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Three words: Heirloom Dishwashing Liquid. This fine specimen of liquified soap, with which one might cleanse the scum and villainy off of one’s dishes – indeed, both fine china AND the plain wooden trenchers off of which one consumes everyday…
Just when you think your child has really matured, is great at handling a lot of things on his own (not to mention correctly a large portion of the time), and maybe doesn’t actually need you watching him like a…
I love this drawing! What a great monster! And the next few are not monsters, actually, but I love them too. A cat with tongue sticking out: A flying mouse, a cat and a kitten: And a mouse on roller…
Sounds exotic, doesn’t it? (Or slightly dirty) It really just refers to a red, bumpy, non-itchy, otherwise unexplainable rash around the mouth and lower part of the face. It started happening back in July, and at the time I thought…
More notes that we’ve put in Jamie’s lunchbox lately. This note was on the day in October that his class walked to the neighborhood garden center. A less than accurate drawing of our house. The secret ingredient was cinnamon sugar…
Today I stayed home from work because I wasn’t feeling well. I don’t have the flu or anything (thankfully) but I think that the work-related stress from the past couple of months is catching up with me in the form…
Yesterday, while we were making hummus together, Jamieson asked me if he could eat some of the chickpeas out of the colander before we added them to the blender. The boy loves his chickpeas, for sure. And then he said,…
Over the past two and a half years, I have lost 40 pounds. Losing weight has never been easy for me, and I am extremely proud of myself for managing to do this. I am still too heavy (by about…
Jamieson woke up at 5 a.m. last Thursday throwing up. He continued to throw up pretty much everything he drank (he wasn’t interested in eating) for most of the day, and took several naps. I was worried that he was…
Although we do not have the time or energy to create amazing works of art on Jamieson’s brown bag lunches every day (not to mention that he doesn’t use a brown bag, so that would be problem #1), like this…