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The final plunge (back) into cloth

Julie / August 11, 2010

I keep intending to write a serious entry, but then finding myself worn to the point of total exhaustion out by the end of the day when I finally sit down to write.  And so I occupy myself with more triteness, because I”˜m determined at this point to discipline myself into writing at least once a day, until it’s a…

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy meanderings.

Julie / August 10, 2010

As much as it amazes me how different our two children are, this pregnancy is really shocking me a lot more!  The first two were night-and-day in the sense that with E, I had hyperemesis gravidarum and threw up all the way through to and in labor, whereas with R, I literally didn’t throw up a single time.   But otherwise,…

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Homemaking, Wifehood

Reflections on being a stay-at-home wife.

Recently I read some discussions on the idea of being a stay-at-home wife–not a stay-at-home mom, but being just a married, childless woman who stays at home all day while her husband goes to work.  It’s an idea that gets pretty highly criticized, often for good reasons.It’s also something I was for the two years between our move northward (when…

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