When exactly does a house become a home? For that matter, when exactly does a condo unit become your personal property? We jumped through the hoops of home ownership in June of 2007, and have been sinking mounds of cash into our monthly mortgage since that time. According to Cook County, however, a mortgage payment [...]

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I walked into the office this morning carrying a satchel full of bad attitude and our cable modem apparatus. We made the switch to DSL over the weekend and the remnants of the Comcast-era were stuffed into a puffy priority mail package, which was then stuffed into my bag, and is now ready to be [...]

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As it turns out, the delicate ecosystem we refer to as Constance’s junk has turned out to be a breeding ground for Group B strep. Once she enters active labor, she will have to have an IV bag of penicillin pumped into her veins followed by another round 4 hours later. It will not limit [...]

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Our pets are leading a revolt. My guess is that it has something to do with the impending delivery, but regardless, they have, over the last week, begun to stake their claim. Animals can sense and smell change, so a part of me wonders if the reason Marcy barked for two hours non-stop on Tuesday [...]

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So this isn’t news by any stretch of the imagination, but on Saturday Constance and I realized we had never gotten to experience the joy of a peeing on a stick and seeing it yield positive results. When we found out we were pregnant, it was a blood test and, seemingly, there was no need [...]

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At various mile-markers in your life there are certain words that infuse you with a sense of calm. As a kid, whenever my mom said, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it,” I felt as if I had been picked up off the carpet and placed into a gravity-free paradise teeming with cake and Hot [...]

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Perhaps it was the lure of my favorite time of year. Perhaps it was a seed planted two years ago by one of the freelance designers I employ. Perhaps I have too much free time on my hands.
Regardless of the reason, I launched us into the bracketology way of life early this year by taking [...]

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Everyone we encounter has begun to inquire as to when our baby is due and whether or not we have an inclination as to when it actually will arrive. Our doula told us some women just know - like her client who correctly picked the day she would go into labor as well as the [...]

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Save for the hippopotamus wall cling that soon will be arriving in the mail, the nursery construction has come to a close. A project that seemed to have no end is now complete. We officially are ready – we have our hospital bags packed, baby’s first outfit has been chosen, nursing bras are in-the-house, and [...]

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Perhaps time is chugging along faster than I originally had perceived. May 2008 was the last time Constance and I entered Dr. Leya’s office for our final failed insemination before graduating to IVF. Ten times a month for 12 months consecutive, we spent our pre-dawn hours driving to her office in hopes of achieving the [...]

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