Although I’ve been frantically preparing for my family to arrive and packing, cleaning, etc., all morning. I had to take a break to post a few words of wisdom from Gabriel. Earlier this morning, Lily bonked her head and wanted milk (she was pawing at my shirt). I didn’t feel like nursing her, so I [...]
Well, moving is utter hell. I think if I had it to do over again, we definitely would have hired someone, and intend to do so immediately for our move into the new house, currently scheduled for September 14th! We’ve been in the apartment for one week today, but it took until our last trip [...]
A couple of friends have reported bizarre summer viruses with things like prolonged high fever, rashes, etc. and I had been counting myself among the lucky that my children were healthy, especially because we’re moving TODAY. Then, last night, Lily woke up screaming at 10:30pm. She couldn’t catch her breath and was drooling and seemed [...]
For those of you who are not acquainted with the FlyLady, she’s an organization guru who espouses such habits as shining your sink every morning as a way to make sure dishes don’t pile up and doing what she calls “the 27 Thing Fling” where you go around your house and grab 27 things to [...]
This morning we braved the chaos at Rocky Mountain Kids in Boulder to pick up some sweet deals on shoes for the coming year. I got Lily three pairs of very flexible sold first walkers in sizes 4, 5 & 6. She’s walking all the time now (after three months of taking a step or [...]
…we close on our house in Lyons!!! We had our pre-drywall meeting this morning and the builder has been very busy since we were up there last week. The gutters are going on today, they blew in the insulation yesterday, the electrical, HVAC and plumbing is all in, and they’re ready to dry-wall. We were [...]
Tonight we enjoyed the first corn on the cob of the season and man, was it delicious! Gabriel even ate a good chunk of his–his very first corn on the cob experience. He also enjoyed his first ripe tomato tonight (he wouldn’t eat them during tomato season last year!). Anyhow, you should have seen his [...]
We hosted our first ever MoveOn.org party on Saturday night and with 29 people from age 7 months to 70, I’d say it was a great success. If you’re not familiar with MoveOn.org, I highly recommend checking out their web site. They’re all about getting people involved in the political process and working together at [...]
I have been remiss in not mentioning that my parenting group, Attachment Parenting International (API), is holding it’s biggest fundraiser of the year with a great online auction. All kinds of items have been donated from autographed books & posters to concert tickets to time shares. And of course there are tons of slings, cloth [...]
This weekend at the Farmer’s Market, I bought a kohlrabi for the very first time. I’ll admit that it sent me running for my Joy of Cooking to verify which parts of the strange spaceship-like cabbage cousin were actually edible and what I should do with them. I ended up grating the bulb of the [...]