Posted in Chicago, Kieran, La Leche League, Liam, nursing, parenting, pictures, travel on July 26, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Here are the pictures I promised the other day…
Kevin and Liam spent a morning at the Chicago Children’s Museum. It seems Liam’s new best friend, Big Bird, came along for the ride. Actually, Big Bird was very helpful this trip - he pecked elevator buttons right and left, and also “ate” his way down Ontario [...]
Posted in Chicago, La Leche League, parenting, travel on July 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
When I left for Chicago, I was dealing with a bit of a funk. Things are looking up now. In the last two days I’ve heard talks ranging from a fairly hard-core breastfeeding pharmacology session by Thomas Hale (I loved this talk being a medicinal chemist and all) to a discussion of natural childbirth by [...]
Posted in Chicago, Kieran, Liam, pictures, travel on July 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
We arrived in Chicago safe and sound, although I think Liam set a new record as to how many “why????” questions one child could ask in the time it takes to drive from our house to the airport. He was terrific during all the check-in and security rigamarole, even though he was obviously tired and [...]
Posted in Chicago, travel, whininess on July 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We’re flying out tomorrow morning to Chicago. I was afraid we wouldn’t be able to go after getting sick last week, but I’m much better. After all, how ironic would it be to miss this because I was home sick in bed with mastitis?
After a mad last-minute scramble involving a) several loads of laundry that [...]
Posted in Chicago, green stuff, nursing on May 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
So I saw an ad from a natural gas consortium showing scenes of wholesome daily American life (powered by natural gas, natch). The take-home lesson from the ad was that we need to conserve natural gas. Amongst the scenes in this ad was one of a mom heating up a bottle for her baby. So [...]
