Mama(e) in Translation

2 sons, 2 languages, 2 countries, 2 "worlds" (work/home), 2 PhDs. Where translation and "in-between-ness" have become a way of life. Now with 2 cats & 2 Universities!

Sunday, July 30, 2006

That's What Breasts Are For!!!

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**Updated** I found 3 more photos!! Last Friday my lovely husband emailed me the link to this CNN news story and I wish we didn't have ...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Very Hungry Catterpillars

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Two Sundays ago we had lunch at our friends' house in North Philadelphia because they wanted to say good-bye to my parents, who were sup...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Busy Dissertatin'

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I finally sent chapter 5's second draft to my advisor today. The original deadline (I come up with them) was last Friday, but the adviso...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Updates on Health, Sleep, Blogroll & Blogging

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Well, I want to write more about being a mother since this is the most defining and central aspect of my life and one of the main reasons I ...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Birth Order and Personality Quiz

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Wow, Professing Mama did this quiz and thought it was scarily accurate except for the career paths. Well, in my case, even the career matc...
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Monday, July 17, 2006

Some Thoughts on Mothering (& Mommy wars)

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I have been thinking about my feelings and thoughts about being a mother for a long time now. My sister-in-law's comment to my last pos...
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Friday, July 14, 2006

To Dream, Perchance... to Sleep

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After months and months of thinking about my (probably neither new nor creative) twist-on- Shakespeare-for-a-title I thought I'd never w...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Vacation in Florida?

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I can hardly believe it, but it looks like we're going to have a vacation after all! I'm excited, but also a bit scared, since we re...
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Monday, July 10, 2006

Thanks Everyone!

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I was truly delighted by every single comment I received for last post, thank you so much everyone! There was even a new reader, "Dr. H...
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Friday, July 07, 2006

35 -- Here am I

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Once upon a time, more specifically, on July 7, 1971, a baby girl was born , much loved and wanted (you can read a bit more about how/where ...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Back Dissertatin' - Update #7

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All right, I know it took me way to long to go back to work and to blog about the dissertation again. I can't believe my last update wa...
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Monday, July 03, 2006

Brand New Nephew

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These have been very intense days. On Thursday we drove to Maryland for 3 hours, on Friday night we came back home, then yesterday we drove ...
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Saturday, July 01, 2006

So, it's Over for Brazil

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I'll post soon about my gorgeous newborn nephew, but I wanted to get to the bad news first... Oh, and if you are sick of me writing abou...
Thursday, June 29, 2006

I'm Going to be an Auntie Again!! Maybe Today.

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Hey, I knew there was mommy stuff coming up, see? (apart from my sleep troubles post that has been brewing for weeks now) We'll be on ou...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

More on the World Cup - Why don't Americans Care for Soccer?

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Note: Regularly scheduled "mommy" blog posts will follow and, pretty soon, some dissertation-related stuff. I think I'm just ...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

The World Cup and I (updated with logos and bonus curious facts)

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Note: I got the logos of every world cup I'm discussing in Google and I want to include them in the post, but I'll come back for tha...
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I'm a Brazilian immigrant (used to say expatriate, have problems with this word now), living in the U.S. since 1996 with my husband and two sons (born in March 2002 and May 2004). I'm a mother, first and foremost, -- mamãe in my mother-tongue, hence the (e) of the blog title -- but after "ten years and two sons" I finally finished my Ph.D. in literature in 2008. After six years away from teaching (including a year home/cyber schooling my sons - 2009-10), I'm finally back in higher-education. I've been blogging here for eleven years, so welcome to my site and feel free to stay for a while and look around. Our lives are a roller coaster, never lacking in ups and downs! ;-)
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