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I blame facebook
for our recent quiet. i joined it because a local social group was using it for invitations, and suddenly it’s this puzzling and slightly frightening and potentially entirely engrossing new elec… more →
(another) new kid on the block
i blame facebook
shannon wrote 9 months ago: for our recent quiet. i joined it because a local social group was using it for invitations, and sud … more →
she slays me ...
shannon wrote 11 months ago: … she really does. yesterday evening the kids and i bundled into the car to go pick up c from … more →
daddy's boy
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shannon wrote 12 months ago: when mairin was little, i simply got used to the fact that if she was in the same room as me and car … more →
yeah, i'm here, too.
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: so i just scrolled through a bunch of posts on this blog to figure out the last time yours truly aut … more →
do they make that in emperor-sized?
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: over the past two weeks, as eamon has slept for entire football games and gone twenty-four hour stre … more →
no labor ...
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: … no news, except that we’re getting up before the crack of dawn tomorrow and trundling … more →
love note
shannon wrote 1 year ago: misery, thy name is carole. you can’t sleep … can’t breathe … can’t wa … more →
homestretch?
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: last night carole began complaining of back pain, and then wrinkling her brow quizzically as she che … more →
if i'm really honest with myself ...
shannon wrote 1 year ago: … i’m not sure i believed six months ago, or maybe even as recently as four, that this d … more →
little man...
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: … is actually pretty big, if you take any stock in those “damn machines” (as carol … more →
are we having fun yet?
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: the answer is, most emphatically, no. carole doesn’t sleep for longer than a couple hours at a … more →
lel-lo
shannon wrote 1 year ago: in lieu of anything substantive to report about the new kid (35w1d, knocking his mama around, heartb … more →
another week...
shannon wrote 1 year ago: …another milestone. this one we didn’t even know about until a casual conversation with … more →
... 33 ...
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: 33 weeks today. and as a special treat, here’s another little window into the way my mind work … more →
something in the air?
shannon wrote 1 year ago: for the first few months of her speaking life, mairin referred to me as “dada” and carol … more →
dog days
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: it’s not august yet, but i feel like we’re in the dog days — not so much of summer … more →
my two-timin' fella
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carole wrote 1 year ago: one of my favorite things about our last few years in st paul was shannon’s re-entry into seri … more →
oh, wait...
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: gus ht the 29-week milestone yesterday. that means, ten weeks from yesterday morning at about 7:46 o … more →
anxieties of a different sort
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shannon wrote 1 year ago: gus is 28 weeks and one day. he kicks regularly, and he’s getting big enough that carole … more →
