It's been a bit crazy around here lately. Last weekend's highlight was a visit to the emergency room because Justin was having a hard time breathing and had a terrible cough. DH called it croup, but he calls everything croup--just like his mother does. X-rays revealed that Justin's lungs were clear and the doctor said it was probably just a bad ( Read more... )

Perhaps we were a bit hasty in our triumph with the rice cereal. He hasn't wanted it since. I should have known it wasn't going to be that easy ( Read more... )

The holidays turned out to be good.  We spent Christmas Eve with my mom and family.  It was very nice--sauerkraut and spareribs, scalloped oysters, green bean casserole, lefse, etc ( Read more... )

He called on Sunday night asking for two favors.  One, he needs a place to store two boxes for a bit.  Not a problem, but like everything else we have that belongs to other people, it will have to be collected before we move (whenever that will be).  The second is that he wants to have his mail forwarded to our address.  Again, not a big deal ( Read more... )

I'm slowly starting to get back into FlyLady (or at the very least making progress on the disaster in which I live).  To give you an idea of what very slowly means, I'm rather proud of the fact that I've made our bed two days in a row!!!  Growing up, I couldn't get away from making the bed--it was a standard rule.   I'm not sure when I got out of ( Read more... )

The baby shower went off without any hitches.  My SIL was there and there were 12 guests.  Yes, the quiche and sausage were served warm (I know you were all wondering about that).  She received a lot of lovely things, and I was repeatedly told that these were the types of things I could expect when my turn rolls around.  Fine by me.   So all's well ( Read more... )

I managed to accomplish quite a bit this weekend in spite of myself ( Read more... )

I stopped up at his house last night and answered his few questions regarding things I had set aside.  He's been playing phone tag with Al trying to reschedule and thinks that it may be Thursday when Al comes back over.  I won't have to be there because one or two of my uncles will be there to protect my grandmother's interests and Dad says that he ( Read more... )