I take than I am at actually taking photos, I still haven’t taken the pictures off my camera from Nora’s birthday party. So there’s a post coming about her birthday and being one (ONE! We decided to bite the bullet and sleep train last week. We used Dr. Ferber’s progressive-waiting method and we found this post. I was VERY VERY against any type of Cry It Out sleep training for a long time. Our pediatrician wa...
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Boston | Not Like Texas
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I happened to be on Twitter when people started to talk about the bombings at the Boston Marathon. Yesterday, the messages of disbelief and outrage pouring onto my timeline faster than I could click all the links to news stories. I still haven’t seen the live footage, having been spared after someone tweeted that you could actually see limbs flying and I decided not to look. I am enraged that there were members of the Sandy Hook community running in memory of those lost. To protect our children? Address ...
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About Me | Not Like Texas
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I’m Austin. That’s me, to the right of the elephant. No, I’m not from Texas and neither are my parents. In fact, I’ve never really been to Texas, except to drive through a teensy part of it on my way to Arizona. I was not conceived in Texas, nor am I a boy; my parents just liked the name. Feel free to hit me with a Texas joke; I have heard them all. Things that I love: red wine, time off, [way too much] trashy television, all animals but especially elephants, YA fiction, witty banter, Indian food. You ar...
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Nora | Not Like Texas
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Well, she’s here! Nora Brooke was born on September 9 at 10:16PM. She weighed 9 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long. We are, obviously, in love. Oh, I was so naive). Even though induction meant an increased risk in c-section based on the statistics, we knew that large babies run in both our families (Zack was over 10lbs. at birth and I have several siblings who were over 10lbs, one was over 11lbs! But sadly that was not to be. My memory starts to get a little fuzzier at this point in the story...
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A Lot Of Words About Sleep | Not Like Texas
https://notliketexas.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/a-lot-of-words-about-sleep
A Lot Of Words About Sleep. Are you laughing yet? We’re almost eight months in and let’s just say that the dream has been drastically modified. But what I really want to talk about today is sleep. I’m going to give you a rundown of Nora’s sleep habits and I’ll save the bitching for after you get a sense of what we’re dealing with here. When it comes to crying it out, so unless she’s willing to go to sleep it’s an epic fight for a 30 minute nap. Max. 8216;s ideas on parenting in general. Our pediatric...
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Let’s Talk About Boobs! | Not Like Texas
https://notliketexas.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/lets-talk-about-boobs
Let’s Talk About Boobs! These days the girls are hard at work feeding my kid. I sort of expected – here we go, Austin and her EXPECTATIONS again – that breast feeding would be hard or weird and sometimes it is. Mostly it’s weird when you find yourself in a bar for a meeting about a volunteer bike ride. Earrings and a neck tattoo comes out and TOTALLY sees what you are doing in there and then pretends not to see so now you’re embarrassed sitting in your own damn car. Or maybe that’s just me. About it) who...
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My Experience As A Stay-At-Home Mom, Six Months In | Not Like Texas
https://notliketexas.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/my-experience-as-a-stay-at-home-mom-six-months-in
My Experience As A Stay-At-Home Mom, Six Months In. Before we had Nora I had a serious decision to make – whether to return to work (I’d have to get a new job, as there was NO WAY we could make my being a flight attendant work with a baby – nor did I have any desire to remain at that job) or be a stay-at-home parent. Or does feminism mean – should it mean – that women have a choice about what we do with our lives and are not just expected to stay home and take care of the children? I expected to spend at...
