February 23, 2012

UNCLE!

So. The last formerly-healthy person, Kaylie, finally fell victim to the gastroenteritis curse. I’D LIKE IT TO STOP NOW, PLEASE. Noah and I spent all last night up with Liliana, who is the worst when she is sick. There’s a lot of moaning and groaning and refusal to admit that she is sick. And she [...]

February 21, 2012

on sickness and swimming and running again

So, our plans changed a lot this weekend/week. All trips were canceled because of sickness. We’re all quite disappointed, as we were looking forward to each one, but sickness trumps everything, unfortunately. I was awoken at about 5:00 Sunday morning by the sound of my baby boy vomiting in his bed. It’s incredible how quickly [...]

February 9, 2012

Happy Mental Health Day (yesterday)!

Okay, so maybe Mental Health Day isn’t exactly a thing to be all happy about. Like melting snowmen, or something. Anxiety has been killing me slowly. Every morning. I can’t kick it. My heart races, my head aches, I sweat, I shake, and I feel ill. And I get annoyed and short-tempered. Little things start [...]

January 12, 2012

the heartburn cure that is really gross, yet really effective

I went to bed the other night completely exhausted. I’d been staying up too late lately and it was showing. I laid down and was instantly plagued with intense heartburn. I waited to see if it would pass, but it didn’t. I got up, took some Gaviscon, ran to the bathroom, and saw the Gaviscon [...]

January 9, 2012

chunks

We have been having the most amazing winter this year. Whereas last year at this time we were battling temperatures that dipped below -30C/-22F, today it was 5C/41F. Almost shorts-type weather! I thought I heard somewhere that this was supposed to be the coldest winter in 20+ years, but apparently whoever said that was wrong. [...]