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Anticipate your belated Christmas card

We are back from Christmas vacation. There were definitely some low points (six-month-old’s impacted stool topping that list — Christmas morning, natch) but it was just so nice to relax and hang out with our families. I returned to B-more feeling more rested, less anxious, and actually excited for the future. Whee!
Hope your holidays were […]

A cheerful, shallow pause in the slump

Went to the old Franklin Park Mall today with my sister and my brother’s girlfriend. Exchanged a Gap turtleneck for a really sweet pair of dark jeans … in the next size down! Score one for the intestinal disease, I’m now a size two again.
After that we unpacked our suitcases and moved in to Sephora. […]

A very premenstrual Christmas

Happy Holidays from the girl crying in the corner!
We’re all lodged at my parents’ home, the Midwestern ancestral estate, playing Wii bowling and getting on each other’s nerves a little bit. I’m still feeling like shit, plus riding some sort of post-weaning hormonal roller coaster, plus looking at this Low Residue Diet that does not […]

Oscar Mayer Weaner

It’s official. I breastfed Cormac up to his six-month birthday, but now that part of our mama-baby relationship is over. I feel a little sad but also a little relieved.
Mac has always been a food-fighter; I feel like almost every session was a wrestling match. He would chew and grab and wrench and twist and […]

In honor of my doctor’s looky-loo today

My friend Kristin told me to tell him that the camera adds ten pounds. Hee.

R.I.P., ‘Blueprint’ (and ‘Sassy’, and ‘Jane’ …)

She wants what I want.
I have no idea what I’m trying to say, just that I miss loving a magazine as much as I loved the few years of Sassy I was old enough to find relevant, I wish I had saved my old 90’s Seventeen magazines for my youngest sister so she didn’t have […]

Requesting a copy of the Toddler Answer Key, please

“Is it later?”
What? Like right now? Is it later right now? *gears whir, brain explodes*

If the bar gets any lower I’ll have to step over it

I think back to six months ago, when I was nesting to beat the band, cleaning grout with a toothbrush and spit-shining the ceiling fan blades. And then I look around my house as it is now, where you have to wade through crumbs ankle-deep just to reach the refrigerator.
Deep, heavy sigh.
Really, I’d just like […]

stamp quilt ornaments

About the size of a big fancy postage stamp, for an ornament exchange I am a part of. I finished about 75% of these in October, before life started kicking my ass again and again and again.
Most of them are raw-edge patchwork, polyfil batting, with selvages for hanging loops. You can totally tell where my […]

December continues to kick my ass

I don’t even know what to write here anymore. Sick! Better! Sick! Better! Missed work! Went in to work but had technical difficulties! Kids are fine! Kids are sick! One is fine and the other is sick!
And Christmas is coming and I am so not ready I think I might cry.
I am scheduled for a […]

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