My younger boy is in speech therapy once a week, as, though he's bright as a new penny, he's two years old and not talking yet. During today's session, while I was in the waiting room, I got a call from an agent wanting to show our house (which we've had on the market for ~4 months now, a consequence of listing it at the dead wrong time of the ( Read more... )

Jazzy now has three teeth, having just cut his upper left incisor ( Read more... )

So y'all remember when, a few months ago, we had to rush Squiddle to the emergency room because he'd managed to get into our pill case and one of Wonderful Husband's medications was missing ( Read more... )

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It's apparently National Blueberry Pie Day. Which was a thing I didn't know we had, and which I fully support. This morning I mentioned this to my husband, and told him that I didn't think there were enough blueberries on the one currently producing bush to make a pie. There's like a double handful of ripe ones this year - I'm spacing them out ( Read more... )

Slowly getting back into routine. (Which still, unfortunately, involves waking up too early. I am just trusting that will work itself out over time, for all three of us ( Read more... )

I suppose anyone who cooks has a fallback recipe or three. Something ground into your bones by sheer repetition, something you don't need to look up in a cookbook, something you could almost make while half asleep. A couple of mine are sunflower seed bread (caveat: in the bread machine), miso soup, roast chicken, and sauerkraut. Homemade ( Read more... )

Two days of productivity followed by two days of little to no energy. Thus is balance maintained? Haven't even been able to write, so not submitting any pages to class this week ( Read more... )

Squiddle's taking an early nap today. I should be on the bike right now, but I just can't. I've been being very good about doing it five days a week, but I'm also suspecting that's what's causing the persistent ache in my left calf, and until I can stretch that away, I'm giving myself some slack ( Read more... )

So everything I've ever read about cooking safety and hygiene says, no you nevereverever use the same knife and board to cut vegetables after cutting raw meat. (The other way around, veg then meat, is of course fine ( Read more... )