It’s looking like Edmond or just north of Edmond. I think I’d like a trailer manufactured home as long as it had a good storm cellar for to hide from the twisters. My nephew Austin is a weather geek and he’s the most likely person in my family to be able to tell me who is the best shelter-digger, I’d bet.

It would be great to get 3 or 4 bedrooms on 3 to 5 acres out in the middle of nowhere. Have any of you, my dear readers, ever done such a thing?

Now I’m singing this.

We’re gonna move again - pretty soon. I tell you, for someone who lived in the same house for about 22 years I’ve sure done my share of moves since.

From 1974 to 1995 I lived in the same lovely house around N 56th and Penn in OKC. Then came the deluge:

1995 moved to Skyway
1996 moved to Boulevard
1997 moved to Memorial
1999 moved to Carey Place
1999 moved to 46th St
2000 moved to Jeanette St
2002 moved to Terrace Dr
2004 moved to Council
2005 moved to ?

Dang.

Thanks to John Paul the Great, as well

I went to change the sheets on the kids mattress, which is on the floor, and noticed there was a rip in the waterproof cover. So, I took the cover off, lifting the mattress as I did and discovered a hidden leak from under the wall. It smells so musty and, yucky, for lack of a better word - the carpet is damp at best and near-sodden at worst. The mattress cover had ripped on the bottom too (almost as if 30 and 40 pound children had been jumping on it) so the musty has invaded the mattress too. It is so yucky, and the mattress is basically ruined. Sean is at Wal-Mart buying a new cover for now which will at least get us through the night.

It’s high time the girls had their own real bed in their own room anyway. We couldn’t afford a bed for them but we can swing an inexpensive one now. I’m on the hunt!

Max’s arrival, (a home waterbirth VBAC!) from his mother’s point of view.

Excellently done!

…is it assault if I cut off the baby’s healthy ear but just fine if I cut off the baby’s healthy foreskin*?

*unless it’s a girl’s foreskin (prepuce), which is in fact assault. Go figure.

Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing.

Now, normally I wouldn’t spend much time in a place like that because I generally have better things to do with my time than complain cattily about other peoples’ kid names. I mean, I don’t care long as you name your kid a namey sort of name. Don’t name them something intrinsically offensive, like the old joke “Why do you ask, Two Dogs Procreating?” but beyond that, you go, mama, name them what you want and they’ll do just fine with it.

“But Fee,” you are saying, “how did you find such a place?”

Funny you should ask.

They don’t think much of my choice of children’s names. And when Sean stepped in to tell them that they aren’t made-up names someone told him he was a troll. Huh.

A Note to BNaBBT Posters:
When you want to get all shrewy without the actual parent you are insulting coming to see what slop you’ve written, don’t use live URLs to link to the names - it’s real easy to follow the refererring URL back to the Source of Snark.

Just a lil’ FYI.

I’m making a Zimmermann bottom-up raglan sweater for Bede.

I’m up to the armpits.

(Toes included for Nataly)

I’m using the little sleeve needle I got with my birfday dough.

and I like it. I started the sleeve on DPNs because it was too snug for the first row or so, then switched to this teensy 8-inch circular. I really like it. I don’t know how it purls though because the entire sleeve is stockinette, roll cuff.
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must have really easy labors.

Let’s talk about you!

Go tell this sociology student why you knit.

h/t:fibermom