Category Archives: Parenting

Lessons in Ironing

2006-10-17 – 12:30

If I’m staying in a hotel and need to iron something, I always check the bottom of the iron to ensure it’s free from nasty things that might get on or even ruin my clothes. I’ve been saved a few times by checking, with the worst thing I found being a big old burr on […]

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Riding with a toddler

2006-09-17 – 11:04

Here’s what’s involved in a 14-mile bike ride with Elizabeth, a two-year-old. This is why I prefer riding from home if possible:
•Pump up tires of bicycle and trailer
•Replace rear skewer of bicycle wheel with skewer and trailer mount
•Attach bike rack to car
•Collapse trailer
•Remove trailer attachment arm and flag; place in trunk of car
•Pick up the […]

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Losing stuff and finding it again

2006-09-16 – 12:19

Since Elizabeth has become mobile and often wants to play with the same things she sees Andrea and I using, I’ve become much more careful about where I put certain things, especially if they’re delicate or I use them frequently. I have two shelfs in our big cabinet in the office area off our kitchen […]

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Pregnancy

2006-08-21 – 20:20

Today it’s been hot in Evans — a high of 92 degrees fahrenheit and relative humidity of 65%. I could use a lot of cliches to describe the combination, from the sauna to the great beast that drives residents of southern Louisiana to eat spicy food, but I’ll just say it was nasty out.
The […]

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Figs, canning, heat, nesting insincts, etc

2006-08-05 – 10:24

I know it’s hard to believe all these things are related but trust me, at least they aren’t completely unrelated.
We’ve got a fig tree in the back yard. This is its third summer bearing fruit, and what a haul we’ve got! We’ve picked at least eight pounds of figs so far, and it looks […]

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