Re: Loving It

I'm Brady. I grew up in Indiana and now live in (and love) Chicago. I work in educational psychology. I have a great family: Kevin (husband), Molly (the best dog in the world), and two little boys (Andy and Gus). I love animals, coffee, and travel. I'm a feminist, vegetarian, and all-around lucky human being. You can email me at [email protected].

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Postpartum Fitness, Summer Edition

Oh, the ups and downs of getting and staying in shape after having a baby. (Awwww – my big belly! Believe it or not, this was taken two months before my due date!) So here’s the short v…

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A Baby Who Loves His Brother

Where’s Andy? Ooo! Here he comes! He’s getting closer! He’s almost here! He’s here!!!! Brothers!!! Hugs!!! Oh no! What’s happening? Where’d he go? He’ll be…

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Indiana Summer

When I was a kid, one side of my family would rent a cottage and stay together for two weeks on Lake Wawasee in Syracuse, Indiana. These are some of my favorite childhood memories. It was the best …

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Checking in from Indiana

Hiya! I poured myself a little bit of tequila on ice and am checking in from Lake Wawasee! We are seven days into our nine day stay here and are loving it. I wouldn’t call it relaxing, exactl…

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I get myself into trouble from time to time because I let Andy have sugary treats too often. (Or, too often by today’s intensive urban parenting standards? I feel like I got treats a lot as a…

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2017 Environmental Resolutions

One of my big New Year’s resolutions was to get better at one thing each month when it comes to caring for and preserving the environment. The idea is that these will build on each other, so …

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I think Gus is done nursing. I could write a whole post about my mixed emotions, but I won’t, and it’s probably news to nobody that, in sum, I’m mostly excited but also sad. I&#82…

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Driveway “Camping”: 10% of the Work, 90% of the Fun

Back when Gus was a tiny baby we made reservations to camp this past weekend at Warren Dunes, a park on Lake Michigan not too far from my parents’ house. We had apparently forgotten what a ni…

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Happy Spring, Happy Summer

I’ve been having so much fun recently! It occurred to me a few weeks ago that I should sit back and enjoy these next couple of months as much as I can. My postdoc (current job) is slowing dow…

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School Update

Whew! Hi! Forgive my absence. My entire family has been taken down by a bad stomach bug. Andy got it last week and is finally totally better today. I got it Saturday and am almost better today (sta…

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Another one bites the dust...

Well, I say with sadness in my heart:

I think I’ve reached the end of my days on Tumblr. 

I keep getting followed by spammers, the site can’t handle the long posts I type and I lose work all the time, and I feel like my little corner of this website never recovered from the no repiles debacle. The community feel has been lost, and I don’t see it coming back.

I’ve set up a new blog (it’s currently empty, but I’m excited to add stuff soon) on WordPress: relovingitblog.wordpress.com. I will probably pop in here to link to new posts there and will continue to check all of your blogs individually.

Oh, also, my Instagram is bradotomato if you want to connect there.

Let’s keep in touch!

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Things have turned around considerably.

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im 12 years old sitting on my bed reading it’s midnight it’s summer my window is open the crickets are very loud but very soothing my room smells dusty and warm and no one else exists. im 12 years old. the feeling never goes away.