Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax

Read it. Be prepared for some differences of opinion (evolution, homosexuality). But read it. It is very revealing. I said, “Oh yeah, that’s why I do that.” “Wow, so that’s why he acts like that.” “They are doing that!?! Lord, what can I do???” “Oh, that [...]

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Another Birthday

Thursday was F5’s fourth birthday! He is such a sweetie. We had his party on Saturday afternoon. He requested a brown cake with pink frosting and blueberries inside. Can you guess what his favorite colors are? So I made a round two-layer dark chocolate fudge cake with strawberry frosting and [...]

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Frustrated…Very, Very Frustrated

So, we visited the new allergist Saturday morning. The one whose receptionist told me does IgG testing. The normal doc wasn’t there, and the doc who was taking over for him told me, “IgG is useless.” I was so angry. Then he wanted me to have a blood test done for [...]

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Are you sick of health news yet?

Too bad. Here’s some more.
Mom saw her neurologist yesterday. He said that her “episode” in October was probably from a small amount of bleeding in her brain from small blood vessels, usually brought on by stress or fever. She has to have a doppler done on her brain on Friday to discover [...]

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She Finally Made It…and Other Good News

F7’s appointment yesterday went well. She has finally exceeded her birth weight and was 9 lbs, 5oz. Yay! She also grew an inch and a half over the week, which just leads me to assume that different nurses measure differently. That seems an awful lot to grow in a week’s time, [...]

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Health Update

F7 had her weigh-in this afternoon. She weighs 8lbs 13oz, so she gained 8 oz this past week. That is great, but she’s still not up to birth weight, so we have to weigh her again next week. Sigh. Her cold is getting better and everything else looks good.
F6’s sinus infection [...]

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Woof Woof

Took a quiz today. I’m a lab…same results as usual, but I guess I’d rather say, “Oh, I’m a labrador” at cocktail parties (lol, can any of you imagine me at a cocktail party???) than, “Oh, I’m a Volvo” or “Oh, I’m the color brown.” All results I’ve gotten in the past about [...]

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Gaining

Last Monday, F7 had a quick four day old checkup. She weighed 8lbs 5 oz. Which, in my opinion, was quite a drop from her 9 lb, 1 oz birth weight, and even when she left the hospital at 8 lbs 7 oz. I was a bit concerned. Yesterday we had [...]

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