Multitasking Has Its Limits
I was going to the bathroom, holding a fussy baby (you know you've been there), when my five year old barged in. "Your arms aren't busy now. Now can you fix my Darth Vader?" Sometimes all you can do is stare. And then laugh. But I refuse to hot glue toys from the...
Check-out Lane Trivia Game
To keep the kids busy in the Walmart checkout lane tonight, I began asking them trivia questions. (And rewarding them with Tic Tacs.) I tried to make the questions age appropriate and engaging. Educational and interesting. To Olivia, I asked mostly geography...
Twenty-Four Pictures of my Adorable Children.
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Copy-Cat Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour Mix
Honestly, I haven't done the math to see how much cheaper this is than Pamela's. I buy my flours in bulk on Amazon.com using Subscribe & Save to get even better deals. Surely it has to be cheaper. Better yet, it doesn't have any baking soda/powder, dry...
My Children Can’t Hear Me
It's been a day. A full day of expressing frustration to my children over the fact that they Do.Not.Hear.My.Voice anymore. Your children do that, too, right?! So it had been a day like that. Full of repeating myself a minimum of three times, and usually resorting to...
Evelyn’s Birth Story. Or: How I Lost My Skirt in the ER Entryway
(This triple layer banana cake with cream cheese frosting was completely gone by the time labor started.) Contractions started at 4am on Sunday, May 13th. They caught me off guard, even though I was five days late at that point. I'd been waiting for other signs that...
Group B Strep. This Is A First.
I was told today that my group B strep culture came back positive. And here's what I learned about that: Group B strep is considered normal flora. Group B strep is not a concern to anyone but pregnant women, or rather, their babies. Group B strep comes and goes,...
I put this on Facebook and then realized I could also put it here…
I want to blog. Yet also sleep. And sleep-blogging would not fare well, for drool would inevitably blow up my laptop, I'm pretty sure. Alas, the hard choices of my life. Maybe in four and half weeks, when we're done with school, I'll have time to blog more. But I have...
The Plans
So a lot of people are confused about us and the San Diego. We went out there last summer for an internship and I was amazed at the amount of people who were surprised when we came back. Apparently I'm a horrible communicator. (Says the person who hasn't blogged in...
C Diff Free (Except that it really can be an expensive disease to cure…)
Well hello there! My name is Beth and I've been c diff free for... Weeks now. (I'm bad with remembering details, such as the passage of time.) I faithfully took my $133 (after insurance) liquid antibiotic that was supposed to taste like cherries. (Ha!). I could have...