We celebrated the first day of the new liturgical year by welcoming a wonderful group of friends and family into our new home. We had an impromptu Southwest theme. Dom cooked up a huge pot of chili, perfect for a rainy November day. He also made...
We still haven’t got a formal diagnosis, but using an elimination diet, I’m pretty sure I’ve determined that Sophie can’t eat wheat, oats, and bananas. We’ve had her on a very simple diet of rice, potato, applesauce...
Still tired. Still queasy. So much to do before friends and family come over Sunday for a housewarming get together. Had I known I was pregnant, I might have rethought this little soiree. Oh well, somehow things will get done. The one great thing...
We had a lovely holiday. My sister-in-law, Carol, laid out a fabulous Thanksgiving feast: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, mashed turnips, carrot souffle, peas, corn, and probably something else that I’ve forgotten. Sophie loved the...
I was dismayed and disappointed a while back when I obtained a used copy of Miss Rumphius only to find out too late that the book was missing the first page and had other pages falling out. I hate to throw books away even damaged ones, so I put it...
This morning I started to load dirty clothes into the washer and almost immediately Bella was standing there in front of me, tugging clothes out of the hamper and shoveling them into the the open door. I stopped loading and started just sorting the...
Last summer we moved and a week or so after we moved I learned that I was expecting Sophia. That slowed down settling in quite a bit. In fact, we never finished unpacking. Well, here we go again. A new house, a new cause for joy. Early Monday...
Sophie’s doing much better but is still very whiny and clingy. Today, except for two brief naps, she never let me get more than a foot away from her without breaking into a wail. It has been very exhausting. Or maybe I’m coming down with...
I’ve been tired and cranky and off kilter today. Sophie, who has been sleeping through the night except during her bouts of teething, has been waking regularly between 2:30 and 3:30 for the past week. It could be the stomach upset and the raw...
Bella and I were looking at pictures on the back of one of her books. She was asking, “What’s that, Mom?” as she pointed to two peppers. “Those are peppers. That’s a big pepper, and that’s a little pepper.”...