@Jowanza Hoooooooo boy, that's tough in so many ways.
I love many things about living here, but the relative lack of diversity is not one of them.
BREAKING NEWS, EVERYBODY!!! Populations with more white people experience less racism.
So much side eye to this nonsensical article: Salt Lake tech workers experience least racism, survey says https://t.co/mYHWi5QRXm
@astropixie She was my external committee member.
@nj_tierney Yep, those versions!
@qservando We watched an older release (what's on the laserdiscs) so it was a couple minutes early but... 💁🏻
@nj_tierney We watched an older released version so it was a couple minutes early, but... 💁🏻
(We watched a version where the explosion didn't look like this.) https://t.co/RPB1V9xHur
It almost didn't happen because our LASERDISC PLAYER wasn't connected right.

(Yes, we only own Episode IV on LASERDISC.) https://t.co/NODHc5uOa1
Well, we decided to go with this for a New Years Eve plan, plus rye. https://t.co/mR64pyTLOr
For me personally and professionally, 2016 has been full of opportunity and new adventure and unexpected gifts. I'm overwhelmingly thankful.
Last night of 2016 = last night of Hanukkah https://t.co/mI9LowrwNF
My 2017 will be the best Christmas tree on my birthday today and Christmas is over! https://t.co/kO6vIBSxx5
@dataandme https://t.co/oyCIGr6mMq
@SKEdman Well, I can't get away with stuff like that anymore, because TOO MANY FOLLOWERS.

(It is very, very funny though.)
@ellis2013nz You can use tidy data principles with the topicmodels package too, if you want: https://t.co/cv9iOYZZlU
RT @ellis2013nz: Topic modelling @dailykos #USPolitics posts from 2004 with #rstats (warning - post is mostly about data formats) https://t…
@hadleywickham @_inundata HAHAHAHAHAHA... https://t.co/1wF1H5BeB3
RT @ozzydidact: The original story, with GitHub link. https://t.co/1eOKb0SOkx
RT @ozzydidact: Bias in criminal risk scores is mathematically inevitable, researchers say https://t.co/dILcKHzTxs
@laciemesserly I am contemplating a pedicure and sandals!
@sharlagelfand I mean, I'm contemplating sandals and a pedicure at this point.
@sharlagelfand I am going to have to find a whole different season of clothes!
I just looked up the weather in Orlando where I am going for rstudio::conf in ~10 days and it is 50° WARMER THAN WHERE I LIVE. 😱😱😱
@jimhester_ Yep, that all worked now. Thank you again! https://t.co/09f8rITIDO
🙌🙌🙌 https://t.co/uNmXEaVqPq
@jimhester_ I... did not know that. Which one should I use? (And thank you, sir. 🙏🙏🙏)
Used the last of the pesto we froze this past summer in our dinner tonight. 🌱
This was all from six months ago, but I FEEL YOU, @cboettig.

I FEEL YOU. https://t.co/ydBfDxOLtC
@jimhester_  (I was not "what the hell"-ing AT you, just to be clear. Just deciding to mention you for kicks.)
I don't have anything like that in my .travis.yml at all right now: https://t.co/DGpanAY3rK
@cboettig and also, what the hell, @jimhester_
What fixed it for you, @cboettig? This? https://t.co/7QXQUfT6ZZ
My googling has led me to believe that you have experienced this as well, @cboettig: https://t.co/5M9CCJJtAD
Here is my current error: https://t.co/Ogd088prfO
TFW when you are debugging Travis #rstats https://t.co/8Js50Hr02i
RT @ljdursi: Deep learning: a technique you can turn to once you've given up on actually understanding your problem.
@jGage718 Those look GREAT.
@jGage718 You asked me this over Christmas, didn't you? Sorry I didn't respond.
@jGage718 Oh great! I do love that font. 💕
I haven't been an academic for quite a while, but these all resonate anyway. https://t.co/BHJl6pXu6M
RT @awhstin: Web scraping speeches with rvest and cleaning with tidytext in #rstats https://t.co/I87aWlSMO8 https://t.co/ovp9eOlD3I
@MichelleGlauser It's hard to wrap my mind around how big she is getting!
I am filling-out-middle-school-applications-for-my-child years old. 😳
RT @anamariecox: We just called them "neo-Nazis" and didn't worry about hurting their feelings. https://t.co/TSPWxb3Q4N
It did, however, have a modem the size of a VCR! You could connect to... bulletin boards, I think?
The first home computer I remember using didn't have a hard drive. https://t.co/6nje5Ipn9B
@dataandme If there is something I can't figure out how to do in a function, I go to the ggplot2 code on GitHub to figure it out.
@dataandme Functions to style ggplot2, functions for common (for you) dplyr piping, etc
@dataandme Have you put together, like, a personal R package of functions that you use? That can be a good step.
@dataandme I'm realizing this isn't excellent advice so much as just a baby first step, which maybe isn't what you need.
@dataandme Have you started by... reading code? Looking at open issues?
@dataandme What do you use a lot in your life/work? (Do I remember that you are a big data.table user?)
RT @jpbrammer: in 2017, I want to overcome my imposter syndrome. or maybe I'll just act like I overcame it and hope no one sees through the…
@jc4p IT ME 😭😭😭 https://t.co/FZEJawL2ll
RT @isikbreen: honor carrie fisher:

- normalize mental illness and its treatment
- take life a little less seriously
- destroy a fascist r…
@revodavid I was finally watching your talk, and it was great too! 😊
I loved this talk by @mandywhaley about practical ways to build girls'/kids' technical skills! (via @revodavid) https://t.co/hiibpEeTxJ
RT @hadleywickham: One thing that I particularly like about ggplot2 &amp; dplyr is they also teach you theory and cognition that transfer to ne…
Making pretty plots for my slides for rstudio::conf. 😍📊 😍📊 😍
@astropixie Did Faber ever tell you these stories? No funding, she worked while her kids were at school, etc?
I also have been told that when Rubin started at Carnegie, she worked ENTIRELY UNPAID because no one would find funding for her.
I studied galaxies, their masses, black holes, etc, so this definitely feels kind of close. https://t.co/OXwmQeNeBt https://t.co/Lb7KXBSNw3
RT @RisaWechsler: Vera Rubin on women in science -- from @camilareads @npr https://t.co/iAXaR1iIHA https://t.co/VX7Yqi8yQX
@howiesmith That would be AMAZING.
My husband is making homemade butterbeer and we are about to start up the first Harry Potter.
RT @AstroKatie: There's no explanation for Physics Nobel Prize's abysmal gender record (2 women ever!) that doesn't start w overlooking of…
RT @drannawatts: The lack of a Nobel for Rubin will always remain a scandal, and I hope those responsible are reflecting hard on their prej…
RT @abresler: So glad to see #rstats GOAT @hrbrmstr back at some of the world's best data driven reproducible journalism

https://t.co/89Ey…
@jc4p I am HERE FOR THIS. Maybe in the next few days?
@jc4p Well then maybe WE SHOULD DO IT. We just did it 2-player here at home tonight.
It would work really well for remote play, so now I have grand plans to play this with friends who live far away from me.
I got @KeepTalkingGame for Christmas, we played it tonight, and it is SO FUN. If you like cooperative games, I highly recommend. 👍🏻👍🏻 https://t.co/3kNpkCyIVb
@Jowanza Just ducks! They might look bigger in this picture than they actually are.
Quack quack https://t.co/LkteuuUhCF
RT @pixelatedboat: Kissinger is gonna walk out of 2016 alive like Kevin Spacey at the end of Usual Suspects
Christmas old fashioneds, while the duck roasts https://t.co/Vb1sTPBXjM
Our Christmas @jewelbots are all paired up! https://t.co/IfWjBhY929
We've gotten about a foot of powdery snow since I went to bed last night, and it's still drifting gently down. https://t.co/aasqDdcYaQ
Utah has come through for us with a white Christmas yet again. https://t.co/NhT3M6puZb
Our 8-year-old asked for Heelys for Christmas, and we got them for her. https://t.co/bwjqGiJjhI
Now we are putting together a bike. https://t.co/mXrNLaMdhR
Every Christmas Eve, we light REAL CANDLES on our REAL TREE. 🎄 

No house fires so far, 14 years and counting. https://t.co/x2vFWXU8VV
@fody Mmmm, yes, good call.
@huroye_scott We used to be a no-toy-gun house, but at some point, we got a jungle/nature Playmobil set that involves a rifle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ibddoctor Gosh, we love all of the movies from Studio Ghibli.
I'm not sure which of my children was playing with this BAMF, but she is ready to fight the power. https://t.co/KKBlVrN8KF
@kopshtik https://t.co/qHwHBwv3VA
@seankross Oh, Vermouth! I like that idea.
@kopshtik I'm learning so much about the internet, Oliver.
What boozy substance should I soak these chopped dried apricots in for scones for tomorrow morning? I have basically everything.
@kopshtik Well, OLIVER. https://t.co/iralnAGMMn
@kopshtik Look, it's right there in the screenshot! (I literally cannot believe how fast it is.)
@bearloga @hrbrmstr @kopshtik I'm so transparent! 😂
RT @feministabulous: You know you live in the patriarchy when writing about fashion disqualifies you from writing about politics but writin…
@JennyBryan @henrikbengtsson @jimhester_ @_inundata 😳
RT @paulisci: You can do lots of things with a PhD. https://t.co/p622irsY9L
@jc4p YES.
RT @tdhopper: coding the day before a holiday http://t.co/jkycxVtOPG
@jasdumas @JennyBryan Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

(My sister's is December 24. It can suck!)
@JasonPunyon I like celebrating and all, but I'm kind of on the introvert side of things. MAMA NEEDS HER DOWN TIME.
@JasonPunyon 😵😵😵😵😵 Rob's was yesterday, Violet's is today.
RT @tylerrinker: @juliasilge &amp; @drob I believe this is a straight forward approach to ordering terms within facets #rstats #ggplot2 https:/…
@tylerrinker @drob Oh, that is nicely done!
@JennyBryan OMG, Rob's was yesterday, hers is today. Every year we are all 😵😵😵 by the time we get to Christmas Day.
We are almost through the birthday celebration section of this week, after which we will move on to the Christmas celebration section. https://t.co/z31JHxaLxV
My middle kid (who is creative, funny, smart, beautiful, and on the autism spectrum) turned EIGHT today. 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 https://t.co/yKtMaoiaXV
Me at my new job: https://t.co/QqS8QVhAJ6
@lucaswmuller Meeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooooo...
@lpettingill Are you here skiing?
@JasonPunyon @kevinmontrose So jealous right now. Maybe during vacation...
RT @anildash: Some wonder if we can retrain workers for the tech economy, but millions have learned to do a perfect winged cat-eye &amp; that's…
Nanny baked Christmas cookies with my kids this afternoon, and I remembered why I avoid cooking with all three children at once. https://t.co/5WUpaMHQ59
RT @KBAndersen: As I said a few weeks ago, the great photojournalism of 2016 is continuing to resemble stills from a scary, not-entirely-re…
RT @MaxCRoser: I have written a short history of how living conditions have changed globally over the last two centuries: https://t.co/uMOL…
RT @lincolnmullen: I felt a great disturbance in the Markdown, as if a book manuscript suddenly cried out in terror, and was suddenly conve…
RT @JennyBryan: Join us Feb 16/17/18 for the 2nd #satRday, in Cape Town: workshops, talks, posters https://t.co/YNaKymgqtH https://t.co/dtF…
@SKEdman https://t.co/9hl8pIt8LO
RT @datassist: As @juliasilge and I often say Google and Twitter search skills should be top of the resume. https://t.co/RunC5MdRjP
RT @simplystats: A non-comprehensive list of awesome things people did in 2016: https://t.co/lnReZCjVar
RT @drob: New post on Stack Overflow blog: "Developers, webmasters, and ninjas: what's in a job title?" https://t.co/fmECzv5gVE #rstats htt…
@mimismartypants I have spatchcocked a turkey, and it was no joke.
@AngeBassa OMG that is amazing news! Congratulations!!! 🤖🎊🤖🎊🤖
@Nujcharee Hmmmm, I don't know that I have heard anything specific to Power BI. You can install packages like normal on it, right?
@Selkie1970 I went YESTERDAY. 😱
RT @mhoye: Your periodic reminder that knitting is a two-register counter machine, and is therefore Turing-complete.

https://t.co/sWIWvZAp…
(I put 40 sparkler candles in a donut, and it was awesome.)
Mad props to @Katiekrongard and her event planning skills that helped this whole thing actually happen.

(Also, I ❤❤❤ these friends.) https://t.co/4fs117E34Z
We celebrated Rob turning 40 tonight, and it was amazing. Delicious Manhattans for daysssssssss... 🎉🥃🎉🥃🎉 https://t.co/sPtLl9qjPJ
RT @niais: When I get overwhelmed by crap in my terminal window and type 'clear', I say it outloud in my head like i'm operating a defibril…
@HaleyNBurke https://t.co/vlX1faqGkr
@HaleyNBurke That is a BIG ASK.
@HaleyNBurke ❤❤❤ 

OMG Haley, can you imagine if I had called you at 9pm last night asking you to bake cake for 50 people?!?!????
@HaleyNBurke We have since gathered supplies for a tower of donuts.
@HaleyNBurke 😂😂😂 As of last night, we had a cake emergency that involved us saying, "Could Haley make cake for 50 by tomorrow?"
It is PARTY DAY here. My husband turns 40 in a couple of days and we are throwing a SHINDIG this evening. Busy busy busy busy...
RT @jonmcalder: #satRday in Cape Town: https://t.co/LuOgEIhh5l #rstats
RT @kyle_e_walker: New post (and new look for the blog): dropdown menus in R Markdown reports &amp; presentations without Shiny https://t.co/9h…
I think I just learned that you can turn the volume on Alexa to ELEVEN. https://t.co/EDtXqsJ4o4
@IsabellaGhement I am now a data scientist at Stack Overflow!
@IsabellaGhement That's right; I am excited about this new opportunity but it is bittersweet to leave Datassist.
https://t.co/CvSZikaDXZ
@MariannaFoos LOL
RT @kleinmatic: Politwoops remembers. https://t.co/VrtCbp0WST https://t.co/0XFWXVnPrp
@jhollist Every year I look longingly at these but no one will ship them to Utah. 😞
Reading an actual book and I tried to swipe the page.
Celebratory first-week-of-new-job Prosecco in SLOOOOOOOOOW MOOOOOOOTION 🍾🍾🍾 https://t.co/OPIBe9gqhp
@JasonPunyon It's "wintry mix" at my house right now, but supposed to keep snowing until tomorrow. https://t.co/AGFhXwBPUT
RT @ByCommonConsent: Rouge One:
-new space-themed cosmetics from Sephora
-French Communists in Space
-description of a ginger
-verb: paint…
@thosjleeper Probably mostly knowing a more diverse group of people than before.
@thosjleeper n = 1: I came from a really conservative background but by the time I finished my PhD I wasn't.
@noamross To be clear, he has gained his knowledge of Hebrew, Jewish history, etc from his amazing, wonderful preschool.
@ByCommonConsent I will fight you over Sufjan. I am listening to it RIGHT NOW. https://t.co/i0RqtlRaT3
@pachamaltese Oh, that is wonderful to hear!
Would you like to be reminded, over and over, that it can also be called a sevivon? My 5-year-old is also your man.
Would you like to have the rules of the dreidel game explained to you ad infinitum? My 5-year-old will do it, with BONUS SINGING.
@gvwilson Congratulations!
@earino Oh my gosh, like you, I would be incandescent with rage.
RT @rachelle_mandik: beware diet advice that recommends "eating light," for that is most certainly the way you become a black hole
@gdequeiroz Nooooooooo... Hang in there!
@gshotwell @drob Yep, I have this for my new job! So great. I have fiber to my house, part of why this was frustrating/befuddling.
@laciemesserly So frustrating!
@StephdeSilva 😭😂😭😂😭
@Jowanza Oh Jowanza, we have one of those! I will have to check that out.
https://t.co/FuiUTblRGq
@drob The Kindles try to access the internet, one of the settings on the router thinks it's SUPER DUPER important, maybe add in VPN = 🌋
@drob I was doing reading to figure out the router settings, and apparently it might have been related to our Kindles?!?!??
@drob At its worst yesterday, I had &lt;1 Mbps down, 200 Mbps up! We ended up having the fiber people out today, but it wasn't them.
Turns out it was blah blah router blah blah setting blah blah, but OH THE HUMANITY.
Like, &lt;1 Mbps down instead of the supposedly Gbps we pay for. https://t.co/jTltxY9ohR
Let me tell you about the time I started a fancy new (remote) job and my internet WENT KABLOOEY.
RT @SteffLocke: Only 10 spaces left at workshops by @juliasilge, @JennyBryan, &amp; me at the 2nd #satrday in #capeTown in Feb https://t.co/VNk…
@Nick_Craver Thank you!
@jc4p Well, that sounds like a kind of question I might have some hope of answering! 😀
@kcpike Thank you!
@lizasperling Thank you so much!
@aalear Thank you so much!
@hairboat Whaaaaaat?! Crazy! We will have to say hello!
@timelyportfolio Oh, I haven't watched that one yet!
@onlybluefeet Thank you!
@hairboat @StackOverflow Thank you!
I am really happy about this next step, but it is bittersweet to be ending my time with @datassist, which has been so amazing.
I have some very exciting news! I am joining the data team at @StackOverflow. ✨📊✨📊✨
@elliewix Still not quite over it. https://t.co/TPxIYpcNP8
@jkru (I grew up with people who literally banned all Santa because... Jesus?!? IDK)
@jkru While there is no ban on Santa imagery at my house or anything, we also never told our kids he was real, no presents from Santa, etc.
@Katiekrongard https://t.co/WhRdSe4fJc
Weeeeeeeeeeeezer 😍😍😍
Going through our Spotify Top Songs of 2016 and YES, we DO play this a lot. For good reason. https://t.co/20OgsmY0ZH
@jkru @RandiRLudwig OMG, she is so cute. 😍
@jkru @RandiRLudwig I never buy school pictures, FWIW. Because I am an AWFUL PHOTOGRAPHY ELITIST SNOB.
@joncgoodwin Whaaaaaaaat?! So befuddling, in so many ways.
About to take all three of my children to the dentist. Send me your thoughts and prayers in this, my hour of need.
RT @TheAVClub: A user’s guide to @TeenVogue, which is quietly doing very good journalism https://t.co/OZDpVtIyEq https://t.co/Ty63EefyOx
@SecretBeck @Selkie1970 @Leighbra And this one! https://t.co/8WlZW5iEBK
And this one!
https://t.co/Y89UIVySzs
🤗🤗🤗
@SecretBeck @Selkie1970 @Leighbra This one! https://t.co/MM4leiRlC6
@SecretBeck @Selkie1970 @Leighbra OMG, you look SO ADORABLE!!! 😍😍😍 And now I want these dresses -- totally in my wheelhouse.
RT @gaywonk: This is like watching the frat bro in your intro to women's studies class feel empathy for the first time. https://t.co/7S14ZY…
RT @levithatcher: Data science interview tips: 1) ask questions about role; 2) show enthusiasm; 3) have interesting project to discuss; 4)…
RT @derekwillis: Just gonna put this out there. No particular reason: https://t.co/gJVv4wb2g4 https://t.co/MREdPuC808
Yes, that is my daughter diving.
It's Friday Night and I am at a SWIMMMMMMMM MEEEEEEEEEEEEET https://t.co/R3moY1wq8z
@timelyportfolio Kent, my midlife-ish crisis (we are ~same age) has also been having an entirely new career! 👯 I highly recommend it.
@timelyportfolio Given my own recent career transition experience, I expect there are opportunities for you.
@jkru Mmmmmmm, that gif. 👌🏻
This is a subtweet, I guess.
I... I followed my senators on Twitter in an attempt to STAY INFORMED, but I might have to unfollow them. It is really painful.
@RallidaeRule @hspter @measurestuff Yeah, they don't make you take any biology when you're a physics major so it was too late for me.
@measurestuff @hspter Basically I still don't know anything about evolution.
@measurestuff @hspter Let me tell you about how I was homeschooled, then went to a Pentecostal/Baptist high school...
RT @sarahbessey: Loving all of the "Women of Harry Potter" series by @gaileyfrey but the Molly Weasley essay just laid me OUT. https://t.co…
(I could hardly help having career mentors who are men, given the fields I've been educated in and worked in.)
I have had some excellent career mentors who are men, and they treated me a lot like this.
https://t.co/YLTYXiF8hh
@jhollist Oh gosh.
@tjmahr Noooooooo... This was the first project in a while where I would walk away and let it just work.
RT @christinezhang: POLL: have you ever heard of the term "physics for poets"?
@christinezhang To be fair, I have a PhD in astrophysics and have taught physics courses, including one referred to as such.
@tjmahr Yep! You can think of the counts as answering the question, "Was this word mentioned? Yes/no?"
@tabinfl But of course, Tracey! 😉
RT @ByunLab: 2016 is full of examples of the human mind's infinitively generative capacity to understand never-before-encountered sequences…
I view analysis/code and writing about technical topics this way. https://t.co/LYUvaWCgOs
RT @jasonbaumgartne: Wonderful work by @juliasilge using my #Reddit election data.  Great analysis and an interested read!  https://t.co/qz…
RT @kyle_e_walker: Can't wait!  Also, for the first time we'll get non-overlapping 5-year data at 2010 geographies (2006-2010 and 2011-2015…
I've been (slooooooowly) rewatching X-Files and goodness, season 5 is a delight. 👽😍👽 https://t.co/PEyt24MTqW
Life with kids = just randomly finding someone's molar on a shelf
@lenkiefer @earino I have kids, I read a lot, I don't work most weekends, I do prioritize sleep/exercise, etc.
@lenkiefer @earino Well, being riddled with insecurity motivates me to work hard, but I don't actually work nonstop, because I cannot.
@earino Same.
@bearloga https://t.co/ynmAw7z7sA
@dmi3k Thank you so much!
@earino Whaaaaaaaat?
I think the words that decreased in frequency might be even more interesting. https://t.co/num5BEIJyA #rstats https://t.co/UMfWQNZkBm
NEW POST: Analyzing ALL REDDIT SUBMISSIONS from Election Day https://t.co/num5BEIJyA #rstats https://t.co/4tFZYKpp9R
@Jowanza Ah, I love those illustrations!
@robinson_es Congratulations!!! 🎉👏🏻🎉👏🏻🎉
Happy St. Nicholas Day! 🎅🏾
Nicholas was a beast. Mother Teresa, Oskar Schindler, and Samuel L. Jackson all rolled into one. What an absolute crushing beast. https://t.co/0GIjZAYPYW
@jsonbecker Well, it is definitely working better now that I am doing more sensible things, thanks to Twitter help.
@MariannaFoos @jhollist WHAT ON EARTH.
@jent103 Best of luck! I will mention that I know you from R-Ladies stuff; it has been a great experience.
@hadleywickham @drob No, I had not, and that also worked WAY BETTER than what I was trying before.
@drob HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... OMG, that was so much better than what I was doing; I cannot even believe it.
@massoko2 You probably need to re-install ggplot2, ggforce, and ggrepel.
JSON, but a bazillion of them on, like, separate lines of a text file.

