“Mama!  Rora bites you!  No, baby!” Lorelei said with great worry as she came into the room, seeing me breastfeeding her baby sister.
“No, sweetie.  Rora isn’t biting mommy.  Mommy is just nursing and Rora is eating!”
(Pause with Lala still looking concerned.)  i realized quickly that I’d used the term ‘eating’ which sounds a lot like [...]

Thought this was pretty great (from an email forward)…
The Window Through Which We Look

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This past week has been a WHiRLWIND.  CrAzY!  We’ve been trying (to no avail) to get the house cleaned up and ready just for Sir to leave again.  A little frustration came when 2 out of 3 of my Pampered Chef parties canceled very last minute, but I guess that’s how it goes.  In hindsight, [...]

Dear Rora and Lala,
Your daddy and I couldn’t imagine our lives without you both in them.  You are both growing so much and we love watching you both develop into your own little persons.
Lala, you are about 2 1/3 years :)  You are learning about MINE - but, you’re also learning that not everything is [...]

At BlogHer…

I met Edward and became his Queen.  Or something.

And then, I had a baby and grew really long pink neck hair.  I mean, feathers.  (Must’ve been the flamingo I ate.)

Then, we happened upon some people with alcohol and cheeseburgers and didn’t want to piss anyone off, so we took a burger.  Or three.  And, [...]

Yesterday, I gathered vegetable scraps, leaves, and lawn clippings, filling our compost almost 3/4 of the way.  Together, Lorelei and I took turns dumping the matter into the bin and then took a stroll through the garden in an attempt to teach her how to not trample the produce beginning to make its way up.  [...]

Yesterday was Steven and my 4th wedding anniversary.  We had considered all sorts of options for “what to do,” but nothing we came up with was really appropriate - at least not with a $0 budget.  And, on Wednesdays in a small town…there’s just not much going on.  Originally, we’d wanted to go to St. [...]

Wow. I can’t believe how incredibly busy I’ve been - the kind of busy where at the end of the day you aren’t even sure you “accomplished” much else than feeding yourselves and changing diapers and trying to keep the toddler from accidentally falling down the stairs or ON the baby. Besides updating [...]

I was beginning to wonder if perhaps I’d been tricked and my baby wouldn’t be coming for another year or so.  It certainly felt like it, anyhow.  I’d scoured the do-it-yourself “natural” induction lists and had tried all but a few.  And, although I’d promised myself that I would under no circumstances drink castor oil [...]