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Yesterday Leah woke up complaining of a sore throat and feeling yucky. Considering Benjamin had fever the week before, this was not surprising. She had no fever and a tickly throat was no reason not to go to school, so I told her to continue to get ready for school. Around that time she lost [...]

There are some truths that are just, well, TRUE. I am a tremendous shopper – and by that I mean that I can find items priced well below their actual value. I am an internet ninja that way. However, there are some times where it’s not always about quality – it’s about a solution to [...]

Dinner around Casa Pammer consists of two shifts: the Pammer and Kids phase and the Husband phase. Husband doesn’t usually get home until after the time the kids need to eat dinner to keep me sane and them on track to get to bed at a reasonable time and so… shifts it is. Not my [...]

I have a back issue. At the ripe old age of 39 (for several more months thankyouverymuch) I have a degenerating disc between my L4 and L5 vertebrae. There is nothing surgically that can be done – it is a gift from the genetics fairy – but, as an added bonus, I have a fairly [...]

A few weeks ago, I all but forced Husband to sit and watch Food, Inc. with me. For those of you that have seen this documentary you know why this title of this post is what it is. And let me say this: if you haven’t seen this film, you need to. It’s important. And [...]

Dear Benjamin, When we last left off around here, little one, you were a very cute but pain in the ass two year old. And as of this post, you are now almost three and a half. I’m sorry for the enormous gap. If you think this is bad, wait until you see your baby [...]

Seriously. I’ve been dicking around with this little purple site – or, really, NOT dicking around with it for a year. I’ve struggled with having nothing to to say or being unwilling to write about certain things. I have been indecisive and unsure. I have been caught up in my head to a point where [...]