More Blog Awards!

 Personal, Weblogs  3 Responses »
Jan 312007
 

My other blog, LesbianFamily.org, is a finalist for the 2007 Bloggies, in the “Best GLBT Blog” category!

Those of you who don’t read over there regularly may not realize that it isn’t just “my” blog anymore — there is a wonderful team of bloggers from a variety of different lesbian family perspectives.

The Bloggies operate on a more old-fashioned “one email address, one vote” method than the Weblog Awards, so I will not be posting manic daily “please go vote” messages. But it would be great if you would go vote. Once.

Polls close at 10 pm on Friday, February 2. The “Best GLBT” category is about 2/3 of the way down the very long page. And you have to click on a link in an email message that the bloggies will send you, in order for your vote to count. (They aren’t going to spam you, it’s so they know the email address is real.)

Thank you!

 Posted by Liza at 4:44 pm

Noah Loves Grandma

 Personal  3 Responses »
Jan 292007
 

And why wouldn’t he?

Grandma keeps making, pointing out, or purchasing delicious new foods, including:

  • lentils — you can eat them 1 at a time!
  • carrots cooked with pot roast, and best of all
  • brown sugar vanilla ice cream

Plus, she plays fun games like peek-a-boo and tickling and blowing raspberries, over and over! And she gave Noah a tunnel for an early birthday present. (Noah says: I’m a little scared of it. I like it tied into about a 4 inch depth, not the full 6 feet. Yet.) AND a car seat, so we have 2 identical Boulevards (or will when the second one arrives), which will keep Noah safe and secure until he is at least in kindergarten. (By weight, almost certainly through 1st grade, maybe even longer. But I’m willing to negotiate to a booster seat somewhere around then.)
Best of all, Grandma and Mommy moved Noah’s tub out of the big tub so Grandma could have a shower. Noah got to play in his tub fully dressed, in his room!

dry tub 1

dry tub 2

dry tub 3

dry tub 4

dry tub 5

(Noah was fine. Not even especially upset, just a little startled. Good catch, Grandma!)

 Posted by Liza at 10:02 pm

More Busybusybusy

 Personal  2 Responses »
Jan 282007
 

Hello, Blogosphere!

Why yes, er, I have been ignoring you. In fact, this is the first time I’ve touched the computer since about 12:40 pm on Friday.

Grandma successfully arrived, and managed to entertain herself all Friday morning while I was at work. I took the afternoon off, so we got lunch, and tried to wrestle the new sofabed upstairs before picking Noah up early from day care.

Lucky for us, the neighbors were having some yard work done. We would never have gotten that thing up the stairs. Ne-ver.

Saturday, we were up at dawn to take Jill to the airport for this big work gig she has down in South Florida next weekend. She’ll be gone a total of 11 days. Then Grandma and I took Noah to the grocery store, Carter Center, and the children’s bookstore.

Today we went to church and to Ikea. We’re also cleaning up mom’s computer (mmm, spyware) and trying to get web cams up and running so Noah and Grandma can keep in touch more easily. I think I might be keeping myself crazy busy to not miss Jill.

Grandma will be here until Tuesday afternoon. Jill will be gone for another week after that. So it may be a quiet week in Lake Woebegone.

 Posted by Liza at 10:26 pm

Grrr. Comment Spam

 Personal  6 Responses »
Jan 262007
 

I am so sick of comment spam.

Really. None of us is looking for a video on that, or that either. (Ewww! I don’t even want to read a URL about that.) And if you’re looking for those videos, I suspect you can find them yourself; you don’t need to look here.
Both v**g*a and hoo**a seem like bad ideas for me, and, I suspect, most of you. I don’t think those are real designer handbags, I’m not going to buy my insurance from a link in someone’s blog comments, and what is UP with all this weird spam in Italian? With Israeli URLs???
I erase about 200 comment spams per day here, and the other blog gets about the same. Fortunately, the rest of the team has taken on erasing spam too.

Anyone have a blog anti-spam solution they love?

(Note, a live hyperlink will cause your comment to get stuck in the moderation queue, probably even if you’ve commented before. Otherwise, you too would have to see about 25% of my comment spam.)

 Posted by Liza at 7:05 am

Busy Day

 Personal  3 Responses »
Jan 252007
 

Lots of work and getting ready for Jill to head out and Mom to arrive for a few days…but I did come up with 2 goals, as promised in the time management course last week.

The two I am sharing publicly are:

  1. Weigh 140 by my birthday, 11/25/2007. That’s 20 lbs, and 10 below my pre-pregnancy weight.
  2. Have a book contract, for a fun book, at least partially inspired by this blog, by 8/1/2007.

Gulp.

It’s a lot scary to write that here than it was to write it in pen in the planner binder.

And they both mean that I might not be doing quite as much writing here. We’ll see. I may have to revise the second one in particular.

Fruit & Veg Count, 1/25: About a cup, maybe 1/3 more, of the leftover sweet potato. Mmmmmmmm. No apple, and not yesterday either.

 Posted by Liza at 11:18 pm

Food for Thought – Thoughts of Food

 Personal  2 Responses »
Jan 242007
 

I have been doing absolutely craptastically at reporting my fruit & veggie eating, and my treat eating.

Partly, it is because I haven’t been doing well on the fruit & veggie eating. But I haven’t been eating that much junk either. Or exercising.

Apparently the lack of eating junk has made a difference, because I am down to 10 lbs above pre-pregnancy weight!

So I’m going to resume recording what I eat, so I’m motivated to eat good things as well as avoid eating treats.

AND, assuming I get some kind of raise when all that stuff trickles down over the next 6 weeks, I am going to spend some of mine on exercise in some form or another. (A class? A gym that opens really really early in the morning?)

Fruit & Veg Count, 1/23: I had the most amazing sweet potatos ever yesterday. I read somewhere that you can cook them in the crock pot on low all day, and I tried it. Yes, it left carmelized goo all over the bottom of the pot. But WORTH IT. I will never plan to bake a sweet potato again. The skins peeled off, the potato was so soft and sweet. Mmmmm. Mmm! If you have a crock pot, you must try this.

None today. Maybe I will have an apple on my way to the grocery store, where I’m going now.

 Posted by Liza at 8:03 pm

Encouraging Email Clipping

 Personal  7 Responses »
Jan 232007
 

The hospital where we had Noah sends a weekly email on development and other items of interest. Here’s part of the “Week 50″ newsletter:

The importance of talking

Talk, talk, talk, and more talk. The effect of talking to your baby-chatting, describing, explaining, singing, asking, echoing, rhyming-is enormous and lifelong. A classic study of 42 varied families showed that the most important aspect of children’s language experience is its quantity. The amount of day-to-day talking that parents did with their babies and toddlers was closely tied with the children’s vocabularies and IQ test scores at age 3 and beyond. The researchers sum up the results of their data: “As the children learned to talk, the amount they talked increased steadily until it reached the amount of their parents’ talk, and then it leveled off. By age 3, the children were talking as much as-but only as much as-their parents talked. Furthermore, the children’s talk was as varied-but only as varied-as their parents’ talk.”

Heh.

So that’s why Noah seems like such a chatterbox!

 Posted by Liza at 10:50 pm
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