I have two munchkin stories for you.

Story the first:

Yesterday, I took the kids to a shopping mall that had a wonderful indoor play area.  Due to the rain, it was packed, there were probably 50 kids crawling, climbing, and running around.  Through tunnels, over plastic animals, driving pretend cars, etc.

Fifteen month old Asher was happily ( Read more... )

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Last Saturday, Jason, Asher and I flew to Washington D.C. to go the funeral of our good friends' baby. After going full term and then some, he never got to take a breath on his own. The funeral was monday, and went as well as a funeral can go I suppose. The parents were very strong, and I'm so impressed and proud of them. I hated having to leave ( Read more... )

Dad's biopsy came back negative!

It sure is nice to breathe again. Dad's surgery yesterday went really well. The MRI came back clean, so no tumors in his head or neck, and the surgeon says he got the whole tumor that was pressing on dad's spinal cord. Not only that, but the tumor appears to be benign. We have to wait to hear back from pathology to be sure, but all looks good ( Read more... )

Living in an episode of House is really not fun ( Read more... )

I’m a planner. I’m a fairly organized person. I like to know what is going on, and I generally like to be in charge of the situation. Like I said, I’m a planner ( Read more... )

Twas Erev Christmas, and all through the bayit, not a creature was stirring? yeah you can forget it ( Read more... )

My day began (if you can say yesterday ever ended) with my darling husband refusing to get up and help at 4:30 this morning when our daughter got sick, because he "only had an hour left to sleep before the alarm goes off". He'd been asleep since 11 p.m. Unlike me, who again, for the third night in a row was up nearly all night with the boy ( Read more... )

I haven't said much about healthcare in this country. I have good friends, whose opinions I value, on both sides of the issue. However ( Read more... )