Jam-making class

The Davis Food Co-op, a local food cooperative that I do most of my food shopping at, holds cooking classes which always look fun. I finally signed up for the jam-making class, lined up some last-minute babysitting, and went off for a fun experience! I arrived at the teaching kitchen, which was a residential house [...]

Baby related thoughts: One year later

This is the eigth of a series of posts on pregnancy, labor, birth, and being a new parent. See intro and full list. Okay, technically it’s been over a year since Steven was born and only nine months since my last post in the Baby Related Thoughts series, but it sort of averages out to [...]

Bad dream

I woke up this morning stressed out and angry from a bad dream. I dreamed that someone had taken documents that I’d designed in Illustrator and “updated” them by printing out new information on slips of paper in Times New Roman and gluing them over the old information, then photocopying them. Shudder. Which reminds me [...]

Reading: Miscellania

Photo taken 6/29/09 The Stay-At-Home Survival Guide by Melissa Stanton – I’m not sure when your average stay-at-home moms would have time to read this book, but I found that it was really helpful to read it because the author eloquently expressed the angst and issues surrounding defining yourself as a stay-at-home mom: how other [...]