Posts by mamallama

so, um, yeah, you homeschool a 4yo and a 7yo and you have a 3mo baby and your dh is deployed?   No doubt it is a low time for you, Mama!  I wonder if you could attribute any of it to postpartum hormones/baby blues? ...

Monique and the Mango Rains:  Two Years with  Midwife in Mali   Birth As An American Rite of Passage   and one I haven't yet read, but has been on my Amazon wish list for a while:   Birth in Four...

I love rats...but unfortunately my kids and I are all allergic to them.  We won't have rats again.   What I have learned about rats:  that respiratory thing is called mycoplasmosis.  It's pervasive.  Some...

I use the mesh bags from apples and onions as kitchen scrubbies.  They work great--and when one gets super nasty from a big job (like the turkey roaster,)  I just toss it without regret.   We have  a huge stack...

I am so sorry, Mama.  I never wanted to join the dead baby club...but here we are.   My dead baby was second trimester, and I knew he was gone before his birth, so not quite like yours.  It was a rough ride.  I...

wow--I'm lovin the wisdom coming from SoulCakes. I hear you saying you can't get rid of the dog...but I wonder what your mom, before the Alzheimer's, would have wanted. If you're set on keeping the dog, I would consult a...

I think that sounds about right. One of my dogs is a high energy lab/shep. At age two I was walking him for an hour every day, playing frisbee for 10-15 min two, three times a day, sending him out on his own (fenced yard,) several...

My understanding is that the slow kill is only safer with a low load. As I understand it, the American Heartworm Society recommends the immiticide treatment for dogs with a moderate and high load. I adopted a hw+ dog. I have a good,...

Saving him from his last moments of suffering is the last kindness you can offer. Do it. I had a beloved elderly greyhound--my companion for 12 of the hardest years of my life. I waited too long. His last day was horrible. It's...

...I just got some great advice...and I don't need this out there in the world anymore.