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!

Friday, November 30, 2007

Leaves/ Brand New Ideas and Answers

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OK, I gotta write this. I've been reading blogs and commenting for an hour and that won't get me anywhere as far as posting goes... ...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

"Lost: Translation" into English -- A Question For You, Please Respond!!

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Last night I was doing my weekly (sometimes bimonthly) check to my university email account (there were 30 pages of spam to clean up) and I ...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A White Tall House in PHL

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(photo substituted by another without visible license plate) I think Linton has "caught" some of our discontent and this makes me ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Guests Are Here, Gotta Be Quick

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K is going to arrive tomorrow and find a spotless house (except for our bedroom and the study's big desk, that is :). I'll tell him ...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Recapturing "The Post That Wasn't"

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Phew! I've been back online since 2 p.m. and eagerly reading blogs. It's good to be back ;) Now, on to the post... As I was driving ...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Credit Where Credit Is Due

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I'm glad you enjoyed the Thanksgiving photos , but I wanted to let you know that I didn't decorate the table and counter -- my siste...
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NaBloPoMo Forcibly Disrupted -- No Internet Connection

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I arrived home at 11 pm last night, with the post already planned in my mind. I was going to leave the boys sleeping in the car (in the gara...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Thanksgiving Photos

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We had a lovely holiday with lots of delicious food, so I decided to share some photos of the table and the decorations that my sister-in-la...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Remembering Thanksgivings Past

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Several people are blogging about how much they love Thanksgiving and I agree with them that it's a great holiday, particularly because ...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The The Daring Book for Girls - Mother Talk Blog Book Tour

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As I've posted in this blog before , I was really looking forward to this book since I read and reviewed the "original" The Da...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Remembering the Picnic

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As the days get colder and colder, in addition to rainy, cloudy and wet, I keep on thinking of an afternoon not too long ago (Oct. 21) in wh...
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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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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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