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Ma Ingalls, supermom

How did she do it? I read Little House in the Big Woods last week, partly to Owen and partly for comfort reading, and for Chrissakes, I want to know Ma Ingalls’ secret. How did she take care of a baby and churn her own butter? How did she get all that shit done by […]

Permission to make a mistake, Cap’n?

On the phone with a good friend the other day, talking about all this Modern Day Anxiety bullshit, when I was gently reminded that sometimes? People make mistakes. And guess what? Nobody died. It isn’t the end of the world, no matter how much I think it might be.
Just granting myself the human right to […]

Bugs in my sweaters

And you know I hate bugs.
I think we have sweater moths. Some of my sweaters are moth-eaten and holey. So I spent the day washing all my woolens, taking every last item out of my closet, scrubbing it down, airing and rehanging and in some cases rewashing all my clothes, and vacuuming.
We have a 1950s […]

I need a week in the woods

I also need to throw away my television.
This week I have given up caffeine and made a deliberate change for the better in terms of my diet (meeting the RDA for fruits and veggies several days going!). But I still feel anxious and overwhelmed. I still worry about chemicals leaching out of the bottles and […]

Keeps on comin’

So! Back to the ER for the third time in two weeks yesterday. Developed a full body rash and then my tongue started swelling up and one of my lymph nodes swelled as well. I had a panic attack, thinking I was going to suffocate.
They wanted to do a line of steroids for the rash […]

Ahem: a meme!

Tagged by Jennifer of Chrysanthemum: Five facts about myself, some random, some weird.

Bonus fact: My sunglasses never cost more than $6. 
Uno. I’m on a new diet. And I don’t mean, like, diet as in I need to lose weight diet. More like, diet as in this is what I’m eating diet. When I was in […]

Shopping today, unfortunately

Big ol’ cold front swept through last night. About five minutes after we sat down to eat, the power went out and the sun set. Power stayed out all evening, through candlelit diaper-changes and teeth-brushing in the dark and bedtime stories made up from our own heads. It stayed out all night, through Mac’s midnight […]

Spoke too soon

Drove myself to the E.R. again last night. Severely dehydrated. Do not ever get a stomach illness while breastfeeding.
A couple-three liters of fluids and 3000 mg of potassium and i am slowly feeling like I am not running a marathon with my heart.
Gaaaahhhhhh.

Slowly mending

Am recovering, I think. Feel a little bit better. Got lots of sleep. Got some answers at the doctor’s office and a plan of action. Hope it will help.
Nablopomo is certainly shot, for me, but I think I’ll try to get back into the daily posting groove for the remainder of the month anyway, just […]

Ill, ill, ill

Horribly, disgustingly sick. Spent Thursday at Urgent Care getting rehydrated and having tests done. Spent the intervening days sleeping and thanking God that Iain could take a few sick days. Currently on antibiotic and crossing my fingers. Refusing to google symptoms.
Anyway. Thus explains my radio silence. Updates and answered e-mails when I return, possibly Monday […]

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