Never too soon

For awhile I was one of those superstitious types who believed if you start planning for a baby, it’ll never happen. You have to pretend like it’s not gonna happen, then the world will surprise you. But after a few sessions of counseling and some other efforts to change my attitude toward the whole want-to-be-parents [...]

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Sensitivity and infertility

While we’ve been dealing with this arduous process of trying to become parents, I’ve become incredibly sensitive to other people’s good fortune in the kid department. I’ve had a really hard time expressing why that is, and I think a lot of people misunderstand where I’m coming from. I tried to write about this elsewhere [...]

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The unfortunate reason we haven’t been around much

We’ve been a little quiet around here. That’s because big things were happening that we weren’t sure how to write about in this venue, so we just didn’t write anything. I think there is enough distance now that I can at least share what’s going on. Most of you probably know that Mike and I [...]

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Circumnavigation

“Would you want to have our son(s) circumcised?” When Shannon asked me this recently, I froze. I had no idea. My instinct was to say ‘yes,’ but I think it was only because it’s what I know. I’d always heard that uncircumcised penises are unsanitary, they look weird, etc. But I’d never really thought about [...]

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Baby name bible

In light of recent developments on the baby naming issues, I really want this book. Actually I’ve wanted that book for a long time, but now I REALLY want it. I read babynamewizard.com regularly and would love to add the printed version to my bookshelf. Actually, who am I kidding? I’d being poring over it [...]

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Naming rights

I have to put this in writing so neither of us ever forgets (not that I would!), and so we have “witnesses.” The other day Mike and I were driving a long distance together, and I suggested we spend some of the time discussing baby names. Mike was less than enthused, but I pressed on. [...]

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Europe? Yes! Oui! Si!

Well, we did it. We booked a trip to Europe! When we got married and obtained a little cash, we decided we’d save it and keep adding to it until we had enough to go to Europe. Our goal was Fall of this year, but the more I thought about it, the more I knew [...]

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Teach Your Children

This isn’t necessarily a “relationship” post, but I’m framing it around the idea of raising children, so it works. Plus, I just have to rant. Today the Supreme Court ruled, 8 to 1, that the Westboro Baptist Church was/is exercising free speech picketing military funerals. If you don’t know, this “church” pickets military funerals and [...]

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