big baby. [90.365]

M loves when I hold her like a "big baby" (that's how she asks for it, too - she says "hold me like big baby, mama?"). She is SO big. She's over 37" tall and 33-ish pounds. I'm 63" tall and 100 pounds. It's...kind of comical when I carry her around like this. I'm going…

sunday. [89.365]

My girl, with pigtails, eating toast. This kid loves toast. And I don't blame her - the whole grain honey flax bread that I make every Sunday is awfully darned good as toast.

saturday. [88.365]

Rosemary and some other herbs marinating in olive oil, to be used in the olive oil dough I made on Saturday (basically following the recipe in Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, just adding herbs). We baked two loaves of it on Sunday morning, one to freeze for later and one to eat with…

catching up: maddy’s sweater

I finished M's sweater not terribly long after my last post - but these last few weeks ended up being pretty terrible, and included not one, but two separate trips to the hospital for me after succumbing to one of M's stomach bugs, and then another a little over a week later. That, and then…

riding the train. [87.365]

Fridays are my day to pick M up from school at 3, and she's been talking about trains all week, so I asked her if she wanted to go to the Museum of Play (which she adorably pronounces like "zeemapay"), where (among many other things) they have a really big train play area that includes…

throwback thursday: broken ankle edition. [86.365]

Summer 2001. I broke my ankle falling off the curb while a red-winged blackbird was attacking my head during a run the summer after I graduated from high school. (Yes, really: I broke my ankle due a bird-attack!) Clearly didn't stop me from practicing my violin, though! I was pretty dedicated, back then. I've only…

hey, i’m in this book! [85.365]

This showed up in my mailbox today. I'm a coauthor on one of the papers in it - it's a French journal, but all of the articles are in English. It's a special issue on one of the topics I've been studying ("Weak Definites" - if anyone is actually curious about them I'd be happy…

ready to ship her off ;) [84.365]

After the sleepless night she put us through last night... ...just kidding! We order all our cat food and litter through Wag.com and it comes in giant boxes. M decided this one was "her bed" when we got home from work/school today :) She wouldn't sleep last night unless I cradled her in our bed,…

how I’m greeted. [83.365]

On Mondays, A picks M up from school at 3 and they go grocery-shopping together while I stay at work. I take the bus partway home (and walk the rest) a little after 5. When I get home, M squeals with joy! I scoop her up, and she squeezes her cheek against mine while saying…

sprouting. [82.365]

We've been sprouting some seeds so that M can see how it works. A black bean and an apple seed. They were both taking off, so we decided to plant them today. We let M decorate some paper cups and filled them with dirt and planted our seeds. Here's hoping they actually grow - M's…

great outfit, kiddo! [81.365]

Saturday was a great day, and somehow this is the only picture I took. Oh well! M picked out quite the outfit - stripes, checks, and polkadots, and ALL the colors. Nobody could ever doubt whether we let her dress herself, ha. We went over to the house of one of M's school-friends, and it…

out in the sun! [80.365]

The sun came out this afternoon, and even though it was still cold (barely above freezing), it was simply glorious. We walked to the playground and M had such a blast playing, and then A met up with us there on his walk home from work. I'm so glad we're getting back to the part…

9 years ago today. [79.365]

Today is our 9th wedding anniversary. Since it's also a Thursday, I went hunting for photos from our wedding, but then remembered that there really aren't any. This will forever be something I'm sad about (I have similar feelings about our inability to get "real" photos taken of M when she was a newborn). We…

what i wore. [78.365]

Haven't done one of these in awhile. Boden jersey shirt-dress, my original Garter Rib cardigan and my Icarus shawl, Smartwool tights and knee-high socks, Merrell boots. Wore this to run a writing workshop in a Biology class this afternoon. It went well. I like running writing workshops. I was really hoping I'd get to walk…

alphabet soup. [77.365]

I was awarded a TAR ("Teaching As Research") fellowship by our university's CIRTL ("Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning") program, as part of an NSF ("National Science Foundation") grant, to use my writing classes as a case study for supporting STEM ("Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math") students in a freshman-level WAC ("Writing Across…