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not necessarily in that order.

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When bad things happen to good kitchens.

My kitchen regularly looks like it’s been carpet bombed.

You’d think, that after six months without my beloved kitchen that I we would manage to clean up after myself ourselves. But, The Man and I  … we’re not so good about that. We weren’t before in kitchen v1, we weren’t in (rental) kitchen v1.5 [...]

Excuse me, ma’am – would you like some vodka with those olives?

Why, yes I would.

7:15 pm in the Swick household: The Boy overturns his tray, upon which he’s eating couscous and a “roller” (roll) while watching Clifford the Big Red Dog – he dumps the tray, and thus couscous and “roller” (that he’s torn into about 4,345,891 pieces) are now strewn all over the [...]

The Urge to Catch Vomit (by whatever means necessary)

We’ve been blessed with a healthy kid. In his almost three years he’s rarely been sick. He had RSV when about five months old. Pneumonia when he was about 18-20 months. And there was the re-circumcision (want my opinion on circumcision? email me. )

Until Friday, we hadn’t been to the ped since … last fall [...]

Mom Moment of the Day

How picky is your kid when you’re thrilled at the idea he might eat Spaghetti ‘Os?

Spaghetti O’s are vile, IMHO. I didn’t like them as a kid – I don’t like them now.

But, Lightening McQueen was on them and I figured I’d give it a go – maybe The Boy’s favorite character would make him [...]

Crafting Travesty-I don’t know how to paper mache

The trouble with being the Prime Minister’s sister is, it does put your life into rather harsh perspective. What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did I do? I made a papier maché lobster head. – Emma Thompson as Karen in Love Actually

So, it occurs to [...]