From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Harry Potter and the invisible horses

29 June 2007 Books

This has been bugging me. I’ve been re-reading the entire Harry Potter series since some time in February or March, and I’ve got three weeks to finish re-reading Half Blood Prince before the last one comes out. If you are even remotely a fan, I highly recommend doing this, by the way. I read the [...]

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Yay day!

27 June 2007 Tristan

See how nice I am to you? I’m about to brag blatantly, but I’ll turn it into a yay day so you can brag, too. We got Tristan’s report card this week. They ‘grade’ them on a four point scale, from “needs to work on this skill” to “beginning to develop” to “meets developmental expectations” [...]

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Knock knock

26 June 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

Tristan told his first joke the other day. “How do you stop a cat from meowing in the back seat?” “You throw him in the front seat.” I laughed, partly because lame though it was, I’d never heard it before, but mostly because I was delighted that Tristan joins a long line of ancestry in [...]

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You think he learned this in school?

25 June 2007 Ah, me boys

We’re driving back from the Carp Farmer’s Market, a bag containing fudge and homemade salsa and fresh cukes and tomatoes at my feet. The boys are chattering in the back seat as we meander through the back roads bisecting rolling countryside. “Mom, I know how to say cow in French,” Tristan informs me as we [...]

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"Home delivery is for pizza"

22 June 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

The title to this post is a bumper sticker from the American College of Obstretricians and Gynecologists quoted in an article about “freebirth” in today’s Citizen. The article discusses the apparently increasingly popular choice of some expecting mothers to deliver baby at home with no medical professionals in attendance – no doctor, no midwife, no [...]

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Coveting a ditigal SLR

21 June 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

For more than a year, Beloved and I have been talking about getting a digital SLR camera. We started talking about it in abstract terms, a “someday” kind of wistfullness. Beloved is a master at overcoming my resistance to the purchase of new home electronics – I was opposed to the DVD player, the laptop, [...]

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Bloggy navel-gazing

20 June 2007 Memes

I started out writing this post thinking about a meme I saw over on Mad Hatter’s blog a while back. I thought it was a neat question, and I loved Mad’s answer. Mine isn’t so impressive as Mad’s, but I still thought it would make good blog fodder. 1. Go back to your first or [...]

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Mitigating risks

19 June 2007 Postcards from my uterus

When I posted yesterday about eating meat straight out of the bag in the Farm Boy parking lot, Loukia commented that pregnant women are not supposed to eat cold cuts. Hey, I never said they were cold cuts – it was raw steak I was snarfing in the hot June sun. Okay, so that’s not [...]

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7 1/2 week update

18 June 2007 Postcards from my uterus

How do you spot the pregnant chick in the Farm Boy parking lot? She’s the one rooting through the bags recently deposited into the back of the station wagon, eating the meat directly out of the package. *** I’ve just been for my first ultrasound, and everything looks great. One wee baby snuggled in just [...]

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Blogger hiccups?

15 June 2007 Editorial asides

Hmmm, I seem to be having some trouble publishing my posts. Well, I’m fine but Blogger – not so much. A couple of weeks ago, someone mentioned that although they could see comments that obviously related to a post from that day, the most recent post she could see was from two days before. The [...]

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