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Thanksgiving 2020 Pre Fixe

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on November 27, 2020

Menu includes: Mashed Sweet potatoes with Garlic A Baby Monitor Herb Brined Cornish Hens Stuffing with Sausage and Pecans Something to Prove to oneself about ones abilities and time management now that one is a …

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freedom

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on October 9, 2020

I have never in my life felt more engaged in an election, probably because I want to shape and preserve the world for my son, so that he might grow up in a country where …

generally, i am lucky, my boy, politics, the future

tense

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on October 7, 2020

Yesterday while probably only halfway wearing pants, trying to justify my frustration with him the previous day, I explained to Morrison I was just having a bad day tomorrow! So basically it was probably a …

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not lost on me

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on October 5, 2020

October is national pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, and it’s not lost on me that this time last year, we’d just had our second failed IVF transfer and I screamed in a parking lot …

how interesting, i am a grown up, i am lucky, life, MAWWAGE., memories, my boy, my boy

you had to be there

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on October 3, 2020October 3, 2020

Today, on how Babies are like Sunsets: pictures don’t capture them. You see the sunset, it’s striking, you scramble for your phone, take a picture, then look at the picture you took, and something magic …

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Parent Words

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 29, 2020

One day you’re an adult with a master’s degree, you live in a house that you bought and you read Op-eds and take calls from your Lawyer, and the next day you’re a Parent and …

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dishwasher v. boy

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020

I’ve always been in love with Time, or at least I’ve perceived it as Love, but it’s Control: I own it, and it does what I want. Each second is a something that can be …

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A Blessing

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

I am VERY LUCKY that I have a husband that wants to and is able to be an equal participant in raising (ie: desperately, moment to moment, trying to understand and the keeping alive of) …

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how to walk

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 13, 2020

My greatest fears used to be very bad reviews, plummeting to my death in a plane crash, or hurting the feelings of someone I love, but now at the very top of the list is …

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tummy time, or: this, forever

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 9, 2020

Like a month ago when I was a different human, I swore to myself that once Joe was born, I would not let this space become solely about babies. I would strike a balance between …

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