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A week and a half ago, it was 75 degrees here. SPRING, people! The garden stores didn’t know what to do with themselves. I even went looking for roses. But I found out they won’t be in until March. So, I did the next best thing: I went shopping for Spring Swimmy Clothes! I went [...]

(I’m warning you now. This is not pleasant.) Peeps, I don’t even know where to begin. Yesterday was surreal. But let’s start with The Exploding Pfluftagus. Husband gets up early. Much earlier than I do, but that’s because he has A Commute and has to get his ass out the door before the traffic window [...]

Husband turned fifty-one in December and for his birthday he got… to have a colonoscopy. Apparently, it’s just something you have to do when you reach “a certain age”. I never knew much about colonoscopies until this. All I knew was a snake-like scope was going “in the out door”. So to speak. I had [...]

Lesson One: Pregnant Women Really Should Be MADE to Nap Seriously. We just cannot function properly without proper rest, and G-d knows having to get up and pee a gafrillion times each night does not equal Good Rest. Today The Swimmy had a birthday party to attend. I picked her up from Sunday School, looking [...]

It’s a little early in the morning, Bill, but! I’ll do my very bestest! Four Jobs I’ve Had Chocolate saleschick (high school – jealous?) Camp counselor Instructional Designer / Project Manager IT Sales Executive Director of Development (Philanthropy) Four movies I can watch over and over 1. Bull Durham 2. Steel Magnolias 3. Pulp Fiction [...]

It appears that trying to guess what the sex of Wiggly could be a game. And so? Now it is! I will give you the following information and you Internets can crunch away at the information and apply all kinds of physics theories and old wives tales to it to see what the little one [...]