SNAPSHOTS

SNAPSHOTS

Weekend Snapshots: Formals & Flowers Edition

Something that's kind of a bummer about Kendrick going to a relatively far-away business school: it limits how much we can get involved in the community there as a couple. I've heard from friends whose husbands or wives have attended business school that it's a really great community - all the partners hang out together, there's a fun social scene, et cetera et cetera - but logistically it's just not really possible for me to hire a babysitter and truck up to Yale for nighttime events all that often.

But for a Spring Formal? Babysitter. Mostly because I haven't been to a school dance in about a decade, and I need some Kesha in my life.

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What I Bought: Baby Number Two

OK, so the truth about Buying For Baby is that you think you need bazillions of things, and what you really need is…about one-eighteenth of that. When you walk into Buy Buy Baby or Babies 'R' Us for the first time, all pregnant and confused-looking (or, in my case, vaguely panicky), a store attendant will hand you a long (long) list of all the crap the store wants you to think that you need. And that can be helpful to some extent, but it's also way overwhelming, and way way way way expensive.

You don't need all that. (Try handing over the list to a friend who's recently been through the newborn phase, and let her go to town with the crossing-off.)

Shopping for our second child has been a completely different experience. First of all, other than the fact that I obviously went a little nuts with the purchasing of teeny-tiny dresses when we found out that we'd be having a daughter…we actually hadn't bought anything at all up until last weekend. Which makes sense: we already have about 90% of the things we'll need (crib, dresser, baby carrier, infant car seat, et cetera). We still want to pick up a good double stroller and a Snap 'n' Go (we not-so-smartly got rid of ours when our son outgrew his infant car seat)…but other than that: we're pretty good to go, I think.

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How To Take Your Child To The Movies (And More)

In this segment (which you can find after the jump, below, because it's auto-playing for some reason and I don't want to get anyone watching this at work in trouble), three of my favorite new-mom tips:

1) How To Stretch Out Your Too-Tight Shoes (this really works, really fixes the whole pregnancy-made-my-feet-expand-half-a-size issue, and will blow your mind); 

2) How To Take A Toddler To The Movies;


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