Mama Says

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All week the children kept telling me about their onions that had yellow flowers. We do have some stragglers of green onions still in the garden, and they keep bringing me fistfuls of yellow weeds, so I thought that’s what they were talking about.
Nope. My daffodils (planted last year and forgotten) are blooming! [...]

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Today I take Mr X to the school for his speech evaluation.  He talks in full sentences all the time, but is so terribly hard to understand.  They have to evaluate him before they can tell us what services he’ll qualify for.  Next month is the last one for in-home ECI.
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She is driving me [...]

We are in the market for a new couch. Not a fancy, hand tied by vestal virgins from reclaimed Tuscan driftwood furniture, just something decent that the family (er, the WHOLE family) can sit on.
As you can see, we are in desperate need. We currently have a cream colored leather (er, bonded leather [...]

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Saw the doctor Medicaid referred us to.  She’s not a doctor, but a CNP.  She did spend a good bit of time with me, didn’t get weirded out by the vaccine thing, and carefully explained all the options, her opinion, and let me make a choice (one vax this time, containing DTaP and polio.)  She’s [...]

Mr X is so funny.

He’s still having trouble with most of his consonants but speaks in full sentences.  Always.  Even when I ask him a yes or no question, he still answers with a full on “I did brush my teeth.”  ”I do like apples.”  His speech therapist will come for two more months, then [...]

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I’ve been reading a lot of foodie books (Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver) and they both emphasize eating locally and eating in season.  I’ve virtuosly passed up on cherries from Chile and thought twice about buying corn on the cob in January (really, what’s the point of that?)  But I really experienced what they are talking [...]

Last Thursday, Mr P fell off his bunk bed.  He probably would have been okay if he hadn’t hit a metal chair on the way down.  He knocked a tooth loose and had quite a bruise on his chest, but otherwise seemed unhurt, so I sent him back to bed.  Alone.  (His bed is on [...]

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So I never know what to name these Quick Takes posts.  I’m going to number them according to week this year.  Unless I forget.
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Have you seen this article on employment discrimination in the health care bill?  That’s right, it’s going to hurt single income, working poor, and large families.
For a large family perspective, my family [...]

We had a wonderful Christmas, though we postponed Christmas dinner a few days.  We ate frozen meatballs and  jarred spaghetti sauce on Christmas, instead!
On Wednesday, a few of the children started coughing – the deep, loud coughing.  By Thursday Miss C (4) and Mr S (7) had fevers.  Christmas morning, Mr P (10) woke us [...]

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I went to the store and threw whatever I wanted into the carts.   It was like being a kid in the candy store.  Hmmm, haven’t had wild rice in so long!  In it goes.
Mr R saw it on the shelf and ran to alert me.  “Rats got into the rice and pooped!” he said.  I [...]