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We hope you all had a great Holiday season - and we are wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009.  2008 seems to be ending on an upward note, so we are hoping that the New Year continues in this upward trend.  To keep things light and help prevent those post-holiday blues, here is [...]

I feel like I’m waking up from some kind of dream/hallucination in which I had major surgery to remove my appendix while 4 months pregnant; went to two Thanksgivings; celebrated my husband’s 30th and my 29th birthdays; took care of a child with a cold and a double ear infection; wrote a statistics paper and [...]

And with the pop of 10,000 champagne bottle corks, the holiday season (and 2007 as a whole) is packed away and put up in the attic. I hope you bought enough mothballs.
Hazel’s first Christmas went swimmingly. Despite my worst fears of weird or useless gifts, everything she received has not only fit well [...]

Last week we braved the wilderness of the Hannaford parking lot to bring home our Christmas tree. We settled on a seven-foot conifer trucked down from Aroostook County, the northern bulk of Maine. The money we paid went to Kiwanis International – an admirable organization dedicated to serving and strengthening local communities through [...]

Megan and her mother went down to Portland for a day of chain store shopping on Saturday, so Hazel and I had a whole day to ourselves. In between naps (hers, not mine), we read books, played with plush animals, and even took in “The New Yankee Workshop” AND “This Old House”. If there is [...]

The first time my parents came up to see Hazel, she was just one-week-old and was stuck in the hospital with a bad case of jaundice. The second time my parents came up to see Hazel, she was seven-weeks-old and back in the hospital for hernia surgery. The third time my parents ventured north to [...]