Today had good bits and bad bits. I'm hoping the worst bit might get resolved, so I won't post about it. Let's focus on the positive.

I went to the homewares outlet and bought a round cake cooling rack. I learned from the blog Food In Jars that you can do small amounts of canning (three or four 500ml and 250ml jars) in a regular large stock pot by ( Read more... )

It's odd, because I don't think this is particularly "out there" as far as crunchy parenting practices go, but I only know one other set of parents in real life that are using baby signs with their children. This is interesting to me because using sign language has already paid off, which is something I can't really say for pretty much any other ( Read more... )

Having a baby has increased the number of books I read, which is sort of unusual, from all I can tell. It makes sense in my circumstances: I read books on my iPad while nursing; I go to the library nearly weekly, to attend baby storytime or get out books for Pippa; plus reading just naturally begets more reading, as I investigate related books ( Read more... )

I bought a nursing/maternity dress:

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The Easter Menu ( Read more... )

An extra long nap by Pippa, during which I indulged in a novel (Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth, which I am enjoying immensely), followed by a walk in the sunshine with my husband, and fresh salmon for dinner, have done much to improve my mood, although my cold is not getting any better, and I have a frog instead of a voice. My mother expressed the ( Read more... )

Tonight I finished The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne. It was entertaining, but not as good as Trent's Last Case which is what I read previous to that. The beginning of the book is the best; in the middle-end it drags a little ( Read more... )

It is hard to write the LJ entry I want to on the iPad. I hate switching back and forth between keyboards. #firstworldproblems

I have a book rec and a fic rec. First the fic. Charles Bingley is an AU P&P fic wherein Bingley is a sweetly incompetent actor, the beta hero has Aspergers, the beta heroine chucks pillows at people, Fitzwilliam is an ( Read more... )

Books! I read them sometimes ( Read more... )

My husband is stretched out on the couch reading Pride and Prejudice.

He just laughed and read a line aloud to me.

I'm a lucky lady. :D

Funnily enough I've been reading P&P fanfic lately. Really liked this fanfic which is from Caroline Bingley's perspective. This will not be surprising to anyone who knows of my love for Pansy from HP, but I have ( Read more... )