I'm staying well away from politics and their debates because I already know who I intend to vote for, and it's not the candidate who will send us back to the political stone age. And, honestly, my policy of not watching television is affirmed by what I see the times some comes across my radar. The cafe Wonderful Husband and I grabbed lunch at ( Read more... )

Have been running around like mad whittling down the list of stuff-to-be-done-before-we-go-to-England. Thus the radio silence. Most of it is now done, which is good, given that I have about 36 hours left before we leave. Included in the stuff I've knocked off the list is shipping another batch of milk to the milk bank. 302 ounces ( Read more... )

This week I shipped another 207.5 ounces of breast milk off to the milk bank. Yay for having freezer room again!

( Baby Pix. )

So I got my donor number from the milk bank, and started writing it on the baggies of milk I pumped and then froze. (I was also labelling them with the date and how many ounces.) Then, after the milk bank had gotten approval from my doctor and Squiddle's, they sent me the paperwork for a blood test, so I went down the street and did that. At no ( Read more... )

Ha. Last year I posted that I'd finally found a jellied cranberry recipe worth keeping. Guess who didn't link to it or put it in her recipe book? That's right, that'd be me. Last night I made up the chunky cranberries from my usual recipe; tonight will be the jellied cranberries from the Food in Jars recipe. Tomorrow night will be pie crust, ( Read more... )