Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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6 Months Gone By…
I’m back! 6 months later and we have successfully kept you alive. Round of applause, please. Just a quick housekeeping item, you can expect posts on this cadence. I thought that I might be able to keep it up on a more regular basis, but really with everything that happens in this size of timeframe…
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Birth of Harper Mae Donegan
You are here, and with quite a bit of fanfare! I made the publish time of this post exactly when you entered the world, but am obviously writing it after the fact. However, although this is not immediately after I remember it as well as anything in my life. Harper Mae Donegan Born 5:18pm; St. Luke’s…
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Tomorrow!
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. You are going to be here anytime now! Due date, Feb. 20, is tomorrow if you can believe it which I cannot. That being said, we are as ready as we possibly could be! Mom just left the doctor and she is still not dilated so looks like it will be another…
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Your Mattress is Here!
Among the things that occurred today, your mattress did in fact arrive! There was a bit of scrutiny over which one to get you, as your mother (of course) wanted the most expensive and organic and everything below the sun in the mattress. I was a bit more reasonable, and we got you one in…
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Been Way Too Long
Right now it is 12:33am on the 15th of January…and wow has time flown by. Let’s tackle this efficiently, and first let me list the developments and afterwards go into the details of each: You are a GIRL!!! You are obscenely healthy (thanks to your mom who has been unbelievable during her pregnancy) You are…
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It’s been busy!
Things got BUSY! Work is kicking my ass, but at the same time we are doing a lot on the house in order to get ready for your arrival. Here is a quick synopsis on major happenings occurred and in the near future: We find out your gender a week from today! We are having…
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My Friends Are Trying to Steal the Vote!
It’s been a couple weeks since I have had the chance to update things, but to be honest not much is going on. We did have another appointment yesterday, which went extremely well. The doctor took the heartbeat, no ultrasound this time, and your beat was at 160 BPM. This caused Dr. West to pull…
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Mom & Dad #1: How We Met
By the time you read these, I may be a bit old to remember the details of how your mother and I came to be. My memory is not bad, although your mom would argue this fact to the death, and I still have a vivid picture of how things went. I am going to…
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Grandparents’ Jobs
I remember growing up, thinking to myself that there was just no way that my grandparents could have possibly worked. By the time I came they were either retired or very close and I would hear in spotted conversations about their work history. Figure here I can give you a very real observation on each…
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Second Ultrasound
Last week we made our second visit to the doctor. This one consisted of another ultrasound as well as mom getting some blood work done (in addition to our billing meeting, basically paying for the whole thing which is not a fun meeting let me tell you). We haven’t got the results from the blood…
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