Category: Life Musings
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The Twins’ Favourite Toys
A few years ago I sent an email, in a vain attempt at humour, out to a large group of my family and friends. I talked about how poor we were when I was a kid and how we had no toys to play with and how one Christmas if I had not woken up with…
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New Car Seats for the Twins
My baby girls are growing up very quickly; Annalie is now 19.1 lbs and Story is 18.4lbs. Seeing as they are growing so quickly, we saw a deal for car seats at a baby store and we jumped on it. So now we have purchased the next style of car seats for them. These seats seem to be…
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Gleaners and Carpet Cleaners
The Bears are in training to become gleaners. They crawl around the house, in the areas they are allowed to roam freely, and look for, and find, the tiniest particles of stuff that one can imagine. And what do they do with these things like a carpet thread? Well of, straight into the mouth! We vacuum…
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Raising children; an elaborate hazing ritual?
Okay, the joke is over…is there some great elaborate conspiracy that is working against me on this getting kids to sleep thing? I am starting to believe that this sleep/no sleep deal is a hazing ritual organized by some superior life force. And then Story has discovered the stairs. She loves climbing up the stairs,…
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Living in a shit-storm
Sometimes I feel like I am living in a shit storm. Take this morning for example…Annalie wakes up at 4:30am, reeking of turd. I begin to change her by pulling her jersey up over her head and find that the poonami has completely breached the perimeter. The inside of the jersey has been soiled so…
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Ch-ch-changes
We are currently working on some changes to the Stacey Robinsmith dot com site. Please bear with me while we get these changes up and operating. See you soon!
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Doctor Ferber; Do You Make House-calls?
Okay, so I spoke too soon. On January 5th I posted a little thing about the girls sleeping through the night. I was feeling quite giddy with my new found freedom to sleep for five or six hours (ah the luxury!) straight through. Unfortunately, as I was posting those thoughts, the twins were plotting their…
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Acupuncture releases me from the grip of pain
The end of the first week of back to work after our Christmas break (yes Christmas, not winter break) could not come soon enough. Huge sigh of relief. On Tuesday of this week I felt the muscles on the left side of my back, at the spot just about where my bra would sit, if I…
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Sleeping Through the Night
The twins have entered a new phase that is somewhat welcome and somewhat inconvenient. For the last couple of nights Annalie and Story have slept through the night. This is a very welcome phase for them to have moved into. The less convenient part of this phase is that they both now wake up at…
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Our Impressions of the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines
We arrived in San Diego with reservations for a resort called the Bahia. It was not a discount place, in fact it was relatively expensive to stay there. When we booked our place we requested water view, renovated beachfront room, and non-smoking with a kitchenette. All options that are presented when you make your reservations so…