I haven’t spent a lot of time in emergency rooms. I’ve been rather lucky and healthy thus far in my lifetime. So, when yesterday’s 12 hours of nausea and blinding abdominal pain became too much for me, Allen and I headed to the ER. Eight hours later, I have some important lessons to share [...]
The shit storm has been unleashed. The poo levee has broken. In short, we’ve got brown.
Laurel has finally unloosed. The constipation that defined the last few weeks of her short life is in remission.
Thank you to my mom for bestowing a crate full of Glyco-Lax on us. And to Kitty, for the recipe for “Go [...]
Your first preschool classroom photo, the one where you look like someone just ate your puppy. You’ll wonder about it later, thinking that you were a sad little girl. Maybe you’ll tell your friends that you were denied candy, and your mom made you wear dresses, that you were mercilessly taunted by your peers for [...]
I just googled “disposable diaper clothes washer” looking for sage advice on how to flush from an entire load of laundry all the mysterious ingredients contained in disposable diapers: polyethylene and polypropylene plastic with bleached paper pulp, AGM (a gelling substance), petrolatum, stearyl alcohol, cellulose tissue, elastic…. Ever wonder what’s in YOUR disposable diapers?
Yeah. A [...]
I’m tough. I’ve always been a stronger-than-average type of person, able to carry heavy things, accomplish tasks with an obsessive attention to detail, reach challenging goals. To be honest, I’m rather proud of this personal characteristic. I’ve gotten over a myriad of addictions; I’ve made my way through a heaping pile of emotional tragedies, broken [...]
Just when you’re convinced of your intellectual superiority and feeling all confident that you are THE best mom ever, along comes a big humbling moment to knock you off that pedestal and leave you feeling stupid and WAY overtired, and in need of some empathy.
Time to blog.
Kelsey and Laurel both came down with [...]
I’ve managed to YET AGAIN alienate people in the healthcare industry! I think I deserve some kind of medal!
First it was my OBGYN when I was pregnant with my older child. He didn’t like that I diagnosed myself with low progesterone until he did a blood test to make sure and sent me running to [...]
Yesterday was horrible. I awoke feeling sick, and it only got worse. Our friend, Jeff, had stayed the night, having imbibed a bit too much the night previous. He stuck around for most of the day and helped me with the girls. I am so grateful. Thanks, Jeff. You rescued us again!
I asked Allen [...]
I’m watching Boobahs with my preschooler and toddler.
I’m totally wigging out. I think it’s all about mind control. I feel this overwhelming urge to go buy Skittles candy?
In the three plus years of being parents, we’ve been pretty lucky. Band-aids, kisses, and the occasional liquid candy (aka Children’s Tylenol) have been our remedies. And now, I’m mentally enumerating the things I would have done to take my child’s place today in the hospital’s emergency room, where her left leg was put in [...]
