February 2007
Monthly Archive
The original title of this post was ‘Reason #12908931 I’m glad we left Mc Doctors’
Posted by lorena bee on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: insane in the mundane
I grew up liking my eventual pediatrician (a Family Practitioner and DO and OB GYN who also was the “attending” on my birth – I came out while he was at lunch) even though I have had issues with the possible missed diagnosis of gall bladder problems in my early teens (we treated my scoliosis instead, which put off the pain a while, though it did come back and I just chalked it up to weakness/inevitability of pain with scoliosis).
And I, myself, am by no means perfect, either – I think I did run the count once on my lifetime consumption of Tylenol and estimated it at around 10,000 pills? Because people get headaches, they take a Tylenol. End of story. Duh. Now that I’ve treated the gallbladder problem and am treating the underlying allergies, I’m much better. I’ve had maybe 12 pills this year, total, of Tylenol.
But that’s just background, to add to the data that doctors seem to fire me a lot. ;) Continue Reading »
Next time she should really register at Barnes and Noble instead.
Posted by lorena bee on 26 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: family, insane in the mundane
My daycare director is coming up on her anniversary here and all we got her was a break out of pink-eye. Let’s see. If the first year is pink-eye, the second year is probably chicken pox. I think she cut her teeth on a Fifth Disease breakout when she first got there.
But seriously, I’m going to tell her to set up an Amazon store to augment their fund-raising (corporate has them doing March of Dimes activities, but they also do stuff to raise money for staff parties) and we’ll skip the chicken pox. Continue Reading »
Mid-day musings
Posted by lorena bee on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: insane in the mundane
Had lunch with the hub today, yay. He came all the way up to me, but we need to work on finding a place or three more mid-way for us. “You’re so much more awake at lunch!” Yeah, well, by the end of the day I am kinda dead. And we’re swamped with kids every night and exhausted even more by the time they are down.
Was invaded by the saw-toothed grain beetle recently. (A description, but no pictures in the link.) Either came from a package of Mahatma Brown rice I bought or some pearl barley from late last year; both packages “got under” stuff down at the bottom of the pantry. Noticed a bug or three a couple weeks back, then found the motherlode [shudder] the other day. Continue Reading »
Did that rat see his shadow or something?
Posted by lorena bee on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: family
Because Winter certainly has not abated here.
Germ Storm 2007: Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in.
I so wanted to post yesterday how we are all getting better. Pink eye – gone. Virus – gone. Kids weighed and measured; but generally getting back to normal.
Except … for a small cough from the girl, turning into a little cold. Poor pud. And I’ve got it again, too. No rest for the wicked – I must work on being more wicked to earn this. At least I’ve found a new cure for the cough that is nursing safe – dark chocolate.
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Early harvest
Posted by lorena bee on 07 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: family, pirate gardening
Today was a really really long day. Crazy busy at work, crazy busy in life, still tired kicking off the last of this marthon cold/bronchitis. By the end of the day I was sniffling along my drive home, just trying to get us all there and get to the point of my day when I could lay my head on a pillow and rest. But a bit of an earlier harvest than I expected cleared my tears and got me the rest of the way home dry-eyed.
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Pat, I’d like to buy a cow, please
Posted by lorena bee on 05 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: family, pirate gardening, politics
Oh, that’s illegal? Darn.
I grew up near a local dairy producer, cows in the field and an onsite processing plant. We’d stop in and get very fresh milk in glass bottles, or pick it up in glass from the corner store.
As I prepared to move our oldest to whole milk and hang up my own milking horns, we experimented with some formula to verify tolerance (we were still in the middle of a cranky hurricane season) and started up with the whole milk when we were ready. It was a rather smooth transition to the brand I’d come to prefer in Florida, but the more I read, the more I was inclined to move our milk over to organic sources, like so many others are. Continue Reading »
A fun kind of doomed
Posted by lorena bee on 03 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: family
They are their own people, from laugh to cry. It’s a bit strange stepping back and looking at how we are getting to know and grow with these little ones, even though for the early stages we’ve been through it once already. Helvi is such a laughing baby, like her brother was, but in her own way. I love those laughs. Must break out the recorder and just record our rides into and away from daycare, as we make our daily rounds.
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