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Top 10 things I didn’t anticipate about maternity leave

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

# 10: That Edgar Snyder buys as much ad time as he does.
# 9: That I really WOULD nap when the baby napped and let the housework wait.  (Didn’t think I had it in me!)
# 8: That the UPS guy would show up so often with gifts for the baby.  (He probably thinks I only [...]

It’s like Tom Petty says…

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Oh, the waiting is the hardest part.
I’m pregnant, and I’ve been pregnant now for a full 41 weeks.  Now I’ve got no complaints about this pregnancy - it couldn’t have been smoother.  I’ve had hardly a food aversion, an ache, a pain, a night of lost sleep.  It’s been smooth sailing from the get.  Except that [...]