Monthly Archives: May 2008

Homemade Heaven and the Magic Key

May 27, 2008 – 6:08 am

Sunday night we had a BBQ and I tried out my MIL’s ice cream maker. OH MY GOSH!!! Well, that stuff is just too good to exist which explains why it had been completely devoured within just a few moments. I’m never eating store-bought ice cream again (hmm, that might be pushing it. Just forget [...]

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Science plus Ziplock = Ice Cream

May 20, 2008 – 6:52 pm

So as you know, I’ve been having ice cream dreams what with the ice cream maker on my birthday list and everything (unfortunately now I’m off dairy so I can’t actually eat ice cream ). My MIL had an ice cream maker in her freezer that she’s never used so she sent it home with [...]

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Henry the Model (like Ivan the Terrible but Different)

May 20, 2008 – 7:09 am

Apparently if you take enough rotten pictures of your new baby, your photographer husband will get disgusted enough to take some attractive pictures for you. Why didn’t I think of that before?
This is what happens when Mommy takes pictures (these are from May 2nd):

Since crying clearly wasn’t getting Mommy to stop taking pictures, he [...]

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Mr. Crabby Pants

May 13, 2008 – 7:47 am

You know how some babies are easy going all the time and barelycomplain about anything? Well, Henry isn’t one of them. He’sdisturbingly like his older brother was when Georgie was a baby ~ fussy all the time and cries if you put him down for three minutes together. Kind of makes me worried, not for [...]

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Shameless Birthday Begging

May 13, 2008 – 1:25 am

Okay, my birthday is coming up next month (June 20) and I know you’re all dying to know what to get me. Usually when people ask me what I want, they get a deer-in-the-headlights stare in reply, but this year I actually have two things I reeeeeally want but would never get around to actually [...]

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YouTube Taught Me to Crochet

May 6, 2008 – 11:23 pm

As is usually the case after I deliver a baby, my computer is driving me nuts. I have some brilliant business idea and am gung-ho for a few days. I purchase a domain name, set up a website, and research and install some software (I actually did all of this last week). Then due to [...]

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