Did I mention how really, really nice Ben Folds was when I met him last Friday and asked him to sign something for Jane? i WAS A FAN BEFORE BUT AM NOW A DEVOTEE. wHAT A GREAT FELLA.
(whoops. caplock)
Elliot, who is 8, came home last night after TWO WHOLE WEEKS away with the grandparents and his father. That is by far the longest I have ever been away from my baby. Jane and Henry have been gone 3-4 weeks at a time to France and to camp, but Elliot hasn't seemed old enough to do those things because he is my baby boy.
He came back taller and brown as a berry, with his fuzzy, dirty blonde hair somewhat blonder from the beach. His blue eyes are much more startling when he's tan.
He fell asleep with his head in my lap last night as we read about aborigines. I sat like that for a long time after he was sound asleep because I just wanted to feel the weight of his head on my leg and look at his limbs.
Tuesday
Quentin with gnome
Quentin with gnome
Originally uploaded by kgranju.
Q with the camp mascot, chanelling the gnome hairdo
Monday
happiness is....
...hearing from your playa baby bro that he is buying a beach house at Nag's Head.
Yeehaw.
Family vacations just got easier and more fun.
Yeehaw.
Family vacations just got easier and more fun.
NOT breastfeeding and guilt
I am working on a story for a magazine about breastfeeding and guilt, or more specifically, how guilt is a motivator often used in successful public health campaigns in order to encourage healthier lifestyle choices/habits.
What are your thoughts on this hot button issue.
Comment below.
What are your thoughts on this hot button issue.
Comment below.
back from bonnaroo
And what a good time I had!
Read all about it and see all the photos RIGHT HERE.
Next year, if I go, I want to have a family/friend RV compound. I missed Jon and the children and would like them to come, too.
Read all about it and see all the photos RIGHT HERE.
Next year, if I go, I want to have a family/friend RV compound. I missed Jon and the children and would like them to come, too.
Wednesday
dixie chicks on howard stern
I love the Chicks.
Howard Stern is gross.
I was surprised to see that the Dixie Chicks made an appearance on his show in which they readily answered ALL THOSE TYPICAL, INCREDIBLY PERSONAL STERNESQUE QUESTIONS.
Too...much...information...
The only good part was when Stern asked Natalie what sort of undies she wears and she said she won't wear underwear until the war comes to an end.
Howard Stern is gross.
I was surprised to see that the Dixie Chicks made an appearance on his show in which they readily answered ALL THOSE TYPICAL, INCREDIBLY PERSONAL STERNESQUE QUESTIONS.
Too...much...information...
The only good part was when Stern asked Natalie what sort of undies she wears and she said she won't wear underwear until the war comes to an end.
Tuesday
beachy keen
Usually our family goes to Edisto Island for our annual August beach excursion. One year we went to Pawley's. But this year we waited too late to reserve our house at either place, so we are going to try Tybee Island, near Savannah. We just booked our place, only because we waited so late, for the first time we are doing a condo on the beach instead of a house. Not our first choice, but I'm sure it will be fine.
Anybody ever done a beach week at Tybee? What did you think?
Anybody ever done a beach week at Tybee? What did you think?
bonnaroo blog 2006
Yes, it's that time of year again.
I won't leave for the festival until Thursday morning, but I've started my blogging RIGHT HERE
I won't leave for the festival until Thursday morning, but I've started my blogging RIGHT HERE
not breastfeeding is bad for babies' health
"I think of human milk not just as food, but as a sophisticated and intricate infant support system that has evolved over millions of years to provide the infant with nutrition, protection and components of information." -- Dr. E. Stephen Buescher, a professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, who heads the inflammation section in the school's Center for Pediatric Research.
This quote is from today's NYT STORY (registration required - but it's free and you will want to read this article) on the new public health campaign to make women understand that breastfeeding isn't just GOOD for babies, but that NOT breastfeeding is actually BAD for babies.
Get the distinction? It's a major shift in how we think about this most critical of infant-maternal health issues.
This public health campaign has been a long time coming. I wrote a MAGAZINE STORY about the campaign and how the infant formula industry/lobby has tried to quash it.
