Juxtapose

This Christmas has not felt very seasonal this year. Perhaps it's the newborn exhaustion stage, the toddler exerting her independence about everything, the lack of sleep, or the lack of snow or true cold winter weather so typical of our usual experience… more »

Wear pants sans elastic band. Get up from a sitting position to standing without making this sound: "Urghhgmmph." Sleep on my stomach. Buy this shirt in a non-XL size. Help to lift my patients at work again. Go for a jog. Not talk abou… more »

See title. Any and all effects of my previous two years of awesome fitness have been wiped out by my weeks of rolling around on the couch, trying not to puke and attempting to sleep away my entire first trimester. Not really a possibility with a near-tw… more »

So here's another thing. It's a blogging frenzy, I know. So many exciting things going on in life right now. Today, I finally put in my notice at my job on the CV surgical unit in NH. I've still got my five-minutes-from-home, pays-way-better job… more »

Yes. Mark bought me Radiohead for Valentine's Day... well.. their newest album anyways. He always knows what makes me happy. I have simple tastes. I find it hard to branch out to too many different new authors because I have to read EVERYTHING writte… more »

You know you've been married a while when... ...You have Valentine's Day out two days early because you have to work the day after V-Day and don't want to be out too late. ...You have Early Valentine's Day (EVD) dinner at Chili's, using a giftcar… more »

How long can we be blanketed by all this snow and ice? I'm sure I post this nearly every year around this time. February is my least favorite month, dreary and only barely halfway through our cold season. This year - the snow, oh, the snow!… more »

Today, I'm thankful that my husband still loves me. I read my Bible and these verses from Proverbs pop out at me like Bam! In Your Face! RED ALERT: THIS IS YOU, CASS! I've got a lot of those good Christian skills down pretty effectively. I pray often, l… more »