Does she know something I don’t?

Lately JellyBean has been very concerned. She will plop herself down next to me and say, with great urgency, “Please don’t hurt my brother!” It is kinda sweet. Except that JellyBean doesn’t have a brother. (And trying to type that word “except” I just typed “expect” instead.)

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More Stinky Adventures at Mitchell House

I have terrible springtime allergies. The trees that I love are my biological enemy. Fortunately drugs work, though I settle for surgical masks when I’m pregnant. Since this is the first spring in years that I have not been pregnant or nursing, I decided to drug up and attack the invasive plants in our woods. [...]

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So I took the Narnia quiz and…

This comes as a surprise to no one.

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Books About Books Part One: A Little Literary Romance

I have been grumpily resenting the husband today. He has again contracted pink eye, or as I like to call it, the Infection That Will Not Go Away. Not really his fault, but I’m feeling blamey, and he could do a little better (Wash your hands! No, twenty seconds under running water. Stop touching your [...]

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Mama Bear Moment

Sweetpea was crawling around the floor today today and found a wasp. We get them inside occasionally, especially in the spring, when they are drowsy and slow-moving. She must have found it and tried to touch it, because it stung her on the wrist. We were eating dinner while she was playing and suddenly she [...]

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