the life and times of a domestic diva extraordinaire
Posted in Life at Our House on May 25th, 2005
I have terrible eczema on my hand. I’ve had it since Ben was born, though until this winter it was mostly on my fingers and not this severe. Ben has also had it on his knees since last summer. I put stuff on it every day, but he scratches it all the time. We get […]
Posted in Life at Our House on May 23rd, 2005
Saturday night Steve and I left Ben with his mom and went out on a date to celebrate our three year wedding anniversary. Steve’s mom watches Ben once a week on Tuesday evenings, but Steve uses that time to study and I use that time to do Mary Kay. So when Steve and I are […]
Posted in Life at Our House on May 22nd, 2005
Ben wears cloth diapers. We started out using inexpensive prefolds, but I found them bulky and I didn’t like the wraps I was using. Then I went through an experimentation stage where I sampled many styles of diapers and covers. Eventually I settled on fitted diapers with a short rise in front. In other words, […]
Posted in Life at Our House on May 17th, 2005
Last week I bought a new camera. An Olympus D-595, 5.0 mergapixel digital camera. Point-and-shoot with nineteen shooting modes. I was tired of paying to develop film (and not taking pictures because of the cost), and my old digital camera was only 2.0 megapixels which wasn’t enough resolution for me to want to take photos […]