Kitchen and Family Room renovation – Day 1

Call us crazy, but we are embarking a new adventure. Today is DAY 1 of our kitchen and family room renovation. I cannot begin to tell you how difficult it was to pack up the family room and kitchen not to mention set up a make-shift kitchen – one with a refrigerator, microwave and toaster/convection …

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Amidst the sickness rampant in our home…

someone started walking! With Christopher’s probable-but-less-likely case of pneumonia and less-likely-but-more-probable ear infection and chest cold and Dad’s and Daddy’s bronchitis, we have neither had time nor the energy to document Matteo’s first steps. We captured a couple of steps on video, but by the time Mike and I started feeling well, Matteo was walking …

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With a family-sized jar of Skippy Peanut Butter I could rule the World

Well, actually I could not rule the World, but I could at least get our sick-for-two-weeks-not-eating-ANYthing-during-this-time 3-year old to eat three teaspoons of peanut butter in one day. Of course, the antibiotics have helped…somewhat. So here is the latest scoop. If you recall, on Monday, we took Christopher, who spiked a 105-degree fever to the …

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Update

Christopher, Matteo and I are in the parking lot of Walgreen’s waiting for Mike to emerge with the antibiotic to treat what the doctor believes may be pneumonia. Ugh… While we were in the doctor’s office, Matteo spiked a 102.2 fever. Checked him, too.