Bart’s company has the lactation consultation program where any employees or spouses of employees who have a baby get a pre-birth call about nursing and then periodic phone calls to answer questions, give advice, and offer support. (This is a very lovely program). The LC assigned to me is located in Vermont, so I’ve never met her, although I’ve talked…
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News
My youngest sister, Landen, got engaged a couple of weeks ago. We met Adam over Christmas break when he came down and spent nearly a week with our family in Las Vegas. Everything we’d heard about him had been extremely positive, and we liked him just as much as we’d hoped we would. So yes, that engagement was certainly good…
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6 of 10: After a really slow start, I found myself enjoying Cutting for Stone, but I don’t have the intense love for it that so many people do. I’m glad to have read this book. It is widely popular right now and I don’t like having not read something that so many people have read (how do people stand…
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Shout Hooray!
Today is Crawford’s birthday. The day he was born, I was at a friend’s house, since my mom had gone into labor during the night. We were playing Oregon Trail (best game ever) on the computer, and her dad came in to tell me that my parents had just called to say that Crawford had been born. I was so…
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A Return to Madam Librarian for the Evening
One of my friends is in charge of weekly activities for the girls ages 8-11 at church and she asked me to do a little presentation on books. I pretty much had free reign and about 45 minutes. I spent a lot of time picking books because I wanted a variety of genres and reading levels, not to mention a…
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