DATA WRANGLING.

PURRR::MAP, also a bunch of times. https://t.co/ac1SgAXL47
@massoko2 It's available here: https://t.co/HFYRxyxsD6
@jent103 I would definitely say yes! It has been a great opportunity for learning, getting involved in some projects, etc.
Here is some info on what various #NASADatanauts (including me) have been up to so far: https://t.co/s0HwR2JjLl
Applications are now open for the next class of #NASADatanauts! 🎉 Applications are due by Dec 28; hit me up with any questions. https://t.co/uiwJsy0zsU
RT @Jowanza: This is pretty amazing: https://t.co/zTEo4kD0N0
Worth your time https://t.co/zyebkX9qge
Yahtzee with my husband's parents 🎲 https://t.co/7xTDIDVxXo
We did it. 🎄🎉🎄

Nothing broken this year! https://t.co/AIFJdwlwDj
@albertocairo I ❤️❤️❤️ geom_jitter.
@jkru They ended up kind of sweet but basically yes.
@hadleywickham Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing. I've had a bourbon milk punch at a fancy function but never made one at home.
Cranberry gin cocktails, for putting up our tree and endless Sufjan. Festive AF. https://t.co/s1HFZmukfi
@drob That makes sense about the denominator; I still feel puzzled about what is going on in the numerator.
Me to the people posting Elizabeth Holmes inspirational success quotes on LinkedIn: https://t.co/2Ya0tX9Qnh
@drob When I look at the numbers in the data frame, my instinct is to say, "These are probabilities that result in heads = 0:10."
@drob In what way is this Bayesian updating? No probabilities got multiplied or anything like that.
@drob Oh, that's really nice.
RT @ClintSmithIII: "We tried to tell y'all."

– Ancient African-American proverb
"... an ugly idea left unchallenged begins to turn the color of normal." https://t.co/JItQM5RIcu
@tylerrinker @bhive01 @wrathematics @drob No argument there! 😀
@tylerrinker @bhive01 @wrathematics @drob And for comparing the absolute value/valence, we have a tiny bit on that: https://t.co/iLSTie4u5u https://t.co/2ZDrZi4oEB
@tylerrinker @bhive01 @wrathematics @drob When it comes to negation words, we have done some examples on that: https://t.co/ROpyMx0Gfk
@tylerrinker @bhive01 @wrathematics @drob I don't find her argument about the lexicons as convincing; her example is pretty souped up.
@tylerrinker @bhive01 @wrathematics @drob The tokenizers package has similar issues with tokenizing by sentence with dialogue; it's hard.
@tylerrinker @bhive01 @wrathematics @drob Her last point about the Fourier transform is great -- how it forces the start/end to be the same.
RT @drob: Excited to announce the release of my @DataCamp course! "Exploratory Data Analysis in R: Case Study" https://t.co/pdWd4K9LuL #rst…
@SeanHacks @JennyBryan @earino Actually my husband's name is Rob, but I myself have almost made a similar mixup WRT @drob.
@BecomingDataSci @JennyBryan @earino Rob is the name of my husband! Another misidentification.
@JennyBryan Yep, that's a sentiment lexicon for you. @earino
@JennyBryan @earino Look at what is in my tweets under the "disgust" sentiment! https://t.co/VHqaKHB9oX
@ChrisatPTS Oh, that is great! I'm glad it worked.
@ChrisatPTS If you separate out the geo.make() statement and assign it, it doesn't give you any errors? And it looks like this? https://t.co/NX73xzXbAD
@ChrisatPTS Well, I can't say I've seen this but if I were in this situation, I would try restarting R, reinstalling your API key, etc etc.
@ChrisatPTS @jon_m_rob Can you access ANY ACS data using acs.fetch? Like the examples from the vignette or anything?
@ChrisatPTS @jon_m_rob Hmmmmm, that works for me. It is some problem with your computer accessing the API; you have an API key installed? https://t.co/vednSk0mJr
@jon_m_rob @ChrisatPTS YASSSSSSSS
I go back and forth on this TBH. I still like the gender-swapped versions better. https://t.co/N9bj5jjOVA
RT @NASA: Welcome to our 'Modern Figures' website, dedicated to women past &amp; present who helped advance spaceflight. Visit: https://t.co/Wt…
RT @neingeist: https://t.co/puUPsaXLiV
RT @Jowanza: Working on some population estimation for a project and found this Wikipedia entry fascinating: https://t.co/C18OHRXUde
My score is about 50%. https://t.co/9iyPH4pOCD
It's snowing 🌨, I'm drinking tea 🍵 and doing #rstats. 😍
@dataandme I tried to fix it after school yesterday and her bangs are SHORT now. 😳
@jkru @astrohummel @tek_keller I ❤️❤️❤️ awk, and have for a very long time.
Was Julie helping me because I don't know anything about Python package management? Yes, yes, she was. https://t.co/HGU1oOQvLe
@JennyBryan I believe we've gotten THREE NOTES this fall from our various kids' classes about lice. The first came the FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL. https://t.co/aIqaubCWRk
@Jowanza I have some ideas -- NLP stuff, probably unsurprisingly. Nothing too firmly set, though.
Am I downloading 1+ Gb (zipped) of Reddit comments from Election Day?
I am. 😯

https://t.co/XWccHJLo1m
RT @andrewheiss: Like this took 5 minutes to whip up https://t.co/c3W3kYF9Zo (preparing an index for a book)
RT @andrewheiss: *Finally* playing with @juliasilge and @drob's tidytext #rstats package and I'm completely blown away by it. https://t.co/…
SUPERMONGO FOREVERRRRRRRRR

(Not really. Not really AT ALL.)

(For me, it was C + silly amounts of awk + supermongo.) https://t.co/LGHARtAHqE
@elliewix @jkru If you need another resource, this one at @STAT545 is also excellent: https://t.co/kJspIMzfJf
@elliewix @jkru Sure, I was just giving Julie trouble. Your plots are BEAUTIFUL!
@jkru Julie, that shit is exactly tidy data and it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
@jkru Somebody needs to learn about TIDY DATA PRINCIPLES.
@DeCiccoDonk I have to decide how to try to fix it this afternoon after school. 😞
Listening to the @rstudio webinar and Garrett just said: "BUT I DON'T WANT SNOWMAN!"
We discovered my 7-year-old cut her own bangs. It... is not a good look. 😐
RT @DataWookie: satRday in Cape Town https://t.co/MnT1LU9ZJB https://t.co/9IB3t8m7ed
@groundwalkergmb I actually have a conference paper on ASTRO 101 textbooks: https://t.co/52idj2Hoff
@groundwalkergmb They were for teaching! 😉 ASTRO 101 is the bread-and-butter of teaching for astronomy departments.
@maxjrosenthal For casual breakfast, The Park Cafe. For good drinks, Undercurrent, Avenues Proper, Beer Bar. The snow has been looking good!
@maxjrosenthal For food, I would say @PagoSLC, @FincaSLC, Laziz Kitchen, Publik Kitchen. For coffee, also Publik, @labarbaSLC, @TheRoseEstb
@chrisalbon BOOOOOOOOOO...
@AndreaUrbanPhD Did you move all of yours?
@astroeringrand I think that many of mine are not latest edition anymore; I wonder if it is still worth it...
@seankross OMG, SEAN 😂😂😂
RT @LindaRegber: Bad Dataviz: This map of every pub in the UK is super helpful. via /r/dataisugly https://t.co/5K7GjbewCk https://t.co/jzG7…
@darinself OMG, this is my favorite.
@tdhopper Data science will outlive my willingness to teach as an adjunct.
Me, not that long ago: "Data science sounds like a good fit, but OTOH I have all THESE TEXTBOOKS ALREADY!" https://t.co/cM9ZYtquFq
I think this data science thing is probably going to stick, and I can get rid of this shelf of slightly-outdated ASTRO 101 textbooks.
@hadleywickham @jeffmorgen I've never had eggnog with tequila in it! 😳
Well, this is awesome. Astronomy AND clothes, both things I have loved for a long time. https://t.co/1V2hiXa2Ns
I'm feeling real, real iffy about this whole Electoral College thing we still have going here, guys. @khayeswilson https://t.co/92ULJNX5l8 https://t.co/WRz4ANqgMy
@EconAndrew @YhatHQ OK, you got me!
RT @drob: A tidyverse approach to ROC curves #rstats https://t.co/buizc7U9ns
@drob theme_minimal?!?!????
RT @justinshanes: Amazon thinks my recent humidifier purchase was merely the inaugural move in a newfound hobby of humidifier collecting.
RT @philipbstark: If @realDonaldTrump is right that &gt;3MM voters were illegal, sample of 250 voters has 99.7% chance of catching &gt;=1. Let's…
@groundwalkergmb The Electoral College electors? I haven't checked, actually.
Just called my Republican senators to tell them I didn't think they should confirm Sessions as AG.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@minebocek I love this A LOT.
Things like git reset --hard still make me real nervous. I prefer to only use the 4 git commands I actually trust/understand.
@yrlaNor Oh nice! That all looks really interesting.
RT @JennyBryan: I love that Google Code-in, for kids 13 - 17 interested in open source s/w, reflects a realistic mix of tasks. https://t.co…
RT @kara_woo: O'Reilly ebooks and videos (including my ggplot2 course) are 50% off today with discount code CYBER16. https://t.co/suCpi2MZ1G
@treycausey @ftrain THIS IS AMAZING.
RT @seanjtaylor: In particular, the idea to extend @hadleywickham's tidy data paradigm to text data is really powerful. Tons of hard things…
RT @seanjtaylor: .@juliasilge &amp; @drob are writing a really nice book on using R for text analysis (a task I usually use Python for!) https:…
Back to life, back to reality https://t.co/A6yi34HkeD
RT @DataWookie: Humpback whales. https://t.co/K8tVIhD3sS Another reason to be at satRday (although might be too late for whales!). https://…
@SKEdman Post-election McMullin has been 🔥🔥🔥.
RT @levithatcher: If you want enhanced job opportunities after grad school, learn the basics of git, databases, machine learning, and packa…
@earino Huh, that is definitely interesting.
RT @joewillage: Finally reading tidytext book by @drob &amp; @juliasilge. Text part is good so far, but also lots of dplyr things I didn't know…
RT @b0rk: floating point https://t.co/x83WTFeSV4
@JennyBryan My kids' hair is all either long or really curly... 😵
@JennyBryan @polesasunder Oh Jenny, you are stressing me out with this so much. https://t.co/EjDY7HgJLd
@earino 
My kids, first: "How many days until Halloween?"
Next: "How many days until Thanksgiving?"
Now: "How many days until Christmas?"
@dataandme 😅 My husband's name is Rob, and one of my kids' names is Grace.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG why do any of you follow me on here... @drob #rstats https://t.co/HrmHk7cjMI https://t.co/Eu0IpVQTa3
RT @kelkulus: CIA: We've tried to kill Fidel Castro 600 times and failed
2016: Hold my beer
Oh my goodness 😍😍😍 https://t.co/YOamYAplLB
@ma_salmon OMG 😂😂😂 

Communicating is hard, and I haven’t had coffee yet.
@ma_salmon @drob It's an idiom! "That's enough! No more for you! You've taken this far enough!"
@ma_salmon @drob I have been demanding A LOT of high fives lately from people, to the point that my husband is threatening to cut me off.
I'm feeling a little impatient about waiting that long, though, TBH.
These beauties arrived today and are going to get wrapped up under our tree for Christmas! 🎁 @jewelbots https://t.co/IYtwZ9ocAB
@tylerrinker Ah, I didn't find this in my searching earlier!
@andrewheiss 😅 Yes, to be fair, our youngest does sometimes seem rather suspiciously gregarious.
@Jfpohl We still haven't been!
I can tell my children are genetically related to me because they are so happy staying at home not doing anything in particular. https://t.co/tVRhQZ828w
RT @MeganRisdal: I put together this dataset of fake news sources ... It's just a start, would love contributions! cc @fastml_extra https:/…
@Jemus42 This movie is, TBH, esoteric enough without trying to watch it out of order.
@Jemus42 whole time we were watching the beginning. Until we put in the second tape and realized it was ACTUALLY THE FIRST TAPE. 😭😭😭
@Jemus42 I watched this movie in college with my roommate, who was a Russian major. It came on two VHS tapes, and we were SO CONFUSED the
If people didn't have all their .travis.yml files on GitHub, I would never ever get anything to ever build. Ever. So thanks, everyone!
@Nicole_Cliffe He was a bit of a college playboy, but in many ways he has his shit together and is a grown-up. And the charm/chemistry. 😱
@Nicole_Cliffe MEEEEEE TOOOOOOO... I really like them together.
@bstrain1 @dataandme You can check out the post for details; there is a function that does it in an `echo = FALSE` chunk.
@quominus @drob I'm not sure right now, TBH. Definitely/obviously the syllable counter.
@dataandme Mara! https://t.co/qOxA7Y2pE1
@pete_stmarie to an estimate of grade level using a short bit of text.
@pete_stmarie That's a great question! I would need to do some exploring, but they are measured using LOTS of sentences so low compared
@quominus That is a very interesting proposition to consider! 
@drob, what are your initial thoughts?
Reasons being these, naturally: https://t.co/ieWRr776Oz
It has an ~8th grade score, lower than "Anne of Green Gables" by ~1 year.
Well, FOR REASONS, my husband just asked me to repeat the readability scoring for "All Quiet on the Western Front": https://t.co/XdhAHWjWsu
@TechnoPhobe01 James Joyce, man. What was up with that guy...
@kearneymw @ma_salmon OMG I love this idea. https://t.co/PgHkRTeHfK
@ibddoctor In my research for this, I saw that SMOG is used a lot in healthcare/medicine! Super interesting area.
RT @sarahmei: Elf on the shelf: a post-9/11 NSA program designed to accustom our children to the surveillance state.
@nest No, no, not in error. Just the turkey!
Part of measuring readability involves counting syllables! Here are the distributions of syllables per word in the novels I used. #rstats https://t.co/qpN3BrJATi
NEW POST: Measuring readability in text using tidy data principles #rstats https://t.co/wysFpPPprt https://t.co/zCaO7c6pvG
The @nest people should write a blog post about how many smoke alarms went off yesterday. (I know ours did.)
RT @BoogTweets: *Busts through Kool-aid mans wall*

Kool-aid man: Not cool. What I do is fake. This is our home

Me: I'm sorr…

*A sippy cu…
RT @Ted_Underwood: If we come through this without getting everyone killed, it will become 22nd-century schoolkids' fav. hilarious part of…
You can know you invited fun people to Thanksgiving dinner when the after-dinner games turn to Fibonacci numbers. @astrohummel
Thanksgiving success! 🦃 https://t.co/TjytFxBCBx
@lucaswmuller 😵
@dataandme I say embrace it. Me with a new baby: https://t.co/EBTusA57P8
@earino Well, not the lightbulbs, just a lamp on a wifi switch.
@dataandme HAHAHAHAHAHA... OMG, I love babies so much. I mean, we are totally done, but I luuuuuuuuuv them. The oxytocin hit!
@earino We use it most for playing music. We also have it set up with IFTT for the garage door (which is super nice), one of the lamps, etc.
@earino Oh cool! Yes, I have met Célestin through connections from my faith tradition/church/etc.
@earino His name is Célestin Musekura.
@earino Was is more South Africa or Rwanda or what? I ask because I know a little bit someone involved with the Rwandan reconciliation work.
@earino OMG 😵
@xtophercook YOU CAN DO IT. I'm sure you probably have lots of resources, but just in case, I've heard this is good: https://t.co/6NHvpHehLo
@levithatcher I am truly looking forward to not driving.
@xtophercook Nice! Thanks for the mention.
RT @xtophercook: Can you see, from this graph of what time of day I tweet, when Newsnight is on? (have been cribbing @juliasilge's coding)…
My husband is reading only depressing non-fiction, all "YOU KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO BE EVEN MORE WOKE NOW."
I am reading only escapist fluff fiction, all "THE WORLD IS TERRIBLE LA LA LA LA."
My husband's and my reading habits could not be more different right now.
RT @astropixie: Holiday Gift Ideas!

https://t.co/c1fcmJDdDL https://t.co/iDHXUsGrUt
RT @ellis2013nz: Adding some (minor) polish to that well-known Arctic sea ice graphic with viridis colours, #ggplot2 and #rstats https://t.…
@rad_prof Turns out it was a bit of both, actually! 😂
@nj_tierney Oh gosh, that too! (It did turn out part of the slowness was an error on my side.)
RT @thosjleeper: Nice example of using #ggplot2 with my margins package to create really simple visualizations of model estimates. #rstats…
@Selkie1970 This has been happening to ME lately! I have been waking up so early! I don't understand. 😩
RT @tfoldi: NLP at its finest https://t.co/b8UCZxMmSL
@joshua_ulrich Well, it's for a blog post so keep an eye out for it. I do think I know why it is slow; I just didn't realize HOW slow.
MWAHAHAHAHA... It finished and it all worked right. https://t.co/30AoFN4Arg
SNOW SNOW SNOW 🌨️✨🌨️✨🌨️ https://t.co/uMpSMdThf1
@bhive01 I hope so! Still running...
Wow, this code is taking a shockingly long time to run. I am shocked. Or I have made a horrible error somewhere.
@HaleyNBurke https://t.co/kMtZERPDlD
RT @polesasunder: geom_parsnip #rstats https://t.co/UOU9fRraMT
@juanshishido From this month's Food and Wine! https://t.co/Oo3UYQigUX
Ah, Thanksgiving, everybody! https://t.co/IZJ6C6FoC1
RT @cote_energy: Just for fun: Sentiment in 15 Herman Melville Novels &amp; Stories.  (Extension of a #tidytext tutorial by @juliasilge in #rst…
@jGage718 Thank you so much!
@HaleyNBurke Where did you find this? I do ❤️ it.
@HaleyNBurke I want to retweet this, but alas, your account is private now...
Short ribs in the slow cooker, turkey in the brine --  I am preparing all the meats.
@andrewheiss 😳
@emjonaitis Oh, I have these people.
@Selkie1970 HAHAHAHAHA... I remember that whole time period when I used only these old purple towels.
@Selkie1970 AAAAAAAAH, chlorine! The bane of fun colored hair!
@hadleywickham Yes! I think my favorite is the Vya that we just got. 👍🏻👍🏻
RT @peteskomoroch: This is the best thing I've seen on Twitter this month. Looking forward to seeing more work on "interestingness algorith…
It's quasi-blinded cocktail taste test time! This would be easier if we had pipettes. https://t.co/tfWlaHenc1
@hadleywickham I was just looking there -- thanks!
@hadleywickham (We are prepping for a big party for Rob's 40th birthday next month.)
@hadleywickham I remember seeing an enormous can of Luxardo cherries in a picture of yours at one point. Where did you obtain it?
She did a very good job, and I do appreciate that she thinks I'm cute. https://t.co/VNNFAO0M26
TFW you tell the person cutting your hair what you do for a living and she responds, "But you are so cute?! And you are wearing makeup!" 😐
@duffy_ma THE HOLIDAYS, Meghan. SUCH A JOYOUS TIME OF YEAR.
RT @chrisalbon: 1945: “Hey”
2016: “Hey”
1945: “How’s it going?”
2016: “…”
1945: “You let Nazis come—“
2016: “We let Nazis come back, yes…”
@bhive01 😅😅😅
@bhive01 I always do cranberry sauce! I love it a lot. Usually I do one with lots of spices and a little brandy, but I tried this new one.
Trying a new cranberry sauce this year, and after making it, it seems... more boozy than expected. https://t.co/Zh1AIflYAB
I saw this news today directly after picking up my youngest kid from his Jewish preschool. https://t.co/GECTac2KmZ
RT @karenebayne: Stop saying Alt-right. They are just regular boring old Nazis. I don't care how nice their suits are.
@SecretBeck Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom?
@sckottie @kara_woo @davidjayharris I'm thinking of switching too, I think.
RT @SalilBenegal: Partisanship is one hell of a drug. https://t.co/WLwaUWu3F8
RT @_lionelhenry: ggstance now available on CRAN! Horizontal components for #ggplot2 (https://t.co/jA1MoAi242) #rstats https://t.co/xOrfL0B…
@RallidaeRule Also, at the same time, that she does not "see race".
@RallidaeRule Feel you. One of the highlights of last week for me was my aunt telling me that the Black Panthers want to kill white babies.
A local data science team that I like and respect is hiring, looking for #rstats package development experience: https://t.co/BcfNH0kDjW
@Jowanza Oh, I love how it turned out!
RT @Jowanza: Saturday evening project: Visualized names from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Database: https://t.co/COJuQsO8UY https://t.co/ust23m…
RT @CSCleve: NEW POST: "Talking to your family about Trump" https://t.co/eb3l1MRMLg https://t.co/jHhXBpM9uM
@thosjleeper I'm getting A LOT of this defensive talk from certain social circles these days. "But democracies have NEVER worked!"
Analysing the Gilmore Girls' coffee addiction ☕️ by (Twitterless?) Shirin Glander https://t.co/1YMhJbTMeu https://t.co/lXrg7dF0sS
Tequila shots with friends, because it is DELICIOUS and this has been A WEEK https://t.co/pSVs8XWAkQ
@astrohummel Yes, that's what I'm thinking.
@astrohummel Dale was definitely Mr. T.
@JasonPunyon Hmmmmmm, I was probably the Faceman of this operation. I am thinking @astrohummel for Murdock.
I had to leave the conference a little early, so I MISSED GETTING TO HOLD THE GIANT CHECK!!! 😭😭😭 https://t.co/lBNF5eUZay
My team won our local data science competition this fall, and the announcement was at the conference I was at today. https://t.co/FnzxXM4KKu
Everyone, I MISSED MY CHANCE TO HOLD A GIANT CHECK!!!
Does your text data spark joy? ✨✨ Slides from my Intermountain Data Conference talk today #rstats https://t.co/3XnO4O7c8w
RT @astrohummel: If you do any sort of text analytics and/or use R, you should totally check out the tidytext package on CRAN: https://t.co…
RT @astrohummel: Great talk from @juliasilge at the Intermountain Data Conference on the value of apply tidy data principles to text analys…
RT @mattyglesias: Trump is extraordinarily unpopular for a president-elect. He's going to get booed a lot. https://t.co/LQLNmClRCY
@danielphadley Aw, thanks!
RT @statredd: Utah #rstats user group starting now with @juliasilge presenting on text mining https://t.co/8slFdA59P5
RT @levithatcher: @juliasilge rocking her R SLC meetup talk on tidytext. https://t.co/DSeiNWt4Is @drob https://t.co/TsmzZshGST
@groundwalkergmb The Mindy Project
Me on Facebook now: https://t.co/9GzFGZKYDK
@BradleyJEck @drob @KHayhoe Austin is a much bigger city than Lubbock, so Texas Tech is a bigger proportion than UT.
RT @seankross: Want to start writing a book with bookdown? I wrote a post to show you how! https://t.co/13vJ9lHauW #rstats https://t.co/TEz…
RT @drob: Fun fact: the more a county uses R (measuring by % of Stack Overflow traffic), the less it voted for Trump #rstats https://t.co/G…
I think this might be my favorite thing I've read since the election. I ❤️ @baratunde. https://t.co/Rov1g7EJrm
First snow of the season ❄️️😍❄️️😍❄️️ https://t.co/U6wGWNschN
RT @sarahslo: When data is both beautiful &amp; funny: 10,000 words ranked according to their Trumpiness https://t.co/Ab9eq6tUKg via @nkl &amp; @co…
@VinhLu0ng We're about halfway through our year, so I'd expect in another handful of months? https://t.co/OM2ixWSjjc
RT @drob: @pedram_navid @NSSDeviations @hspter @rdpeng nice work! took at look at it, really interesting https://t.co/I0WrkvUEmT
@darinself I am not actually offended either way. 😉

