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Today was a sensory day. Odd little snapshots of sensation everywhere I went: the warm scent of cardamom that inexplicably wafted past every once in a while during church this morning, our next door neighbor's gold and r…
Am down today. Overwhelmed, frustrated, bluesy. I know part of it is my lack of success with Gideon's sleeping plan (he's waking up every hour and sometimes screaming for hours in between). Hitting a hurdle like this as …
So, last night was our first night of teaching Gideon to go to sleep without nursing. I tanked him up with milk in a well lighted room before tooth-brushing and then took him to the nursery to put him to sleep. At first …
I did indeed get out the camera yesterday and exercise my shutter finger. I am calling these Gideon's 9 month portraits. Thought I'd share them with you all. He was so fun to photograph this time. Somehow he suddenly le…
Baking Day with my new cooking student went super well yesterday. We got flour everywhere. We also managed to turn out: an apple pie, a black raspberry cobbler, and a carrot cake. Whew! I made the carrot cake on my own i…
One more day of cleaning. I'm down to the really nitty gritty, slow jobs, scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing. The part where I must where rubber gloves or else my hands turned into chapped, withered apple red shadows …
Trick-or-treating at A's work went super well, many compliments on the mannerly kids and the cute costumes, far more candy than one two year old ever needs and one more chance to run smiling through a row of handshakes a…
I found my keys!!!! I was so excited! Thank you to those of you who prayed with me about finding them. They were just in a hidden corner of the diaper bag's side pocket. What a relief. So, even though it's only Wednesd…
The baby is cutting another tooth. Just when his most painful tooth so far finally broke through the skin he finds himself wrestling through another one. Thankfully, I discovered an alternative to Tylenol (infant Ibuprof…
Back home from another mad, mad, mad, mad morning at VBS: kids everywhere, screaming, running in circles, total mania of coordinating team bandannas, name tags and pleas for band-aids, mommies and hugs. Makes me feel lik…

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