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?