https://t.co/yl3FLhTjLA
RT @drob: If you want to analyze election+population data yourself, here's #rstats code to set it up: https://t.co/SmFRpG5Wxu https://t.co/…
@darinself I'm also much older than you. https://t.co/NHtWbN2Cig
@darinself https://t.co/4JGiu6fVwN
RT @smfrogers: US election 2016: How to download county-level results data https://t.co/xbQE6y3Hnh https://t.co/NYVHhkLFzN
RT @OdaRygh: Unexpected "gender and computers"-experience. Google #quickdraw doesn't recognise my shoe. But it was so nice! https://t.co/XN…
@arnicas I just literally LOL'd.
@arnicas I personally am a HUGE FAN of code that works.
@arnicas Oh, no judgment from me.
@arnicas Ah, "code that works"...
@ma_salmon Well, I only do coffee early the day, and I find it doesn't hurt my sleep then. 😉
b) the Confidence Boost playlist on Spotify (https://t.co/zqtmFh3kUr), and c) COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE ☕️.
I have/am having a lot of big events this week and I am coping with a) no alcohol or sugar (UNLIKE LAST WEEK) for better sleep,
@Nicole_Cliffe I literally said this to Rob the other day, because I am such an optimist at heart.
Today's issue of Data is Plural from @jsvine is pretty 🔥🔥🔥, if you don't already get it. https://t.co/sv6kKt6UVE
RT @DataWookie: Submit your abstracts now to ensure a slot on the programme. https://t.co/wKSCHa4Qdb
@Jowanza Yeah, Hadley said he is updating it with 2015 soon.
@Jowanza Oh, that sounds SUPER interesting! I love name data.
@darinself I without exception do it wrong the first time.
@SKEdman https://t.co/TVvysSbdZm
@dataandme @AmeliaMN @tslumley @znmeb Here is one of my blog posts that uses the acs package: https://t.co/rRFTSssmlq
@Nicole_Cliffe Given our typical choices, I mean.
@Nicole_Cliffe To be fair, I am pretty open to the idea of voting for an actual principled conservative from this, our home state.
@Nicole_Cliffe HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I used the phrases "religious minority" and "principled conservative".
@Nicole_Cliffe The staffer I got at Hatch's office was polite but sounded kind of OVER IT.
@NevilleLeoniers All very true; I said that as their constituent,  I thought it was important that they publicly oppose it.
@darinself The staffer was polite, but did sound the most OVER IT compared to the others. 😂
It was very easy to find the phone numbers for their SLC offices, the staffers were super polite, and the whole thing took about 7 minutes.
I just called my congressman and both my senators (all Republicans) to say how important it is that they oppose Steve Bannon.
RT @arnicas: People into maps and poetry - lovely slides from @lisacrost https://t.co/XrLJKJhg5X cc @patriciogv
RT @sharon000: Finally added tidytext to my searchable list of great R packages for data wrangling, viz &amp; analysis #rstats
https://t.co/qTI…
@patternproject I am not sure but I will post if they are (despite my horror of seeing myself on video 😱).
@SecretBeck Oh no. 💙
@Jowanza Likewise! Are you going to the speaker dinner Friday night? I'll be there for the first hour or so.
@AnaSwanson 💓💓💓
@corynissen Well, the title is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek joke based on the Kondo book.
If you are local, come on by and say hello! 🎉
On Friday, at the Utah R Users Group: https://t.co/lZvAtNb2rz
On Saturday, at the Intermountain Data Conference: https://t.co/dK8mueaKbC
I'm speaking on tidy text mining twice this week! #rstats https://t.co/8LN5WI5BtD
RT @MonaChalabi: What a y-axis
https://t.co/yWEwWn9oUT https://t.co/e5zf8EJWj5
@SKEdman I don't think so; this is him on his new Christmas album: https://t.co/YZYKWlloK3 

I do think he is kind of bad at being apostate.
RT @TheRyanParker: The @NewYorker and @PaulNoth have outdone themselves: https://t.co/Et4TreTSwL
RT @jasdumas: NEW Blog Post: Mapping &amp; Web-scraping the 2016 Presidential Election Results in Connecticut https://t.co/BKghcaSdQi #rstats
@Jowanza Only my husband.
5-year-old right now: "So wait... people give you money to do their data? That's how you get money?!"
RT @ccjones13: These are all over my neighborhood in suburban Salt Lake. I had nothing to do with the flyers, but I fully endorse them. htt…
@drob @hadleywickham Yes, I looked at GloVe embeddings once too.
@hadleywickham @drob That sounds really interesting; we'll have to look more into that.
How Many Types Of Crying Have You Done Since Tuesday? 😭😭😭https://t.co/T9xkJpZ1A6
RT @drsimonj: How to order bars in #ggplot2 facets
Solving a tidy text TODO by @juliasilge @drob
#rstats #DataScience #Dataviz
 https://t.c…
@andrewheiss Oh gosh, I would take ALLLLLLL those Twizzlers off your hand. It's a big problem for me.
I'm eating a SALAD because I believe in the FUTURE.

(Also, I am drinking horchata and rum.)
Got a school-wide email from my girls' principal about election-related negative interactions at their school. 😕
@kidalextree Ah, nice! I'm glad to hear it. (I use readr::read_csv almost every single time these days, TBH. Works like a charm!)
RT @kyle_e_walker: At the @TCU Ctr for Urban Studies we've produced a dot map of DFW election results with #rstats and @Mapbox GL JS: https…
@kidalextree Sounds like the `region` column isn't set up right. For the choroplethr package, that needs to be a FIPS code (numeric type).
@Jowanza I'm really going to have to bring it, I guess.
@Jowanza I just saw that they put our talks during the same session 😞 so I won't get to see yours. Boooooo... https://t.co/0dShdU5wM6
@shannimcg @darinself Yeah, that's probably a good idea.
A HUGE THANK YOU 🙌 to @kearneymw for compiling county-level election results here: https://t.co/2K7c82d1W1
NEW POST: Mapping Utah's election results #rstats https://t.co/2fYs1OAF4Y https://t.co/UN0j8kFZ9l
@visnut Not me, but yes! https://t.co/2K7c82d1W1
Ah, perfect! https://t.co/cUNDEbJv63
@kyle_e_walker You were using election result data, right? Where did you get it?
Does anybody know where the data lives, behind, for example, what I see when I google "election results utah"? https://t.co/uNhDwxuKpB
Any #rstats people scraped county-level results from anywhere yet? Looking at this and contemplating rvest, I guess: https://t.co/USFAqFiu9T
I know I've shared this poem by @maggiesmithpoet before, but I was thinking about it again. https://t.co/Mot5kgsjWq https://t.co/BjQFmfclAA
@AmericanSaeedi Yep, that's right! It turned out... interesting. 😳
It would be great to cast a truly meaningful vote someday.
I've been thinking about the Electoral College. I've never lived in a remotely contested state (either super red or super blue).
@groundwalkergmb @thosjleeper @bhive01 Sure, yes. I didn't mean, "Don't make them" by that comment.
@thosjleeper @groundwalkergmb @bhive01 TBH, I'm not sure what I think about these kinds of maps.
@groundwalkergmb @bhive01 I got the cartogram package to work here, if you want to see an example: https://t.co/bVLUb4Jrnp
@shaybstrong That was basically my reaction.
@tylervkent I think it's the smeared handprints that really get me. 😬
There's a new poster up at my kid's preschool. 💉🤔💉 https://t.co/V1oWZCQOOa
RT @fox13: Utah students being bullied after Trump wins election https://t.co/JLz4Zpnres https://t.co/fkfctBGa3V
@pubhealthwright Yes, that is definitely something. 👊🏻
@dataandpolitics That's not nothing.
I did actual, meaningful work this afternoon and I feel a little bit better. Less, you know, queasy.
😭😭😭 Wow, I really needed this. Top-notch work.

How To Talk To Your Child About The Election Results https://t.co/anq28pioJg
@lucaswmuller OMGWTFBBQ
RT @HillaryClinton: "To all the little girls watching...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful &amp; deserving of every chance &amp; opport…
RT @monkeycageblog: Agreed. The shift is mainly in how people/place votes, not in sheer number of votes. https://t.co/4Qg9iR3Uig
RT @kristenjobarton: Sexual assault survivors are watching the equivalent of their own attacker become president right now. Be kind, odds a…
RT @lucaswmuller: It's not news that we have a sick society, fear driven, permissive of/active in racism &amp; sexism, it's just much worse tha…
RT @Neil_Irwin: If things go the way they're looking, the winner of the presidential election will have lost the popular vote in 2 of the l…
RT @infinite_scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
RT @NicolaSturgeon: Amidst all the criticism of her, I want to say, as a woman, simply this: thank you @HillaryClinton. Your candidacy was…
RT @emelina: Evangelicals had a harder time voting for a Mormon than a self-proclaimed sexual assaulter who makes fun of people w/ disabili…
RT @dbroockman: Your daily reminder our political institutions are biased towards rural whites by design.
@ErmiaBivatan @hspter @dataandme We're all freaking the hell out, is what's happening here.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/FFdXRaWKds
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Who the hell is making your infographics @ABCPolitics. https://t.co/HeLLhvVtvW
RT @realsesmith: This is why there are long lines. Lines at polls aren't 'inspiring,' they are the sign of a broken system. https://t.co/7v…
RT @SpencerJCox: We had a voting machine issue in 1 of our 29 counties this morning. Not sure that qualifies as "entire country" but whatev…
RT @stitchfix_algo: New blog post! On the election, uncertainty, and being wrong the right number of times https://t.co/NZZtiGsEud
@datassist Ah, I forgot that you said today was your birthday!!! https://t.co/Rvlb0hGfKe
RT @kaggle: Recommended reading: @juliasilge &amp; @drob's free book Text Mining with R. The tidytext pkg is a fav in our community! https://t.…
RT @drob: One last election tweetstorm- about why the difference between Trump's devices matters and what it shows about him 1/n
RT @openNASA: #NASADatanauts Starry Night goes global this week when Datanaut @cindychin hosts a community event in #Lisbon Portugal! https…
@Selkie1970 Oh, I'm so sorry, Kimberly. 💕💕💕
RT @hspter: One of the most important takeaways: how to dunk a troll, by @drob #rstats https://t.co/JD9LmvmX5y
RT @robinson_es: Can't wait to try out @drob and @juliasilge's tidytext package for my own analysis. What an awesome edition to the tidyver…
@SKEdman There have been specific changes in some states since 2012 that target POC, so that kind of trend may even be worse now. 😕
@SKEdman I think it can depend in some unfortunate ways on demographics: https://t.co/teKHqB0vSB
RE: LRT I bought one of my kids some pajamas with penguins on them this last weekend, and I felt REAL WEIRD about it.
RT @MJPolito: 1/ I'm not seeing much #scicomm context around the @Natgeo
#Homewreckerpenguin video so will attempt to provide some https://…
@rogers_levi @lucaswmuller I can't remember which one of you I have talked to about this more.
@rogers_levi @lucaswmuller Is David Bazan the worst at being apostate? David Bazan gets in the Christmas spirit https://t.co/ZfdBIdel1A
@hadleywickham @JennyBryan @rstudio 👀 WOW 👀

Congratulations!!!
@pubhealthwright I assume you already know about @NSSDeviations?
RT @drob: "That's enough! He can't be trusted with Twitter.

Now let's work on getting him the nuclear codes"

https://t.co/Lrd6HRhn8G
@BarkleyBG @drob If you have something specific to suggest, feel free to add it as a GH issue; mentioning something on Twitter is good too!
Nice! 👍🏻 "How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub" https://t.co/WrK4RkpL63
@SKEdman https://t.co/AJIEWA2wk2
RT @TSchnoebelen: Look, the #firstsevenjobs in emoji by @HamdanAzhar #EmojiCon https://t.co/zh3EwD0Xym
Saturday morning vibes 🏊🏻 https://t.co/LMJDzSWjL7
RT @sehnaoui: This old motherboard looks like Ancient Greece. https://t.co/teYtlu3xR1
@astropixie If you ever make it up to SLC, stop by to stay or for dinner. Real invitation!
@astropixie So many parts of Utah are amazing!
@Selkie1970 Hang in there... 💙💙💙
@astropixie @LSST Congratulations, Amanda! That is amazing news! 🎉
@Rwilldred27 That is great to hear! Good, clear documentation was definitely a high priority for us.
@earino @bhive01 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Right, of course.
@bhive01 @earino I mean, if you're thinking civil rights and the Beatles, most of those people were actually too old to be boomers.
RT @drob: On Monday night I'm giving a talk at @nyhackr, on using tidy text mining to analyze Trump's Twitter https://t.co/V2kEmrGnzl #rsta…
@earino OMG, I feel the opposite about the baby boomers. LET THEM GO, I say.
@Jowanza We actually also have an Apple Music account 😭😭😭 because they have a no-explicit-music setting and that's what the 5th-grader uses.
Oops, this is what happens when you share a Spotify account, I guess. https://t.co/GNkFN3QHhQ
RT @carinahsieh: Melania: Our culture has gotten too mean. My husband is a beacon of hope for women's rights. 

Everyone: https://t.co/BPWm…
@unsorsodicorda Sure thing!
@HaleyNBurke No, you're OUR favorite.
RT @tabinfl: @juliasilge Brava. My dad was a polio survivor, it affected his entire life. School friend deaf from measles. My nephew w/auti…
@NevilleLeoniers Oh gosh.
My kid with autism is creative and amazing, and the measles and polio and whooping cough are awful.
Yep yep yep. One of my kids also has autism, and also I am happy to vaccinate them all with the safe, effective vaccines we have. https://t.co/tFbvjdmc3v
@amalah 💕💕💕
Texting with my husband https://t.co/ycoYERK5OJ
@RallidaeRule My problems involving programming pretty much always are my own fault.
@groundwalkergmb .dots, dots, lazy_dots, ...
Welp, I'm here again. https://t.co/2eJM05QhD1
@thosjleeper I know, right?! I realized I don't know much about their politics; they must really value being not engaged/affiliated.
Really great chat on data visualization by @VByrdPhD for the #NASADatanauts today! ✨📊🌠 https://t.co/Q7Hjqen3bG
@minebocek @hadleywickham This one is my FAVORITE: https://t.co/ruCC7t6dAx 
"My face is NOT 3-D ENOUGH."
Do I know anybody who has used Docker on a Hackintosh? My naive first tries are all failing, and my google-fu on this is proving iffy.
RT @inafried: Reminder: if cubs and Indians tied after 9 it goes to the House of Representatives.
@jkru Just add more memes.
RT @VeracioSurvey: Sign up to be a beta-tester for our tool funded by @knightfdn! https://t.co/B7PygTvzAR #survey #weighting #tool #nptech
@andrewheiss Oh no no no. This is all terrible, although of course so good that nobody is hurt.
I feel like a REAL LIVE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER when I fix the thing I intended to fix without breaking a bunch of other stuff.
Our new book on tidy text mining was featured on the Software Carpentry blog: https://t.co/Gi8VuCetTh
@SecretBeck Oh no, I am so sorry. 💙
@SKEdman So true!
@jkru @blueapron I think I did it?! Just canceled my subscription but did not delete my account.
@SKEdman Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
@bearloga @hspter It all worked properly but I think working directly notebook-style is not for me. (This makes me feel curmudgeonly.) https://t.co/M1o7BqaNWY
@hspter I just do not care for the inline output in my .Rmd; I feel like I gave it an honest go when the notebooks first came out.
@quominus Me, thinking about whether I would like to work there: https://t.co/8iHtNaepSr
@quominus Oh, it's a local company whose chief data scientist has some... issues.
@quominus I got on my high horse in a response to a recruiter email this morning and I thought of you. ❤️
@dataandme It's like Marie-Kondo-ing your packages.
@dataandme Getting rid of all those packages I installed once but never used much afterwards?
@dataandme Am I the only one who sort of likes starting with a fresh slate?
RT @lenkiefer: An alternative view of growth in house prices, rents, incomes and other prices. length of segment corresponds to change sinc…
@badala2164 @drob No, just online for now. https://t.co/ad30TT1GCa
We are still in the process of completing it!
After several years of dominance, I believe that Elsa's popularity is finally declining; I am seeing lots more of Rey this year.
@RallidaeRule Bummer. 😞
@RallidaeRule Even postdocs?! It wasn't like that in my field.
The anonymized survey results are available at the link as well. 😉 https://t.co/ohXBbC40lL
This analysis by @flourish of a survey of fanfic readers is a delight! https://t.co/iqMSDzt5TJ
I helped in my 5th grader's class Halloween party this morning. Elementary school teachers are really not paid enough.
@pedram_navid I really went wild for a while on this project: https://t.co/boeQHpEjK8
Whoa. 🎃 https://t.co/ASLtq7rdCJ
@minebocek Congratulations!
@SKEdman OMG, i just literally LOL'd.
RT @ELYSDO: Fascinating view of #NASAdata in @juliasilge's new book https://t.co/033NR0Wb4A cc/@openNASA #NASAdatanauts https://t.co/N9Cjrk…
@Md_Harris That's disappointingly warm for October!
Scenes from a fall run #beUTAHful https://t.co/OqnuCDqfIs
@lenkiefer Oh, alpha changing with year?! 👍🏻❤️👍🏻
@Dorialexander https://t.co/hTmJN2L3nf
RT @mckaycoppins: The funniest thing about Trump's attack here is his claim that @Evan_McMullin is "going from coffee shop to coffee shop"…
RT @drsimonj: Why read Tidy Text Mining with R, by @juliasilge @drob?
I just read it top to bottom nonstop and want more #rstats
https://t.…
@drsimonj Wow, so glad to hear that! We will get busy finishing it up. 😃@drob
@Nicole_Cliffe My 2nd and 3rd children slept on mattresses on the floor for long periods, so basically the same.
And that plot! @ellis2013nz https://t.co/TyQO5bDHpG
Wow, this post by @ellis2013nz on @FiveThirtyEight's polling data is interesting/illuminating. #rstats https://t.co/P0lCv7VLY1 https://t.co/aAYjBM4O0R
@abresler @drob https://t.co/jUsTEZj7xH
@abresler @drob I am open to suggestions! https://t.co/aGeID9NOre
@dataandme 😂😂😂 I'll take a pass on running the world.
@hellomista @drob You are so welcome! 👊🏻 That is really great to hear.
@SKEdman 💕💕💕
@hnrklndbrg @drob Not as of yet, but possibly once we are all done writing it.
RT @drob: Interested in topic modeling in #rstats? Check out Chapter 7 of our new book "Tidy Text Mining with R" https://t.co/ThdbatKIxX @j…
@richierocks https://t.co/kgsgJPk3xP
@gvwilson Actually, I can't DM you my email address. Can you send me an email to chat details?
@gvwilson @drob @swcarpentry Sure! I'll send you my email and we can chat about details.
@sharon000 @drob Thank you! Fixed now.
@Nicole_Cliffe I finally figured out which dad you mean; I can see it.
@kjhealy @drob Thanks so much, Kieran! It has been fun to work on.
@davidmeza1 @drob Thank you so much, David!
The book includes new material, including a chapter with one of my #NASADatanauts projects! 🚀💫🌌  https://t.co/ad30TT1GCa https://t.co/Bg4pJNX0rn
NEW POST: Announcing a new book by @drob and me, Tidy Text Mining with R #rstats https://t.co/LSr0hpdNSJ https://t.co/J0LngbC8j4
@SKEdman Life is so weird sometimes.
@Jowanza Oh, it's still there. I was reminded that I'm supposed to help at my daughter's Halloween party and I went directly there.
@SKEdman Oh gosh! 😕 All from a bean bag...
@SKEdman SWEET BABY.
@SKEdman 😞 Oh, poor sweet her...
@SKEdman Oh no! Hang in there...
@iamscicomm @RallidaeRule My faith informs my curiosity about the world around me, as well as how I treat the people I deal with.
@astropixie @PlanetDr @skamille 😱
@Nicole_Cliffe Oh man. I feel like I only really enjoy the gender-swapped versions now.
When @statredd showed the room how to tidy a linear model with broom, there were audible happy noises. @drob
Talking tidyverse at the Utah R Users Group with @statredd. #rstats https://t.co/OZOC70HMqH
This was me at the last talk I gave! "What... what do I do with this pack thing now?!?" https://t.co/99Mb6IBV2a
RT @joryjohn: Note: the first three times you tell me your name, I just hear the soothing sounds of the ocean.
Wait, maybe EVERYTHING is better when played to the soundtrack of "Sabotage"... https://t.co/qkcdNXxIm7
I was just reminded of this mashup-type thing, and I believe it is objectively better than the original. https://t.co/0pHzSxTTjX
@Katiekrongard I think he felt it is more for private discussion.
@dataandme Poor baby...
@revodavid Should I submit an issue for that kind of thing?
@revodavid Nice! I tried check_on_linux() and it seems to have quit from building a vignette because of a font? https://t.co/Z99Tu1q1K0
@monkmanmh I kinda pictured myself quoting Deadpool quoting Julia Roberts, TBH.
RT @VeracioSurvey: Why Veracio? https://t.co/2EMBaGhhpH via @Vimeo #surveys #data #weighting
I'm just a girl, standing in front of CRAN, asking it to build her binaries. #rstats
RT @AstroKatie: Beauty tip: use dramatic lighting to highlight your most striking features, such as clouds and oceans https://t.co/mtQHZ1Gz…
@tdhopper Six years ago?!?! Wowza. Six years ago I was deep in wee toddlers and SAHM life.
@AriLamstein That is a really great post.
@Biff_Bruise https://t.co/PAhZnxqLfo
Fifth grade is so TOPICAL. https://t.co/IEvoCSY8Ka
Discussing the Skywalker family tree with my 5-year-old, as per the usual. https://t.co/FswhaRLRC8
I shall say that I knew her back when... 😉

