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With child #2 due any day now, my husband and I decided to install a second car seat in at least one of our cars (to avoid scrambling last minute on discharge day from the hospital!). We remembered that carseats aren’t always the easiest contraptions to install, so I took my car once again to the free installation center at JSUMC. (And since the fine folks at the car seat station have now helped our family four times with two cars, I wanted to pass along…

... Anyone else doing something so we all don't wake up at 5a?!?

(I guess having a toddler can be easier OR harder than an older child or an infant...but, then again, I guess it's particular to each child!)

So, I just realized w/Daylight Savings Time at 2am Sunday, my 15-month old, Dylan, may be waking up an hour earlier than usual (um, possibly 5:30a??  No fun!).  Of course, as luck would have it my husband is away for a few days, so this means I get the…

I just posted to my personal Facebook page a brief account of a parking lot encounter I had this afternoon, so I decided it would make an interesting blog entry tonight.  Right after lunch, I decided to take my 14-month old son out for a walk in his stroller, to head to the Oakhurst Post Office [I am disclosing details, just in case the offender driving a dark-color, luxury sedan ever reads this!] to mail some letters.  I have a car, of course, but it was a gorgeous day out!  So, while I…