After letting it sit on my desk for far too long, yesterday I finally filled out and mailed off my absentee ballot, casting my vote for, among other positions, President of the United States.  It’s hard not to feel a bit frustrated, though, at the fact that there’s not the slightest chance my vote will… Read More Civic duty

I’m feeling a lot better now than I was a week ago, a fact I’m trying to remind myself of often, because truthfully, I still feel like shit. I think I have to take back what I said about this not being the sickest I’ve ever been … if I’ve felt worse for longer in… Read More Self-pity city

Just now we’ve got a guy here installing the hardware to add another TV to our satellite package, and somehow he must have struck Petra’s fancy.  She came in a couple of minutes ago and told me, smiling sweetly “I like him.” “You do?” I asked.  “Is he nice?” “Yes,” she said.  “I’m going to… Read More Making plans

At the beginning of the year, my one and only resolution was to post here every day, and I would have made it if it weren’t for those pesky kids.  And their germs. I’m not sure what it is, exactly — it started as a simple enough cold, then morphed into the flu, then turned… Read More Revived

After suffering for days with a scratchy, dry, painful throat and phlegmy cough, I realized earlier this evening that I had just the thing for my assorted ailments tucked away in my freezer.  Chili-chocolate ice cream is perhaps not to everyone’s tastes–and truthfully, it’s not always to mine–but it’s so, so right when you’re nursing… Read More Soothing

I may have mentioned a time or two recently that my kids are sick.  We’ve gone through two or three rounds of first-this-then-that, with Petra and her cough-and-fever package being the latest attraction.  Today she’s been somewhat better, though, and I’ve been paying a little more attention to Brynja, who’s been hacking to wake the… Read More The Orange Kool-Aid Stomach Acid Test

So I’ve been taking Zoloft off and on for the past five years (mostly on, except for the final stages of pregnancy and early post-partum periods). I tapered off close to a year ago, when I was pregnant with Brynja, and I felt good enough for a while that I didn’t think I needed to… Read More That time again

I must have jinxed myself with last night’s post, because not only were both Tage and Petra too feverish and cough-y to go to school this morning, but that discovery came hot on the heels of what was assuredly the worst night Brynja’s had since she was born.  If I got an hour or two… Read More Leisure, what leisure?

There was no school yesterday or today because of “planning,” and taking the weekend and the fact that Tage and Petra don’t have school on Fridays into consideration, you can see that we’ve had an awful lot of togetherness these past few days.  Too much, really.  By a long shot. On Thursday evening I was… Read More Too much of a good thing