We had him put down today. It was time. He’d been sick with kidney disease for a long time, and in this past week it became clear we weren’t doing him any favors by keeping him around. The house is…
We had him put down today. It was time. He’d been sick with kidney disease for a long time, and in this past week it became clear we weren’t doing him any favors by keeping him around. The house is…
This year was our first attempt at year-round gardening. All in all, not a bad first effort, though there are things I’ll do differently next time. In the fall, it looked like this: Now, it looks like this: The garden…
And 36-year-old Cari is quite amused, too. Look! Oh, the wonders of the Internet! Pull My Daisy! The whole short film! (Via Stupefaction) I was completely obsessed with the Beats from age 15 to 18. Now, mostly I just retain…
Thumper’s going through a phase. It’s not a phase I expected at all. It’s not one I’ve read about, or heard about. In fact, I thought the window of opportunity for such a phase had long since passed us by.…
This morning we went for the first post-Fifth-diagnosis monitoring ultrasound, and everything looks good! Normal! I’ll go back in on the 28th for a follow-up scan, and if that looks normal, too, they’ll most likely give us the all-clear. The…
Okay…what’s with all the bugs and viruses around here this winter, I’d like to know. I feel like the kiddo and I haven’t been healthy for a combined five minutes in months. Last week and this past weekend, the little…
Somehow, knowing already what the news would be didn’t make it all that much easier to hear. Yep. It was Fifth Disease, for sure. I got the results of the bloodwork today, and it came back positive. So now begins…
The baby I miscarried in May would have been due this past Sunday. I’m feeling surprisingly…okay about it. Much better than I expected to feel. Much, much better than I felt when the due date of the first and second…
Those of you who’ve been hanging around here since back when I actually knitted with some regularity will remember I have a (mild) obsession with sock knitting. You may also remember my deep and abiding love for Cat Bordhi’s brain.…
1. My dear friend Lawrence is now selling some of his fantastic subway drawings on Etsy. 2. Today I schlepped the kid and a bag of outgrown maternity clothes to a maternity resale shop, hoping to sell the too-small pants…