I felt decent enough tonight (after a day of extreme nausea and all that goes with it) to wash the dog. It felt good to do something normal. Plus I have the bonus of a shiny clean dog, with no stinkiness to bother my too-sensitive nose in the morning! I'm rather worn out, though, which seems ridiculous after a day of mostly lying around ( Read more... )

Did I just forget about morning sickness? Is pregnancy amnesia really that powerful?

I may just die.

So, maybe I'm jinxing myself by saying this, but I have had very, very little morning sickness this round, and last pregnancy I had to be rehydrated with IV fluids. So far I'm loving being pregnant this time - long may it last ( Read more... )

Kokopelli: "Mama! Cheese comes from milk!"
Me: "and milk comes from...?"
K: "Cows! And cows come from barns!"

Hard to argue with his logic, but also hard not to laugh!

Kokopelli was chanting something as he strolled across the room this afternoon, and it sounded like he was sayng, "bug sex, bug sex, bug sex, bug sex..." in a nonchalant, cheerful voice. Hubby and I looked at each other in bewilderment and silently mouthed in unison, "bug sex?" We finally realized that he was saying, "X-box, X-box, X-box, X-box ( Read more... )

My brother-in-law called me this afternoon and chatted for a while, telling me about how his life is going. His girlfriend is still behaving very inappropriately, and he is thinking of ending things with her. I tried to give him some encouragement, and mostly give him an ear to bend. He mentioned that he is considering getting a tattoo. I asked him ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Kokopelli saw a man with a rather substantial beergut. Thank goodness we were safely inside the car with windows rolled up, because we had the following (very loud) conversation about him ( Read more... )

This afternoon Kokopelli and I went to the home of mnfiddledragon, ladysea and songwind, to celebrate their 4-year-old Spud's birthday. Kokopelli had a good time, and I got a chance to catch up with my friends, albeit briefly. (It's hard to chat during a preschool-age birthday party.) They had made such a cute Rocket birthday cake (Little Einsteins). They used iced ice cream ( Read more... )

Before you read any further, I should tell you that I spent a big chunk of the day at the urgent care waiting to be seen for an abdominal pain/intestinal thingie. If you don't want to know any more, then move along, dear friends - nothing you want to see here. Way too much information follows the cut.

( For the rest of you... )

I'm not a child anymore, not an innocent by any stretch of the imagination. I'm an adult, a mother, and I'm freewheeling toward forty in the next few years ( Read more... )