It's time we think of infant formula for what it is: a medical product that should be used when babies can't eat "real" food.
This quote is from today's NYT STORY (registration required - but it's free and you will want to read this article) on the new public health campaign to make women understand that breastfeeding isn't just GOOD for babies, but that NOT breastfeeding is actually BAD for babies.
Get the distinction? It's a major shift in how we think about this most critical of infant-maternal health issues.
This public health campaign has been a long time coming. I wrote a MAGAZINE STORY about the campaign and how the infant formula industry/lobby has tried to quash it.
It's time we think of infant formula for what it is: a medical product that should be used when babies can't eat "real" food.
Monday
mommy wars
THIS BOOK is getting a lot of press, and I plan to read it, but may I point out that the same topic was recently covered beautifully in my friend MIRIAM'S BOOK?
breastfeeding in west virginia
A new article on efforts to RAISE W.V.'s BREASTFEEDING RATE, which is the second lowest in the country, after Mississippi.
news flash: disorganized adults too disorganized to know they are disorganized
I am textbook ADHD. And it turns out the reason I am still so scatterbrained is that I NEED HELP TO GET HELP
Heh.
Heh.
exes
Recently
Jon and I unexpectedly ran into his ex-wife at an event downtown. I assumed I might meet her one of these days, but also thought it was possible that I might not ever meet her.
After all, they were only married less than two years and have no children. They haven't retained any sort of connection or friendship, so I just figured it was as likely as not that I might never meet her.
But I did.
I had seen a few photos of his ex but was surprised when I met her to learn that she is quite tall. I am very short. She has long, curly hair. I have straight, short hair. In other words, we are exact opposites of one another, physically.
All marital breakups are sad, and one that comes less than 24 months after two people stand before God and family to declare a lifelong commitment to each other is a special kind of sad. I know Jon wishes very, very much that his marriage had made it.
But as I met his ex-wife, all I could think about was how their break-up is my good luck, since there are few men around as good and fine - in every sense of the word - as J.H. I cannot imagine someone not feeling extraordinarily lucky to be in a relationship with someone as kind, funny, FUN and clever as he is. He's a keeper.
:-)
Jon and I unexpectedly ran into his ex-wife at an event downtown. I assumed I might meet her one of these days, but also thought it was possible that I might not ever meet her.
After all, they were only married less than two years and have no children. They haven't retained any sort of connection or friendship, so I just figured it was as likely as not that I might never meet her.
But I did.
I had seen a few photos of his ex but was surprised when I met her to learn that she is quite tall. I am very short. She has long, curly hair. I have straight, short hair. In other words, we are exact opposites of one another, physically.
All marital breakups are sad, and one that comes less than 24 months after two people stand before God and family to declare a lifelong commitment to each other is a special kind of sad. I know Jon wishes very, very much that his marriage had made it.
But as I met his ex-wife, all I could think about was how their break-up is my good luck, since there are few men around as good and fine - in every sense of the word - as J.H. I cannot imagine someone not feeling extraordinarily lucky to be in a relationship with someone as kind, funny, FUN and clever as he is. He's a keeper.
:-)
freechairs
DSC01048
Originally uploaded by kgranju.
This is a (very strange - don't ask) photo of the pair of very nice, huge wing chairs I got FOR FREE this weekend because somebody left them sitting out to be picked up by the garbage collector.
They are currently covered with threadbare, yellowy-olive velvet, which actually gives them a sort of shabby-chic vibe, but I will get them recovered soon.
I have them in off the porch now (which is where they were in this photo) and settled comfortably in the living room, where they have already been much sat upon.
Sunday
jane, eleanor and mac
DSC01052
Originally uploaded by kgranju.
Playing in Jane's room today. Isn't it amazing that Eleanor, on the right, is seven years old, while Jane, on the left, is almost 11? Because Eleanr is as big or bigger than Jane.
I also think it's hilarious that Jane is so dark and her first cousin, Mac, the smallest person in the photos, is so blond and blue-eyed that I tease him that he is invisible ;-)
They don't look much alike.
knitting in knoxville
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