Apr 26

Supermomdom

It's 11:15pm.  Cupcakes, made from scratch, are in the new cupcake holder (after much fiddling with the cupcake holder to figure out how it works) ready to share at school tomorrow.   I have a sugar high and have come to the conclusion that the last week in April is going to be crazy for the [...]

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Apr 26

Busy Week Juggling

The above video is representative of my life right now except that my hair is short, I am not nearly as flexible and most of those balls are falling to the ground. This week has been incredibly busy and I have not spent an ounce of time online.  It’s funny how much I miss it [...]

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Apr 22

A Teaser with a Palanquin

I have so much to tell after a wonderful three-day weekend but time (or lack thereof) is going to keep me mute for a little while.  With all of the activities in the upcoming week culminating in the girl’s birthday party, we have a lot to do but I hope to share soon. For now, I [...]

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Apr 19

Morning Craziness

Every once in awhile, I will be in the middle of the craziness of the day and am compelled to capture the scene with a quick photo on my iPhone.  This morning was once such morning.  The girls were moody and not happy (was it a full moon or something?, they have been terrors the [...]

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Apr 18

First Words in the Dishwasher

Sunday night, Eloise was in tornado mode going from room to room issuing utter destruction.  Andy was in the kitchen doing dishes and unknowingly put down a roadblock in the tornado’s path in the form of the door to the dishwasher in horizontal position. Like any good tornado, she didn’t pause for a second before [...]

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Apr 16

Weekend Learnings

We were planning to go camping this weekend after Belén’s soccer practice but a wind advisory kept us in Boise.  Since the campground we intended to stay in is surrounded by sand dunes and WIND + SAND does not equal fun times we stayed home. It wasn’t a total bust though.  Being home allowed us [...]

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Apr 13

Mini-Milestones, April 13, 2012

I haven’t had a lot of time to write lately.  I am feeling like our girls are growing and evolving every day and I have not been capturing some of these brief changes before forgetting about them as they simply become a part of them.  To correct this, I am going to do little posts [...]

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Apr 11

Wouldn’t it Be Nice to Have a Modern Day Doc Baker

Take this one step further, wouldn’t it be nice if your various doctors talked to one another about YOU? This happens in extreme cases and probably in less extreme cases for the rich and famous, but why couldn’t it be the case for everyone? Maybe each of us would have our own personal medical team that we have access to either via the Internet and virtual examinations with multiple doctors engaged or better yet, wouldn’t it be nice if each person had a Medical Day once a year where all of your doctors are together in one place and you go from doctor to doctor and get all of your routine check-ups done at once? At the beginning of the day, a nurse or otherwise medically educated professional would brief the team of doctors on all of the patients they will be seeing that day siting changes to the patient in the previous year. Then each patient would go from doctor to doctor, getting their moles checked, vaccinations injected, blood drawn, paps smeared, breasts or prostates examined as well as 30 minutes talking with a counselor.

Medical centers could be built housing 1-2 specialists of each type rather than a place full of specialists. Patients could then schedule all of their non-illness-related doctor appointments in one day, removing the constant need to leave work for this appointment or that. Wouldn’t that be nice?
It just feels like we’ve lost that central person or persons looking out for our overall health and instead it is now crucial that we are our own and OUR KID’S OWN advocates. Wouldn’t it be nice to get that back?

I want a much smarter version of Doctor Baker from Little House on the Prairie. It seems like our $7,026 spent per capita (in 2007) should be able to cover this?

Why does this system, one so crucial for the literal health of our nation have to be so broken? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could figure out a way to fix it?

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Apr 08

Easter Album 2012

It was an incredibly lovely day for Easter this year.  Both Andy and I were able to hit the trails for a run before the day’s festivities began which was a good thing considering the thousands of delicious calories consumed at brunch at my parents house. When I returned from my run, low and behold, [...]

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Apr 06

Progress in the Form of Dental Floss

Our two-year-old is more interested in flossing than we are. She showed her granddad how to turn on an iPad. On the drive home today, she told me about a pig named Olivia who is apparently popular enough to get her own page in the Birthday Party Planning magazine Belén is currently obsessed with. In three years (more if you count pregnancy), we created this little person who is suddenly teaching us stuff and being a optimistic, positive contributor to the global community. And if I am already saying this when she’s two, imagine where we will be when she is 20, assuming she doesn’t get some loser boyfriend who she falls madly in love with and loses herself and ARGH I am just going to stop myself there. Let’s just stay focused on the happy path.

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