(@shaybstrong and I went to grad school together. Astrophysicists get it done. 💪🏻) https://t.co/VwsyYuQLHn
@danielphadley Thank you! I am really excited about it.
HOLY MOLY, modelr::bootstrap + purrr::map making my life so good today. #rstats https://t.co/Nwg2qTdCN4
@Jowanza It is super intense and crazy and hard and joyful all at the same time.
@Jowanza I love babies a lot, but that is a truly delightful one.
@Jowanza 😍😍😍
@Jowanza NO! Nowhere even near it; it will be my first time in Africa at all. I am pretty excited about the whole thing.
RT @MangoTheCat: We are recruiting Data Scientists  https://t.co/fCcKMEiBZj #job #datascience #recruitment #rstats https://t.co/tlMnRrKiKN
@ma_salmon I'm pretty excited; I've never been that far south, or even to Africa at all!
I'm so pleased to be a keynote speaker at #satRdayCapeTown in February! 🎉 https://t.co/nk4g3fW0IU
@polesasunder Ah, I just noticed the autocorrect in that tweet! It was supposed to be "Slytherin-esque".
About LRT: I actually ❤️❤️❤️ both my dissertation advisor and my grad school office mates, although some may be a bit Slytherin-sequel.
RT @akantamn: @BecomingDataSci this is the greatest ever #DataScience Venn diagram, courtesy @TheImpactLab https://t.co/z6X7oSZjS6
@TiffanyTimbers Been there.
@jkru Hoooooooooo boy, Julie.
@Jowanza Wow, this is so cool!
Would you like to hear theories on the Star Wars universe from a child who declines to watch the movies ("too scary")? Come to my house!
@naasvanheerden Don't install it from CRAN for the next day or so! It's FUBAR.
@ma_salmon OK, thanks for sharing that! Hopefully this all goes smoothly. 😬
@tylerrinker I submitted another release late today. I BELIEVE I HAVE LEARNED SOME VALUABLE LESSONS TODAY.
@tylerrinker Oh, really bad. It made the main point of the package nonsensical. Obviously my tests were not good enough.
@hadleywickham 😵😵😵
@carroll_jono OK, thank you for sharing that! (And yes, CRAN people, DUH. I did not do this on purpose!)
Like so? https://t.co/Lev17mnp3w
Do I submit another release right away, with apologetic CRAN comments? Will they be super mad at me?
Aaaaaaaaah, I submitted a new release of janeaustenr to CRAN yesterday and just found a bad/stupid/important error in it. https://t.co/Olpphrii3c
RT @JennyBryan: If you've ever had to clean text data, this will heal your soul. https://t.co/30CnNNLJqI
Negroni goes well with devtools::revdep_check()
@RallidaeRule https://t.co/Nd0pl7uj5b
👍🏻👍🏻 to @astrohummel, @mdmurry, @soumyasmruti, and the Twitter-less Dylan Zwick and Krishanu Banerjee
My group's project is all finished and submitted! Using Machine Learning Methods to Identify Similar Colleges https://t.co/FnzxXLN9lU
It's been so fun to meet and get to know people here in the valley, especially as someone who works remotely.
This fall, I've been participating in a local data competition through one of the meet-ups here I go to.
@polesasunder https://t.co/cYmSrhrn5t
@SKEdman AMAZING.
@groundwalkergmb Hmmmmm, wise words to consider.
Well, we just finished watching #HamildocPBS and it was DELIGHTFUL. 😍 🙌🏼😍 🙌🏼😍 https://t.co/KtYJVACWsq
Drinking some Scotch that sat in a French cave, to celebrate making it through this week, which could have been improved by a Time-Turner. https://t.co/1adRy2sB8U
@duffy_ma Do this:
feedingdata &lt;- feedingdata %&gt;%
filter() %&gt;%
mutate()
RT @LucyStats: Look at all of these positive words coming from the #WSDS2016 hashtag {love, supporting, cool} 👯 #tidytext #rstats https://t…
@SKEdman "Guys, let's just *think* about things." Then in the Renaissance people like Galileo were all, "Actually, let's try *measuring*."
@SKEdman I am thinking about this more. This is basically what Aristotle and all those ancient natural philosophers wanted to do!
@SKEdman HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... https://t.co/Lih4f7J47J
Now all you 25-year-old kids get to be in the same stratum WITH ME. https://t.co/pN6KIOgyw2
I am re-binning ACS data because we had TOO MANY TINY STRATA for our purposes.
@Hao_and_Y @quominus @JennyBryan @tamaramunzner Ah, yes, this makes sense, and I can get behind that pronunciation: https://t.co/zV6LlZyvb7 https://t.co/98j2G75LI3
@JennyBryan @tamaramunzner HOW?!?!???
RT @drob: Looking for an NLP project? We've published a text dataset of all #rstats Stack Overflow questions on @kaggle

https://t.co/NohOh…
@ErmiaBivatan I know; it is really dreadful.
@ijlyttle I actually just sent this picture to @drob yesterday. https://t.co/wwkweQnMql
All right, let's do this. https://t.co/vK6g70kGkq
@flowingdata Do you have the code for this up anywhere?
RT @KenJennings: Y'all are missing 1 of the funniest subplots of Election 2016: my wife says Mormon Facebook is going crazy w "President Ev…
My 7-year-old: "What is Bayes?"
Me: "It's a person, a math person."
7-year-old: "Like Paul Erdős?"
Me: https://t.co/vzJy1JTPlm
RT @AngeBassa: Dear tech hiring managers who are looking for senior-level candidates from under-represented minorities, listen to Sarah! ht…
@nj_tierney I for sure would like to learn more Bayes, but this is actually related to the survey weighting project I am working on.
@Jowanza Well, for the past few weeks it was all COWS COWS COWS over here.
RT @Md_Harris: New post: Inspired by @juliasilge, Using @mcmc_stan to estimate uncertainty in rate of state names in song lyrics
https://t.…
Simulating, sampling, Monte Carlo, etc are just so great. I will make the computer figure out the distributions for me.
I am simulating so many numbers today, everybody. https://t.co/QOpYU2FXQL
@Nicole_Cliffe I am, like, your target demographic for all these tweets.
@Nicole_Cliffe And talk about sexual metaphors -- here comes the rosebush later, now LUSH and BLOOMING and FULL OF LIFE.
@Nicole_Cliffe Reading it gives me the most wonderful sense of vicarious catharsis. Chopping the rosebush!
@bearloga Oh, I love that song. I am 17 again!
@Nicole_Cliffe I just reread this recently and they are CLEARLY HAVING SEX (this didn't even occur to me as a question when I was 12).
@Nicole_Cliffe HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
@Nicole_Cliffe And all the reactions to Charlie 😱 getting drunk 😱. At the time this seemed a totally normal/OK reaction to me.
@Nicole_Cliffe OMG I read this book a bunch of times and loved it, but how weird was the whole NO CORSET thing.
RT @rstudio: Call for rstudio::conf lightning talks https://t.co/qGoXLdmVui #rstats #rstudioconf
@Nicole_Cliffe But can you put it in the dishwasher?! I had an appearing-Tardis mug, but it ceased to function after some dishwasher trips.
RT @ledell: Thoughtful article by Dr. Cathy O'Neill @mathbabedotorg about the harmful side of algorithms. https://t.co/blOV4laKW8 #BigData…
"We could pick up the carpool, or you guys." 

Sure, I like it. https://t.co/gKzwaGW36P
RT @NateSilver538: You crazy kids are obsessed with UTAH so I write more about how we're forecasting the 4-way race there: https://t.co/Yr1…
@drob @earino @bhive01 The internet is a puzzlement sometimes.
So... who has a Time-Turner I can borrow this coming week?
@bhive01 ?!?!?!?????
@HaleyNBurke https://t.co/opgnCIjol2
I... &lt;blushing, stammering&gt; https://t.co/N5o4lugQOH
Up in the mountains with my sister and kids for the afternoon. 🏔️🍁💕 https://t.co/Jz4r7VAaJk
Old fashioneds, three of them, because my sister is in town visiting for the weekend! 🎉 https://t.co/vNpmCGvt9i
RT @TiffanyTimbers: I still fluctuate between these two images... And I imagine I always will... https://t.co/29oHXLg6h4
RT @hadleywickham: 😀🎉 to have so many awesome speakers at rstudio::conf: @juliasilge, @JennyBryan, @hspter, @hrbrmstr, @hafenstats, @andrew…
@SKEdman Those are so good. 👌🏻
@hpiedcoq Not yet, but probably eventually!
@tabinfl 💓💓💓 I am so sorry; this was not ever OK.
@hspter @drob Hooraaaaaaaaaaay...
@JennyBryan I now regret not adding some flair of some kind to my tweet announcement. https://t.co/OO5MPzN9gi
RT @TSchnoebelen: Taught a computer to find patterns in the 2nd Clinton-Trump debate. Filled a post with linguisticy things. https://t.co/9…
I'm really excited to be speaking at rstudio::conf in January on tidy text mining! https://t.co/dSF6Dsre22
Hmmmm, I guess I'm not tired of Star Wars yet. 😍

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Official Trailer #3 https://t.co/hNc4EfnqGz
@SecretBeck I hate it when my teeth hurt from sinus issues; this happens to me so frequently when I get colds.
@rana_usman I am just now looking at the doParallel package?
@ijlyttle I am looking at doParallel?!?! https://t.co/ZgvZktmbXe
@ijlyttle Hmmmm, that's not exactly what I need. The data itself is not particularly large; I am just doing something over and over again.
(Not half an hour on the aging laptop that I mentioned earlier, to be clear. Half an hour on my respectably fast desktop.)
A whole set of Monte Carlo simulations of a survey is taking, like, half an hour, so I should probably finally bother with this.
I am doing embarrassingly parallel tasks with purrr and dplyr; what is the best way to actually use the 4 cores I've got here? #rstats
@ironsoap Me to your boss: https://t.co/nVhCB9UQK7
Today as I do my job, I am so thankful, once again, from the bottom of my heart, for dplyr. #rstats https://t.co/QGPT7GiwEP
@_TheodoreM_ Yep, this is exactly mine. Early 2011, battery has gone to crap, my fan is running ALL. THE. TIME. for no apparent reason, etc.
My ~6-year-old MacBook Pro is starting to display some very unnerving behavior. Hold on, aging MacBook! Until new ones come out!
RT @drob: New post: Understanding empirical Bayesian hierarchical modeling (using baseball statistics) https://t.co/hkcOr2inGg #rstats http…
@domurtag I don't know about that! Competence and experience is not dull to people who want to get things done.
When the vodka comes into play... 😱 https://t.co/wn899GSbG0
I've had a bit of a circuitous career path, and I like the way @StackOverflow's new #mydevstory represents it. https://t.co/S8fBmqEQG3
RT @VeracioSurvey: Sign up to be a beta tester for our new survey tool funded by @knightfdn! Good things come to those who weight :) https:…
You can now call me THE TRAVIS BOOKDOWN DEPENDENCY CACHE WHISPERER.
After struggling with bookdown + Travis, I now have a workflow that involves magical thinking and occasionally deleting the cache. https://t.co/KZ2EgBhVPe
LOL https://t.co/YdqZBxIqB9
RT @benheubl: Trump's sexism &amp; lies may have been enough, offering chance to train on smth utterly new: Decoding political #speech https://…
@benheubl That's so great, Ben!
@dataandme @WomenInData @JennyBryan @Ognyanova These aren't all specifically data, but some are: https://t.co/XDcX71mfhM
@Folken_fgc I don't know! We'll have to see...
A Map of Middle Earth made with ggplot2 and ggmap! #rstats https://t.co/DJrkXGBryK https://t.co/QK6CK8PqlL
@HaleyNBurke @Katiekrongard https://t.co/zTwSjWaQfb
@nerdhockeyAG @dataandme I like this version here a lot.
@kathykrey sit up front for normal commuting. Also, it has AWD for snow/skiing/etc, which is nice here.
@kathykrey Anyway, we got a Subaru Forester, which is QUITE smaller. The kids can fit 3 across the back seat no problem, but soon Grace will
@kathykrey When we do car pool for activities, etc, we can't have usually have siblings anyway, so the third row was rarely, rarely helpful.
@kathykrey For context, Grace is SUPER tall and probably can sit in the front seat within the next year. She is out of a booster altogether.
@kathykrey I was driving a Highlander, which felt too big for our needs most of the time now that nobody is in a big car seat.
RT @BananaData: Using #census #data properly to make better #policy decisions by @juliasilge https://t.co/o1OEpnOiAn https://t.co/m0Nz48fOvy
@JennyBryan And I am SO happy to be driving something smaller.
@JennyBryan absolutely did it all over email until we showed up with our checkbook. It was our most painless car purchase yet.
@JennyBryan Basically yes! We ended up doing non-certified-pre-owned, so it was maybe slightly different comparing similar cars, but we
RT @LibyaLiberty: It's been a very weird year for American candy companies. https://t.co/dQVcVXBsC8
We replaced the ENORMOUS VEHICLE I've been driving since our 3rd child was born, since now my oldest is so tall, smaller boosters, etc.
We bought a new-to-us car this weekend and I am soooooo happy. IT'S SO SHINY. ✨🚗✨🚗✨🚗✨
RT @alissamarie: "We at war with terrorism, racism, but most of all / we at war with ourselves" https://t.co/VjHMuWaBnj
@ziscore Well, I already had a PhD in astrophysics, so I did not lack for formal education. For me, it was a way to update my tools/skills.
RT @BreneBrown: To dismiss Trump’s comments as “guy talk” is an insult to good men and boys. This is what rape culture looks &amp; sounds like.
We are at a swim meet (first one of the season!), and my 10-year-old pointed at a parent with a camcorder and asked, "What's that thing?"
It doesn't change the maps really, but it is so great to interact/learn from lots of people. Thanks, Ben! https://t.co/oHLhccxeUv
I love having my work shared openly! @benmarwick found that I missed one variable in the call to dplyr::distinct() in my states/song work.
@rdpeng I have, like, a job and whole career now because I did all those courses. https://t.co/2Ob3EPBwnJ
@rdpeng I saw you tweet about the Coursera courses earlier and I don't think I've ever told you that's how I started learning R.
@JennyBryan HAHAHAHAHA... Everyone is calling you out on your word choice here. https://t.co/Nm1Qvf1QB7
RT @astropixie: these photos of the tread of Curiosity's wheels on MARS are incredible! shame about the damage though... https://t.co/71T9v…
I'm here to drop the PROGRAMMING TRUTH BOMBS for you today. https://t.co/AG889udgli
@noamross people joke about them but I say, "DO WHAT YOU LOVE."
@noamross There is this group of medieval sword-fighting LARPers who hang out in the big central park in SLC on certain evenings;
@noamross People who go all in with costumes like that make me happy.
RT @AndreaUrban3: Reminds me of @juliasilge's US population app: https://t.co/dpQAx4OHJk   which is very fun to play with! https://t.co/Kai…
@alexisylchan I know! I really like the people I know there, and I was so happy when I saw such a well-written job ad from them.
@b0rk Some local people here I know wrote this, and I think it's a really good example for data science: https://t.co/MF1oHw3vyA
@duffy_ma "Thanks so much for letting me know, daycare!"
I should have showed this at the talk I gave last Friday at the physics/astronomy department here. https://t.co/PcZ8w8co5n
RT @AndreaUrban3: OMG. The command "cd -" takes you back to your previous working directory. Where have you been all my life "cd -"?
@wardrobe_oxygen HAHAHAHAHA... I also looked DIFFERENT/YOUNGER five years ago. SORRY, EVERYONE.

(I think you look amazing, BTW.)
"My grandfather was a fire and brimstone preacher..." -A. Burr https://t.co/NEhdlC04we
RT @workstew: Since we're all feeling unsettled anyway, this is probably a good time to let you know that pipe cleaners are now called chen…
RT @MeganRisdal: I just published “Doing reproducible data science on Kaggle” https://t.co/FXchiJdp5W
@Jowanza I've only been to that taco truck!
RT @dalcantonJD: This needs to be the new default picture of Vera. What a great shot. https://t.co/tuugG51RnI
@rogers_levi Levi, I loved this so much.
@dataandme I love all of this name stuff so much. And new data gets released every year! Funnnnnnnn...
@thegardenisland Do you have access to a data set of lyrics you are interested in using?
@thegardenisland Oh, interesting! Do you have data sets in mind? I know we could do county level maps, or cities?
@AngeBassa Instead, I will go home in a bit and again tell all my children, including my daughters, how good at math they are.
@AngeBassa I want to send them my perfect math SAT score and ask how well they did. This would be helpful and mature.
@bhive01 @millerdl @quominus @drob I know about this: https://t.co/2b8D598ZTL Other thoughts?
@mdlaplante Oh, I think there's room for all our jokes here. I just thought you would enjoy great minds thinking alike.
@mdlaplante https://t.co/hYsfYKtF2j
@AllenDowney My mom's first job out of college in the 70s was as a mainframe programmer (although she did not continue after I was born).
RT @AllenDowney: @juliasilge Well, my "Mom" has a master's degree in computer science, so I know who to call with my Hadoop questions.
@AngeBassa ☝🏻👏🏻
@arnicas @datassist I have been learning a lot and having a great time!
@richierocks HAHAHAHAHA...
@JennyBryan 😱😱😱
RT @tdhopper: 👏This 👏 Thread 👏 https://t.co/qnRbxbc3JY
@LucieKalousova He was pretty stoked to be mentioned (if not by name) on the WashPo's blog. 😉
@LucieKalousova many songs about Baltimore?" "Is CA mentioned so often just because it has so many people?" etc etc etc
@LucieKalousova It has really been more of a super long "discussion" than "debate"; we always keep asking each other, "Why are there so
No. Please stop doing this. https://t.co/g8Xwn6XbKS
@dataandme @benheubl YES. I saw that too. ?????
@NishWeiseth https://t.co/B3aV8fBN6P
Roasted tomatillo salsa https://t.co/iJt5SZMrLV
p ~ 0.05 🌶 AWFUL PAIN IN MY EYES
I'm so cavalier about handling chiles without gloves, and about 1 time in 20 this really backfires.
@thorgamma @washingtonpost Yes, only the complete "North Carolina", etc; it would be interesting to check just "Carolina" a la James Taylor.
@alistaire You can see the code here: https://t.co/bVLUb512eX
@kaylinquest There is a link to you in there!
@hadleywickham I used ggplot2 to make plots for the Washington Post, Hadley!
My work is featured today on the WashPo's Wonkblog!

