HeyJaredmommy blog
Brief dispatches from actual motherhood from Miranda, an actual mother, writer, and co-host of The Mother Of It All podcast.
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My so-called career (opens the original)
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I may always be a person who does a lot of different things and is hard to introduce at parties. “This is Miranda, she’s a …writer?” I was on a radio show last week as part of the work I do as a co-lead for our local Portland chapter of Schools Beyond Screens (join us, PPS families!) and the host asked my friend and I how he should introduce us. To my co-lead: “You’re a doctor, correct?” Yes. So nice and tidy! So
an ode to babysitters, from 10 weeks after having my second baby (opens the original)
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I’ve been going through the hundreds of pages of journals I’ve kept since having my first child. Mostly I write / wrote these by texting myself and then transferring that text into a Google doc at some point. Weird system, maybe, but it worked. Anyway, here’s an entry from September of 2021 that struck me. At the time, I had a 10 week old and a 3 1/2 year old. Our older kid was in newly in (masked) preschool, we were still waiting on a covid vaccine for under 5s, and hey, my C-section scar was p
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