Holy smokes!

First visitors
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I barely remember when Ira looked like this. Do you? What a teeny, tiny little bundle of cheeks and furrowed brows.

Making food

I made the most delicious dinner last night. The recipe is from Real Simple, a magazine that normally makes me feel like a loser (I can never be as organized and anal-retentive as their publication wants me to be). After seeing their recipe for sausage with escarole and white beans, I thought: "I can do this...with Tofurky!" And voila, it was done. One minor change: I sliced the Tofurky Italian sausage before I browned it. I also used spinach instead of escarole, but who's looking?


Yum! It was so tasty. You should try it!

One bad night

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Man. I made it. Last night was awful. Between Ira and Heylove, I couldn't sleep a wink. Then I started to get the most awful tension headache ever. The pain started behind my right eye and went down the side of my neck. I was totally miserable.

Ira's problem is that he doesn't want to sleep in his crib. If he sleeps with us, he eats all night long and I get very little rest. I know. Last night I tried in vain for 90 minutes to get him back to sleep in his crib. He ended up back in bed with me, but not without tons of tears (both of us) and one heavy sense of defeat (mine).

Heylove's deal is that she had more seizures last night. So at 3 am, Ira is finally asleep beside me and poor Heylove starts freaking out and seizing. She went on like this, off and on for at least an hour before we had to just put her in her crate and hope for sleep...for all of us. We can't worry too much about her though. While it's scary and she's done it before, she woke up this morning with a great appetite and good energy level. Leon was able to film some of her behavior last night so now we can finally share it with her vet.

Oh. I am so tired. I need a vacation from my life.

Comic by Amaya

Comic by Amaya
Originally uploaded by riblet.

My 8 year old niece is funny. This comic she composed and narrated (with Leon's help) was cracking us up.