http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog Le Blog du Emilie! Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:48:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=40 Superbowl this year was February 4th.  Amelia and I got up early (well, early for a Sunday) and cooked up a big breakfast of http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=39 01/31/07                                  For the last three weeks Amelia has been scratching.  It started with a barely audible scritch, scritch, scritch, against the fabric of her basinet.  I figured I needed to file her nails, so the next night I did that while she lay on her changing table, ... http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=30 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 ... http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=15 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 ... http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=13 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. http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=12 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. http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=11 Friday, February 24th, 2006: Fifteen actors for Romeo and Juliet are lounging around waiting for rehearsal to begin, we are two weeks before opening. Pat, the technical director (and a big guy), decides to give us all a ‘safety’ lecture. The metal swords that we’d originally spent $400 ... http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=10 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 ... http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=9 “Put that down. Put. That. Down!â€? I am currently pleading (sternly) with a four year-old. She is dangling a cup of water over the top of a five-hundred dollar scanner. She is not my child so I can’t grab her little arm and wrench the paper cup from ... http://emilie.neurojack.com/blog/?p=8