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  • Fly Your Freak Flag, Er, I Mean White Flag (from the Momplex Blog archives)

    This one’s dedicated to all you folks out there with babies who don’t sleep well. You deserve untold rewards! We gave up on sleep training. It was a bust. I’m sorry to any poor souls out there who stumbled across my blog while Googling phrases like “four-month-old will only nap on me” or “infant insanely…

    Jenny

    November 26, 2008
    babies, military life, sleep
  • S’more Fun than a Backyard Barf-a-que: A Cautionary Tale (from the Momplex Blog archives)

    This week the Mister and I got it in our fool heads that we should let Miss E, our four-year-old, have a campout sleepover in the backyard. Yes, our four-year-old. Yes, a sleepover. And yes, in the back yard, which is about the size of a large-ish bathroom, doesn’t have a fence, and shares an…

    Jenny

    August 30, 2008
    babies, breastfeeding, daughters, humor, motherhood, preschoolers, sleep
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About the Blog

Watch what happens when a pandemic-era, menopausal misanthrope tries to journal her way back to noticing simple beauties in a world where it’s easy to feel like everything’s broken and nothing works.

The Second Magpie is a joyfinding journal written by Jenny Fiore, author of Speaking to the Mountain, After Birth: Unconventional Writing from the Mommylands, and the former Momplex blog (some of which has been migrated here).

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