The states that Americans sing about most https://t.co/dnVvAHwxYb
@drob It's like maybe that stuff about how text is increasingly important is true?!?!?!
@drob YEAH.
Guys, I am NOT READY for robots.
😱😩😱😩😱😩😱😩😱 https://t.co/B7H3LHhBbL
@noamross Gosh, Noam, thank you.
And a follow-up post by @benheubl using Naive Bayes to compare Hillary Clinton's speeches to others. https://t.co/0O7bp9iPNP #rstats https://t.co/eJRfJ318lA
Examining Hillary Clinton's speaking style (using tidytext!) by @benheubl https://t.co/O3IKZ9lrR3 #rstats https://t.co/LGVvWK1iYT
RT @Kevin_Church: guys what sitcom was this https://t.co/HkNtUS8H1o
@gdequeiroz then work more for several hours after bedtime.
@gdequeiroz I don't know if this is an option but the split shift thing sometimes works: come home early, be with kids for several hours,
RT @thedatabank: Undoing bias in surveys with statistical weighting tools can provide better #data https://t.co/QBtPiJ2t6t via @juliasilge…
@RosieRedfield @STAT545 She is just SO SAD about having to leave academia. 😉 https://t.co/kFlSIzY5c1
@hadleywickham No cows today! https://t.co/RyDGKYpyQf
RT @datassist: New post by @juliasilge on how you could maybe get more sleep if you accurately weight survey data https://t.co/39BOSjuiX6 #…
I'm giving a talk today in the Dept of Physics/Astronomy at the U on careers outside academia. https://t.co/kFlSIzY5c1
@Jowanza HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... There is no such thing as oversharing in that situation. It's called CATHARSIS.
@Jowanza The only time it's an issue for me now is with video calls.
@Jowanza You are in an intense time of transition.
@Jowanza No no no, it's all good. I work remotely in, seriously, the middle of the house and everyone/you adjust.
RT @thricedotted: just like calling out terrible bullshit is important, acknowledging strong and sincere apologies for bullshit is importan…
@seankross SEAN. That worked perfectly. https://t.co/MKXt09mbtb
Do I know anyone who has embedded a SpeakerDeck presentation in a Markdown post?
RT @johngreathouse: https://t.co/rDfWeRePDP
@Nicole_Cliffe https://t.co/ugmqTycRyA
@jakevdp https://t.co/Em0fZgXbPB
@polesasunder It's a client for my actual-money-paying day job. It is interesting!
I am learning about linear mixed effects models (FOR COWS 🐮) and this from @pageinini contains much help. #rstats https://t.co/ln5GmeWTqs
@quominus Dave's is based on this theme: https://t.co/MXLEyKbdmf
@quominus Yes! My blog is based on this theme: https://t.co/oVYOKD1HEZ
But I gotta say that ALL of Michael Rose's are gorgeous, easy to use.
@davidjayharris @drob Yes! https://t.co/bVLUb4Jrnp https://t.co/c34FuwFMfE
@sunitayyz This is an even worse problem for POC, I am sure, as far as job applications, etc. with African-American-sounding names.
The Simpsons + tidytext! https://t.co/UAnUALi0uq
@kathykrey 😞
@tabinfl Wow, that's so interesting!
@StephdeSilva EXACTLY.
RT @jkru: To promote lasting change we can't capitulate to a broken culture. It's important to have relatable role models, EVEN THOSE WITH…
@drob what really sucks is being told, "OK, but can you be... less yourself????"
@drob Absolutely, but I'm not unused to being the only woman in a room (I WAS A PHYSICS MAJOR);
@jkru It's... a problem.
opportunities? Or being taken as as seriously? But I'm not willing to pursue any of that outside of being myself. 4/4
The thing is that I AM ACTUALLY a woman, though, and I DO ACTUALLY have children. Being my authentic self may have cost me 3/n
I have had people throughout my career tell me to tone down how specifically girly/feminine I come across, or to never mention my kids. 2/n
I haven't had anyone tell me specifically this, BUT 1/n  https://t.co/9dvA12cPL4
@drob https://t.co/n6sEyRtCq0
@bearloga OMG, I need to do this. My eyes are getting worse so fast.
Another analysis of the first debate using tidytext! https://t.co/L5by6D4Pzo
I don't think my blog posts are showing up on @Rbloggers anymore. Has anybody had that happen? Feed was working, then stopped?
@dwdeardorff I should check on the river/state issue!
@dwdeardorff This analysis counted each state once per song, and Mississippi was counted as a mention regardless of context.
@drob I was having a bit of trouble fitting a beta function to that "DISTRIBUTION", if you want to call it that. 😳
I use empirical Bayes methods (thanks, @drob!) with the states/song lyrics data from my post on Monday. https://t.co/57f3C2Pqxo https://t.co/sa2DDu4LWM
NEW POST: Singing the Bayesian Beginner Blues https://t.co/57f3C2Pqxo #rstats https://t.co/pISieZczmJ
@dwdeardorff It's a scarf!
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling My rating: 3 of 5 stars Funny (duh) and enjoyable to... https://t.co/zUDj5MtDL4
@KenButler12 It's a scarf!
Do you, like me, need help in how to be cool? My 7-year-old is here to help. https://t.co/lLFhbjChd2
@bhive01 @JennyBryan @fredericksolt In my big cow analysis project, AI means "artificial insemination", not "artificial intelligence".
RT @benmarwick: Some pictures of data from #debatenight transcript @washingtonpost #rstats code &amp; data: https://t.co/SQqwjaLqjD thx to @jul…
@JennyBryan @fredericksolt I'm doing the cows RIGHT NOW. (Have YOU dewormed your cows in the last 6 months?!?!?!)
@earino Me, just on the edge all the time.
Shorter days = hens really cutting back on the laying = time to start buying eggs again. 🐔🍳🐔
RT @kara_woo: There is literally no acceptable amount of smiling for women, ever. https://t.co/PDQSnlcll3
@ma_salmon Yes, I am familiar with a lot of them. 😜 (Not all, of course.)
@ma_salmon @geoparser_io That is so interesting to see!
RT @ma_salmon: Song lyrics across the world -- @juliasilge's post inspired this use case of @geoparser_io #rstats package 🎤🌎 https://t.co/F…
@ryanprior I show both the raw counts and counts per population here: https://t.co/3v7ZKcBDOI
@drob Or maybe I'll *get* to learn about Bayesian methods.
@drob I'm going to have to eventually learn Bayesian thingamabobs, aren't I?
@ibddoctor Yes! I want to, but I think I need to find a bigger lyrics data set given the counts I ended up with at the state level.
@ma_salmon That would be interesting to try! I think I need to figure out a bigger lyrics data set first, though.
@Yeedle That's pretty much the conclusion I came to.
I also made... this squashy thing?!?!? I don't know, everybody. https://t.co/bVLUb512eX #rstats https://t.co/7ZiSZJ9Puh
NEW POST: Using tidytext and U.S. Census data to analyze song lyrics (sourced by @kaylinquest) https://t.co/bVLUb512eX #rstats https://t.co/L7lBAmAhSv
@noamross Then I shall wave at you from ~15 min away. 👋🏻 (I could swing by later if you need anything.)
@noamross Are you leaving right away, I assume? Or stuck here?
Only 20% of my family likes butternut squash. 😭😭😭 (Yes, it's me.)
RT @mer__edith: Twitter AI 2x liklier to ID black dialect Not English, even w/many black users. What else can't AI w/o diversity see?https:…
@sharlagelfand Ah yes, that is closer. Have so much fun!
RT @polesasunder: can't find how to do subtitles on #ggplot2 website! Thanks @juliasilge for putting code on the internets https://t.co/GFB…
@sharlagelfand Woohoo, southern Utah! Are you coming through SLC?
@carolynwclayton Hmmmm... 😒
@hadleywickham Oh, that sounds lovely. I'm always half afraid of flavored liquors, but if you tell me that one is good, I'll risk it.
@hspter @hadleywickham @drob I ❤️ the subtitles and captions so much (use them all the time), and I quite like the left alignment.
Molly Weasley
Dana Scully
Groucho Marx in, oh, let's say "Duck Soup"
#threefictionalcharacters
@SKEdman Oh, I want to steal Molly Weasley.
@Ted_Underwood I don't know what it means that almost everyone I know included Hermione.
@HeidiBaya I ran into that just recently! Floating point arithmetic.
RT @Jowanza: Mapped the Cell towers in the U.S.:  https://t.co/cv17Lbu734. Probably too much data, but workable with filters. #Rstats
RT @ch000ch: was pokemon go just a weird dream
RT @astropixie: earth-based telescopes photographed by space telescopes!
can you name them?

https://t.co/YyGwiVFZRZ https://t.co/gw49BhDeEr
RT @tabinfl: Love seeing the art &amp; the smiles with @drkatestone's  Starry Night kits! #NASADatanauts! @openNASA @HackTampa https://t.co/qru…
@vasantmarur @JennyBryan My particular cows are in a developing country, so I can't tell you, I'm afraid.
Someone just added me to a "BIG DATA" Twitter list but I've spent the past two weeks wrangling Excel spreadsheets about cows.
Well, that is wonderful and affirming. https://t.co/sRO4fa5Naw
@RobertMitchellV @drob @kara_woo @xieyihui Your site looks GREAT. 🏅
@kara_woo @drob I already copied this and use it for my blog; it works great for me. https://t.co/ozbuyyiGJ6
@polesasunder 😱
@Nicole_Cliffe My talk is too full of memes anyway, though, so that had to go.
@Nicole_Cliffe I am giving a talk at the U about non-academic careers for physics/astro PhDs and I was THISCLOSE using this for my title. https://t.co/A1bgX4xw7w
@bearloga (Also, I really like black coffee just the way it is. 😍☕️😍)
@bearloga They ARE delicious! I feel/sleep/cope with life better when I don't have much sugar, though, so I do such things sparingly.
@dwdeardorff There you go! 'Tis the season.
I buy one pumpkin spice latte a year and today is the day because DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON.
@tabinfl Oh, I remember that book from my homeschool days!
Discussion on drive to preschool this morning: why did Anakin Skywalker and Ben Solo decide to join the dark side.
PSEUDOBULGE. https://t.co/OKUqtHsHJ7
RT @localblactivist: Ok quick thread for all non-black allies who want to help in times of black pain and struggling but don't know how:
RT @rabaath: On my blog -&gt; A Fun Gastronomical Dataset: What's on the Menu?
https://t.co/kIljjNKenx
#rstats  #food @nypl_labs
RT @noamross: Know a sharp recent undergrad with interest in data/#rstats/health/ecology? Pass this on! https://t.co/uZ0XH1s85v
@SecretBeck You are now on the hook for me the next time I can't remember where a Canadian province is, which is basically all of the time.
@SecretBeck Maryland! On the East Coast, sort of mid-Atlantic-ish.
Nooooooooooooo... 😫🐄😫🐄😫🐄😫 https://t.co/oMmyfisTFE
RT @dandrezner: Denise Young deserves a raise, because that's about as perfect a response as a corporate officer could deliver given the si…
@bhive01 HA! No, but just about babies and books and personal stuff only.
RT @NishWeiseth: Skittles. https://t.co/kpGVkh8IUl
Then I realized THIS WOMAN IS ME, and I should just apologize to all my original Twitter friends. I'm sorry, pre-data-science friends.
I just unfollowed someone on Pinterest because she used to post dresses I like but now posts only about goat husbandry and bees.
@hadleywickham @thomasp85 @jimhester_ @drob I guess I think of it that way already: "Now I will facet this plot by Variable X."
@hadleywickham @thomasp85 @jimhester_ @drob I am not one for fights over grammar, but "facet" seems fine to me as a verb?!?!
You know you want to... Becoming a Salt Lake City Convert https://t.co/SuoaE6rfMy
@jscarlton TRUTH.
I am having to re-do some pretty onerous data cleaning work, and I am SO THANKFUL that it is all in knitr, fully reproducible, etc. #rstats
Time to buckle down with this REMARKABLE COW DATA https://t.co/yA75zm84pU
@dataandme LOLOLOL... Oh, I love that.
OMG, I love today's xkcd so so much. https://t.co/Wc3elhwy3s https://t.co/ZZPegQyUoU
New version of janeaustenr on CRAN today, with no dependencies now thanks to @opencpu! https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY https://t.co/1ExtBtNktp
@rmflight Been there. Both of those places.
@thomasp85 @drob "Facet" *can* be a verb: https://t.co/QYylrTQe8r
@drob Oh right, Emmys, TV. 

DAVE.
@drob This is basically how I pictured living in NYC when I was about 12.
@drob I... explain yourself, sir.
@JennyBryan This is from a humor website (and written by my friend!) but not actually a joke, I don't think: https://t.co/UyzyqmkUjq
Not that I'm saying I personally have everything figured out with all this. The narrative is just often so super negative, though!
"Plenty of people are able to combine big jobs, families and personal time just fine." via @FortuneMagazine https://t.co/iXIwWbgi5h
@JennyBryan Like which car to buy? I am about to downsize my vehicle (because oldest is tall + no more giant car seats) and I am SO HAPPY.
Also realized I have been confusing Chris Isak and Bruce Springsteen for who sings a certain song. https://t.co/vfCJcYLTGB
Things I did while making bacon for breakfast: submit new release of package to CRAN, pay bills, start laundry. https://t.co/APoGTBO5Gr
@bearloga You say that like it's a bad thing.
@Jowanza Congratulations! She is so beautiful and I love that name. 😍
RT @NikkyMill: Time to update your slide decks! Stock photos of women of color in tech, now free to use. https://t.co/em7mODAs01 https://t.…
I wonder where she could have gotten that from.
My oldest daughter is such a Hermione.
@abresler Oh, I am so sorry. I'm really glad you got to share that about her.
@sciam @amcasari BUT WAIT, look at my profile pic on GitHub! https://t.co/PzL6jmf8MV
@ExpectAPatronum @dataandme Wow! That can't be true for too many names.
@astropixie @yo_dabba_dabba Gosh, that is uncanny. I wouldn't at all question it if someone told me that was southern Utah.
@mimismartypants This is what I need! A list of maybe 30 things that we can eat!
@mimismartypants You just motivated me to start a document on Google Drive called "Dinner" because lately I am THE WORST about meal prep.
RT @dataandme: How @juliasilge could have been a Debbie, &amp; other #rstats babynames fun https://t.co/vWRQdTmdq8 https://t.co/pdTPBEhsxJ
@dataandme Oh, I had so much fun doing that blog post!
@polesasunder OMG, ME RIGHT NOW. Dozens of differently formatted/organized Excel files... https://t.co/PK6HgFTJGL
I laughed HA HA SO FUNNY when I RT'd this a few days ago, but I used this for real just now. https://t.co/9ceP4jaGze
This is the project that finally made me the learn the RStudio shortcuts for things like "run all chunks above", etc.
Grep 🔁 grep 🔁 grep 🔁 grep 🔁 grep 🔁 grep
Googling for regex patterns, as one does. (People have already figured all this out already, everybody.)
@rsangole This is for work; it's survey data collected in a developing country on dairy production. Some messy Excel for sure!
I've decided I regret being snarky yesterday about this data I am analyzing; a lot of people worked hard to collect it.
RT @thosjleeper: Stunning. And poignant. https://t.co/K2bdeWISFL
@AngeBassa The only thing I have tweeted about today is being kind of bad at gnarly spreadsheets.
@AngeBassa Thank you! (But... you have made me wonder if this is general encouraging applause? Or specific?)
@KenButler12 Maybe I should have.
Now column names that start with a space and then a number in brackets, like so: " [11] Eleventh Important Column Title"

So fun, everybody!
Column names that start with pound signs FOR DAYSSSSSS. 😭#️⃣😭
@sunitayyz I saw that! So a) hilarious and b) helpful.
@JennyBryan This is just ~1/4 of the data for this project, so I'll see what trips me up next!
@JennyBryan Turns out some columns had a mix of formatting in different cells (numeric, text); they are all rectangular, at least.
@pitakakariki @ibddoctor @StephdeSilva Yep, this is what I landed on!
RT @ksylor: I made a website to explain how to get yourself out of your git messes in plain english https://t.co/6Rc6YTPM3o
@ibddoctor @StephdeSilva I tried that, but it still put in NA for all the times when the cell was formatted as a string.
This is what I need to do; I just tried it on some of the problematic files and no NAs at all. https://t.co/vSmfWFO3mL
@stat_geek YES! This is what I need to do.
@rmflight Yes, readxl::read_excel is doing better than anything else. It turns out that a few of the cells are formatted as strings. 😱
@StephdeSilva Actually, I think that the problem is that some of the cells are formatted as strings.
@bryancshepherd The one that seems to be working the most but adding in some NAs is readxl::read_excel.
@rmflight @drob These are all rectangular/tabular; it is more just issues of formatting, people typing "03" for the number 3, etc.
@StephdeSilva Is that... an OK thing to do? Change the original file? I guess I could try it and see if that is really the only problem.
@bryancshepherd I've tried a couple of things; some of them are crashing because of Java dependencies, some are putting NAs in, etc.
@StephdeSilva Different cells, same column.
that some of those are characters and then turning them to NA.
As an example, there are right-justified and left-justified numbers in a column, and the ways of reading I have tried so far are thinking
I feel like I have joined some super lame club.
I have questions about reading complicated, rather problematically formatted Excel files into R. Where do I go? Who do I talk to?
Thing I just wrote in an email to @datassist: "I'll note those details on how to count the cows." https://t.co/t9VdwTknZ2
@opencpu Is there a reason you don't want to put the stop words in hunspell itself? Or did you figure out something that will work?
@opencpu Thanks for the PR, Jeroen!
@HaleyNBurke I am wearing them right now! But I can hardly focus!
About to get my eyes dilated, so farewell, ability to read/focus. 👓
RT @wrightallison: You start reading &amp; think, "she's not really going to do this for all of them, is she?" &amp; then she does https://t.co/BKF…
@opencpu @GaborCsardi You have no idea how much joy it brings me to see Pride and Prejudice pop up randomly in my mentions like this.
@opencpu Or wait! Tokenizers! It has fewer dependencies than tidytext or quanteda, and it has stop words in a bunch of languages.
@opencpu Have you looked at quanteda? It has a list.
@seankross @quominus I have used the R console to calculate how much I need to pay a babysitter.
Starting work on a new data set that is ALL COWS ALL THE TIME. 🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮 Working with @datassist is the best.
RT @rOpenSci: We’re looking for a postdoc to join the project. https://t.co/Ye6BQvlPRb #rstats #postdoc
RT @mcsweeneys: Kate Chopin’s "The Awokening": https://t.co/CAhy61KJkF https://t.co/dg43EGruX8
You know how great I think living in UT is!
Some local data science people I know/like are hiring (entry-level DS, senior DS, data vis/D3): https://t.co/MF1oHw3vyA
RT @dkod: Annual Mean Temperature Trends – 12 Airports https://t.co/x4C3DA2g3i https://t.co/isrqe2Bd0J
@suz_pohl!!! https://t.co/AocOtodCsP
@JennyBryan I mean, I do my best, but I don't really make any promises about the current level of shoe-as-phone in my code.
@JennyBryan I'm sure all my early code is like this, from a time when we apparently had no phones but only shoes. https://t.co/I3taos8CBs
@hadleywickham Well... there is that as well.
Mmmmmmm, some @accidental__aRt with ggrepel. It looks... sharp and poky! #rstats https://t.co/FmOZYNnhI9
@NishWeiseth "Donald Trump seems to have been created in a laboratory in order to repulse Mormons." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... LOVE.
This is excellent, on what's going on in Utah in this here crazy 2016 election https://t.co/TGnkLpoxgM
@andrewheiss https://t.co/X9tmOj4aDG
My 10-year-old has opinions on taco trucks on every corner. a) They should serve horchata. b) They should rotate corners, for variety.
Found one on this corner! 🌮😍✨ https://t.co/nLfOfz4DJB
They did pray before the concert and I... was not expecting that.
We came to see @leslieodomjr and it was an AMAZING MAGICAL DELIGHT.
I am on the BYU campus but my shoulders are not covered. 😳😱😳😱😳
RT @polotek: Peter is one of the ppl trying to clean up twitter's mess. This is legit, and you should consider working with him. https://t.…
@HighlandAnalyst @drob Thanks so much, @dselivanov_ and @lincolnmullen, for that wonderful package! 👍🏻👍🏻 https://t.co/A0lgAcYpbR
@HighlandAnalyst @drob The ngrams tokenizing in tidytext is done by tokenizers, which @dselivanov_ is an author on. https://t.co/FTW86DEMrX
Watch your step at my house this morning. https://t.co/2jCMa2eECY
@_inundata https://t.co/5A0Dl483sf
@_inundata @JennyBryan Also, I'm about to take a child to a piano lesson so this is particularly bad timing on my part.
@_inundata @JennyBryan Ask me anything, Karthik! 

(I probably won't be able to help you.)
@HaleyNBurke No! WTF?!?!?!?! It was SOMETHING HE USED TO EAT!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
@minebocek It is a true horror, Mine. Brazilian cheese bread (not homemade), shredded kalua pork, fruit for kids + salad for adults.
5-year-old about what I made for dinner: "No! I love that negative infinity percent!"
@earino Oh. Hang in there, you.
@_inundata @JennyBryan Oh dear. 

I have not truly given any option a real workout, to be fair.
@JennyBryan I have been using Table Tool (just for OSX); you can download a nice working version from the App Store. https://t.co/Le4oHGYT0F
@JennyBryan I remember having trouble with this one, so I found another option that is working well for me.
Like, literally immediately, because I am always mucking around with renaming and reordering factors for plots and whatnot.
I sat down to read this about the forcats 🐈🐈🐈🐈 package for factors and I immediately started using it. #rstats https://t.co/B3OibEW2Qn
@kierisi 😳
RT @ma_salmon: My exploration of #first7jobs tweets with #rstats on @monkeylearn's blog https://t.co/Gtzew6EBKu 🐒
@_inundata Maybe I should clarify the plot; @drob mentions you about as much as dplyr and broom, more than Trump, less than @hspter.
RT @astrotweeps: For those with undergraduate degrees in Astronomy/Physics, how much computer science preparation did you receive?
@_inundata And @drob loves #rstats more than all of us.
@_inundata @drob I am just seeing that you don't have an @ because of your underscore; maybe we can fix that.
@drob Ironically, we are celebrating a birthday TODAY. My youngest is turning 5!
@sjGoring @drob To be made public very, very soon.
@tdhopper Well, I *did* take all those and based on my current daily tasks, what I regret not taking is any statistics at all.
Gosh, I just wonder which one of these is me and which one is @drob? How will we ever know?!?! https://t.co/JuAMFeemtU
RT @Maggie: THE WORLD IS GLUTTED WITH WONDER. https://t.co/zNgvi4W2vK
@LoveStats I mean, I'm sure lots of them were/are adaptive, let you make faster decisions with limited resources, etc.
@drob I, on the other hand, have a sophisticated, elegant set of git strategies. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
RT @drob: Me: Git makes it easy to revert your local changes

Them: Great! So what command do I use?

