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Diego’s gone

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

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The winter garden

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

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16-year-old Cari is pretty giddy about this

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

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A phase I can get behind

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.

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A guarded sigh of relief… And a baby face!

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

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Uncle!!!!!!!!

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

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I knew it.

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

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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

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Mama and Baby Socks

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.

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random random (and some random)

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

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