*tap tap* Is this thing on ( Read more... )

Every year I post my/our Christmas list on our blog, behind a cut, so if anyone who wants to get us something wants to know what would be a good present, they get some ideas. Also, it helps for me to write it down, because sometimes someone calls and says e.g. "So what should I get the girls" and I blank. I do it a few months in advance because ( Read more... )

I was on Facebook (I'm always on Facebook) and a local mom's group I was in was discussing nursing-friendly attire for a wedding guest. Suddenly I was taken back years to LJ drama of the past. It was a non-denominational (mostly Abrahamic faiths, with a few non-religious people who just preferred covering up) "modest fashion" group, and someone ( Read more... )

1. So when I last left you... uh, a month ago... my big obsession was improving sleep. It's been super hot here which has been pretty harsh on my nascent attempts to get Mary-Alice to night wean. She's had some problems keeping hydrated, so of course the last thing I want to do with a dehydrated baby is deny her liquids. So I just had to let that ( Read more... )

So Gordon came by and said "How are you feeling ( Read more... )

Ugh I think I am becoming a monthly blogger... but I don't know how to be one. Should I write about where we go and what we do? I guess I'm not sure who is both interested and not already hearing about it in person or over Facebook. And it all seems to dull to read about, even if it isn't dull to experience ( Read more... )

We went to Whistler two weeks ago for a week. We spent our honeymoon there four years ago so there was some nostalgia there. Whistler was better this time than four years ago, honestly. The big issue we had last time is that the service everywhere was terrible, especially waitstaff. This time it wasn't like that.

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So in one month Pippa will be three years old, and I'm feeling the crunch re: party. Last year she didn't have a true birthday party but she was young enough not to miss it. (She did have a cake and get happy birthday sung in our nuclear family, but not a true party.) This year that won't work ( Read more... )

Hockey season is almost over. On the east, the eight teams that will make it are certain, and in the West it's just a question of whether Dallas or Phoenix will take the final wild card spot. Since I don't feel that differently about Dallas over Phoenix I can rank them as one unit for my list of my preference for who wins. Basically I will root for ( Read more... )