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Take Your Daughter to Work

Posted on July 21, 2005

Our sitter is in Michigan this week visiting family. Sean and I agreed to work together to cover watching Briar. She came to work with me for most of Monday, ending the day at Sean’s office. The next day I brought her into work, only to be sent back home – not that I am complaining!It was incredible. They should really institute one day a month when you go and just spend a day with your child. That’s what the weekend is for, you say. But no, that isn’t true. There is something remarkably decadent about being home with your child on a weekday. The air is charged with something different than the Saturday whir of sprinklers and hum of lawn mowers, no one…

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Just Shouldn’t Happen

Posted on July 19, 2005

About a week ago our sitter noted that Briar had a yeast infection, which was followed 3 days later by intense vomiting, which in turn was followed by a low grade fever which graduated to a true fever, 102.7. Now, with each phase of this, our first illness with Briar, the heat and humidity have gone up apace. It’s undeniably miserable and oppressive under even the best health conditions. It seems cruelly unjust for a little person to be entering a third day of fever in this heat. We’ve been to the doctor once and spoken with the phone nurse twice. I imagine it must be awful to be a nurse, first you see little one after little one being sick and in between…

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Spoke Too Soon

Posted on July 17, 2005

Oh naive first time mom. Projectile vomit? Ha! I’ll show you vomit. Friday night we had our first real bout with Briar having a stomach bug. I am working summer hours at my job (8-4 rather than 9-5). Sean had asked that we meet him at his office between 4:45 and 5 o’clock. We were going to go out to dinner with his business partner and his wife, have a bite to eat and discuss financial stuff. So I picked Briar up and went home to let the dogs out and water our hanging plants. It has been mercilessly hot and muggy all week so I had the air conditioning blasting. Briar was fine when I picked her up, but once we got home…

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Bad Grapes

Posted on July 13, 2005

I intend to write more about our trip, but I have to jot this down. Briar and I were downstairs this morning after getting a fresh diaper and outfit on – for you wise asses the diaper was on Briar, we both had fresh outfits. I was having a cup of coffee and nibbling on grapes. Briar was watching me so I peeled a grape for her and bit off 1/3 to give to her. She put it in her mouth, made a little face and then proceeded to chew. After a few seconds she coughed a bit, I was going over to make sure she was ok, it didn’t look like she was choking or anything, when all of a sudden – Hu-chuck.…

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