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For our family Christmas gift, we splurged and bought a new stereo head unit for my car that integrates with the iPod. Subarus have this unfortunate problem where there’s no easy way to upgrade the stereo, it doesn’t come with an aux input, and because it didn’t come with a tape deck we couldn’t use [...]
Yeah, apparently I was a little hasty in announcing the appearance of a fourth tooth a couple of weeks ago. We were very puzzled, because it looked like it had cut through, but when it didn’t get any bigger we looked a little closer and…well, either it hadn’t actually popped through or it changed it’s [...]
I don’t know why I didn’t notice this last year (it’s not like I’m less sleep-deprived this year, after all) but Carolyn’s name is in a lot of Christmas carols. For example, from “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: There’ll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for roasting, and Carolyn out in the snow. (Poor [...]
Today is my 30th birthday. I feel like I should have something meaningful to post, since I’m so old and wise, but I don’t. :) Saturday we had some friends over, who graciously helped me decorate my tree and gave me lots of goodies and delicious cake. And earlier this evening, my parents and grandparents [...]
As I was getting ready to leave for the Christmas concert I was singing in earlier this evening, I heard Denis telling Carrie to be careful on the chair. They were in the dining room, so I was a little confused about what chair she might be in. Yeah. It turns out she can climb [...]
I will never, as long as I live, plan to make Christmas gifts for (nearly) everyone on our list and not actually start them until November. It’s 1:30 in the morning. I’m still up. Not because I can’t sleep, but because I don’t have time to sleep. In fact, I have so much to do [...]
I am so tired of being told that Carrie doesn’t speak yet because we’ve taught her to sign. I’ve lost track, because she’s learned so many this past week, but I can count at least 40 signs that she knows and uses regularly. Sometimes she’ll just sign them, sometimes she’ll sign and point to whatever [...]
I baked some cookies this afternoon for tomorrow’s MOMS club cookie swap. They’re Andes Candies cookies. I couldn’t find my recipe in any of my cookbooks, but the internet is a wonderful thing – here they are. I ended up with 7 1/2 dozen instead of the 6 I was supposed to have. Oh, darn. [...]
Carrie’s Christmas dress is only a bodice with one sleeve so far, but I think I can get it done before the end of the week. I’m waiting for a crucial piece of one project to arrive, but I think I can finish it in time anyway. I’ve run into a snag on a different [...]
…and so does Carrie! Well, according to her the cow says “mmm” and the sheep says “ba, ba, ba”. And in the past two days she’s started signing “baby”, “duck” and “down”. Now we really need to watch what we say (and sign) around her!