When I first met J, getting to know his family was a bit overwhelming. He has a much larger family than I do, and many of them are loud and assertive. Scary. Fortunately, a lot of them are very nice people. I felt instantly comfortable with his aunt, Edna, his mother’s sister. Edna made me [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Remembering
Posted in death, family, grandparents, life, remembering, tagged death, life, loss, rememberance, remembering on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the very best milestones
Posted in Kids, growing up, learning, milestones, parenting, reading, tagged children, Hop on Pop, Kids, milestones, phonetics, reading on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Like all parents, when my first baby was born, I looked forward to many milestones – first word, first sentence, first steps, no more diapers. As they grew, I even looked forward to ones like outgrowing the annoying car seat, being able to open the fridge by herself. The one I didn’t expect until it [...]
P.S.
Posted in FMS, Fibromyalgia, colonix, constipation, exercise, tagged constipation, exercise, scams on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking of matters of the colon (Alan, thank you so much for your illuminating contribution to the topic!), I should mention that I appear to have found a sure-fire solution to constipation.
Here we go into the realm of too much information, so brace yourselves – as I’ve whined about before, I have Fibromyalgia (FMS) and [...]
Internet oddness
Posted in FMS, IBS, blogging, blogs, illness, stupid people, tagged blogging, colon cleansing, colonix, poop, search strings on November 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been getting some strange search strings lately, or just some plain dumb ones. I wish I could answer them in retrospect. Like to the person who googled, “pain in tooth that was just filled.” Honey, it is going to hurt for a little while. It just got drilled. It needs a chance to settle [...]
Boyfriend update and random ramblings
Posted in Kids, birthday parties, dogs, family, golden doodle, judaism, life, pets, religion, shul, weird, tagged birthday parties, dog training, dogs, golden doodles, judaism, Kids, shul, synagogue on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I found my camera, but still don’t have any pictures of snow-puppy. I do have pictures from Boo’s birthday party, now a couple months old. But here are a couple anyway:
She wanted a gymnastics party, because as far as she is concerned, if you can’t climb it, jump on it or jump off it, [...]
This and that
Posted in American Girls, Kids, dogs, knitting, life, shopping, winter, tagged knitting, shopping, snow, winter on November 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
More snow! Yesterday, I fell asleep instead of taking Jasper for his walk, which resulted in him barking at gremlins he insisted were out in our backyard at midnight. In a few minutes, I will tackle all the fresh snow and take him out. He’s adorable leaping about in the snow (I’ll see if I [...]
Winter has Arrived.
Posted in Hanukkah, Kids, life, parenting, tagged Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Judy and David, kids' concerts on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Snow! Snow! Woo hoo, snow!!
Okay, I don’t actually feel that way, but the children – both human and canine – sure do. In the backyard before school, Asher tried to make a snowman out of the perfect, sticky snow, but every time he got the snowball to a decent size, Jasper lunged at it, ripping [...]
Hanukkah, oy Hanukkah
Posted in Hanukkah, Kids, holidays, tagged chanukah, gifts, Hanukkah, holidays on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those who don’t know this, Jewish holidays are based on the lunar calendar and therefore change each year. There’s an old joke that the holidays are always early or late. This year, Hanukkah is early, really early. The first night to light the candles is the 4th of December.
On one hand, it’s nice, because [...]
Adventures in dog walking
Posted in dogs, tagged , dog walking, dogs on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The main beneficiary of my fitness kick is Jasper. Actually, he is currently the only one benefiting, as I am exhausted all the time, so J and the kids aren’t seeing anything positive, neither am I. (But I soldier on!)
Pretty much every day, rain or shine, I go to the off-leash dog park near here [...]
First Boyfriend
Posted in Kids, parenting, tagged boyfriends, children, Kids on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Not Maya – Boo.
There is a family one street over whose kids go to the same school mine do. The oldest girl is Maya’s age, and her best friend. The second kid is a boy Asher’s age, and they are also friends. The youngest is Boo’s age, but a boy. By virtue of proximity, they’ve [...]
