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Dylan says,

“Arrrgh!” Halloween is SO much more fun with a baby!

i just wanted to say…

that not much of anything gets done when a baby has Roseola AND an ear infection. He is needy when he is sick, and I have been holding him, probably 22 hours a day, for the past three weeks. But there is this, which is 

this is not romantic comedy!

I don’t know how I came to acquire Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk, without first having read a single review, or at least the back cover! Maybe I was so moved after reading Survivor that I just looked at the stars on Amazon and bought it 

earthy healthy Saturday

The ideal Saturday morning: take out the recycling, go to the farmer’s market. I don’t know if I mentioned before my strange habit for making schedules (usually ones that I don’t keep). These are detailed and include the exact times and descriptions of what I 

love

I love how in love I am with my baby first thing in the morning. I say to him, I missed you, you were sleeping so long! (This is, of course, contingent upon him having actually slept a long time.) This morning infatuation is so 

interview with John August

When people say, “Oh, I just loving writing!” I know they’re full of crap. I’m glad he said it first 🙂 This is from An interview with John August at Cecil Vortex. John August wrote the screenplays for Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 

three things

There are three things: 1.) Tired! There is not enough coffee in the world to keep me awake. This week Dylan likes to wake up at 5:30 for a cry and a quick cuddle, but this morning, he decided to stay up for breakfast as 

dear Dylan

Contrary to what you might believe, most things do not need to be thrown on the floor when you are finished with them. Thanks, Mommy

clean water is blue!

My husband just wanted to see Lake Michigan. So we drove 250 miles, on this whim, and ended up in some little hole of a town, where they don’t do Starbucks, and everyone rides a motorcycle and honks their horn at you because you don’t 

cake monster

He is a year old, no longer a baby, and officially a toddler. But of course, he is still absolutely a baby. First of all, he does not toddle. He takes three or four steps and then gives up and crawls because it is faster