Archive for February, 2006

Love Story Too ~*~ A Belated Valentine

I’m mad at you. I work hard to make healthy meals, and you and The Little Boy just snuck out for Jack in the Box. And The Little Boy was excited, because he and his Papa went and got yummy things, and I’m sorry you weren’t there Mama, but here I saved you a french [...]

Baby Clothes

I’m biting the bullet. I’m cleaning out the baby clothes. Kestrel is growing like a little weed. Just shy of nine months, he’s already outgrown anything smaller than 12mos. Which means that there’s a huge amount of unwearable stuff in his dresser drawers. And every time I go in there, charged with purpose, determined to [...]

Children and Museums: The Crime of Babywearing

Our family attempted to visit the De Young Museum on February 15th. Midway through our visit, we were asked to leave. What had we done wrong? My husband and I were “wearing” both boys (one eight months old, one three and a half) in sling-style soft back carriers. You see…. you’re not allowed to wear [...]

FtG — Quicken Smells Fear

…at least, my installation of it does. It can tell when I’m nervous, when I’m insecure. It mistakes my fear of finance for a fear of software, and it acts up. Little does it know, I’ve been bludgeoning software into behaving well for ages. I’m not too bad with dog training either. So as the [...]

Poetry, Right Now….

I found this from a link from Danielle’s blog. And it was too fabulous not to repost. So I am. You can go find the original here. God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haught Taken from Being Alive published by Bloodaxe Books I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic and she [...]

Liberty, Equality, Electronically

Dear readership, I have a confession to make. I am short. No, really. It’s true. I’ve been discussing a phenom, whereby the words I write, both in emails in my various yahoogroups, and here on this blog, seem to impact folks, whereas in my real life, I can talk about some issues until I’m purple, [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury — Got Milk?

Two months after Kestrel was born, I recieved a summons to jury duty. Laughing, I indicated my postponement (wrote “just gave birth” on the form), and didn’t give it another thought. Two days ago, I recieved another summons. Hm. Someone is obviously unclear on the concept. So I phoned. “You can only have one six [...]