Summer on December 28th, 2006

This morning, cringing, I casually asked “any big plans today?” while sitting at the breakfast table. My mother in law mentioned gingerbread houses and ice-skating and then shot back “you? Big plans?” and that’s when I had to say it: I was – gasp! – Leaving the house with BOTH MY CHILDREN, ripping said children [...]

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Summer on December 27th, 2006

We’re still in Asheville, and the weather is turning cold- well I wouldn’t call it COLD exactly, but the weather has turned the corner from charmingly brisk into uncomfortably chilly, at leas in my husband’s point of view. He likes to say he’s not built for cold weather. I’m enjoying myself, wimpy spouse aside. [...]

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Summer on December 22nd, 2006

We are here. Asheville still feels like home and looking out at the mountains makes me cry.
I feel 100% better, thank you western medicine. Tonight we were talking at dinner about how sometimes when you’re sick you just can’t see the way through it, and it’s so very hard to remember that there are solutions [...]

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Summer on December 20th, 2006

I had eloquent words for this post but time and energy have run out. So I’ll just update. I did go to the E.R. – I was given a breathing treatment, rebuked for driving myself there which I admit was reckless and stubborn, and prescribed a short course of steriods.
I was reluctant to use the [...]

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Summer on December 19th, 2006

We’re here, and sort of sleeping in the new house. The baby, unsure how to proceed with a life lived in the same bedroom as parents, stayed up singing and jumping and generally being a pain in the ass until about 1 a.m.
The cat is wandering around looking for a high place to hide. Nothing [...]

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