All Kinds of Cute
EcoBabe is feeling better, as this photo will attest:
All Kinds of Sick
We are a mess of a family right now. I’m thinking we should get a standing appointment at the doctor’s office because we’re there so often it would save time… no need to call yet again to get yet another appointment. In the past week we’ve been to the doctor 4 times. Most of those were double visits.
The list of ailments, spread among myself and the kids (EcoDad is amazingly, irritatingly healthy):
A Call For Help
My friend Cheryl emailed me yesterday with a very sad story. Her good friend Katie had been in remission from her breast cancer but it’s back. Katie has six children. Six children are expensive. And cancer is really, really expensive, especially in the US. Her family has set up a website/blog to raise funds to pay for the cancer treatment she needs. It’s really a brilliant idea. They’ve got a number of handmade items for sale. The sale is auction style with each item starting at cost plus postage. Whatever they get for the items above the cost of the materials goes into a fund to pay for Katie’s cancer treatment.
I urge you to check it out…
My Cupcake Skirt in the Blogoverse!
My cupcake skirt (the one I made for J.T.– not Justin Timberlake, Sillies, a little girl with the same initials) has become internet famous! Well, okay… perhaps she’s not famous. But she HAS appeared on a blog other than my own.
The shop from which I purchase the cupcake fabric (lonetreequilts on Etsy.com) has a blog. And my humble little cupcake skirt was featured on it! Really! And get this… Woodland Quilts (the name of the store which inhabits a building rather than a web space) is in WISCONSIN…
Craft Update, 16/02/2009
Link through for a photo gallery post of recent craft productions.
Cinnamon Creams
I saw a recipe for Peppermint Creams on Flossie Teacakes. (It’s a wonderful crafty blog that I highly recommend. I get giddy when my feedreader shows an update for FT.) I really wanted to try out the Creams but, as will likely be no surprise to my faithful readers, I couldn’t find peppermint essence anywhere in Ankara. I’ll add that to the long, long, looooong list of culinary fare I can’t track down in good ol’ Turkland.
But I still wanted to make some Creams. So, I thought, why not vanilla? I’ve got vanilla (imported courtesy of my mother, can’t get it here either.) On Friday morning while EcoBabe slept and EcoKid frolicked at school with her amigos, I set to work making Vanilla Creams…
Bye Grandma.
I’ve composed this eulogy on the occasion of my grandmother’s death. Because I can’t be at the funeral, my father has agreed to read it for me. Thank you, Dad.
My grandma died on Monday. It didn’t come as a surprise; Grandma has been deteriorating for the past decade and much more dramatically in the ten days prior to her death. What’s surprising is how long she lasted. Grandma has, since the moment of her birth, refused to bow to prognoses.
My grandma was born premature the day before her mother’s 22nd birthday on a farm in the plains of Alberta. Her mother, and likely her twin, died in childbirth It was predicted that she wouldn’t live through the night. When she did, it was suggested she wouldn’t make it through the week. And, defying odds, despite a birth weight that would land a contemporary baby in the NICU for months, my Grandma lived. She was fed with an eye dropper and slept in a shoe box on the open oven door…
Australia’s Disaster
If you follow the news, you’ll know that there’s a natural disaster playing out in Victoria, Australia. Massive fires are burning, wiping out entire towns and killing scores of people. I have a hard time reading the coverage; so many people are being burnt alive. I read one account of a family driving away from a fire but the fire was moving so fast that they couldn’t outrun it. They were burnt to death in their car as they tried to escape.
It’s horrific…
Quick! Call a psychiatrist!
EcoKid loves pretending to be myriad animals. One of the most common phrases I hear is, “Mummy, can I be a
She seems to favour animals she’s encountered in her books or through watching her videos. After an episode of the Wonder Pets she wants to be a turtle, a guinea pig, or a duck. Penguins, moose, and hippos tickle her fancy after seeing the Backyardigans: all sweet, likeable animals and characters from charming kiddie programs…
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