maybe i hallucinated...

but as i was cooking my sausage, i swear i heard spring peepers in the
fizzing of the frying sound.

TV and race

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1948662,00.html

good advice

from my sister: "she's on endorphins. don't judge."

Interesting facts + a story

1) Roy just said that he has never respected Michael Jordan as a
basketball player.

2) Iris put her hand in a bottle. Somehow there was also a crayon in
the bottle. It took us a while to get the bottle off because she
wouldn't let go of the crayon. Somehow there's a punch line in here,
but I'm not sure what it is.

3) Next Thursday I am travelling to NYC with Iris. Our flight leaves
at 6:03 AM. Please pray for us.

Love,
Emily

this looks amazing

anyone want to make it for me?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/dining/183drex.html?em

this is weird and sad

but my miscarriages have both happened on dear friends' birthdays.

Hello, bittersweet.

And, of course, un-incidentally, today was the day I had my d&c for
Beulah, our first lost-baby. I don't think that's the date of the
actual baby-loss, but it's the date I can remember. ...I almost wrote
more, but it seemed to get gratuitously poignant... but we do love all
our children. That is all.

I love this sentence.

"While depression involves heavy burdensome feelings, despair is not
correlated with any particular set of emotions but is instead marked
by a desire to get rid of the self, or put another way, by an
unwillingness to become who you fundamentally are."

This does not mean I endorse anything. I just like the sentence.

from here: http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/kierkegaard-on-the-couch/

FYI

if we win this game, iris is going to church in her MSU outfit.

dee-licious pizza!

yet another post about food.

THis time, though, Kroger has made it, not me. We LOVE Kroger Private
Selection [freezer] Pizzas. They are fancy and good--and smaller than
regular ones. I tried to get a picture online, but I couldn't find
one. Right now, they are two for seven dollars at our I-55 Kroger.
That's how much they cost when we discovered them, and then they went
up to two for ten and we stopped getting them, but for when you need
a lazy meal and don't have to feed a lot of people, I recommend them,
heartily.

The end.

delicious

I wish I had more of my lunch--I made it myself!

It was black-eyed peas, canned tomatoes, a whole onion, butter, salt,
pepper, and lots of Tony Chacheres, simmered for a long time. I also
made some cornbread. It was slightly overdone, but still tasty
crumbled up with my dish.

I'm not sure if that's a dish that already exists--I know I had
something in mind when I made it, but it turned out like nothing I had
ever seen or tasted. It was much better the second day.

/end food brag

But it is REALLY good and I am still hungry for some.

I don't have any words.

Good thing we didn't try to get married in Tangipahoa Parish.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff

Please have words for me.

Happy Iris Birthday

THIS TIME LAST YEAR....you can go to our archives to see what we were doing!

it is really hard to pack with a baby

that is all.

the mailman gave us cookies today

and a change of address form.

Iris walked right up to him-- (i was holding her hand) down the
sidewalk--across the street, and he said hi and gave us cookies. Roy
is eating the rest of them.

I thought this was sweet.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/09/23/truck.chaplain/index.html

so close to our house!

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090918/NEWS/90918018/1263/RSS

parenting and the NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/health/15mind.html

also, this sounds very familiar...

Sounds scarily like myself...as the junk person.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/fashion/13love.html?pagewanted=2&em

thought-provoking

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13ehrenreich.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

this article says what i've always thought:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care