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Today is looking good– I don't want to jinx it, but it seems likely that we will get through the day, completely, without needing any medical intervention. Fingers crossed! By contrast, I had to take Elias to the doctor on … Continue reading →

Now that I live in a world where putting a child-proof item on a high shelf means nothing, I am trying very hard to secure our arsenal of over-the-counter medications and other dangerous items. My lord, there are a lot … Continue reading →

Yesterday dawned happily enough. The boys had been invited to the circus with Nana and Pa and I was looking forward to finally being able to do the fluids and rest– sit on the couch and read the NYT– that … Continue reading →

OKay, so I finished my nausea, with several pounds less of me to love. Bonus! Immediately thereafter, Elias took sick with the croup. Indeed, it was one of these "episodes" in which I'm outside in my pajamas, bare feet melting … Continue reading →

The nausea diet has a lot to recommend it. It makes shopping easy (jell-o, gingerale, saltines), and meal prep and clean-up is a snap. You lose lots of weight fast, without ever, ever feeling hungry. Indeed, the only problem with … Continue reading →

Ah yes– having survived the great upper respiratory infection of February 2009, we are now confronted with quite a stomach flu. Kids at school are dropping like flies, including little Hank, Elias's peer, who puked in the hall two weeks … Continue reading →

I think we've already established that Zane Grey is in the bottom quintile of cat intelligence. Now one has to wonder whether she really is in the bottom one percent. Two nights ago, after we got home from the salamanders, … Continue reading →

It was a dark and stormy night… last night Isaac and I sat in a parking lot with torrential rain pounding on the van, waiting for the professor to take us out into the woods to look for salamanders. It … Continue reading →

The following is not for the faint of heart, the timid, or those with delicate sensibilities. In fact, it's only for the extra stalwart. Let's put it this way: are you comfortable with a little mouse blood? If yes, proceed. … Continue reading →

There's a new sheriff in town, and he's a bad ass killing machine. Meet Bagheera, King of the Cats.  Here he is working out with a faux rodent to get ready for the real thing. How'd you like to be … Continue reading →