November 2007

Gingerbread House

November 26, 2007

Wyatt and I made a gingerbread house the other night. I wanted it to be fun, so instead of going through all of the hassle of making gingerbread dough, rolling it out, baking it and then accidentally breaking it into 3 or 4 pieces, I decided to buy a kit with pre-baked pieces. It came [...]

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Mononucleosis

November 26, 2007

Now we know why I’ve been feeling so crappy for the last couple of months:

This also explains why the antibiotics haven’t been working — because mono is a virus.

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Book Review: Little Heathens

November 16, 2007

I just finished a great book, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. This was a good book to read while I was sick — part memoir, part cookbook, part instruction manual for life on a farm. The chapters are short but packed [...]

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Little Fall Album

November 13, 2007

This is a little album I made with my new Bind-It-All. It’s about 4.5″ x 2.75″. The cover is made of chipboard that I painted green.

For the inner pages, I used coin sized envelopes. I cut the flaps off and then punched a half circle out of the open end.

I then put a piece of [...]

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A Hard Few Weeks: Update

November 12, 2007

Just thought I’d give an update about my current state of health.  I went to the doctor again the day I wrote my last post and indeed, I still have strep.  And he described it as “a drug-resistant strain of strep” — just as I feared! So I’m on another course of antibiotics and I’m [...]

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A Hard Few Weeks

November 10, 2007

I haven’t been blogging lately because I haven’t had much to write about. I’ve basically been sick, or working for the last two months and I don’t really think anyone cares to read a big (or little) post about that. In short, I haven’t wanted to be a big whiner so I’ve been avoiding blogging.
But [...]

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