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!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

When Things Go Wrong (Updated)

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Murphy's law postulates that if something can go wrong, it will. Or, more precisely, when things just can't go wrong because they w...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Woman Kicked off Plane for Breastfeeding!

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Breastfeeding in the news again! This might have happened because the child was older (22 monhts). I haven't been breastfeeding my 29 m...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Two Years and Counting!

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Two years ago today I posted on this blog for the first time. It's been a very good "journey" so far, as I have recently writt...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Down Will Come Baby...

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... Mother and all. I know that's not how this song (which has pretty tragic lyrics) ends, but that's what happened to us this Satu...
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Still There?

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It feels like I haven't blogged for such a long time (hence the question in the title), but it has been less than a week. I'd made a...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Restaurant Savy

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These past few days weren't easy for Kelvin, since he wasn't allowed to eat almost every food that he asked to eat. He then began to...
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Ominous Start

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I couldn't get to sleep very easily last night. I couldn't forgive myself for what happened. Thankfully, I do feel better now, so I...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Slowly Getting Better

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Things are very slowly getting better here at Casa in Translation. Linton, the youngest, is pretty much all better now -- except that he doe...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Here We Go!

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My little one is slowly getting better, but he woke up countless times between 3-6 am in the past two nights. It makes for a very tired mama...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

How Blogging Changed My Life

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This post wasn't meant to see the light for a while. I also really dislike the title, but I wasn't able to come up with anything bet...
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The Motherhood Manifesto Film

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MomsRising is a great organization which "has a goal of championing core motherhood and family issues in political, social, and econom...
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Spoke Too Soon

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My son seemed to be better during the day, in spite of a total lack of appetite. I fed him only baby cereal with soy milk and some crackers....
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

A Quickie (Updated)

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I was quite busy this weekend, so I wasn't able to write. I had a friend's baby shower to attend and my brother- and sister-in-law...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Full-Time at Home Parenting: Delight or Torture?

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After I expressed some negative thoughts about being home with the boys in this post , some of my blogging friends ( Kate and Alice ) direc...
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Central Park on a Saturday Afternoon

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Cloudscome 's post about her lovely day with her sons last Saturday motivated me to write about our day as well. We went to New York C...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

A Tale of Two Meetings (& Finally a Dissertation Update - #8)

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First, I want to thank everyone for your support after last post, it means a lot to me. Blogging has kept me afloat these past two years in ...
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Flowers

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I have so many things to write about, but I'm kind of blocked right now. I guess the scare of almost losing the blog has actually affect...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

On Closing Doors and Opening up for Dreams

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Two weeks ago Andi Buchanan (from Mother Shock ) wrote a beautiful post in her blog, comemorating the anniversary of her last piano concer...
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Lost & Found

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Last Wednesday night I impulsively switched my blog to the Beta version of blogger and then, on Thursday morning, guess what? Yes, if you...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Short-Circuited

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I have a dear friend who used to say that mothering little boys means having to prevent them from killing themselves on a daily basis. I tho...
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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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