Sisterly Advice

Sarah (age 6): Hurry, Jonah! We need to go meet Emily!
Jonah (age 4): No! She’s my girlfriend, and she’s always so mean to me.
Anna (age 6): Jonah, if she’s mean to you, then she isn’t really your girlfriend.

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Miscommunication

Naiah (age 2): Hey, Daddy?
Jason: What?
Naiah: Flabalpalabana?
Jason: What?
Naiah: Nevermind.

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More from Around Here

The outskirts of Indian Valley

Waterfall on Feather River

Cheerful Signs

Feather River (Don’t swim here.)

More River

Washing and Grinding Stone. I don’t know which tribes used it. In Indian Valley they were Maidu, but this is further south.

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Bacon

My husband just went out and got himself a raise.
Oh yeah, he’s the man.

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Happy Day

Music and company and a clean kitchen do wonders for your mood, I’m telling you.
And I’ve left off Conrad’s Lord Jim about halfway though, because that wasn’t helping anything. It’s not nearly as black as Heart of Darkness, but it’s enough to sink you when you’re already feeling down. I need a happy book to [...]

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Lovely

No good news today on the economic front. Consumer confidence plunged, the wholesale inflation rate soared, the number of homes being foreclosed jumped, home prices fell sharply and a report predicts big increases in health care costs.
–Associated Press

Can this just be over now? Please?
It would be a good time to buy a house, though, if [...]

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Sitting for a Reason

I updated the baby blog (in the tabs at top) with all the pertinent info from the ultrasound and midwife visit. You have to scroll down to see the newest entries.
The short version is that the placenta is blocking the exit, which caused the brief bleeding, and the midwives were and are justified in limiting [...]

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Big Snow

It’s falling like leaves.

In clumps. This big:

(That’s not my hand. Don’t be alarmed.)

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The Outside World

I’ve been out of the house twice in the last two days! And I feel much more human.
Now if I can just get those midwives to pronounce me fit to move tomorrow, we’ll be back in business.
I might miss the reading vacation though. It’s been fun. Debilitating, but fun.

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Jane Eyre

(Yes, I’m doing a lit post again. I promise not to make this blog into a book club, but I have no one to talk these things over with, and I hate reading a good book without mulling it over sufficiently. So feel free to ignore this post if it’s too stuffy for your interests. [...]

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