http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com Adventures in too much information - a librarian encounters infertility, parenting, and anything else I feel like rambling on about Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:43:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was cold that day.  I remember waiting at the back of the church, freezing cold in the silk dress my mom had made, watching out the door and seeing a few flakes of snow drift down.  In October!  I would have been annoyed or amused, but I was preoccupied.  ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/8-years-ago/ [caption id="attachment_363" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="very proud of herself"][/caption] I don't want to be one of those bloggers who's always blogging about their children's pee and poop, mostly because I don't find it too interesting, but I had to share.  Last weekend, Zoe decided that she wanted to sit on the potty.  ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/proud-girl-proud-of-my-girl/ Oh, if only I'd seen this guide before buying the apples for the apple sauce.  I know I could have remembered honeycrisp, which is a sweeter variety than the cortlands, and I'm pretty sure the store had some.  Plus I love honeycrisp apples.  Again, not that the applesauce turned out ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/apples/ Eurydice over at Geeks in Rome has a great post up detailing how to make pasta that an Italian will probably not love, but will at least not spit out in distaste.  Which is good enough for me.  It reminded me that I had promised a few people that I ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/tomato-sauce/ I have Fridays off, but with things so crazy at the beginning of the school year and Zoe's surgery before that, I haven't felt like I really had time off until today.  Other than a quick trip to the vet for Tycho's annual check-up and shots, we had nothing planned ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/day-off/ After our wonderful morning together, I dropped Zoe off, wrote a blog post, did some laundry and headed to work.  I got to work just as an email arrived from Chris.  Zoe was being sent home from day care because it appears she has pink eye.  Ugh.  Chris took her ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/oh-ugh/ Today is Wednesday, so I have the morning off again.  This time, Zoe and I hung out together until around 9:45 (she has music class at daycare, which she loves, and I didn't want her to miss it). We walked over to my favorite nearby coffee shop / bakery.  The bakery ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/coffee-date/ [caption id="attachment_325" align="alignleft" width="193" caption="see shiny"][/caption] I got my very first blog award from The Continuing Adventures of SuperPreemie.  SuperPreemie is Shoshanna, Zoe's big blog sister, and the daughter of very dear friends, who have kept Zoe well-dressed in S's clothes.  Shoshanna will be 4 in just 2 days and it's ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/ooohshiny/ So many little observations in the last week or so that I keep mulling over putting into a post.  Fall is a tough time of year.  It's my favorite season, but it's also the busiest one.  Every fall, I tell myself that next year I'll remember how busy things are, ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/falling-behind/ There was a little box of beautiful, ripe autumn raspberries in our farm share this evening.  Zoe recognized them immediately and pointed to them saying "my! my!"  ("My" is her new favorite word, edging out even "no" at the moment.)  I handed her 3 berries, which she immediately shoved into ... http://tragicoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/autumn-raspberries/