Me: I said it was easy not that I kne…
RT @seankross: New post: A Sentiment Analysis of Hamilton https://t.co/jyt5JoMNyD Thanks to @juliasilge and @drob! #rstats https://t.co/ebK…
@seankross @drob Nice WORK. https://t.co/qpBhkW53WX
My life is SO DIFFERENT than it was ~5 years ago.
Today is the day my LAST BABY starts his LAST YEAR of preschool. 😎🙊😧
RT @kevinmarks: How to talk to a woman wearing headphones: Be a Kardashev Type II civilisation in HD164595 https://t.co/ud5IcRYssj
RT @RLadiesLondon: .@RConsortium @linuxfoundation FUNDS @RLadiesLondon @RLadiesSF!! Retweet ur support! #rstats https://t.co/poS8oZuomU htt…
@carroll_jono LOL -- They talk about Erdős numbers in this children's book, but not Erdős-Bacon numbers.
@AriLamstein NO. That's why it is so painful.
@hspter 😂 That is not in there; lots of his other weirdness is in.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, my kids love this book: https://t.co/864Mao9njl
RT @daattali: I finally documented a big list of intermediate/advanced Shiny tips+tricks I've come up with in past 2 years #rstats https://…
@richierocks @drob NOOOOOOOOOO... https://t.co/EUSM26QZE8
RT @freelanceastro: "Data analysis is where theory and engineering meet! That's why it's great to work there." @davidwhogg #AstroHackWeek
RT @ItsAndyRyan: Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Schrödinger: Nice, nice
RT @OhHeyJacob: This is the best demonstration of the problem with gendering toys I have ever seen. #LetToysBeToys https://t.co/Vg79W47bki
@alexisylchan He is ABOUT to turn 5, like in 2 days. (Won't start kindergarten until next year, though.)
My 4-year-old has moved on from his fixation with infinity to prime numbers, but his grasp on multiplication is feeble at best. 😫😫😫
@tek_keller @drob You might check out how the stop words in the tokenizers package are encoded? Has Russian, Spanish, etc etc etc
@tek_keller @drob I am not an expert in encoding issues but I do know the tokenizers package does handle other languages.
RT @tabinfl: The Onion answers commonly asked questions about sexism. Brilliantly. https://t.co/bZ1IGCgZl0
@JennyBryan My physician husband told me about it yesterday!
I showed my husband the Drew Conway Venn diagram for the first time yesterday, and he immediately played Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone".
@Nicole_Cliffe Meat is OK, just not meat + dairy together in the same meal.
RT @fonti_kar: #Rstats package written by @will_cornwell to select earthy colour palettes for plots! https://t.co/EdL3kCFBux #nerd https://…
@earino Hey, we're the same age! I turned 38 in June. ✨🎂✨
@jkru OMG, that is... crazy and traumatic.
@jkru What?! Oh my gosh.
The mint is "locally foraged", which means Rob walked down the street and stole it from a neighbor, basically.
Mint juleps with honey simple syrup 🐝 https://t.co/AzPTLqmaMh
@TheAtavism ON IT and non-annoying for Neil deGrasse Tyson" when I saw those.
@TheAtavism OMG, I did not notice it was not the real one when I saw that getting passed around. I literally thought, "Wow, that seems very
@hadleywickham @rdpeng @hspter But you did just make me question whether I've been saying ggplot2 wrong this whole time.
@hadleywickham @rdpeng @hspter No, it's a hard g like in "go" in my name, although that is one of the closest mispronunciations.
@hspter Yes, right! It is a weird one.
@KenButler12 Yep, that's right. That side of my husband's family emigrated from Germany in the 1920s. Probably a good time to leave.
RT @hspter: In which I butcher @juliasilge's name https://t.co/nITU1yU2uz
@hspter @rdpeng My maiden name was Smith and I started using Silge while I was just engaged because I was about to publish my 1st paper. 😯
@hspter @rdpeng It's two syllables: SIL-GHEE (short i, hard g like in go).
@hspter @rdpeng OMG 😂 that *was* actually pretty bad. It is quite a difficult last name, in your defense.
RT @bryancshepherd: Fun things to do with your GitHub profile:
https://t.co/aEN10kcMrl #Python https://t.co/OR0rgaG1bk
RT @drob: New post: Analysis of the #7FavPackages hashtag https://t.co/3CN6wgJt3O #rstats https://t.co/zjYAHWz9dT
RT @superdames: You guys

I have a new favorite supervillain https://t.co/jVu9QlcsF6
RT @lenkiefer: comparison: year-over-year house price growth by state https://t.co/jjfz6ohvgc
@carroll_jono @drob My git skills/practice could be improved by several magnitudes and I would still probably mess stuff up on the regular.
@carroll_jono @drob HAHAHAHA, yes. (It's not a package; it's this book we're doing.)
I would just like to publicly say that I am sorry for this, @drob. 😵😵😵 https://t.co/Ccz9Lf1KJE
@noamross @dataandme If you would like to find a TOXIC CULTURE...
It's true; in astronomy, there are hardly ever any controlled experiments. 🔭 https://t.co/B44F3yThAK
@ErmiaBivatan Hmmmm, I think that Hilary Parker's tutorial here for a simple package is helpful: https://t.co/z42Ot5Meul
RT @rOpenSci: [blog] New #rstats package tokenizers (by @lincolnmullen ) joins rOpenSci  https://t.co/uHEa75i9eM
@RallidaeRule I was an astronomer, so for me it was weather + telescope instrumentation.
RT @cpsievert: New #rstats package for exploring zika virus data. Let me know what you find! https://t.co/PB9YsKOfDC https://t.co/JQzxXMZUku
RT @jakevdp: I adapted my intro #Python lectures into a free @OReillyMedia e-book: https://t.co/kTRnbqqCfM
Notebooks here: https://t.co/DYP…
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gripping, tense, and a fast read. It’s... https://t.co/iY5kqNn25t
RT @lenkiefer: This https://t.co/moGJ8iMgkC from @juliasilge 
+ https://t.co/PaIIhDZrtc from @kyle_e_walker very helpful to get started w/…
We have successfully gone 🚨BACK TO SCHOOL🚨. We now have a 5th grader and a 2nd grader!
@SecretBeck Oh, I am so sorry. 💙
@gdbassett Right, nothing much more fancy than that. I smashed the berry/basil up a bit to release the flavors, but that's all.
@JennyBryan Life is a rich tapestry.
@JennyBryan OMG. One of my kids has autism, so this is, like, hilariously familiar.
@hadleywickham If you ever come through SLC, for skiing or whatever, let's DO IT. 🍸🍹🤗
@arnicas That sounds LOVELY.
Blackberry basil gin + tonic 🌱 https://t.co/u5k3z86XG4
Alternatively, I could go full-on uniform and ONLY wear black jersey dresses, all the time. That might be the more cool, hip option.
⬅️ What am I wearing in my profile picture? A black jersey dress.
THING I SHOULD NOT BUY ANY MORE OF: black jersey dresses
I'm organizing my closet and boy, is there a lot of black jersey.
Negroni slushies, because it is still hot here ☀️ https://t.co/IgxcBumuMy
RT @lpettingill: My team, @Airbnb Data, hiring for a hugely impactful role ensuring our platform is inclusive for all. Amazing opp. https:/…
@hadleywickham @RallidaeRule @bearloga I've been using ggstance a lot when I need horizontal stuff. Would that help? https://t.co/zljShrYBnP
@hadleywickham The bad one!
Jane Austen Films and Onion Headlines: A Perfect Match – Flavorwire @flavorwire https://t.co/e6QxvVw48v https://t.co/xCc1X5ZtiE
RT @RexRizzo: Wired: "Machine learning will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

Amazon: "We see you bought a wallet. Would you like to buy ANOTHER WALLE…
@tjmahr Thank you!
@ChadEfaw Have you seen/used choroplethr by @AriLamstein? It is also really great to use.
I made a Shiny app where you can choose what % of the population to use as a break. https://t.co/3B4tVyzIHh #rstats https://t.co/Fzp8fUx1iO
I saw this tweet getting passed around lately, and thought I'd like to explore the idea more: https://t.co/TrOlX6S3Km
NEW POST: Mapping U.S. population density -- where do people live? https://t.co/vYDCI3v35f #rstats https://t.co/QhpvFQ52UR
People are connecting FIBER to our HOUSE. ✨🎉✨🎉✨ 

(I work remotely, from home usually, so this is a great development.)
@badala2164 It's up at Alta in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and it's a bit of a hike, but not too difficult for children, etc.
I knew I was doing it, but boy, I sure did not plan for much childcare these last few weeks of summer.
Turns out the first day of school on Monday is a half day. 😐
RT @revodavid: The R packages and functions used in @drob's fantastic analysis of Trump's tweets https://t.co/IAjXDFVtsf #rstats https://t.…
The kids and I hiked to Cecret Lake up in the mountains today. I cannot believe we get to live here. https://t.co/MR5CD96WrJ
@Mr_Poirot Oh, RStudio, far and away: https://t.co/wFOqOx19oP
@Mr_Poirot Files that end in .R are scripts that you write with code in them, so definitely editable!
@bryancshepherd My husband is an allergist and he was just bemoaning this. Awful.
@Selkie1970 Wow, that is PRETTY. And your eyes look so blue!
@drob @brendan642 @AmeliaMN When I was writing the unit tests, I was all: https://t.co/6IZKcwTgEb https://t.co/pWoSBDS4Fn
@brendan642 @AmeliaMN @drob NOPE.

WHAT DO PEOPLE USE THAT FOR?!?!?!
@AmeliaMN @brendan642 @drob We have ngrams and skip_ngrams; it's in the examples but no vignette on it yet. https://t.co/XS2ks4S5pA
@DoctorMac I KNOW!
@StatGarrett I have just recently sent that to someone and she found it really useful/helpful. She is up and going now with rmarkdown. 👍🏻
@drob @AmeliaMN @kaylinquest I have GRAND PLANS for this data set, whenever I get around to it.
RT @drob: Love this tidytext analysis by @AmeliaMN on song lyrics. E.g. most repetitive songs! https://t.co/FTw7IMOBcx #rstats https://t.co…
RT @JennyRohn: This stat's been available for years. What's terrifying is academia's failure to disclose it to prospective students https:/…
@JennyBryan @drob Is this still happening?!
RT @AmeliaMN: Me, learning new things in git https://t.co/38htN1s8GR
ggplot2
dplyr
purrr
devtools
rmarkdown
knitr
shiny

#7FavPackages #rstats
Doing some data science in this great office space today. So peaceful! #momlife #EndlessSummer https://t.co/ncbCDJHglp
@Selkie1970 @SecretBeck HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Oh man, I don't know why but this just struck me as so hilarious (because YES).
@noamross @jimhester_ @hadleywickham Then how do you access it in the data-raw script? Explicitly like pkg:::function?
@nj_tierney Right about here: https://t.co/NfFnBmHGnS
RT @hadleywickham: rstudio::conf (https://t.co/ld0ZVEwach) has a limited number of diversity scholarships available: apply at https://t.co/…
RT @Jowanza: Important story: https://t.co/LCdA1vV06j
Mmmmmmmmm, external validation. @datassist https://t.co/0GPvVPiMd3
@hadleywickham Hmmmmmmm... I don't really want to make them functions in R/.
@Biff_Bruise MAPLE!
@groundwalkergmb Right, just for setting up the data. (But too long to really go in one file.)
(Elsewhere in data-raw.)
What is best practice for "source"-ing them from one file so another file can use functions set up elsewhere?
I have an R package question about functions/scripts in .R files in data-raw. #rstats
RT @KevinQ: Mo Farah FELL DOWN but still owned the mens 10k. His rank every 100 meters: https://t.co/A4GB6UDI8J https://t.co/dMpCAXfTLY
It's the last week before my girls go back to school. I sure do enjoy having more time with our kids during the summer.
RT @laurenduca: When you're too concerned about Zika to remember how bar graphs work https://t.co/HnOqVShXld
@SKEdman Oh, yes, EXERCISE.
@SKEdman I do pretty OK. It was tough there for a while, though, even when the kids were sleeping OK themselves.
@SKEdman I NEVER had issues sleeping in my WHOLE LIFE before babies. I will say that now, with my youngest ~5 and careful sleep hygiene,
@SKEdman I feel like having babies and the nighttime parenting really messed up my sleep patterns.
@angiefagerlin Yes! We are enjoying ourselves thoroughly.
@bearloga YES.
@datassist Our view on waking up: https://t.co/hc3YMnBx0y
We are glamping up near the Idaho border this weekend, and it is delightful. 🔥🌅🍇 https://t.co/ldxfLsoK6N
@benheubl That will be great!
Last day of Python camp for my tween daughter. https://t.co/vKXWIg1TDo
RT @drob: I wrote up my #rstats analysis of Trump's tweets in the Washington Post:  https://t.co/rR0HmIsqC4
I'm reading about Haskell someone stop meeeeeeeeeeeee...
@earino @quominus (We were actually very lucky compared to many, not upside down, didn't lose that much, etc. Still stung though.)
@earino @quominus We lost money on TWO houses, selling in 2008 and then again in 2010. SO SMART OF US!!! 💰😥
@Nicole_Cliffe The way she uses the word "inappropriate" is just AWFUL/HATEFUL perfection. This journalist is a) beautiful and b) so modest.
@Nicole_Cliffe https://t.co/LIwi4WcrIM
@janschulz That is some truth right there, and that *IS* something my education (physics/astro) was really good at.
Maybe then I wouldn't have ended up shamefully googling "definition of r squared".
Sure wish I had maybe taken some actual formal statistics sometime during my long, long educational path.
WELP, here's @drob talking to @TIMEPolitics: Programmer thinks he can tell which tweets Donald Trump wrote himself https://t.co/Qn3dyvsOdV
@drob @hspter ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️
Well, I'm installing this IMMEDIATELY. https://t.co/w9Q9Vukj9Z
@alice_data I did improv comedy in college! So fun.
Scape by Luci Shaw My rating: 4 of 5 stars 
I so enjoy Shaw's poetry, and this is wonderful. Lots abo... https://t.co/r9cO0HCmVP
RT @NishWeiseth: GOP evangelicals thinking that Clinton op-ed in Deseret was for them? Take a seat. It’s not about you for once. Welcome to…
RT @andrewheiss: Excellent list of LDS references in Hillary's DesNews op-ed https://t.co/59D0RMFdL1
I'm giving a talk next month at the U here in the astro/physics dept about non-academic career paths. Send me your blog posts/advice/etc!
RT @ScientistTrump: .@drob has zero natural talent - should not be coding. His analysis is bad &amp; his ggplot2 ability-zilch! https://t.co/WT…
RT @ByCommonConsent: When Hillary courts the Mormon vote, you know this is a weird election. https://t.co/VWX9JXNuVB
@lenkiefer @leetothekiefer Wow, amazing! 👍🏻
@JennyBryan Getting values out of nested-ish JSON: https://t.co/q9o60PdjDU
@JennyBryan This was one of the first times I used it in a little project, and I thought, "OMG, I have no idea how I would have done that!"
RT @JennyBryan: Seeking input for a purrr lesson #rstats:
1️⃣ WOW examples: behold, the simplicity!
2️⃣ challenges: how the #@&amp; can I do th…
RT @hspter: Just seeing that @drob's Trump tweet analysis was picked up by @mashable! https://t.co/N5A2TDOr0u
@JamesFallows @drob Dave!
@quominus Maybe a little bit: https://t.co/MIZ2nt4KBX
https://t.co/nbnPPqACyy
@quominus OH NO! You must find some BREAKFAST TACOS!!!
@revodavid @quominus Boy, we can be the worst here sometimes. Salt Lake is medium OK, at least in the central city. People ride bikes, etc.
@quominus Oh, I do ❤️ Austin, though. I assume you are eating breakfast tacos and drinking tequila, etc etc? Maybe Barton Springs?
@hadleywickham @quominus As adults, we moved from a really walkable neighborhood near New Haven to a suburb of Dallas and it was so sad.
@hadleywickham @quominus That is some truth right there.
@quominus I was all, "FERGAL! I wouldn't try that, and I have lived here in TX my whole life!"
@quominus way to the SSN office downtown, without telling us. He came back looking nearly dead of heat exhaustion. 😱
@quominus One of my officemates was Irish and his first week in AUS/TX/the US, (it was August) he decided to walk from campus all the
@quominus The land of my PhD years...
This WAS actually a terrible idea. Instead, tidyr::nest once, then dplyr::join and purrr::map2.
(This may turn out to be a terrible idea.)
I just tidyr::nested some tidyr::nested data frames. #rstats https://t.co/v1awgdQ5uS
@ledell @ErmiaBivatan Yes, I use jsonlite::fromJSON for this type of thing. Check out an example here: https://t.co/6euMmUOoMS
@drob This is crazy interesting, and great.
RT @drob: New post: Analysis of Trump tweets confirms he writes only the angrier Android half https://t.co/HRr4yj30hx #rstats https://t.co/…
RT @arappeport: SALT LAKE CITY — Mormons in reliably Republican Utah consider a radical idea: voting for Hillary Clinton https://t.co/oe8pB…
@Jowanza That dessert rhubarb hand pie thing was MAGIC.
@Jowanza About the same as Finca, I'd say. I've been there twice, and I liked it. https://t.co/TWBLYcr3RI
@Jowanza I also really like Pago. Other ideas would include HSL, Eva, and Finca.
@duffy_ma @vielmetti @JennyBryan @yodacomplex https://t.co/DwbQS9Id1A
@duffy_ma (Maybe save/copy your local version somewhere in the meantime to make sure this all works out.)
@duffy_ma I am an expert at this strategy.
@duffy_ma This is "burn it all down", as it were. 🔥🖥🔥
@duffy_ma If you really, really want to do this, "rm -rf" the whole directory, then "git clone" the GitHub repo to the same spot.
@hspter 😂😂😂 OMG, that's awful. (I'm terribly allergic to cats &amp; have enjoyed dog ownership in the past, for the record. Only chickens now.)
@sandcastler1 https://t.co/nBuVwpYGjw
@sandcastler1 Oh man, she is pulling for a dog/cat/rabbit/anything so hard. All we have is chickens (outside) and a lot of allergies.
About 20 kids in the group, and she is one of 2 girls. 😐 Utah parents, you're killing me here.
Dropped tween daughter off at the first day of Python camp.
Wow, analyzing #firstsevenjobs with @monkeylearn. 💯 https://t.co/tpQUxnzlhp
@ma_salmon Oh Maëlle, this is GREAT.
RT @_cingraham: 8 PM: We can totally binge watch Stranger things and then go to bed 
11 PM, huddled in living room with all the lights on:…
RT @ibddoctor: How do #IBD patients feel about clinical trials? Mostly hopeful anticipation of new and better treatments https://t.co/hWsQJ…
@hspter @Hazlitt Wowza.
RT @Maggie: Everyone at the @nytimes just giving each other the slow nod this morning. Beautiful piece. https://t.co/0G9R0TyKpb
@thurm0nd It was a symphony pops thing: the music of John Williams. Fun!
Living in Utah is pretty tough, everybody.
Went to an outdoor concert in the mountains tonight, the Utah Symphony Orchestra at Deer Valley Resort. 🎶🎶🎶 https://t.co/jAidiy04Wy
RT @ipnosimmia: Sense and pragma. It took a while, but here's my (partial) exploration into Jane Austen's word world. https://t.co/oObSuhqp…
I want to clarify that the hair accessory thing was a real job with a time card upon which I clocked in and out. https://t.co/xtooe4b4JK
@sunitayyz Right; I forgot about boarding school.
@sunitayyz You too?! You literally were not paid for any jobs before these? That internship was your first paid job?
@daattali That was literally your first paid job at all?!
@inconvergent Things look good in Chrome on my iPhone 6. 👍🏼 https://t.co/BMkl4hZGhN
@emjonaitis Huh, that may be partly it. For me, 1st 3 were before high school graduation, next 4 were during college (some concurrent).
@dataandme Yeah, I think that was probably the point of the bot.
@dataandme They've been suspended now, obviously.
@dataandme Aaaaaah, I just learned that was a totally fake account, not IOC or anything. The IOC does have rules, but that was a joker.
@NevilleLeoniers It must; the first 3 of mine were before I graduated high school.
So many of you got to "real" jobs in your first 7 jobs! Mine didn't even get past my undergrad graduation. Was I a job hopper?
@Jfpohl Really?!
@sjGoring @minisciencegirl Nothing in the chunk header, no hand editing.
@sjGoring @minisciencegirl I did get it to work, with `width = "100%"` in the call to leaflet(). It looks right on desktop/mobile now. 👍🏻
@dataandme Did you see the Pope one?!
@kyle_e_walker @timelyportfolio That worked, and it looks right now: https://t.co/rRFTSsaKWQ (R Markdown here: https://t.co/NoMVSeh6xu)
#firstsevenjobs
👶🏼 babysitting
🎀 hair accessory making/sewing
🛍 fabric store
📘 library
📞 insurance agency
✍🏻 math tutor
💡 physics lab
@kyle_e_walker @timelyportfolio Thank you! I'm going to try this.
@kyle_e_walker This looks terrible on mobile right now.
@kyle_e_walker You know a lot about Leaflet. Any thoughts on getting the width to play nice in Jekyll/R Markdown/GH Pages?
@SKEdman OH NO.
RT @Jowanza: Finished up this map of landfills in the United States with income and population information: https://t.co/JkGuFytZim #rstats…
@znmeb with images on mobile (resizing, etc) but these htmlwidgets do not play nice. Or at least it is beyond my front end knowledge.
@znmeb I was just trying to make these maps and put them in a blog post, though. The whole "theme" I have for my blog does a great job
@znmeb Yes, when I've used flexdashboard or Shiny, mobile looks very good.
Wait, wait, wait, is making things interactive HARD or something?!?!?!
Well, now I got the maps wider but they look awful on mobile now. This never happens with non-interactive plots/PNGs/etc for me.
@aschinchon You want to do something like this: https://t.co/zpjzwu7FXz
@aschinchon My blog is Jekyll + R Markdown + GitHub pages, so I do it a different way, but I know that people manage it.
@aschinchon Sure!
@sjGoring @minisciencegirl Gosh, that sounds... formidable to me. Where do you mean?
@drob @quominus https://t.co/Dx3NNoEdFV
@drob It wasn't me, Dave!
Do any Leaflet experts have advice on getting the maps to display wider on my Jekyll/R Markdown/GH Pages blog?
NEW POST: Mapping ghost sightings in Kentucky using Leaflet 👻👻👻 #rstats https://t.co/rRFTSsaKWQ https://t.co/codPf3gy6O
@rmflight These are actual sightings from an actual website, it turns out.
What a great new data package on CRAN! And always great to see more women authors in #rstats https://t.co/nROMibqPxX https://t.co/UEayWgx9bz
I got 100% correct in #TrumpOrJesus https://t.co/HwJ6VH9DE4
@RallidaeRule @quominus https://t.co/6R7QyqgZTg
@drob Basically a statistical weighting algorithm (post-stratification using ACS data).
RT @datassist: NEW BLOG: Good Things Come to Those Who Weight. https://t.co/n2vVGyXteC #datassist #dataviz https://t.co/5UYe7mLHQM
@drob (I don't really know Ruby, or much anything about front end web development, for the record.)
@drob Nope! This is the first time. It is super super beta right now, but we have successfully gotten it hooked up to the Ruby front end.
@drob But again, none of it is going to be big enough data (i.e. surveys) that speed of data.table vs dplyr matters.
@drob My current big project is actually the back end to a whole survey website thing. It's getting hooked up to Ruby and everything!
@drob @dataandme @tek_keller Well, the size of the data I usually deal with is such that "thinking" time of writing code is more important.
@tek_keller @dataandme You dooooooooooo... It will make your life easier/better.
@jon_m_rob Gosh, I thought you meant #rstats and I was SO confused for a minute.
@Nicole_Cliffe V is doing drama camp at the U this week and she is sooooo happy. a) Half of it is like straight-up OT and b) 💃🏻🎭🎶🎉
I sure would like to see another, more recent, big, likely voter poll in there.
FiveThirtyEight's forecast gives Trump a 95% chance of winning UT, but look at those polls. https://t.co/mnz6GbZa1g
RT @BenjaminEPark: A very smart essay by @maxperrymueller on the long history of Mormon opposition to Trump. https://t.co/WL4QMi5kiw
@Chucheria Sure, I work with @datassist. It's been great to work on such interesting projects!
@emjonaitis I mean, some episodes are straight up bad, TBH.
@emjonaitis MULDER + SCULLY = 💖💖💖
@emjonaitis Mmmmmm, first several seasons = DELICIOUSLY WONDERFUL. https://t.co/rKOqZOqQgI
I'm (slowly) rewatching through X-Files and OH NOOOOOOOOO Scully has cancer. 😮😰👽
RT @datassist: If you run online surveys, we have a free tool that will increase their nutritional value.  #datajournalism https://t.co/UJW…
RT @drob: .@_inundata promotes Journal of Open Source Software, w/ tidytext article by @juliasilge+me as example 🎉🎉 #JSM2016 https://t.co/I…
Then it doesn't say "Paid for by Hillary for America"
📌 Mitt Romney saying Trump is unfit to lead
📌 Big letters: "Is Trump consistent with Utah values?"
📌 "VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE"
I have come up with a good political campaign commercial for Utah:
📌 Trump talking about Khizr Khan
📌 Trump telling the baby to leave
Gosh, I wish I had thought to do the sentiment analysis on convention speeches first, but those analyses (last RT, @benheubl) are GOLD. 💯
RT @BrianToad: Was Trump's RNC speech the most negative in recent history? Yep. My student and I checked. https://t.co/c5Qe2UrE8o https://t…
RT @jpager: Probably the best use of pie charts I've seen this year https://t.co/1Ju7HKB2zO
RT @_inundata: Fancy new rmarkdown website! 
https://t.co/pDqKnhp62B
This is still in process and could use some more cleaning up, but COOL, right?!
I did some work on our #NASADatanauts project today, connecting description text and keywords in metadata. #rstats https://t.co/0dzMieTcTS
ME: No more poop jokes! Poop jokes aren't funny.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: &lt;pause&gt; Aren't they?
@duffy_ma https://t.co/9TyFdnGNdI
RT @seankross: New short blog post: How R Packages are Licensed https://t.co/lOAnz3cMmG (Thanks @hrbrmstr) #rstats https://t.co/skOumIX4qz
RT @kyle_e_walker: The caricRture package by @chrisbrunsdon for hand drawn-looking maps w/#rstats is really fun https://t.co/KXVZu05MKv htt…
@rachelheldevans 👍🏻💯
@lenkiefer So nice!
RT @albertocairo: New blog post: Trumpian visualization https://t.co/UBFcgLK6LV #dataviz #infographics #dataJournalism #ddj https://t.co/KE…
@drob 😱
Just typed "?" and then some words into Google, so I guess #rstats has really got me now.
@sf99 Well, I just put it as an answer on Stack Overflow here: https://t.co/RkGgdD2r20
Replacing random values in a data frame with NA using purrr::map_df. 💯 #rstats https://t.co/qwqzt2b0HM
This is based on the NEISS data set! https://t.co/Cov8o4NOlS https://t.co/wXZFmD40ZJ
@DoctorMac That's based on the NEISS data set!
@MaryLUE @hpstrawberries @SecretBeck @SKEdman https://t.co/dEErT1X1NZ
@MaryLUE @hpstrawberries @SecretBeck @SKEdman BLEAAAAAAAAARGH... I feel almost certain that is a photoshopped picture BUT STILL.
@SKEdman @MaryLUE @SecretBeck @pledman OH. That is TRULY WONDERFUL.
@SecretBeck @MaryLUE @SKEdman I love the eyebrow interpretation here especially.
@ibddoctor Send the details to me in email. firstname dot lastname @ gmail, and I will take a look!
@MaryLUE @SKEdman @SecretBeck We did that recently too. 😬 https://t.co/TSz8plQyPD
@SecretBeck 😱😱😱
@ibddoctor Ooof. What happens if you save the Word doc as plain text (.txt) from Word? Then you can use readr::read_lines?
@SecretBeck Yay! https://t.co/tCTHxKoDOn
We are halfway through Stranger Things. Holy moly.
So how much Animal Jam is too much, is what I am asking?
Tomorrow begins the 3 weeks of summer for which I do not have solid childcare arrangements. 😱 Living that WFH, remote worker life.
@SecretBeck I am not a huge neutral person in general but I really love grays like this one.
RT @capricious_: "I begged my son, I begged him, do not come back a hero, come back to me a son. He came back a hero." -GHAZALA KHAN https:…
RT @NickTimiraos: Donald Trump said he would have liked to hear from the wife of Khizr Khan. Here's what she said on MSNBC last night: http…
@ErmiaBivatan It's this package here: https://t.co/eXfXLbgDFo 👍🏼
@ipnosimmia @ma_salmon When you use @drob's gutenbergr package, that is all not there! (Sometimes there are still footnotes, etc.)
@ma_salmon I haven't looked into it much, but I know that @FastForwardLabs has done a lot of work on summarization of text.
RT @ma_salmon: Trying to find entities, keywords&amp;topics in Little Women in #rstats via gutenbergr &amp;monkeylearn @drob @juliasilge https://t.…
RT @vihartvihart: I can't stop thinking about how when people say "precise" but mean "accurate" they're being precise but not accurate.
@ramhiser @benheubl It's this one: https://t.co/eXfXLbgDFo I'm really happy that people are using it.
RT @RonHogan: “The Clinton campaign offered to put him in contact with a speechwriter. He declined. He knew what he wanted to say” https://…
@bhive01 I think there is going to be a filmed version on PBS in October.
My 4-year-old just told us his favorite animal was a bald eagle.
(Yes, we are listening to Hamilton.)
I'm having patriotic feelings. I... I don't know what to do.
@dataandme I feel like a lot of the culture at A&amp;M is such that people would see that as subversive/hilarious.
@hadleywickham I DO like cmd + shift + enter.
@dataandme Not that this surprises me a great deal, TBH.
@dataandme UGH. I'm class of 2000, @TAMU, but this makes me not want to admit it.
@kierisi HAHAHAHAHA... 

