Prairie Garden

Brother married. At home. Missing my family, but Glad to be back with my main Squeeze. Re-entry with the off-kilter 3 year old is taxing my ...

If ands and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. My brother's skipper often brings this important point up whi...

Remember Care-a-lot, where the Care Bears lived? Remember how I said songs get stuck in my head for days and weeks at a time? Here's ...

I will be a groomswoman in my brother's wedding this month. That means I will be the fanciest and nicest-smelling I've been in, lite...

Red Swan beans, steamed Butter Grated Parmesan Whoa, baby. Delicious.

I found this 1982 vintage Fisher-Price tea set at the thrift store last week. Diego was absolutely thrilled and plays with it several times...

I keep on forgetting to post on the victorious end-result of getting our homebirth covered by insurance. Yes, it's true!!! Our prenata...

Nutmegg [mama] tagged me. I enjoyed reading her Quirks so much that I've decided to do my own. I tag anyone who is interested in complet...

September 2005 July 2008

Diego's current favorite song: We are zee rrrrro-bots!

My poor little Pumpkin was so tired this afternoon that he fell asleep mid-twist during a diaper change. Right before sleep took him over, h...

Yesterday, Diego was standing at his Play Table. I was nursing the baby when I hear some loud juicy farts clapping from his direction. He ...

Seriously. Pumpkin has been in the throes of teething his canines. Besides days-on-end of clinging, crying, and fever (poor thing), the only...

December 2007 2 months old Pulling himself to a stand at the play table today My sweet Pumpkin is almost 9 months old. Crawling, putting ...

Squeeze and I have an old joke from years back about bountiful harvests: before kids, when we had time, we enjoyed setting up postcard-like ...

My rough-and-tumble grandfather died this past weekend. He had been ailing for months, recovering only enough to take another fall or get ...

I am thirty years old, turning thirty-one this fall. As I get a bit older, it seems like my faults and short-comings are amplified. I can...

Starbeans named one of our friendly Dominique cockerels "Chicken Coop" yesterday.

Our BIL, who works in decorative concrete, completed Phase Two (or is that Three?) of our Kitchen Remodel. He did the counter tops , backsp...