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The two ton, rainbow, unicorn, sparkly elephant in the room.

By a. sprout | Published: December 18, 2012

I keep going back and forth about publishing anything about this. Torn between my desire for community, for understanding, and wanting to maintain family privacy. Who knows if I will actually hit that button when I finish, maybe just writing it out will be enough. I want to start the reverse of our appointment with [...]

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One!

By a. sprout | Published: June 11, 2012

My baby, the last baby I’ll have myself, is one tomorrow. I don’t know what happened, but it seems I nearly forgot it. Except not really. I just didn’t want to believe that it kept inching closer and closer and closer. But, it is nearly here. About seven hours from now, a year ago, I [...]

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This Time I Mean It

By a. sprout | Published: April 20, 2012

My list of excuses has run out, and so, I’m committing, again, to get back to losing weight. Last time I tried, it was the beginning of the end of nursing H. I’m relatively sure now that it was one of the two major contributing factors to my supply dropping off, and her ultimately losing [...]

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Mulan, you’re looking nice tonight.

By a. sprout | Published: January 28, 2012

I’ve been making doll clothes for as long as I can remember. My first baby doll, Hazel, had a collection of things made from random scraps of whatever I could find. There was that whole break there where I was a respectable adult who didn’t play with dolls, but kids are such great excuses for [...]