For physics, where I was the ONLY WOMAN in my cohort. 😭😭😭
@kierisi 😵 This is where I did my undergrad.
@millsGT49 Yeah, it wasn't saving me time or anything and I wasn't loving the output as much as straight knitr. Might not be for me.
I did some work in one of the new rmarkdown notebooks today, and I'm not sure if it's for me.
Did work on my first #nasadatanauts project today, looking at connections in the metadata of NASA's 32,000 datasets. https://t.co/ZgAO7obMDT
@benheubl AMAZING. @drob https://t.co/1sL9YGvWmf
RT @benheubl: WOHO my sentiment analysis published made possible by #rstats package by @juliasilge AMAZING https://t.co/vM6Z1Cxq1r https://…
RT @bradheath: Guys, Google Trends is basically gibberish.
But if you *have* to use it, for a sense of scale, compare to "porn." https://t.…
RT @dataandme: Kickin @hrbrmstr tutorial:  “Use quick formula functions in purrr::map” https://t.co/47Vzyo0mlC ht @abresler #rstats https:/…
RT @Slate: What should we call Bill Clinton if Hillary--OH GOD NO STOP https://t.co/GZpzn4SJnj https://t.co/HHqUcceaL3
RT @thosjleeper: Dress for the job you want, not the one you have. https://t.co/XMAy6f5ydP
@srbutner @dataandme 
I 💖💗💖💗💖 purrr::map, @hadleywickham. 
I 💖 it.
@AngeBassa OMG, I've internalized so much of this.
@dataandme I would tend to use a purrr::map function in those situations: https://t.co/zgFSdIxvpB
https://t.co/BHkraGYh4D
It is 👍🏻👍🏻
Well, I have learned a valuable lesson about floating point arithmetic today.
RT @carroll_jono: @juliasilge https://t.co/D1LMP3hjZn

&gt; print(.1 + .2, digits = 18)
[1] 0.30000000000000004
@groundwalkergmb Yep, there we go.
@quominus If you just do sum(fracs), both return "1" to the console so I'm having a hard time telling what value is being stored!
Oh my gosh, WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! 😱 #rstats https://t.co/X9BuFdv8rf
@quominus It seemed like such a creative idea at the time.
@quominus I wouldn't say that I *REGRET* the tattoo I got when I was 21 but I will say that it is a Japanese character.
RT @ThePracticalDev: Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer https://t.co/oYqoQZnLiT
RT @andrewheiss: This thread 👍👍 https://t.co/ano8vafUTI
RT @ndiakopoulos: Want to crush Trump with data? Lots of data science openings to join @HillaryClinton https://t.co/3naVamw3tz via @media_p…
@kierisi it me
@bearloga @bhive01 @quominus Fair point. Having only 5 in a whole backyard makes the chickenshit much more manageable.
@wrathematics @quominus What I'm saying is, it's not like having a dog.
@wrathematics @quominus They are REALLY stupid. I like having them, but looking into their eyes is like looking into black, beady emptiness.
@wrathematics @quominus HAHAHAHAHAHA... Only our own.
@quominus We don't have a dog, so...
@thosjleeper No, it shouldn't very often, at least not more than there are Census data releases. It would still be ~7 Mb. 😬
@groundwalkergmb I haven't tried this; can you point me to a resource for how to do this and then have the R functions access it again?
@drob This package would still be over 5 Mb, unfortunately, about 7.2 Mb, it looks like, as I have it stored right now.
@groundwalkergmb I mean, it is tabular data frames saved as .rda right now.
@groundwalkergmb It's processed/tidied census data. Doing a Census API call each time is slow, it turns out.
As in, the algorithms are pretty much pointless without the data there. I have it all saved as .rda right now.
Talk to me about options for R packages that are about ~7.5 Mb in size. Almost all of that is data, but very important. #rstats
Doing some real high-quality computer programming over here this afternoon. https://t.co/cBzhJrjsMr
RT @AmeliaMN: The Myth of the Moon and Menstruation https://t.co/VWekd7500S Analysis of 7.5 million cycles!
@kerry_benjamin1 I think of it as sort of like dplyr but for functions, although I'm not sure if that is a foolproof analogy.
@kerry_benjamin1 A library for using functions, or functional programming: https://t.co/zgFSdIxvpB
https://t.co/BHkraGYh4D
Also, there are about -10 teenage boys of "other" race/ethnicity in some rural county in Alabama.
HOO BOY, my dplyr/purrr skills are getting a workout with this census data.
@quominus https://t.co/WoNwqy48Jd
RT @Jowanza: Blogged about food poisoning: https://t.co/on7wHBCwUA
@Jowanza https://t.co/wGDXQyuJk1
@Jowanza For those among us in the market for a modest home.
Tomorrow I'm presenting the work I did on mapping water use in SLC at our local Code for America meetup. 📊💦📊💦📊 https://t.co/Ih5UTYTYUS
@_inundata I am considering the same question.
@hrbrmstr @quominus Oh, the irony. https://t.co/Rx6GpSE7A6 https://t.co/7AWPNRDnuC
RT @DoctorMac: Me &lt;hastily&gt;: Alexa, next song!
Daughter: Well I didn't learn any NEW swear words.
@measurestuff The NEISS data is large-ish; I bet that's why it can take a bit to load if the app has been "sleeping".
@znmeb Wait, I see you say "via", not "by". Sorry!
@znmeb Actually that is written by @drob. 👍🏼
Gin + Fernet + Cava 🍊 https://t.co/0CuFmqZJGa
@kerry_benjamin1 Nice! I have looked at the posts you sent me and they are great; I want to send you some feedback, too. 🙌🏼🎉
With a Shiny app for exploring injuries caused by consumer products: https://t.co/NCLLqSinix 🛁🔪🏀 #rstats
NEW POST: The Return of the NEISS Data #rstats https://t.co/Cov8o4NOlS https://t.co/aJ0QwM7zOr
RT @astrotweeps: The Martian in emoji (spoiler alert): 🌅🇺🇸🌎🚀💺🔴⚡️⚡️⚡️🚩👪🚀🙇💡🔦🔨🔬🎧🛁🔩🔧💩💩🍃🍟🍟🍟🍟🇨🇳🚀🚩🚀🌎🎉🎊
@hrbrmstr Like clapping in white people church vs. diverse church or black people church.
RT @wocintechchat: Allies, feel free to use and share. Representation Matters! #womenintech #tech #womeninstem #womeninsecurity https://t.c…
@JennyBryan Yes. Heel roast? Almost all of ours is great, though, or we wouldn't keep buying.
@soniaardila1 As per this: https://t.co/9vU8EeQQG4 You can do it in base R graphics. You could use facet_wrap and scales = "free_y"?
@soniaardila1 There are no options for using 2 y axes at the same time in ggplot2, because most people consider it bad practice.
RT @ma_salmon: From discussing 4th of July fireworks w/ @juliasilge to @sciencerely writing an article abt it in @Open_AQ's blog ✨ https://…
RT @quominus: Who in my circles would be interested in DataSci jobs in infosec? Everything from pure research to ML systems, no infosec bac…
RT @drob: New blog post: "Does sentiment analysis work? A tidy analysis of @Yelp reviews" https://t.co/9ui40uhpkJ #rstats https://t.co/Z5Fa…
@groundwalkergmb You would be correct. It turns out that cows are ENORMOUS.
Unpacking 1/4 a cow and 1/2 a pig into our chest freezer. Like meat tetris!
RT @jenyamato: "I was thinking as long as I have my hands up... they’re not going to shoot me.

Wow, was I wrong." #CharlesKinsey https://t…
@abresler @quominus YESSSSSSSSS
@ErmiaBivatan I also like to do theme(plot.title=element_text(family="Roboto-Bold"))
@ErmiaBivatan You install the font on your computer, then do theme_minimal(base_family = "RobotoCondensed-Regular", base_size = 12)
@ErmiaBivatan Ah, that I can definitely tell you. It is Roboto Condensed: https://t.co/SuYVDhVOp8
@Selkie1970 I just saw that! Wow, this whole thing.
Reuse of a reference to Soviet era department stores? Is this some kind of performance art?!
RT @TheDailyShow: 👀 https://t.co/QEftnTTwy3
@RallidaeRule They don't have the cult following or super unanimous praise of comfort like Tieks, but 💰💵💰
@RallidaeRule They are about half as much, and she says they are very comfortable: https://t.co/EwhTIIN6GO
@RallidaeRule If you are looking for, style-wise, something like Tieks, my daughter has a pair of Yosi Samra flats that she looooves.
@SKEdman but this is not a year for stomaching that so I guess I'll just stay "independent" or whatever noncommittal thing I checked.
@SKEdman I keep thinking I should register as R here in UT to be able to vote in primaries (voting in UT D primaries feels rather empty),
RT @kara_woo: My course on data visualization in #rstats with #ggplot2 has been released! https://t.co/suCpi2MZ1G
@chrisalbon https://t.co/1nIXdebSmF
@ErmiaBivatan If you have a specific ggplot2 question? Or ACS question?
@ErmiaBivatan @seankross It is still, for the time being. 😕 It will all be open-sourced when the project (for work) goes live.
@ibddoctor updating this one would be interesting: https://t.co/Q8vJS0L996 Maybe I should give it a go!
@ibddoctor I don't think much in that first post would lend itself to tidytext (there's not too much on the actual text content), but
@dataandme (Although basically anti-tidy at all times. Soooooooo much information in row names/column names/etc/etc/etc.)
@dataandme Only all day every day for work! 😜 It is super great.
RT @ByCommonConsent: If plagiarism were the worst thing to come out of this political convention, we would all shout for joy.
@seankross Default colors, actually.
@seankross Thank you. Yes, this is ggplot2, with theme_minimal(base_family = "RobotoCondensed-Regular"), and a bit of other fancying about.
@seankross So the high-%-error measurements are, say, black people in Utah, Asian people in Wyoming, etc.
@seankross I mean, they are all counts of people, from the same set of tables, but they include different racial/ethnic groups.
@seankross Oh, almost all of them. https://t.co/YNHKhcmQbq
Anybody in SLC looking to fill a data science role should talk to Jacob! Check out his talk starting ~42:00. https://t.co/Ch9I9TzKYY
(The fit to the data IS equal to sqrt(5) +/- error.)
The solid line in this plot isn't a fit to the data; its slope is sqrt(5). Central Limit Theorem FTW! #rstats https://t.co/epYt21sfnF
@hrbrmstr I was wanting to keeping learning, his stuff is so good, etc, but I already had invested too much in learning ggplot2.
@hrbrmstr Although I seriously considered paying for a membership to Nathan's site before I realized it was all base graphics.
@hrbrmstr https://t.co/2ZCABTBzjG
Maybe if I write one unit test a day, eventually this package will have good test coverage.
@mdlaplante HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
@bhive01 Oh, I know! I feel like he is too old (?) for any of this but I am really glad it wasn't a magnet or a battery.
RT @rachelheldevans: That little boy. These words. So heartbreaking.  https://t.co/heWIA9YhXf
@astropixie HUGS
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld My rating: 4 of 5 stars A hilarious, smart retelling of Pride and Prejudice?... https://t.co/ORq3TzUaOb
@StephdeSilva That is always good to keep in mind; there is often literally something physical going on.
@astropixie It seems like it is not stuck in his esophagus or anything, so I guess we're just on Poop Watch 2016 now. 🙃
@StephdeSilva But yes. I now don't think it is stuck or anything so we're on Poop Watch 2016.
@StephdeSilva He's on the special diet -- no wheat/dairy/egg/soy. SUPER FUN.
@StephdeSilva had the eosinophils. He still sometimes has weird things that make me think his esophagus might be f'd up, though.
@StephdeSilva Oh dear. He had a scope when he was ~2 (major GI issues, aspirating liquids) and his esophagus was clear but his intestines
@Jowanza Seems like it isn't stuck in his esophagus, so now we are in for Poop Watch 2016, I guess. 🙃 (But thank you.)
WOWZA... We're The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer https://t.co/9ixzRm7OUz
This is my child who has eosinophilic GI disease and I sometimes suspect his esophagus is messed up to start with so YAY.
Well, my 4-year-old just swallowed a marble. 😱😭😱😭😱😭
RT @mimismartypants: yaaaassss Lizzie. DRAG HIM. https://t.co/eHqUboKM3L
RT @randal_olson: .@NianticLabs is hiring a #MachineLearning engineer for #PokemonGO -- interesting!

