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, May 30, 2008

Blame it on the Photos

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Oh yeah!!! And (continuing last post 's subject) I guess that the most important thing to "blame" for the fact that I don'...
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Another Reason...

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This may sound like a very lame excuse, but it's very true. Another reason why I don't post as often as I'd like is that in the ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Look What I Did! :-(

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First, the bad news: Yes, I did that. A week ago, around 7 pm I was leaving the house with my mom and I backed up and hit the Mazda_3 with t...
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So Much and Nothing

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Here I am, with tons of things to say and share, and I'm posting nothing (well, I was, now I am writing this post). I guess my excuse th...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Leaving for Commencement

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We're leaving for Massachusetts soon. K had to work today (he's already taking tomorrow off from work), so we're only going now....
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Acknowledging YOU!

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I don't know when I'll get around to posting more about the defense and the dissertation-end roller-coaster, but I wanted to let you...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Baby Bonding Book for Dads -- Guest Blogger Blogging Tour

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Two years ago I had the pleasure of participating in the blog book tour for Jennifer Margulis ' book Why Babies do That and now it...
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Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman Birthday Party

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This post is precisely a month late (the party was on April 20th), but I had to write this before posting about last Sunday's party. In...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

"Rainy Days and Mondays"

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Now that we have 3/4 of an acre of grassy lawn I value rainy days so much more. Even having a garden in the past three years didn't make...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Updating 365+1 Project (Photo Blog)

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I just wanted to let you know that after being stuck on "March 30" for months now, I'm finally going to update my 365+1 Photo ...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Accepted! Done!

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The dissertation was accepted. I know it's not "perfect" -- my husband was just telling me last week "there is no such t...
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Two Weeks/ Two Years; Brazil Trip, and Other Bullets

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Two much going on, as always, so a bullet-post is needed. In two weeks we'll know whether my husband's group will get a two year con...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Mother's Day!!

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(this one and the next were taken by my mother) Today I want to post more flowers for all my dear "mommy blogger" friends (and for...
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Friday, May 09, 2008

Finishing Revisions - The Roller Coaster of Feelings is Back (Or : My Conflicted Feelings About Academia)

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I got the revisions back from the graduate school a few hours ago -- I was glad that they did this quickly because if my dissertation is not...

More on the "Ridiculously Long" Dissertation

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Note: read the previous post first :-) Yes, Tracy, it is a ridiculously long dissertation, even for my discipline (which at this point I...
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Revised, Resubmitted (or, should it be Signed, Sealed, and Delivered?)

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This, let me tell you, was anticlimactic. Everything else about my dissertation and the end of the Ph.D. until now was an exciting roller co...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

News & Dreams

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After a lovely weekend in Massachusetts (I hope to blog about it soon) I'm still busy with revisions, revisions, revisions of the disser...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

600th Post -- Eleven Years and Eleven Months

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That's how long we've lived in this country. Two sons Two Ph.D.s One M.S. & one M.A. Three houses (one at a time) Four cars One ...
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The Last Word

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I cannot believe that it has been two years since I first read about this idea at my then still ABD virtual friend Yvette's blog (thank...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Cranberry Drink - Yummm (Blog Tour/ Review)

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I looove cranberries (and if you haven't yet seen my cranberry bog photos , I recommend that you check them out! :-) Anyway, Mom Central...
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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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