Twice Blessed Life

We have banished the sippy cups at last!

A week ago, while staring at the pile of dirty sippy cups and their dirty little fiddly valve-thingys in the sink, I reached the conclusion suddenly one day - like those burros that carry people to the floor of the Grand Canyon - that I just couldn’t do [...]

I will be the first to admit that I don’t like dogs.  I actually dislike them and I am biased against them.

I got bitten by a dog when I was three years old.

But that has nothing to do with why I’m writing this particular post.

While we keep hearing in the news about pits and rots [...]

This was the girls’ first cold winter.  (Have I mentioned yet that we’ve moved to New Jersey?)  They’d never seen snow before, and loved it!  Every day there was snow on the ground they begged to go dig in the snow.

“Dig Snow! Dig Snow, Mama!!”  “Go OUT, dig SNOW, mama!”

But if it was below 36degrees, [...]

We were so worried about the ‘coming swine flu pandemic’, so we were hyper-vigilent with the girls around anyone who even remotely seemed sick.  And despite all our precautions, by the end of December 2009, we ALL got it! 

What a fun fest that was.

The girls’ fevers shot up to 103 degrees and over, at which [...]