Month: January 2010
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Fe, fi, fo, fum….what’s going on with Samantha’s tum?
At first I thought it was the dreaded UTI. Logical, typical, predictable. Thursday meant canceling school, other appointments, loading up the Malibu and heading down to TCH. No UTI. “Really? Can we check again?” I sometimes get an idea in my head about Samantha and hold onto it like a dog with a bone….grrrrr…must be…
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I Cannot Buy an iPad
Today Apple unveiled it’s highly anticipated tiny, tablet computer…. The world waited with breath that was baited…. I heard it on the news this morning…. The iPad. I laughed out loud. I have iPads in my bathroom, next to the maxi pads. Funny, but this is a HUGE corporation, surely they have checked with the…
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Chocolates
My Grandma Dodie had a birthday last week…..I think she turned 87. How awful am I that I can’t remember if Dodie is 86 or 87? Bad Grandaughter. Back in the day, my Dodie was fabulous. She taught me how to dance by standing on her feet in her kitchen. She and my Popa always…
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Learning Moments
I was planning on posting about our wonderful weekend in Beaver Creek and the fact that mama can’t do the bumps the way she used to…. This will come soon but something else has occupied my left frontal lobe…it’s taking up too much space so I must purge. It’s a good purge. We got home…
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Stay at Home Sentence
Get Born Magazine is looking for ‘firsts’ for their Spring publication…..not sure if this will make the cut but this is my essay on when I first realized I needed to be a stay at home mom….. Stay at Home Sentence: We sat across from each other in the ICU. Our 6 month old was…
Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria 