I just stumbled across George Will’s column in Newsweek. Never heard of the guy, but I read it thanks to the topic, which is prenatal screening and Down Syndrome. I suspect I wouldn’t much like Will, based on his line: “this era of the casual destruction of pre-born babies.” As someone who is strongly pro-choice, [...]
Archive for January, 2007
rant of the day
Posted in Down syndrome, pregnancy, prenatal screening on January 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
What she said
Posted in Kids, blogs, parenting on January 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Here I was going to write about the June mommies and Yogamum beat me to it. I do want to add that I do feel in a way like this blogging thing is old hat, thanks to the June moms. We have been talking to ’strangers’ on the internet for over a decade [...]
Well, now I feel sooo much better
Posted in Kids, parenting on January 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My doctor went and got sick, the nerve. Her office told me to go to the after-hours clinic, which I knew, deep down in my achy gut, was a mistake before I even saw the doctor, which I did on Tuesday. Sure enough, primarily what he did was complain about my doctor’s office sending me [...]
Moo
Posted in Kids, parenting on January 24, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Here’s a question that has always baffled me: why does it matter that a little kid knows what sound animals make? I was just surfing around some adoption blogs (my current obsession), while on hold on the phone and noticed that several parents bragged that their children were now saying the standard basics – hi, [...]
Breastfeeding and beyond
Posted in Kids, breastfeeding, parenting on January 23, 2007 | 19 Comments »
Today marks two years since I ended my reproductive career, weaning Boo. It was surprisingly abrupt. There was no one else coming along to encourage me to end it, so logically, she could have gone on the longest and had the most gradual weaning. But she was absolutely obsessed with the boob. If I sat [...]
Still kicking
Posted in Fibromyalgia, parenting on January 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m in a holding position until another doctor’s appointment until tomorrow. Still wobbly sweaty and exhausted, which makes the grocery shopping I am going to have to do later unpleasant to contemplate. I added a raging migraine to the fun on the weekend, but figured out that it was probably lack of food, so I [...]
I’m still alive, and less rude funnies
Posted in Kids, Uncategorized on January 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I feel great! As long as I am lying in bed, not moving. Moving still causes the sweats, which I do not enjoy. Not nauseous, either, because I stopped eating. I’m starting to consider the possibility that this is not a virus, but maybe something like gallstones. My mother told me she felt much the [...]
Comfort food
Posted in Kids, adoption, food, knitting, parenting on January 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
When I was a kid, I loved Pablum (I was a good Canadian girl). My mother intended the pablum for my baby brother, who was just getting the hang of solid food at this point, and annoyed her to have the7-year-old sucking it all back for breakfast, and she eventually cut me off. So it [...]
In which I’m still sick, so I offer up another old column
Posted in adoption, columns, parenting on January 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’ve crashed again, back to the puking. I’m only up because the oven guy is here to check out the broken oven, then it is back to bed. Asher is also sick (although no actual throwing up so far, thankfully) and is blobbed out in front of the TV.
My mention of the friends expecting the [...]
At least it isn’t a brain tumor
Posted in Fibromyalgia, knitting on January 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Kidding – I never thought it was a brain tumor.
Recipe for disaster:
Take one new anti-depressant that your doctor thought might help the FM (that category of meds often is what is effective for FM), find out it doesn’t help and go off it, triggering withdrawal effects you didn’t even know existed (what they politely call [...]
