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The boys have had colds and so far I haven't really gotten sick (knock wood), I kept thinking I was but that might've just been the exhaustion of taking care of sick kiddos. They're sort of funny how absolutely differently they are when they're sick. William screams and yells, wails and gnashes his teeth. James tends to run a fairly high fever, ( Read more... )

Dave Gahan. I don't think I even have any words for this. I used to have an awesome animated gif icon of DG from 101 but I can't find it any more. :-(

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Currently William's favorite thing to say is, "If you tie your lunch to a tiger's tail, don't expect to eat often."

I've been on a smoothie making binge with the warm weather lately. I finally made a green smoothie. I was tentative just a handful of spinach in with a bajillion other things (oj, banana, flax, milk, greek yogurt, coconut oil, cherries, peach, and a little bit of protein powder). Even James agreed it was very good. He was shocked and appaled by ( Read more... )

Wow. I just finished reading Promises to Keep by Jane Green. I wish I hadn't put on mascara today. Cried so much. I'm not sure it was necessarily a great book but it sure did tug on my heartstrings ( Read more... )

Does anyone cook with or use coconut oil for eating? I'd been hearing a bunch of good things about it and on a bit of impulse picked up a bottle at the fun organic store. I got Spectrum Unrefined Coconut Oil (the bottom one on this page). So far I've used it in smoothies. I was thinking of using it in place of butter on toast but it's hot and ( Read more... )

The changing weather here is getting rather annoying. Yesterday was sweltering and today I had to close the windows and am curled up with a blanket.

Ummm, time in the pool and then smoothies. Summer at its best. I'm feeling very content considering how PMSy I am.

Some guy knocked on my door a little after 9pm tonight. Just me and the kids here and I was in my jammies. He didn't seem familiar through the peep hole. I went back and forth on if I should answer or not. He walked away.

Now I'm on hyperspeed wondering who he was and what he wanted and I can't sleep. Gah!