Growing up too fast

Only this time, technically, it’s not costumes. It was our Anniversary dinner. At a fancy restaurant. Downtown. No kids. Just the two of us and several hundred people who could have been our grandparents. I’m serious, the restaurant had a very different demographic than… us. But the food […]

Apparently Evie STILL can’t digest milk proteins. I indulged in some nachos this afternoon and I shall do penance throughout the night tonight. The guilt… it is heavy. I feel awful for her as she seems truly uncomfortable and unhappy. And I am apparently going to be awake a lot to […]

Evie has, for about a month, been showing all the signs of readiness for solid food. I tried to hold off until 6 months, like I did with Zane. Face it, solid food is just so much more inconvenient than milk. In any case, we finally decided it’s time, and she’s almost […]

Zane woke up hysterical the other morning from a nightmare. I didn’t witness it but Jim said he had a very hard time calming him down and convincing him it wasn’t real. He was screaming and crying so hard he could barely breathe.
What was the nightmare about, you ask? He dreamed […]

I’ve reached an age when candles are to be read instead of counted.

I also managed to do a better job with the dairy-free cake for my birthday than the
disaster that was Jim’s cake.

Well, not really. Actually it blends. And I plan to use it to make smoothies, salad dressing, non-milk shakes, soup, and girly adult beverages. I’ve already introduced Zane to yummy fruit smoothies that make a much better mustache than milk. Oh, and it goes nicely with our coffee maker.
Why am I […]

I am beginning to suspect that Evie may have a sensitivity to something I’m eating. She’s had a bad case of baby acne for a couple of weeks now, but in the last few days it has become a lot more severe, making me wonder if it’s a rash or excema or something. […]

This afternoon Zane and I made a HUGE pot of spagetti sauce to freeze in meal sized portions. Jim was telling Zane how great it is to see him learning to cook with Mommy and how important it is for him to learn to cook. I don’t know, it’s pretty much the blind […]

Last night Zane and I made this for our (highly unromantic) family Valentine’s Day dinner. Yum. Then after Zane went to bed, Jim and I enjoyed a pint of Chunky Monkey for dessert. When I told Jim to check the freezer and see the treat I got us for dessert, he asked […]

After three straight days of cancelled day care from a freakish ice storm (no doubt caused exclusively by Jim having moved here to Austin, thus bringing the cold weather along), we finally ventured out of the house this evening to the grocery store. There, we met the entire population of North Austin. Fortunately, […]