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Old School Rules

Old School Rules

While cool kids strive towards ever more advanced, portable and tiny phones, I just bought the most gigantic, tethered landline I could find. That’s right, we're talking to you corded. Call it kitschy, retro or ridiculous, but I love my new wall phone, just like the...

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How Mommy & Me Burst My Bubble

How Mommy & Me Burst My Bubble

At my first day in Mommy & Me, I made a new friend.  We seemed so much alike; both of us were bubbly blondes and first-time mothers to 3-month-old babies.  We even shared the same alma mater.  “What year did you graduate?” she asked, as excited as I was to find...

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Things To Do During Naptime When Nobody Naps

Things To Do During Naptime When Nobody Naps

Viv turned two today, and since I've learned so much during the past two years about good parenting, I gave her cupcakes for breakfast. Then I ran her around the park for a couple of hours, hoping to burn off the sugar rush. But she was still high as a kite when we...

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It’s My Blogaversary

It’s My Blogaversary

One year ago, I launched Carriage Before Marriage. Thank you so much for reading it! Stick with me and in 2013 you will find out if I get pregnant, watch the least knowledgeable bride in the world plan her wedding, and learn whether Viv’s two’s are terrible or just...

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The Two Week Wait

The Two Week Wait

Fertility world is ruled by acronyms.  TTC = Trying to Conceive.  AF = Aunt Flo.  BFP = Big Fat Positive (as in pregnancy test). And of course, IVF = It’s Very Frustrating. There are hormone pills and headaches, injections and bruising, mood swings and tears, constant...

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Goodbye, Lover

Goodbye, Lover

My longest relationship just ended. It’s the one I had with my car. We first hooked up in 1998 when I was planning a move from New York to Los Angeles and my father generously handed down his 1992 Volvo 240.  There was only one problem: I didn’t know how to drive. A...

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Is Blogging Bad For Your Marriage?

Is Blogging Bad For Your Marriage?

A brilliant blogger I follow, Glennon Melton of Momastery, recently announced she was separating from her (super hot) husband.  This was unnerving.  Lately, it seems like the big lady bloggers' marriages have been crumbling like cookies (see: Mighty Girl and Dooce)....

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