i have a burn on my right wrist and a filling that has been chipped for almost 18 months now has broken AGAIN and has a jagged edge that really hurts ( Read more... )

December kind of flew by around here, bringing a lot of joy and destruction in its Decembery path. It was December of last year that a powerful storm hit our home in Aberdeen, knocking out the power of the entire coast and stranding us in a freezing home with no heat and no food with washed out roads and a lot of fear ( Read more... )

Ben started asking for his birthday last April (interestingly, it was his weaning day that we first had the conversation) and I told him that it was spring. Then comes summer, then fall THEN his birthday which was in the winter ( Read more... )

We got to spend a quiet day with Stephen yesterday at my mom's house because it dumped snow everywhere so his work was closed. My mom was planning to stay home anyway, so we had a nice familyish day. We spent a little while walking the dogs around the block (in opposite directions, on opposite sides of the street) trying to keep Muffin from killing ( Read more... )