http://sugarandsproutsblog.com A sometimes warped celebration of being my daughter’s Mom! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:04:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, we’re finally moving. The big day has arrived. As I pack, paint, and dream about life in a larger, newer, safer, nicer, fresher and more open house I reach for something that has fallen behind the bookcase. And I touch… Cat vomit. Now, I realize that you find strange and ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/cat-vomit-and-other-grossness/ Ah, the lives we lead. Do you ever wake up and wonder where you are? Not in a bad way, but in a weird dream-induced coma kinda way that makes you lay there for a few minutes. In wonder. In a calm sense of joy. Then the ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/the-lives-we-lead/ OK, so my last post was sad. I didn’t check email or anything for a day. Thank you to those who told me to continue to offer support even if I didn’t think it would help. Great advice! And I appreciate all your kind words. ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/some-questions-of-ye-olde-parental-units/ Feeling brainless. I can’t write. I can barely think let alone type something pithy and interesting. I am laying here in bed trying to think of what I want to say and all I can think is that I want to squirt more whipped cream straight from ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/someone-died-today/ So, I have been told I confuse people. I sometimes feel like I'm a little Donny and a little Marie. I turn off the water while I brush my teeth. I recycle pretty much everything, and even bring scraps of paper home from work to recycle. I ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/redneck-hippie-naturalist/ Violence against children is still violence.  I know I have spent a long blog post on this topic already, but it pisses me off and breaks my heart at the same time.  Here goes… A woman in our play group was going on about how appalled she was about something that ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/ive-beat-this-drum-but-better-a-drum-than-a-kid/ I started training again, marathon training that is.  It was a tough decision.  I was getting used to having more time at home to chill out after ten days skipped.  But I went the other day, and then again today.  Beat the heat and got my butt out there before ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/a-mountain-lion-and-me/ I have always said that I prefer the company of my dogs to many humans I know. I write a lot about my daughter and husband.  I write a lot about the thing that still amazes me – that somehow I am a Mom.  Not a morning passes without me waking ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/some-things-ive-learned-from-my-dogs/ My daughter was due in mid February.  She was born two months early.  My intelligent mind tells me it wasn’t my fault – I did nothing to make this happen and today, she is healthy and strong.  My intelligent mind can reason.  My emotional heart can’t forgive.  I know it ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/some-things-i-am-afraid-of/ My daughter wants to play with my computer. It is a brand spankin’ new MacBookPro and she is two years old. It just ain’t happening. I can remember back to when my Mom’s typewriter (Yes! I am that old.) was something I wanted to play with and bang ... http://sugarandsproutsblog.com/my-mothers-typewriter/