Monthly Archives: April 2006

Done with apartment living

We did it.  We just submitted, in writing, our intent to leave this apartment complex.  Whew!  It feels great to have that out of the way.  We can’t wait to get out of here… out from under the gigantic man and his stomping… out from under people peeing so loudly into their toilets that you...

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Mastitis is not fun.

It’s true. There is nothing fun about it. Zilch. Nada. Zip. Nothing. A week ago today I thought I was going to die. I cried out to God every second of the day from 10:20 am until 5 am Friday morning because I could not handle the overload of pain and fever and weakness and...

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Spare change for tunes?

You know those CoinStar machines at your local grocery store…the stupid, big, green machines that charge you an 8.9% fee for counting your spare change, and then return to you a coupon which you can redeem for less money than you fed it? I’ve always felt that the concept of a machine charging me to...

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The Average 9 Month Old

I didn’t get a picture of this weigh-in because I was the only one there (David’s school is doing TAKS testing so he can’t take any time off)… 21 pounds 7 ounces, 28.75 inches tall… which puts him right in the 50% range for both.  I thought he would have been closer to 24 pounds...

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In the dark

Last night we met with friends for a little studying as we do each Tuesday evening (we’re currently going through the book How to Really Parent Your Child) when it started storming. We needed the rain around here as this year was practically bluebonnet-free in Austin. The lightning was fantastic. We saw the first flash...

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