Just a quick update… Peanut’s doctors were pleased with her response to the early treatments for bacterial overgrowth in her intestine and decided to send her home late yesterday. (I’ll explain more about it once we have a little better understanding.) I’m not sure who was the happiest she was back home. Peanut will now […]

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The last few days have been incredibly long. Early Saturday morning Peanut fully embraced the same vomiting/diarrhea regimen that landed her in the hospital a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, this time it hit her much harder and by the time she was seen at the UIHC on Saturday afternoon she was wiped out and dehydrated. […]

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The DW and I have always wanted a roll-top desk. For the style we wanted, anything new was out of the question. Since it wasn’t much of a priority we asked the DW’s parents to keep an eye out when they were at household and antique auctions for something that might go under the radar. […]

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I grabbed the camera last night thinking I’d get a couple quick picks of the latest project we’ve been working on for today’s post. Instead, when I turned it on I noticed the battery was almost dead and the memory card was half full – a little shocking since I had just cleared the memory […]

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I totally dropped the ball on this one, but last week – September 15, to be exact – was Neonatal Nurses Day. The day was established in 2000 by the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN). On this day, members of the neonatal community honor nurse colleagues and show their pride in being a neonatal […]

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We go through a lot of taco seasoning around here. Of course, we use it for traditional tacos. But we also use it in other meals, like Texas Stew, for a little more punch than the original recipe calls for. Instead of buying envelop after envelop of taco seasoning, we found the following recipe to […]

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There was no post on Monday. Instead, the DW and I felt like we had stepped back an entire year to where we were at last September with Peanut in the hospital at the UIHC. Here’s how we got there… About a week ago, Peanut came down with what we first thought was the stomach […]

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One of the first questions the DW and I fielded from the kiddos when we told them we were moving to an acreage caught me off guard. It wasn’t about the house, or switching schools, or a tree house, or dogs and cats, or even how soon we were moving… all of those questions would […]

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I’ve manage to trick myself into believing that things in the garden are wrapping up. Maybe it isn’t a complete lie. At least it appears that way with the plants I’ve removed. Between the bugs and the blight, I picked the last tomatoes for the year over the weekend. Even with the early end, we […]

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After all the heat and humidity last week, a thunderstorm late Friday afternoon was very welcome. It had being raining hard for the last hour by the time I got home from work. I had just walked in the kitchen and was being mobbed by the girls – even Peanut scrambles as quickly as she […]

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