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Since the new owner of BME has removed most of Shannon Larratt’s life work from the site, including the well known article, Love at First Bite, featuring Clive and I way back in 2005, I was given an HTML copy of it and have “republished” it on my own domain. You can read it, [...]

Before Clive and I left for our honeymoon we signed a lease on an apartment that I’d been eyeing for months. The owner was renovating the entire thing, and I really liked the location (two blocks from our current place) and literally right next door to my sister. We share a chimney. I met [...]

I’ve been teaching myself how to sew zippered pouches lately. Made of 100% recycled materials (besides the zippers and the interfacing), I am totally in love with making them, even though they’re a bit of a pain in the ass (I don’t enjoy sewing zippers, it turns out), I’m getting pretty good at making them [...]

Here’s something I don’t understand: people who don’t care about the environment. Now, I don’t expect everyone in the world to be a composting, recycling, cloth diapering, all-natural cleaning products, plastic-avoiding person (like I am), but the people who really, honestly don’t give a shit about doing ANYTHING? I don’t get you. How [...]

Ash had his first temper tantrum yesterday, the first of many, many more to come, I’m sure. He wanted to bring a glass of water that had been sitting on the bedside table onto the bed to play with, and I said no firmly and he threw himself onto the bed, face first and [...]

I called our local cable/internet/telephone provider today and got our cable cut off. I have hardly turned on the TV all summer and it just didn’t seem worth the extra expense now that my maternity leave is over and I’m left on my own to keep up with my bills and I hardly have [...]

Within a recent article about a child dying from Shaken Baby Syndrome, they list the following steps:
How to deal with crying
Steps to take if a baby is crying and you are getting flustered:
• Lay the baby on its back in its crib
• Put the crib rails up
• Leave the room
• Close the door
• Distract [...]

The Day Before
Clive and I arrived at the cottage on Saturday, the day before the wedding, where we set up as much as we could. The chairs and tables and snow kone machine were delivered on time, and we unloaded several carloads of food and supplies. I was lucky to have massive help from our [...]

I left that particular site and haven’t been back and she is not referencing me when she talks about people who’ve set up spy accounts.

A mere three weeks until our big day!
I mentioned a few entries ago that people had RSVP’d on very late notice, and now people are informing us that they can’t come. Four people, actually, in the span of about 24 hours have taken back their Yes RSVP and changed it to a No. Both for [...]