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June 2013
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Nesting

When I am about a thousand pounds into the pregnancy that will bring us Kallan, I decide that we need to get her room ready for her.

I pick out the paint . . . a shiny bright Granny Smith apple green.  If you are thinking that sounds just dreadful?  Then you would be …Nesting

    Green, but with toxicity

    I get chilly sometimes up here in Oregon.  I often use these little oxygen activated hand-warmers when I go out.  Rip open the little packages, one for each pocket, and I am ready to face another rainy chilly morning at the bus stop.  Yay!

    Fabulous, but wasteful planet-damaging hand warmer.

    Those little hand-warmers …Green, but with toxicity

    Cinderella Slaves

    As the girls were getting ready to walk out the door yesterday morning, Kallan swung her backpack over her shoulder and bashed her sister (who was kneeling to tie her shoes) in the head.  As Maj rose in a fury, Kallan turned to her, her face an expression of deep concern.

    “Gloria, are you …Cinderella Slaves

    People of Substance

    A dozen random bits of conversations that actually occurred at our house this past weekend . . .

    1) Kallan, thoughtfully, to her friend, when asked to consider whether either of our dogs would be of assistance if she was in a life-threatening situation and needed rescuing:

    “Not unless the emergency involved me somehow …People of Substance

    The man your man could smell like

    This will be quick.

    I’m sitting with Mark last night watching the Olympics and feeling a vague sense of dissatisfaction with my life as a non-athlete married to a non-athlete.  Mark’s next to me with a beer and bowl of chips, and just as they go to commercial he lets out a loud burp.

    …The man your man could smell like