Prairie Garden

I've just finished with a block of the worst two weeks of my life. I think we're in the clear (for the most part), but I'm stil...

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.