Detroit

Building the baby belly, week by week

June 26, 2013

Whooo-hooozzzzzzzz. That’s the sound of me rounding into the home stretch of pregnancy — excited but exhausted. Friends, I’m at 36 weeks now and Baby Girl’s still inside! High five! Now I have to lie down. In order to avoid another premature birth plus theatrics during labor and delivery (as comical as that was for […]

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18 weeks pregnant: Pickles and Parking in Detroit

March 3, 2013

After several days of hibernation and ennui in our luxe Detroit condo due to freezing temperatures, wind and snowfall, I finally worked up enough interest in the outside world for an afternoon out — to run some errands in Allen Park’s expansive shopping center. I started with a Beach Club Hero at Jimmy John’s, then […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: Detroit

February 19, 2013

The awesome-weather gravy train had to end sometime. Last stop, the 313! Our neighborhood of Brush Park in Detroit. Photo by Nick Cordileone. Our first year of the Lion King tour took us to many warm cities, from east to west. Last winter, Mike started solo in frigid Minneapolis, but as a family we then […]

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