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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Beautiful babies ~ My little niece Nora was welcomed into the Church last Sunday.
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I am naive, I suppose.  I never knew that our weapons used depleted uranium (nuclear weapons, sure, but not ground artillery).  After the battle for Falluja, in Iraq, that uranium has contaminated the area.  The Houston Chronicle last Sunday reported that 24% [...]

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Free museum day in Houston tomorrow!  The shuttle will be running free of charge and the Museum District is free, free, free!
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9/11.  Remembering the thousands that were killed by terrorists that day.  On that day I had a 3 year old, 2 year old, and an 8 month old.  What I remember -not knowing what [...]

Kids in Church

Baby A was baptized on Aug. 30, and this time around the ceremony was really, really long.   Unfortunately, by the time it was over I forgot to get a picture of A’s gorgeous baptism gown!  Her godmother made it for her and it is heirloom quality.
Baby A’s godparents live in Colorado, so some [...]

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Mr X is back to speech therapy.  He’s really come into his own this last month, and is much more confident since the baby has arrived!  He talks up a storm – or at least makes noises.  He’s started putting words together and answering in sentences, of sorts.  If you ask, “is this a banana?” [...]

This post is shameless bragging on my baby for my family that reads here.

Alli had her first bath on July 6.

Why so late?  Her umbilical fell off, but the hole wasn’t closed so we had to wait, just giving her sponge baths in between.

She likes the water.

See?  I really do use dishpans for everything!

We kind of sort of maybe cloth diaper.  Yes, she’s our EIGHTH baby, but I just got my sea legs under me, so to speak, with this whole mothering thing.  Took me more than a decade, heh.
Anyway, I’m finally in a place mentally where I feel like I can take this on, we have access [...]