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!

Monday, November 19, 2007

Three Meaningful Years

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I missed posting on my "blogging anniversary"(or blogiversary as some folks say) again this year. On November 14, 2004 I posted a...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Obviously... I Had Misplaced It/ About Showers

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Well, it was a waste of energy to have felt even slightly stressed out about it, but I had absentmindedly misplaced my wallet and left it i...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Checkout Lane is The Worst Place to Find Out...

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... that you have lost your wallet/pocketbook.* Yeah... worse yet if you're buying train toys for yous sons, trains they've been req...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

I Love Them Because of Monet

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... and of course because they're beautiful For some reason (perhaps my love of the color green) I was absolutely fascinated by this flo...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Degrees of (un)happiness

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First, if you missed the previous post, there are some good news there , so check it out. So K tells me that he feels much better now that h...
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Plan B is in Place...

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... now on to the next steps, and plans C, D, E, F, etc. K has secured a temporary job offer today for another postdoc at the same universit...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

First One Down, At a Price

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Preface : In case you're wondering (because or yesterday's post ), we had a good night, considering the circumstances. Linton was fa...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Various Updates ( Including Brazilian Burglary Story) & Tiring Day

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D = day U = update D: We all have been sick and coughing, but today Linton got worse. He started "wheezing" in the morning and ha...
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Little Brothers and Cousin Tumbling -- Video Blogging

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NaBloPoMo (or GloBloPoMo, whatever you prefer -- I like the Global alternative since I'm not a "national" of this country ;) ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Parents Need to be Strong...

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... at least in front of their children. I was thinking this afternoon as I expectantly waited for a phone call from my husband saying that ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Fall Pics

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I was going to post these pictures last Wednesday (11/7) and this is how I had started the post: "There's so much I want to blog ab...
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Friday, November 09, 2007

Tomorrow I'll be back with more

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Hi, I know I have to post everyday and it's one minute to midnight, so I guess I'm still good, but my sister-in-law is here and we...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Here I Go Again

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I didn't think I was going to have the courage to go for it, but I'm applying for three academic posts. After I'm rejected, whic...
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Triplets

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For Jody :)
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

A Metaphoric (If Clichéd) Look at the Latest Events

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This will be a recurrent theme in the blog from now on... sorry about that, but I need a space to grieve and to figure out what we're g...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Funny Cell Phone Story

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Yesterday I couldn't find my cell phone so I did what I often do, I "paged" it by calling it from my home phone. I couldn'...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

News & Notes (updated)

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(I added a couple of items) I'll take the bullet approach which was lately made popular by other bloggers out there. The day after loosi...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007

International Tag-Team Parenting

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Everything went well with my trip, including the drive up from D.C. I was getting really sleepy at the end of the car trip, but I talked on ...
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

24 Hours in Brazil

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I'm going to stay a bit more than 24 hours here, but the first 24 were great so far. The only downside is that I basically lost my voice...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

Got Safely to Brazil

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I just wanted to let you know that I arrived safely here and I'm off to have lunch with some of our closest friends at my favorite resta...
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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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