Thanksgiving

This is what I love about this life.
You can drag yourself through your days by your fingernails, count down minutes until your husband comes home, feel as though in every instant, you are barely making it.
And on those same days – those very same days – you can look around in wonder at all that [...]

White Flag

Oh. My. God.
As I write this, my child is sitting next to me on the floor, screaming hysterically, just as he is screaming hysterically every minute of the day when he is not being held by me or his father.
I mean, I’ve had to resort to a spoken word mantra of “This is not my [...]

My Thanksgiving Plan*

Today: Look for gluten free bread cubes and pears at Whole Foods. Find pudding mold for table centerpiece
Sunday Night:  Take turkey out of freezer, thaw in fridge.
Tuesday: Toast and stale gf bread if they don’t have gf bread cubes at Whole Foods.
Wednesday: Make brine, make placecards, iron tablecloth and napkins, polish napkin rings, take sausage [...]

Exhale

Eli had a weight check this morning – he gained almost a pound, and he grew an inch, and is (slowly) rising back up the weight charts.  We don’t have to bring him back to get weighed again until February, and he will stay on the gluten free diet.
The relief I feel at this is [...]

Must Love Dogs

Remember when I had my blog contest and I forced all of you to ask me questions and then I never answered any of them?
One of the questions was whether or not I was a dog person.
I so so so so so wish I was a dog person.  Mr. E is a total dog person, [...]

What’s Up

Planning two weeks of meals at a time and shopping at the cheapest grocery store in town has been making a huge difference in the grocery budget.  And it is more cooking, bu we can’t eat that much processed food, since we’re gluten free these days, and so all of this cooking isn’t really optional [...]

Today

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
Today has been one of those days.
One of those days when your child is actually for the love of all that is holy honest to god sleeping in and your cell phone rings, shockingly loud, at 7:30 am with another endless wrong number announcing the recall for a car you don’t own.
One of those days [...]

Bah Humbug

Is anyone else already getting a nervous tummy about Christmas?
Mr. E and I have a budget and a cash only food buying system and lots and lots and lots of money saving tricks.  We have a “paying off all of our debt in two and half years” plan.  We try to sink most of our [...]

Veterans Day 2008

Having a Ball

So, I know you are waiting on the edge of your seats to hear about my jean shopping this weekend.
Eh, jean shopping was ok.
The good news is that it was not the soul sucking departure into the ninth gate of hell I feared it would be.  So there’s that.
I found two pairs of the same [...]