I don’t mean to whine, but I am sick of being sick, already.
The day before our big trip to Washington, Napoleona puked all day. So of course the next day, while somewhere in the middle of nowhere (between Baker and La Grande) I got sick too, despite washing my hands 40 bazillion times. Then the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Health’
July 23, 2009
A Secret Hazard of Editing
June 16, 2009
Where I Am
Last week Anthropapa, SillyBilly, and I all got influenza. Honest-to-God, doctor-tested influenza. I don’t know the flavor, whether A, B, swine, or other. Napoleona, as usual, is the healthiest of us all.
I do know that it has been very unpleasant and inconvenient. Anthropapa spent the week sleeping when he wasn’t coughing or shaking. I got [...]
May 12, 2009
Random Things I Thought I’d Share with You
1) SillyBilly has dived full-bore in to reading. He insisted on getting a chapter book yesterday at the book fair at school. I’ve been steering him toward the simpler, early-reader type books… but no, he wanted a big kid book. He picked a Magic Tree House “Merlin Mission” book, which is a series I know [...]
May 4, 2009
Sleep Is My Friend
People, I am burnt. (No, it’s not because of Twitter!)
Napoleona stayed home all last week with a stomach flu. I thought I escaped lightly with only one day of ick, but it’s reared its ugly head again and I’m getting more and more tired.
We’re leaving for California in a few short weeks, and I’ve got [...]
April 27, 2009
Amazing Internet Synchronicity
I’m home with a sick little girl today — major digestive disruptions (or should I say, eruptions, all over the bed and in the underwear) last night and this morning. You know an almost-five-year-old is sick when she is lying on the couch for hours looking pale and grumpy.
So of course one part of my [...]
April 3, 2009
Mixed Bag
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Today’s New York Times Opinion section included the article “Ban the Breast Pump” by Judith Warner in her weekly column “Domestic Disturbances.”
Inflammatory title, no?
Even more inflammatory to me are some of her basic assumptions. Warner begins by describing her feelings, and those of other mothers, that using a breast pump is “miserable,” “a [...]
March 13, 2009
Snippets of Life
Can you tell I finally charged the camera batteries?
A few weeks ago we went over to ISU for some fresh air and exercise in the quad. It was one of those bright blue winter days.
These trees are perfect for little kids to climb. They’d been off-limits for a few months while a new patio area [...]
February 24, 2009
If You Give a Mama a Cold…
…She’s Not Going to Function Properly. Or will she?
For some reason, lately I haven’t had much inspiration to write blog posts. I can hardly get myself to keep up with reading my favorite blogs, either.
Maybe it’s the February blahs. But my mental energy seems at a serious low.
I noticed something interesting today, though. I seem [...]
January 31, 2009
I Had Big Plans
To write another Spiritual Tasks post, and a post on finding old friends and microblogging on Facebook. To get some laundry done, and do a big paper mache project with the kids.
But my cold from last week turned into a sinus infection in my cheek, which yesterday decided to invade my Eustachian tube and rupture [...]
January 27, 2009
Dictionary
Discriminate, v.
1. trans. To make or constitute a difference in or between; to distinguish, differentiate.
I am an indifferent winter driver. I just don’t have that much experience yet, so I’m very cautious. And the plowing around here leaves something to be desired.
Unlike the guy in the monster truck in front of us at a stop [...]
