Easter: Finished our outfits in plenty of time. Maggie got a dress and a hat. Ivy, a dress, hat, and bloomers. I made myself a skirt and embellished a t-shirt. and rainfletcher got an embellished t-shirt. Many compliments at church (where there was a fun egg hunt) and at Mary's (where there was an even better egg hunt). Hopefully pictures soon. (Did I ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday, we got up early and loaded up for the drive to Disney's California Adventure. Tom and Juanell preceded us in her car, and I sat in our backseat between the girls while rainfletcher drove ( Read more... )

Thursday evening we ate dinner, loaded up the car, put the kids in their jammies, brushed teeth, and headed up to Anaheim. Everything was going according to plan, and then Ivy vomited copiously all over herself. I pulled off the freeway the first chance I got. Maggie was wailing, sad because her sister was urpy. Jeremy and I cleaned Ivy off and ( Read more... )

Yesterday around lunchtime Maggie started getting really cranky. She looked a bit flushed, so I took her temperature--it was a bit over 100. (At this point, I started to berate myself for brushing off her request for a throat drop the night before as malingering-in-order-to-get-"candy".)

I immediately called rainfletcher because--since nothing is ever ( Read more... )