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….at this picture on Eckernet.

Today has had more than its share of things going wrong. On the other hand, I did find thrift store curtains for the kitchen, and I got myself some ice cream bars.
I just finished dealing with the stupid, stupid, stupid chandelier cover (the plate that covers the hole in the ceiling where the box […]

I’ve spent most of it just trying to survive the heat–anything over about 75 degrees is uncomfortably hot for me, even without being pregnant. The temperature yesterday was well up into the 90’s; today’s not looking much better. MFH thrives on the heat–he spent a summer in Florida once. As for me, […]

Creating a Beautiful Home, by Alexandra Stoddard. I had given a copy of this to my friend that we stayed with last weekend, and seeing the book again made me want to read it again. Luckily, the county library has it. I also checked out a couple more books by her–books to […]

We went up north for the weekend, for a college friend’s wedding. It was nice to be in the U.P. town where we had spent (between us) 13 years in college/graduate school, and to be able to visit with friends. We hadn’t been back there since our honeymoon. Some things have changed–sadly, […]

MFH said that he would like a pinata for his birthday, since he’d never had one when he was a kid.
No problem. It helped that I found a few unused balloons at a bag sale on Saturday. The rest is just papier mache: newspaper strips + flour and water paste, […]

You can tell the real hard-core feminists by their candy dishes full of emergency contraception pills. And how they keep repeating the line, “Pregnancy begins with implantation, not with conception.” Technically that’s true, but that new little life in there, the one they don’t want to think about, started at conception.
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Hugo Schwyzer on Laura Bush calling herself a feminist:
What heartens me about the First Lady’s use of the term to describe herself is that it serves as a useful corrective to the “I’m not a feminist, but…” view we hear so often from conservative young (and not so young) women. By embracing the word […]

I finished my Sew? I Knit! bag today, after chucking the one I was working on and starting over again at the last minute. Now I can go back to sewing diapers without feeling guilty.

The pregnancy seems to be going fine–the baby was scooting around too much for the midwife to count heartbeats at our last visit. I’m starting to maybe feel him or her move–it’s hard to tell.
It’s nice that Target has maternity swimsuits, but why are their swimtops all far too short to cover a pregnant […]