Baby Scrapbook Kit Giveaway
on Nov 3, 2009About a frillion years ago when I was pregnant with somebody, probably Sunny but possibly Nemo, I got a small scrapbook kit from Dreft, the baby laundry detergent people. It has sat around this house and been moved a bunch...

That Uncultured Swine
on Oct 30, 2009 in Family Sickness and Health Would you believe we still don't have all the sickness out of the house? Sunny is still sick, suffering from what the doctor believes is a secondary viral infection. She's still running a fever at night and she's still coughing....

Swine Flu
on Oct 19, 2009This is a quick note, just in case you don't follow me on Twitter (FishPondBlog) or you either aren't my friend on Facebook or know me in real life (in both cases, why not? I don't bite, unless...never mind), swine...

This Is Where I Leave You - SV Moms Book Club
on Oct 14, 2009I was unsure how I would relate to Jonathan Tropper's novel This is Where I Leave You, about a man who walks in on his wife having an affair with his boss and ends up pregnant right when his father...

Sixteen
on Oct 9, 2009 in Marriage In our culture we recognize sixteen years as a term of achievement. We grant drivers licenses. We have Sweet Sixteen parties. We have deemed it the age at which someone is mature enough to give consent for sexual activity in...

It's All About the Pants - Laundry Survey
on Oct 5, 2009 in Grade Schoolers Mischief and Mayhem Trout learned an important lesson this morning after yet another meltdown about pants. This time, it was specifically that she didn't have any clean pants to wear, a result of most of her dirty clothes residing on her floor rather...

Lost Connections
on Sep 26, 2009 in Grief A History of Civilization second edition, volume two, read the worn red cover. The book had been in a box of books that I'm ashamed to admit has been sitting on my bedroom floor for the two years since my...

All Grownup Like, And Stuff
on Sep 23, 2009We don't have a lot of furniture in this house. Part of the reason is practical - the kids destroy it anyway, and lots of furniture is just more stuff that has to be cleaned, which I have enough of...

Away On an Adventure
on Sep 10, 2009Oh Hai! I'm currently on vacation on a business trip (beause really, for a SAHM, isn't a vacation with the family just the same work in a different location? I've done laundry every single day, so it's all the same...

A Conversation with My 2 Year Old and My MIL
on Aug 27, 2009My inlaws were having dinner at my house, and we were having ham steak and those crescent rolls that you roll up yourself and bake. I like to make those because my kids love to help make them and they...