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, December 31, 2009

2009, The Difficult Year

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I wish with all my heart that I had the time to do a "2009 in photos" post (oh, yeah, and I also do wish you all an awesome New Ye...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sunburned and Doing Laundry

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Well, the laundry part is not 100% precise because my mom's washing machine is 35 years old and she's the only one allowed to run it...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Holiday Card 2009

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I wanted to share our holiday card with all my blog readers. Merry Christmas for those who celebrate the date! I'd write more, but famil...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Forgotten Job Search News!

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This just in: Two phone interviews scheduled for K. NJ and VA (from that list -- which is incomplete, BTW). I'll keep you posted! P.S. ...

Catching up: Brazil so far

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Brasil: The mosquitoes are "killing" my eldest son who has over 30 bites all over his body. We're sleeping with an electric m...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

I Left the Boys Behind...

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... with my parents, and took a bus to Curitiba last night. I think I've written a bit before about Curitiba, the capital city of the st...
Friday, December 18, 2009

15 Years Ago Today

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K and I got married at an unusual (at the time for Brazil)* late morning ceremony -- scheduled for 11 am, but actually started past noon. It...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Friends that Are Closer than Siblings

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Yesterday was a nice day because I got to spend some time with my best childhood girl friends G & J (technically we weren't children...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Quick Update from Brazil

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We arrived well last Tuesday, in spite of the heavy rain that was falling and which made the landing quite turbulent. We didn't know tha...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Finally! Airport Blogging!

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I've often wanted to blog at the airport, particularly on those rare times (three to be exact) I traveled alone since I became a mother....
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Brrrrr....

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We took this photo last week with the tripod, Kelvin & I with our new hats and Linton with the old but famous "family heirloom...
Sunday, December 06, 2009

Planning Airport "Stay"

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I want to write two other posts before I travel, but I have no idea whether I'll get to them or not, what with all the packing and makin...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Like Pieces of a Puzzle

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Today in the late afternoon we were coming back home when we drove by Big Pharma (K's former employer). "I miss Big Pharma," s...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

"We're Using All the Colors of the Alphabet!" or Kandinsky in Kindergarten

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With some minor edits. "We're Using All the Colors of the Alphabet!" is what my cute five-year old son just said while doing ...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

New Developments

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At least five new positions have appeared since K sent his last round of applications, and my previous post was even missing a few places (...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Well, Apparently, I Did It!

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NaBloPoMo is over and I'll be sad to see the frequency of new posts to read dramatically dwindle down , particularly in these first few ...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Before It's Too Late

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It's the next to last day of NaBloPoMo and I want to post early not to risk being late this evening. There's a great likelihood that...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Family Is Everything

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At least when you're blessed with a wonderful one. We're having a really good time together, eating, talking, entertaining the boys,...
Friday, November 27, 2009

HA HA HA - Midnight Highway Madness Indeed!

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I was done with my post-Thanksgiving shopping before 6 am, thankfully. The midnight thing never happened, though! I had warned my MIL and SI...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

I Am Thankful, But the Neighbors Downstairs Are Not

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Sigh. I so wanted to write a happy, mushy post tonight about how delicious the food was and how thankful I am for various things... However,...
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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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