Queen of Rambles

Just a reminder that I’ve moved. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to update your feed reader to

If you still have this feed in your reader, please go to http://blog2.queenoframbles.com and change your feed. I am still blogging almost every day! The new blog actually works. I still don’t know why this blog would quit working a few days a month.

Please update your links! I am sick and tired of this blog being down more than it is up. My other blogs don’t have this problem, so I am going to try to just create a new one and hope for the best. Please update your links/RSS feeds to go to http://blog2.queenoframbles.com/ It is looking [...]

I hope and pray (except I don’t actually pray) that I had the swine flu this spring. There was a big sign up on the preschool door that they have their first case of swine flu. They are asking everyone who feels poorly to stay home. I bet it’s too late. It’s going to rip [...]

We got up early this morning and braved rush hour traffic for a special moms club event. We went on a tour of Trader Joe’s! This sounded really exciting and fun, but the reality is there isn’t much excitement to be had for a four year old in a grocery store. Maybe if they had [...]

I think Erik may be adjusting to the idea of the baby. He hasn’t had another fit about it and when we’ve discussed it, he’s been calm. Last night he came up and told me he has a baby girl in his belly. I think that must be a good sign. Later he told me [...]

I was sitting here eating my cheese when I noticed my finger was sort of hurting. I looked down, and all the skin from the knuckle was sliced off. How did I do that and not even notice? Of course, as soon as I saw it the pain increased ten fold. I guess I must [...]

The other day I picked up an odd picture book from the library, When the Silliest Cat was Small by Gilles Blachet. It may very well be the strangest book I’ve read, excepting the naked Swedish book. It looked intriguing. The cover features a mother elephant and a regular baby elephant, plus two baby elephants [...]

No, we aren’t having a boy. Well. We might be. It is too early to tell. Just oh boy. We had quite a day today. I had my dating ultrasound and everything is looking good. We saw a heart beat and lots of little tiny arm waving. The baby is pretty much a blob, but [...]

Mike is in SFO for the rest of the week. Erik and I are all alone. The house is the biggest, nastiest, grossest pit of yuck that I’ve lived in since I was in college. The chair smells like urine. I meant to clean up today, but I sort of zoned out during preschool instead. [...]