January « 2007 « Home Despot Elly

More Sourdough

I finally got around to starting another sourdough starter this week. Of course, as timing goes, it wasn’t perfect, since I’ll be out of town next week so it’ll have to hibernate in the refrigerator while I’m gone, but I finally decided I had to start it NOW or I wouldn’t do it until spring when [...]

Madame Bovary

For the last two years I’ve been in a book group. Our goal is to improve our minds by reading good literature and our guide is the book “The Well-Educated Mind.” Because we wanted to have the difficult job of choosing what exactly is “good literature” we just use the list provided by the auther, Susan [...]

What Eczema?

After my dermatologist’s appointment in late November, I posted about the doctor’s orders along with my fervent wishes that her instructions would help. They have!\par
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I haven’t had a crack (where my skin just dries up and splits apart, sometimes bleeding, but always painful and debilitating) on my hands for at least a week, and although I [...]

Bath Games

After trying a variety of techniques for washing Judah’s hair, we have settled on the simple one of having Judah look straight up in the air while I pour water on his hair. Simple seeming, anyway – it usual takes repeated tellings and many reminders to get him to look way up and to keep looking [...]

Happy and Healthy

The sick baby is no longer sick – now he’s healthy and boasting two new teeth! Connection? Probably. I think that at least explains his extreme tiredness and sleepiness over the weekend. If only I had known he was sleeping so much because he was in pain – I would’ve dosed him with tylenol or ibuprofen. [...]

Sick Baby

I have a sick child. Ezra started with diarhea and fever around Wednesday this week. By Friday the fever was long gone, and I was thinking he would be well enough to go to some friends’ house after church on Sunday. Then this morning, while he was ravenously stuffing eggs down his gullet – he threw [...]

Searching for a Playmate:

Judah, as he searched:\par
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“Ezra, where are [...]

Tax Season (Drum roll, please!)

Yes, today is the kick-off for tax season. Tax-season – for the uninitiated, is the time when people do their paperwork for Uncle Sam, hopefully before April 15th, send it in, and forget about it. Tax-season for the few, the proud, the brave – (the CPAs) is the time when you deal with everybody else’s tax [...]

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