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Because I haven’t shopped or shipped

Dear Mom,
It’s your birthday! Happy! Happy! If it was my birthday, you’d have already shopped and shipped, (you’ve such a knack for forethought,) and I’d have a fabulous birthday package waiting for me. But it’s your birthday. And I have neither shopped nor shipped (I’ve a tremendous knack for […]

It’s Been A Week…

…and it’s only Wednesday. But things are looking up. We’ve just had a lot of vomit and diarrhea around here. That’s all. And those two visitors are never really welcome, but they’re especially unwelcome on the heels of a week like last week (which was laden with fevers and fits and […]

And my Feet Feel Like Hot, Tingly, Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

I firmly believe that the emergency room is the worst place on earth, second only perhaps to the DMV. (We found ourselves there twice last week for incidents of severe pain in Henry’s stomach.) I also firmly believe that I have a lousy pediatrician who sent me, crying, eight-months-pregnant, and very frightened, to […]