I Should have Just Bought the Kindle

If you don’t know this about me, now you will. I really really hate spending money. This is a trait usually associated with my brother, but any item that is not absolutely necessary, and I dither and think, “Do I really need it? What if I don’t use it?” So I usually wait a loong…

Weaning at 12 Months

Spoiler Warning: This post is about weaning my baby at 12 months, if you’re not interested, feel free to skip it. He’s fine. The reason I’m writing this post is that before I weaned him, I was so fearful of how to do it. I like to know what something involves before I get started…

Good and Bad

Seamus’s nanny is not going to Spain next semester! We’re so excited. I received comments on Chapter Four. It was much as I suspected, the literary analysis is fine but it needs much more historical grounding to make it an actual bona fide chapter. Chapter Five is also rolling along, and it too is strong…

Happy Fall

Well, it’s fall in New Mexico! This morning, to celebrate the crispness, I had some pumpkin cream cheese on a pumpkin bagel. Then I watched balloons rising into the blue blue sky. One of the better things about fall? Pumpkin pie. Patrick makes them, which makes them that much better. (Kind of like how it’s…