Author: Jennifer Suarez
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#4 French Baguette at Yellow Dog
One of the reasons this challenge is fun is that it takes us to new places and forces us to try new things. In this case, however, it was a return to a place we’d been before — Yellow Dog Bread Co. Downtown Raleigh used to be a bakery desert, until The Year of the…
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Kickoff: About the Lemon Cake Dessert Challenge
Dessert is on! This year, we’re undertaking a fun challenge: obtain and try every dessert in the video game Lemon Cake. That’s 42 desserts or baked goods.
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Summer Travel
Forget snakes on a plane. Taking your baby flying for the first time is much more terrifying. Not really, of course. But we were a tad nervous about how Rory would do during a week of travel. Originally, we planned to visit family in Ohio during the July 4 holiday weekend. We took off work…
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Returning to Life
Whew! Keeping up with a blog isn’t easy when you’re focused on getting sleep and getting back to work. But now that Rory is nearly five months old, we find ourselves returning to our civic commitments, getting out for dinner, and doing more fun things. It helps that Rory started daycare last week, giving me…
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Rory’s New Shoes
Today Rory celebrates her one-month birthday! Today, she also received her second set of plaster casts. For those who aren’t aware, we found out during an ultrasound that our baby has club feet. Later, we found out Leo had a club foot, as did one of my aunts, so it’s not too surprising that Rory…
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Welcome Home, Rory!
One week ago today I was still in labor — hours after they had told me I was “pretty close.” We checked in last Thursday, Feb. 5. My induction was supposed to begin the next morning, after I got some sleep and some breakfast. Instead, the doctor examined me and said she didn’t need to…