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FF Making Swords with Dad

[pinterest] Today’s post features photos from Anthony’s latest swordmaking session with Isobel. Elias likes these quite a lot. What is Follow Friday? It’s a Twitter meme that I have taken a couple...

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Snapshot 10.21.15

–Last week I must have partied too hard for my birthday, because I re-caught the family cold. The risk for patients on immunosuppressants like me is developing respiratory infections–an incredibly...

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Halloween Wrap Up 2015

[pinterest] I’m already running a bit late for my self-imposed goal of posting every day for November, so you’ll have to excuse me. Halloween was much more physically exhausting than I anticipated,...

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Snapshot 11.04.15

–I’m getting NaBloPoMo done, and it’s feeling good. I know I’m only four days in, but I haven’t posted four days in a row in a looong time. I’ve had health issues happening this whole time, but my...

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Snapshot 11.11.15

–I took Easy E in for a well-baby appointment and while we were there the doctor diagnosed him as having a previously unknown congenital condition. He’s fine, Elias is just fine, but it’s something we...

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Snapshot 11.17.15

–Poor Isobel ended up at the doctor’s after missing almost the whole week of school last week. It was bronchitis, the family tradition.  She’s over the worst of it now, and I was careful, so careful...

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Snapshot 11.25.15

–I’m on another round of steroids, which, although it doesn’t usually change my temperament too much, has increased my appetite dramatically and has, more worryingly, changed how I feel about my...

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Snapshot 12.30.15

–Sorry for the unintentionally light posting schedule. I worked my everloving butt off trying to make Christmas happen with all the trimmings, and there was a degree of fallout one must necessarily...

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Snapshot 01.13.16

–Life has been a slog lately, but I’m getting through it. As always, I’m crossing my fingers for more energy. –Last week we had a wonderful visit with some family we don’t often get to see. Our...

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Snapshot 01.27.16

–Today is Anthony’s birthday! He’s pretty much the best. –My sister lives near D.C. and so we’ve been getting a snow storm play-by-play, as well as many adorable videos of her dogs romping in the...

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Little Big Links For Valentine’s Day

[pinterest] I had a health crisis last week in the form of the most severe four-day migraine I’ve had in a decade. While I lay on the couch, curled in pain, trying to blot out any thought besides the...

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My Unruly Garden: Spring 2016

[pinterest] Winter is here, and in the backwards Persephone myth in which we live, the earth has sprung back to life. This is the time of year when things grow green, naturally, and unbidden, wherever...

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Snapshot 02.19.16

–It’s been a really rough week and I’ve been really sick, but it’s been a really good week, too. –Last weekend Anthony had to work and to cheer up Isobel I gave her a few choices for a special outing...

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Snapshot 03.02.16

–Last week, after some slow but steady health decline, things got worse pretty rapidly and I ended up in an emergency appointment with my GI specialist. So, here, I am, on steroids again. I’ve been...

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Snapshot 03.16.16

–On Monday I had my colonoscopy. I survived the prep and procedure and I’m doing marginally better than before thanks to steroids. There’s no news yet, we have to wait for the biopsies to come back,...

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Snapshot 03.30.16

–March is the month of anniversaries! This week I celebrated my blogoversary and I realized I’ve been writing and taking photos and making projects and making friends and creating here for five years....

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Snapshot 04.14.16

–There’s nothing like chronic illness to knock you for a loop. I have been dealing with doctors and tests and insurance and drug companies as we try to determine what is going on with me and the best...

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Snapshot 05.05.16

–Our family has survived the barfpocalypse and my three-bottle-a-day hand sanitizer habit managed to keep me from participating. I think this is the first time in history everyone in the family has...

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Snapshot 05.13.16

–I’ve had a couple of really rough days, so pardon this post’s lateness. –I’m still in Treatment Purgatory, which is what I’m referring to this so far month-long process of waiting for my new...

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Snapshot 05.18.16

–It was Field Day at Isobel’s school this week, and she signed up for the 50 Yard Dash. Participation was mandatory and she chose the shortest event she could. She was not excited; the poor thing...

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