Five Points

Things I have made from scratch in the last 24 hours

2007-10-21T19:47:45Z

Chicken stock, from the rotisserie chicken that we had for dinner on Friday night. I thought it could stretch and become a nice homemade chicken noodle soup. So tomorrow I'll be making those homemade noodles. Tamale pie, the filling of which a...

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More Mia words, because I don't want to forget

2007-10-19T01:50:44Z

"Own-jen" surprisingly, this is angel. I can't hear that one enough. "Rell-la" Cinderella. Yesterday she walked through the kitchen as I was washing dishes, flipped open her play cell phone and said "Hell-lo Rell-la!" and then walked off and c...

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Wednesday

2007-10-18T01:31:38Z

This afternoon J got home from work early so we decided to go have a late lunch/early dinner at a Mexican place across town. After he changed clothes and was ready to go, I asked him to pick up M who was cuddling in my lap. I knew she wouldn't...

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In and Out

2007-10-16T01:16:26Z

I've thought a lot about friends and friendships lately, because it seems that friendships as an adult have a tendency to come in and go out with a lot more frequency that I would like. A was one of my three real friends for the two years that w...

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Loopy

2007-10-13T01:12:25Z

I had surgery yesterday. My c-section scar had developed a hernia when I started doing some weight lifting with a trainer last winter. For several months I figured the (mostly minor) pain was just scar tissue tugging on new muscles until I fin...

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Sunday

2007-10-08T02:12:34Z

Ever since M has developed a passion for "swingin," I've been trying to figure out how we could make it more accessible to her, more frequently. First of course I asked around in the neighborhood to find out if there were any parks around that ...

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Sense of smell

2007-10-07T04:45:25Z

When I woke up this morning and walked into the kitchen to get milk for M, the air still smelled like the brown rice I cooked for J for dinner last night. Usually when I wake up to the smells of cooking from the night before, it's enough to mak...

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Hungry

2007-10-06T00:53:05Z

It's taking every bit of willpower I possess to sit in this chair and not walk the five feet into the kitchen to get a snack. Cereal sounds really good right now. Or vanilla ice cream. Or even a handful of mini marshmallows. But no. I'm not...

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Trying this again

2007-10-04T19:07:51Z

I have orange pumpkins, white pumpkins, three colors of mums, and a deep orangey-red berry wreath on my porch. Nothing like the homey-ness of fall to get me motivated to finally put something out there that makes it look like a family lives in ...

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