Archive for December, 2008

All in the Attitude

A few days ago, I received this email from a coworker of mine. Ed is an amazing guy; a seriously positive human being, despite being from the Bronx and threatening to break kneecaps sometimes. Ed has a tendency to drop these little gems of wisdom around and not even realize he’s done it. I’m not [...]

I Want To Be Like You

As I’ve mentioned a time or two before, Aurora is growing fast. Way faster than her brothers did, mostly because she has them to look up to, and an intense motivation to catch up to them. I didn’t post the other day when she started crawling, but she is. It’s still not super-organized; more like, [...]

Kestrel Says “Smile!”

Kestrel wanted everyone to smile today. Smile!

Says It All

Top 50!

Woah. Some benefactor (benefactress?) has declared ElementalMom to be in the top 50 of Eastern Medicine blogs. Who’d a thunk it? http://www.nursingdegree.net/blog/39/top-50-eastern-medicine-blogs/ I‘m stoked, but I guess this means I’d better get back into blogging about something other than how fabulous my kids are, eh?

No, We Don’t Have To

This post, from the inestimably brilliant Sharon Astyk, had me standing on my chair cheering. No. Just No. She’s right, of course. We don’t have to. We have ways of fighting back against the doom. We can do this. You can do this. But please, for everyone’s sake, for the sake of mine and yours [...]

Growing at the Speed of Light

I swear, this is not a posed photo. Aurora was laying on the sofa, and decided to roll off, legs first. She landed, and stayed standing for enough time for Jason to get the camera and take a series of shots. I’m pretty sure she’s thinking "tah-dah!" She is growing and moving so fast. It’d [...]

New Post at LWOS

Yup, another one. Tipping Sacred Cows Based on a really interesting conversation I had on an email list. I wonder if the woman involved will remember? =)