All is Calm

Everything will sit quiet here awhile. I’m off to help a mama have a baby. When I get back, I am going to respond to some tags & challenges. I hope you will play too:Telling a Story in a Hundred Words, from Slouchy&Year End Review, from Heather. Go visit and play along!

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Just call me Rosenblum Hussein

I’d like to thank the Momocrats for creating a meme that didn’t involve random facts, that does involve giving bullies a smack down and affords me the perfect lead in to tell you about the story of my maiden name – which is, in fact, Rosenblum.Look here is my dad, Carl:Somehow he manages to look [...]

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My husband did my homework…

Or rather my blogwork, because I was so flattered to be tagged by Erin but oh so distraught that it was a music meme, because I’m just not that kind of girl. Or perhaps, it would be better to express it this way: I could do it, but it would likely tell you not much [...]

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Meme – Brought to you by Painted Maypole

The Interview Meme is back! Hurray! I love it! Please let me know if you’d like to play along. Painted Maypole was nice enough to interview me so I could blog, blog, blog…Thanks! 1) In your very first post you intimate that you began blogging because YOU needed new batteries. In what ways does your [...]

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I’m back, only I never left…

Posts are a percolating, summer’s flying buy, we are still hip-deep in moving in and I pause for this meme – 7 Things About Me – Just things, Just 7 – I was tagged by American Mum! 1. I find I have suddenly much more free time now that So You Think You Can Dance [...]

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My big plans

I had some big plans. In my fantasy world of way more free time than I really have I was going to overcome my overstimulation and nominate writers for all kinds of awards. I have made absolutely no progress at all on my blogging learning curve and am annoyed at myself. Also, I now have [...]

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Local Mom Holding it Together Just Fine.

“Well, once you get away from all the hype and the media frenzy, it turns out, that I’m holding it together just fine,” Karen, an area mother with three boys, a full time job, had a moment of clarity yesterday. She was interviewed between loads of laundry, work phone calls and kids’ nap times, all [...]

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postpartum pre-pajama post….or something

tagged – I’m it: postpartum and wearing the hospital gown and, in an amazing upgrade from my previous birth just 22months earlier, a hospital provided seersucker bathrobe (blue and white on sleeve, closely resembles enormous receiving blanket). Mostly I’m covered in baby and blankets; it was the same every time. Yep, that’s right I’m nursing, [...]

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