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      • Design Flaw #2
        03/31/06


        A couple of weeks ago I gave a rave review of our new purchase, the Bumbo! Baby Seat. I am not rescinding that rave review, we use it every day, it is a fine baby product that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when I look at it, it will make the creep into a fine and upsitting young ma

      • If the server ever goes down....
        03/30/06


        "IT department, may we help you?"

        The creep has decided that sitting on my lap while I type is not as bad as he once thought. Where before he whined about the lack of new and exciting things to look at, now he actively participates by banging on the keyboard. U

      • a pox on my house
        03/27/06


        Our house is a Linux house. My husband is a computer geek. Admittedly, he is a cute computer geek, but a geek nonetheless. I would feel guilty about not being able to see my dining room table under all the new fabric I just bought if it weren't for the laptop nestled in among m

      • Hey, That's Me!
        03/25/06
      • pleasedontstartwalking
        03/24/06


        I have the greatest kid in the entire world.

        Now don't get mad at me. I don't mean that in the smushy 'I love him because he sprang from my loins and every cell in my body irrevocably bonded with him the second I saw his sweet face' kind of way, or ev

      • Design Flaw #1
        03/23/06


        I swear we are not actively trying to kill our child.

        Let me start this post by talking about a feature included with our Graco Car Seat*. When deciding between car seats we didn't know enough to look for it, so it was a completely fortuitous accident that we ended

      • Help Me!
        03/20/06

        I want a cool name. I wanna wanna wanna wanna cool naaaaaaaaaaaame. Some of you already know this due to several blackouts during which (from what I understand) I explained in great detail to random friends and spouses how much I wanted a cool name. Lots of detail and begging. I made stra

      • And now for my next trick...
        03/20/06


        Tom and my mother gave me a sewing machine for christmas. I had begged and begged for one so I think they were a little disappointed when I didn't whip out an evening gown or log cabin quilt on the first night (or at least try, I think they knew I couldn't actually make anyt

      • Does anybody really know what time it is?
        03/19/06


        I just woke up.

        As I write these words I find myself near tears because I am filled with sleep from my head to the tips of my teensiest toes. I slept and slept and slept some more. I had wonderful dreams of flying and dancing and moving to Mexico to live on a beach. I r

      • Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
        03/16/06


        So much to write about, too much flu to even think about it.

        (What is up with how much I have been sick recently? I still have a cough from my last bout of colds and then I came down with the dreaded stomach flu on Tuesday, which everyone promised was a 12-hour bug but I

      • SNOW DAY!
        03/13/06


        I woke up this morning to find that the 40-degree Minnesota that I had come to love over the past week has been obliterated in a puff of snow. The weather guy says that we should expect 6-8 inches; we are already there and the snow is still falling. Not really falling per-se, more li

      • Investing in his future
        03/12/06


        I was researching ceiling fans the other day and came upon Northwest Envirofan, a purveyor of fan-related goods. I was particularly impressed by their Protecto-Guard series which boasts:

        "Protecto-Guard fully encloses a ceiling fan, allowing it to operate smoothly an

      • The Aunts are Coming! The Aunts are Coming!
        03/11/06


        We had some super-cool visitors stop by to say hi to the creepazoid on Sunday. Well actually, they wanted to stop by but I managed to invite us to supper at the in-laws thereby saving myself the trouble of making this place hospitable (hell, I think Tom would be happy if I made it hab

      • The Chronicles of Babysitting
        03/09/06


        Once upon a time....

        Oscar had a babysitting gig last Saturday. Cedar, Zelia, Ellie and Tony didn't give him too much trouble...even though they stayed up way past their bedtime and ate too much sugar.

        (If you ask me Oscar is the one who had too much sug

      • SHHHHH! HE'S SLEEPING!
        03/04/06


        There is something I have not been writing about, something I have been scared to jinx by committing it to paper and basking in the wonderfulness of it:

        (oscar sleeps 11 hours a night................and he has since he was 2 months old)
      • Empathy
        03/03/06
      • Mommy Kisses
        03/03/06
      • Postcards from Cletus
        03/03/06


        This is so cool. I love weird art projects and now that I am a mother I even think fetuses are pretty cute. So...the best of both worlds! You can click on the picture above to find out more about the project or, if you think the idea of a punk rock fetus is as cute as I do you can g

      • BUMBO!
        03/01/06


        We just got a Bumbo! and, as I am sure you can tell, Oscar is thrilled.

        Amy, the Baby Class mom who invented the term Neglect-O-Matic mentioned the Bumbo! Baby Seat at our last class. I had to run out and get one because Oscar luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuves to sit up and gets kind o

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