02/18/07
A couple of weeks ago Chris’ boss found a recipe involving a cast iron skillet and some steaks. Lots of smoke later, bingo, excellent steak. With Chris’ new found interest in cooking my loving husband read up on the subject and decided that he
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Superbowl this year was February 4th. Amelia and I got up early (well, early for a Sunday) and cooked up a big breakfast of
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01/11/07
It was Thursday and I was home with Amelia. Chris was already off to work and for the first time in a long time it was snowing outside. Everything was covered in two inches of the fluffy white stuff and the outside cats were all busy testing to see if they could walk on it but mostly finding long and involved paths around it. Baby black kitty was the most adventurous, picking her way very carefully into the sea of white that was our backyard before getting spooked once she’d hit the middle, she then gave up all pretense of worrying what she was stepping on and ran the rest of the way to the porch where I was setting out food.
Once Amelia was down for her nap I threw my work-jeans on over my pajama’s and headed outside to play. On the front porch I was met by our two resident grouchy cats, Mr. Peepers and Alfred, the odd couple of feline-hood. Read the rest of this entry »
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Chris: So, after you have the kid will your breasts just leak all over the place? Will you have to wear booby diapers? Does such a thing exist?
Em: Yes, and yes. Though they’re called breast pads.
Chris: So like … I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and be like … why’s the bed all wet?!? And you’ll be all like … that’s just they way I roll sucka!
Em: Good lord, it’s not that bad. It just means I’ll have to wear a bra to bed for awhile.
Chris: Yeah … but the intense amount of caffeine magnifies everything
Em: What the hell are you talking about?
Chris: I don’t know.
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Today was the day! Well, not THE day but in the short term range of things it was the day! We would find out for sure if we were having a boy or a girl… or an alien, which judging by the ultrasound is still quite promising. Read the rest of this entry »
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A month ago I knew when I bought what amounted to pull-up pants that it was a going to be a long road to baby-dom. Read the rest of this entry »
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The last few weeks of January was the beginning of the cramping. Sometimes very light, sometimes harder lasting several seconds at a time where I stopped everything and held my breath until it went away. February 6th, five days after I my period was supposed to start I stood in the cold second bathroom at 7am and took a home pregnancy test while Chris peacefully slumbered in the other room. While it was ‘cooking’ I wandered into the freezing cold kitchen and rinsed some dishes, keeping a nonchalant-not-worried-at-all-eye on the clock. How is it that three minutes can last at least ten? I casually wandered back into the bathroom and picked up the stick. The pink base line was bold as ever but a second pink line, faint but definitely there was definitely there. I double checked the directions but it didn’t say anything but an almost pink line. What the devil does that mean? Kind of pregnant? I disposed of the test deep into the trash can and went on my merry way. Read the rest of this entry »
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