I don’t know why I ever bother making New Years resolutions, right in the thick of the darkest and bleakest days of winter, but I do. My resolutions are invariably of the same genre: get organized with a sprinkling of getting in shape. I always give them a good college try too. But you must [...]
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Happy March Forth!
Posted in Weirdville, domestic bliss, family, health, scatterbrain, tagged goals, March 4 on March 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
on nursing and hiding
Posted in family, health, tagged breastfeeding in public on November 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As I have read the news the past couple months involving nursing moms, I can’t help but appreciate how much easier it is to nurse a baby in public now than a decade ago when I was a new mother. This summer we took the kids to a theme park. I nursed the baby several [...]
sniffle
Posted in health, tagged children's cold medicine, FDA on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
What is this about the FDA wanting to pull children’s cold medications from the shelf??? I swear, sometimes I want to kick Big Brother in the shins. The news stories are reporting that because 54 young children died after taking decongestants and 69 died after taking antihistamines from 1969 to 2006, that suddenly these products [...]
the long answer
Posted in family, health, tagged infant cataract on September 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
People keep asking me questions about the baby’s cataract, and I try to give a succinct answer. But there is a longer answer too and I need to tell it.
Infant cataracts are rare. Sometimes they can pinpoint a cause, like prematurity, disease, or genetics, but in our case we don’t know why it happened. Our [...]
Dr. Naylor’s special
Posted in Weirdville, health, tagged cure for warts on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This post is not meant as medical advice! Don’t do it, don’t try it, it’s just a story, k? I would hate to be responsible for anyone losing a limb.
Remember when I hired someone to kneel at my feet and be my slave? (Okay, it was just a pedicure, but you get the idea of [...]
all that glistens is not gold
Posted in family, health, tagged infant cataract on August 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Derek saw it first, not quite two weeks ago, as he played with the baby on his knees gazing into her face. “Look at this,” he called me over, “do you see anything different about her left eye?” At first I didn’t, but then, ah, there it is. Like looking through a dark pool, something [...]
