1. Antibiotics
I came down with official mastitis this weekend (fever, chills, body-soaking sweats yippee) after fighting it last month without medication. This time I needed medication. And, although taking it 4 times a day on an empty stomach makes eating when I’m hungry nearly impossible, and it gives poor Patter terrible poops, it works! I’m [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘sweet cheeks’
July 8, 2009
Grace in Small Things: 17
December 29, 2008
Christmas: The Bad and the Good
The Bad
The Bewb: Lately, we alternate between nursings that feel like tiny shards of glass are being ground against me and a sensation I imagine is akin to needles being inserted into one’s nip9les. Patter’s poisonous teething saliva is making me a bit…shall we say, edgy. As in, Do Not Feed the Animals, Do Not [...]
November 10, 2008
A Dream Deferred*
I think I speak for Sweet Cheeks as well when I say that our anniversary stank like a gargantuan poopy diaper.
We unceremoniously threw gifts at each other in the early morning and were able to have about three ten-minute conversations over the course of the day that didn’t involve talking over noisy children. Because this [...]
November 6, 2008
Five Years
This all-inclusive package, which matures this Saturday, November 8, includes 2 apartments and 1 house in 2 states; 2 children; 1 graduate degree; 1 cross-country move, and countless glasses of wine.
Features of the 5-10 year package are wide open.
Happy anniversary, Sweet Cheeks.
June 5, 2008
Thursday Complaints (because on the fifth day of the week I find I can hold back no longer)
1. My husband has had the nerve to complain lately (sometimes before 9 am!) that he is ”so hot!” because the temperature has actually gone above 75 degrees. Gee babe. I’m so sorry it’s getting a little sticky for you. It’s not like I have a growing furnace in my uterus and am hauling around nearly twenty-five [...]