https://t.co/OIvSImzn5i https://t.co/…
RT @nmsanchez: Thank you @kthomas901 for giving me the push I needed to write this. #FBNoExcuses : https://t.co/aDbR5FeGDA
RT @algore: Great news out of Salt Lake City! Very proud of @climatereality’s work with @SLCMayor &amp; city council. #committo100 https://t.co…
@AmeliaMN @terriannabanana I like those guidelines.
@AmeliaMN ❗️❕❗️❕❗️ Wow, this is me. I am a liberal exclamation point user.
This morning, our Roomba unplugged our Alexa, so I guess the robot wars are starting.
Diversity in tech and the "pipeline problem" (most applies to POC) by @math_rachel https://t.co/QO2HJvK7gh
RT @kthomas901: so what about me &amp; the hundreds of other students of color who graduate with CS degrees every year? https://t.co/qd6Kh9bl2V
RT @BecomingDataSci: The @nytimes @UpshotNYT wrote about diversity in tech hiring recently, including mention of @facebook
https://t.co/b1m…
RT @dandrezner: Hey you guys I think I found how @newtgingrich will be able to test all American Muslims about their faith. https://t.co/fr…
RT @edsbs: AC went out for a few hours and I understood the Southern literary tradition for a second bc all I wanted to do was get blind dr…
RT @sangster: @Khanoisseur if you know POC doing web dev work who want to work at Twitter, I'll happily chat with them. Blow up my mentions.
RT @TrevorABranch: For those R users out there, who do data analysis, do you routinely use dplyr? Should I teach it in intro R?
#Rstats
Sure did make a lot of dots today. @datassist https://t.co/z2zg8RuIOG
@karenebayne https://t.co/q3kqBJV447
RT @laura_hudson: Male contempt for women and the things they like is a pernicious cultural disease. https://t.co/tEBOsm8l8N https://t.co/C…
@Nicole_Cliffe https://t.co/uUdgBokxLV
@bryancshepherd Every interaction I've had with @uscensusbureau has been great.
same https://t.co/NbAJEQJ9hm
RT @JennyBryan: Why statistics are better with bad drawings by @benorlin h/t @fionabrinkman https://t.co/XhZ6L3ySN1 https://t.co/mIqZ5ZuFSL
RT @nacnudus: Harry Potter and the N-Grams of Sentiment https://t.co/nLHBGlEi1q #rstats with pic! https://t.co/TeH4ZIlMmE
I'm on the screen in this picture! https://t.co/jgNO4IPQkh
Once more into the breach, I mean swim meet  🏊🏻🎆🏊🏻🎆🏊🏻 https://t.co/IZqJyImOYY
@sunitayyz Ironically, @DoctorMac also has returned to some social media after swearing off it for several years.
@sunitayyz SAVE YOURSELF.
@sunitayyz In an election year?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? https://t.co/AYn6qNGwe5
@sunitayyz Are you on FB again?!?!? 😱
@austinknight @Jowanza We are trying to decide whether to get CenturyLink Fiber right now or wait for another option.
@noamross @sunitayyz Oh, I haven't read that! I've only read some of her novels, none of her short stories. I should go find it...
RT @AndreaUrban3: Perfect intro slide to my class today about the Solar System? https://t.co/8K4bsiV0Vz
Marriage. https://t.co/hQThrxF0W5
RT @bhaskar_vk: US Census Gazetteer data in #rstats|#rlang https://t.co/FFN7dfBwW5. (WARNING: ~150MB data pkg). cc @hrbrmstr @AriLamstein @…
RT @datassist: You work hard to find good data. Let's visualize it in ways that are culturally relevant.  https://t.co/NshegF2kXR https://t…
RT @GaborCsardi: Compare #rstats R  CMD check results to CRAN check results with https://t.co/lOkrGFF3M5 https://t.co/v59YBIB8RG
RT @bethbeck: #NASADatanauts gathering for 2016 class kickoff @ NASA HQ in DC https://t.co/N83Nb0Ldvk
RT @openNASA: Meet the new 2016 #NASADatanauts! https://t.co/mQPhUG1t8q #openNASA #WomeninData https://t.co/HM7ATBBQdj
@_inundata @drob https://t.co/MTUHX1shNh
RT @arfon: Paper #15 just accepted into JOSS - tidytext: Text Mining and Analysis Using Tidy Data Principles in R https://t.co/ooVTcwVANq 🚀…
@bhaskar_vk @hrbrmstr @AriLamstein That is so helpful for something ELSE I am trying to do. https://t.co/M1qfGp7dOV
RT @nselby: My new favorite footnotes https://t.co/9BK5IutFjD
RT @voxdotcom: Roland Fryer’s new study of police shootings makes big claims — but has severe limitations https://t.co/8kVjpFl7va
@bhaskar_vk @hrbrmstr @AriLamstein I was just doing this today! I constructed the 5-digit FIPS codes myself and used mutate to add them.
RT @datassist: If you struggle with how to use good analysis &amp; viz to tell a story here's a great example https://t.co/JNO3XcZfeY https://t…
RT @samswey: NYT interviewed me for this article, I told them you can't draw conclusions from a single dept. They did anyway. https://t.co/…
RT @dataandme: @juliasilge "Strings are not glamorous." False premise! https://t.co/dHBocA6k4X
RT @thosjleeper: This. #PhilandoCastile https://t.co/9TaZWQMsWe https://t.co/GRuvXe6GRO
Negative start/end values in stringr::str_sub() are making life much easier for me today. #rstats https://t.co/9A80KmUPRG
@ipnosimmia This is because it's not specifically a text operation/function, but more general, etc. @drob
@ipnosimmia Yes, it is being migrated over to the widyr package:  https://t.co/4MWUfTUA76
RT @datassist: FiveThirtyEight's data journalism workflow with R  (Channel 9) https://t.co/UidZcDLfQq
@rmflight Thank you so much for your thorough review! @drob
RT @rmflight: took my first serious look @juliasilge and @drob tidytext #rstats pkg as part of @JOSS_TheOJ review. Will be using next time…
@quominus It was a wild and wacky world.
@quominus Oh man, I grew up in a very conservative TX homeschooling/evangelical milieu and this is giving me a little PTSD.
RT @NishWeiseth: Watch. https://t.co/WPdxdLHUez
RT @alung: #PokemonGo vs LoL vs Candycrush vs Clash of clans vs Angry birds on Google trends https://t.co/p5Z931dwIu
We watched Zootopia with our kids this afternoon, because of what woke parents we are, obvs. https://t.co/8Y0owQPyFr
@SKEdman 😳😱😥😵
@jhollist It definitely is! Summery and light. 👍🏻👍🏻
Summer Sunday Campari Spritz 🎈 https://t.co/21B3pIzyPE
@emjonaitis @RallidaeRule @bearloga No real social/team component (except IRL). But I suppose sort of birding-esque!
RT @inconvergent: computers in movies sure beep a lot. am i not using mine correctly?
@RallidaeRule @bearloga @emjonaitis but there is something super engaging and delightful about the real/pretend interaction.
@RallidaeRule @bearloga @emjonaitis Pretty much the same! I was only pop-culture-aware of Pokemon (and from kids I babysat as a teen, etc)
Church was a PokeStop, naturally. https://t.co/bFwnLQPSUz
RT @dataandme: I don't think I've EVER looked this poised. A beautiful portrait of the power of non-violence. https://t.co/kuWrz4ISxy
RT @Snowden: Two journalists, @Deray Mckesson, and ~99 others arrested marching against police violence. #BatonRouge https://t.co/RFrYX0ueXX
So... Rob and I came to Deer Valley for a date night. https://t.co/fBg7o5BfZc
@bhive01 They remodeled/expanded the central SLC one in the past year, making it the biggest, so they tell us. Because Utah.
There is someone here singing Hamilton lyrics, because life is a rich tapestry.
I'm at the biggest Costco in the world on a Saturday afternoon. AAAAAAAAAAH...
RT @linclark: Code that my mom wrote 50 years ago just went up on GitHub https://t.co/eF7QNieLLW
RT @markhneedham: @juliasilge used your sentiment analysis code on some writing of my own - https://t.co/4n9xFOca34. So thanks! :)
RT @knguyen: Guys @xuhulk is always doing excellent and important work https://t.co/cQb7tJy46T
OMG, this one: https://t.co/ZoZKrlsB0y
I met the cartoonist who made this tonight at a party. Small Lake City, as they say.
https://t.co/29wo75DjDR
@ipnosimmia @bhive01 @polesasunder Yes! https://t.co/d1GSYSzGEd
We've been to this place! It's amazing. https://t.co/GOZW9Z6hlj
@quominus HAHAHAHAHAHA...
@haozhu233 answers for. As a white woman I am highly unlikely to be treated poorly by police; what do I do with that or handle that?
@haozhu233 Yes, that is very possible. As to your first question, gosh, handling privilege is a big topic that I'm not sure I have all the
RT @hrbrmstr: @juliasilge Highly suggest using https://t.co/GzQ86PijLo by @nselby as well for your explorations.
@GJMcClintock @Jowanza @washingtonpost Well, this might be my fault, not theirs.
@GJMcClintock @Jowanza wasn't threatening somehow, I guess?!
@GJMcClintock @Jowanza As the WashPo reports it, it is where the person was not armed to start with. Doesn't necessarily mean the person
This plot shows the fraction of total fatal police shootings where the person is reported unarmed. https://t.co/2aVa8snlOC
People of color are killed while unarmed at higher rates. https://t.co/NbJJcUfRFm
I opened up the WashPo's fatal police shooting dataset again this morning.
@ma_salmon Oh, frustrating, right?! I hope this gets sorted out. I was glad when I figured out what was going wrong at least.
RT @nxthompson: So a robot with a bomb killed a man with an assault weapon killing men with pistols who were protecting unarmed civilians.
RT @bryanedwardhill: While some people want more hate, I'm watching a black police chief and a white mayor, fighting tears, working togethe…
RT @abresler: Working on better documentation but #gdeltr2 is amazing for tracking what is going on our world @juliasilge 
https://t.co/iYc…
Timehop has informed that six years ago today was the day my family and I drove out of Dallas for the last time, moving away. 💔
@quominus Yep, good point.
@quominus higher rate of fatal shootings than other data sets that are.
@quominus I might go make an edit along those lines, but the WashPo data set is not based all on police reports, FYI. They are finding a
RT @AlbertSamaha: Dallas PD has good reputation. Excessive force complaints dropped 64% from '09 to '14 after "shift to de-escalation" http…
RT @Papapishu: Everyone looks like hell this week because we keep getting locked to our phones at night to watch the most brutal shit on ea…
I grew up in the D/FW area and lived some stretches of my adult life in Dallas. I can't wrap my mind around the reality of any of this.
RT @NPRCodeSwitch: Again. https://t.co/2e2Cf9TQC2
RT @charlie_simpson: I don't want black men shot at traffic stops. I don't want cops shot by snipers. I don't want kids shot at school. I d…
@sharon000 So true.
@sharon000 Yep, sure. I specifically mention that in the blog post: https://t.co/pptlVbtPcs
My goal was to keep all the plots consistent.
@sharon000 There is certainly still plenty to do to really understand this kind of data.
https://t.co/0RBAjJynlg
https://t.co/YpP47ezwjY
@sharon000 It's complicated in most cases to decide what to put in the denominator (less so for the states). Per what?! What about the NAs?
@sharon000 Yes, this whole thing is just showing raw number of deaths, the counts from the compilation being put together by WashPo.
@bhive01 @RallidaeRule We do love it here -- 🌲🏔⛷
RT @ipnosimmia: Does using @juliasilge's wonderful janeaustenr https://t.co/2w7brSzxLv count as *actually* reading the novels?
@RallidaeRule This eventually includes having the job I have now. I am somebody who made a career change and lives in flyover country.
@RallidaeRule Heck, if Hadley hadn't RT'd my very first blog post, I don't know when/how I would have gotten connected to people.
@RallidaeRule I started working on the tidytext package there with @drob.
@RallidaeRule @_inundata has said they invited me to the ROpenSci unconference because of Twitter/my blog; no one knew me.
@bearloga Rob and I only lived together part-time during grad/med school (we were married) and it was so great when that was done.
@bearloga BEST. FEELING. 🙌🏼🎉🙌🏼🎉
RT @qSonyaBerg: Neural net trained on Trump tweets. https://t.co/mOQt6hPXJE
@pssGuy Wow, interesting.
@nancyskoons @Jowanza The same thing is true of the plot that shows the states; these are all only raw numbers, not adjusted for population.
@nancyskoons @Jowanza I was just going for a basic exploration of the data here; there is definitely still a lot to do to understand it.
RT @grant_mcdermott: @juliasilge Nicely done. There was an interesting discussion about racial differences recently if you missed it: https…
@dataeditor Thanks for making this public.
@dataeditor I made an #rstats web app exploring this data set: https://t.co/UHykrUlnmv https://t.co/ZecxrioHfx
Find the dashboard here: https://t.co/UHykrUlnmv
NEW POST: A flexdashboard exploring fatal police shootings in the U.S. https://t.co/pptlVbtPcs #rstats https://t.co/nYcBjH1uXZ
@amcasari @openNASA Woo hoo! Me too! 🙌🏼
RT @robertcyoung: I said this before. I felt safer on the 30 combat missions I've been on then I do when a cop pulls me over.
Wow, this list seems actually reasonable and non-hopeless. https://t.co/HGOWQxH3tU
RT @kitabet: It feels obscene to watch or share these videos and obscene to ignore them. Nothing about this is not obscene.
A Small Needful Fact https://t.co/ASspb6VgzX #ericgarner #altonsterling https://t.co/xDeP9EZWYv
@kyle_e_walker WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT TO US?!?! 😭😭😭 @datassist
RT @astronomyblog: Messier catalogue:
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🌀🌀🌀✨⭐✨✨✨⭐⭐
✨💠💠✨✨✨✨✨🌀✨
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RT @lanewood: White friends wondering how to react to #AltonSterling video (other than grief), this is helpful perspective: https://t.co/JF…
@ma_salmon It is just SO LATE for small children. We have taken my older two in past years but we were just returning from our weekend away.
@ma_salmon Yes! Further north, and also SLC is further west in our time zone than where I grew up. https://t.co/lLTDKx9p26
@ma_salmon night worldwide for air quality, because of the fire works + our geography, etc.
@ma_salmon Related, SLC is in a bowl-shaped valley and does has air quality problems. A friend said we were in the 10 worst cities last
@ma_salmon I grew up in Fort Worth, TX!
Look, there are last night's fireworks! https://t.co/CgjqmLoXhh
@ma_salmon 😂 We are so far north here that they start LATE, not like where I grew up in Texas.
Another 4th of July, another night of not mentioning fireworks and putting our children to bed on time. 🎆💤🇺🇸
RT @thosjleeper: About to kick off my survey experiments course at Pompeu Fabra. Follow along here: https://t.co/2GN4ZePwBN
@IanFrantz Yep! We had bikes passing us as we hiked a bit near the top of the lift. So lovely here. (We are at Snowbird.)
We are staying at one of the local ski resorts for the weekend. Living in Utah is pretty rough, everybody. https://t.co/OnuOQNUrK9
@bearloga In the fashion-y world, double denim is actually a thing these days, but in real life, it's not too wearable.
10-year-old: So, like, the same reason some people don't wear tank tops or drink alcohol? #UtahProblems
10-year-old: So why don't Jewish people eat meat and dairy together?
Me: Blah blah blah blah Deuteronomy tradition identity blah blah blah
RT @bearloga: "I Tried To Fix It But Instead Made It Worse": A Git Story
@monkmanmh Oh man, I like that as an option much better.
Emma/Knightley is declared the "most modern" Austen couple here despite their 16-year age difference. 🙄 https://t.co/scHYGdtGnq
RT @Carols10cents: 1998:
- Don't get in strangers' cars
- Don't meet ppl from internet

2016:
- Literally summon strangers from internet to…
RT @christinezhang: i ran a regression in 6 programs: @msexcel #rstats @Stata @SAS #PSPP &amp; #python @statsmodels. here's what happened https…
@bhive01 @bearloga Yes, I also don't know what it really means. Those tests, man... https://t.co/99iDmiItTo
@bearloga Also, a) I am also near the middle of ~2 of the other scales on those MBTI whosits and/or b) MBTI is a bunch of hogwash.
@bearloga Me too! I am, like, just in the middle.
RT @alice_data: Love there "1968 computer glossary for the workplace" in @SFMOMA #DataScience #MachineLearning https://t.co/gpXUu05pj2
Case Study: Customized R Training and a "Day 1" Curriculum
@AriLamstein is such an effective R teacher 👍🏻👍🏻 https://t.co/fIw7S9JBAC
@earino @AmeliaMN Click on your own picture -&gt; analytics -&gt; audience.
@drob @AmeliaMN First names -- you're right. I bet that's most of it, maybe all of it.
@AmeliaMN But now I am trying to find in MY profile where I say that I am female and I can't, so now I am not sure what this is based on?!?
@AmeliaMN This is what mine shows, the same. I think I would believe that that is right for my followers? https://t.co/bcRtYkUVaH
@revodavid The mind reels.
RT @drob: fuzzyjoin 0.1.1 on CRAN. Now can add a distance column- e.g. closest pairs of states https://t.co/rQrCrpstZV #rstats https://t.co…
RT @WesleyLowery: 2-3 out of 10 Americans *admit* blatantly racist views (to scale, that's 60-90 million ppl) https://t.co/EM4Uharx6H https…
@chrisalbon The last time we took a road trip to CA we stopped at the LAST COSTCO on our way out &amp; dropped 💰💰💰 on enormous bottles of booze.
@chrisalbon OMG, this is one of the things that I miss most living in Utah. The Costcos here can't sell ANYTHING!!! 😱😞☹️😭😭😭
@hadleywickham @RosiePBScott @AmeliaMN I may be showing my age here, but I like riot grrrrl A LOT.
Oh man, I have a real problem in this area (apologizing when I should not). Can I blame my Southern upbringing? https://t.co/JtDJkz0Byt
BWAHAHAHAHAHA MOAR BADGES @drob https://t.co/eXfXLbyf3Y https://t.co/4tCzD2OeWq
RT @rgfitzjohn: I've got 98 problems, and an off by one error appears to be one of them.
RT @UFastro: The universe is ~27% chocolate cake, ~5% otters, and the rest: dark energy. #SPIE2016 #SPIEastro #VIRUS https://t.co/36O4OwXZth
@darribas was ALL YELLOW PAINFUL TO THE EYES. 😫😫😫 So I left the scale as is.
@darribas The color scale ended up with no yellow because the distribution is smoother than the other cities; I tried forcing it but then it
RT @drob: The WriteR project can be found here on GitHub: https://t.co/PZlS8Nn0b8 #useR2016 https://t.co/9Vlz5OSvpG
And yes, that is much better. https://t.co/lwBmxS18gm
TIL EPSG codes! (I am not a mapping expert.)
https://t.co/jXBzSSp0Ak
@Jowanza Everything that @kyle_e_walker does/designs is GREAT.
I used @kyle_e_walker's example to map change in home prices in SLC using ggplot2. #rstats https://t.co/jPXxkawYEO https://t.co/omcrWFk1jn
@bhive01 @quominus @kwbroman @kevin_ushey I was listening to the live stream from 800 miles away and I raised my eyebrows, for sure.
@astropixie Thank you; I am quite excited about it!
Apparently astronomy/space hasn't seen the last of me yet. https://t.co/3UhgTZmcuA
I am so happy to have been accepted into the #NASADatanauts Class of 2016! ✨🚀🌙
https://t.co/OM2ixX9UaK
RT @NowThisGIF: The EU is a mess, but North America is f*cking fly as hell https://t.co/qsEnHUv6kg
RT @kyle_e_walker: Reproducing the @Wonkblog/@emilymbadger housing price maps with #rstats and #ggplot2: https://t.co/6d3a3CEFbL https://t.…
@SydPhi I am so glad it is helpful! Thanks for reading. 👍🏼
RT @_inundata: The broom package will Konmari your messy model outputs and spark joy. 

#UseR2016
RT @jmcphers: Slides from my @rstudio #flexdashboard presentation at #useR2016 : https://t.co/7HC2j6lmmy and docs: https://t.co/pqSqAHXgCa…
RT @kwbroman: .@drob Holy crap broom + holy crap R for data science book. #UseR2016 https://t.co/AGMkYaBFfl
RT @monsoontrader: Whenever someone does an R vs Python comparison a kitten is forced to write a for loop #rstats
RT @AngeBassa: Data Science Internship in Boston, MA.

Come help us change the way the world uses energy!

https://t.co/T8z0h6aEUO https://…
RT @opencpu: Great quality #user2016 live stream https://t.co/PS0HSI8QOK . Thanks @MicrosoftR https://t.co/BwbFKNeNqd
@quominus "Hot" data jobs, huh? https://t.co/xBNVFu1xg0
RT @wardrobe_oxygen: Oh @mmlafleur you got it right on the money with this blog post! https://t.co/dNoU5HoGgO
RT @drob: Jonathan Godfrey showing us how he uses a Braille keyboard to develop R code. Just amazing. #rstats #useR2016 https://t.co/zYUFOe…
@_inundata @drob (Aaaaah, you're killing me here. 😥😥😥) But HELLO! See/give amazing talks! And I wish I were there!
RT @AmeliaMN: UseR 2017 will have childcare! What a fantastic step from the women in R taskforce.
RT @_inundata: TaskForce on Women in the R Community https://t.co/lY87EBdqBv #UseR2016
RT @kwbroman: How to support the @RWomenTaskforce https://t.co/zufCb6pRWD
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant My rating: 3 of 5 stars... https://t.co/3YOJLpGQWg
We fixed bugs, improved docs/testing/CI, &amp; added some great new functionality for topic modeling and tf-idf. @drob https://t.co/0AEvrgBMxl
NEW POST: A new release of the tidytext package, with an implementation of tf-idf #rstats https://t.co/6ZUAmLUvS6 https://t.co/O6ZFU0RhRI
@sharlagelfand Yup 😕
@kara_woo @noamross Me threeeeeeeeeee
@gdequeiroz Congratulations to you and your partner!
@SecretBeck https://t.co/uUfYuY38Sh
@Nicole_Cliffe OMG https://t.co/yNy1BOcfx2
@JennyBryan I'm still thinking about this. https://t.co/MnqvqHXYWu
I am in Magna, UT. For a swim meet. 🏊🏻🏊🏻🏊🏻 https://t.co/uyJyY1c1wc
@SKEdman I get concerns about how that has been framed, but I also understand frustration with political/cultural influence of Boomers.
My husband went on a motorcycle ride up the canyons with @mdlaplante, and had to stop for this: https://t.co/4g6aXXbcRo
@leoebrown That was mostly a joke. There is actually a lot, especially if you use RStudio: https://t.co/7fg4y8ymPR
@leoebrown Hell if I know...
Happy Friday, everyone! https://t.co/1ipn224HGE
My build is failing on appveyor because it can't find... devtools?!?! Is this because of the new version of devtools? #rstats
RT @RandyRenstrom: Majors ramifications of the UK #Brexit:
Pound losing value
David Cameron likely resigning
All dementors being released f…
RT @Jfpohl: Something we need to consider in the US https://t.co/jgNEfajYv3
Doing some survey weighting simulations, one indicator at a time for now. Next up, doing several at once! @datassist https://t.co/v1f39JLzgE
I AM VICTORIOUS OVER NON-STANDARD EVALUATION.

(.dots FTW, it turns out) https://t.co/x8Iyul4s2H
I'm here again. But this is helpful today: https://t.co/hdifQP7l6A
.dots, dot-dot-dot, lazy_dots, ... https://t.co/2eJM067T1B
Peach basil gin &amp; tonic, because it is HOT this week https://t.co/w11iPUMMSF
I feel pretty sympathetic to the sit-in but this is interesting context to the C-SPAN thing. https://t.co/uPKAblbEgK
@bearloga I mean names of variables to be used later, but not as strings.
@andrewheiss https://t.co/hSFOL2y4oe
This worked:
dots &lt;- eval(substitute(alist(...)))
I did look at lazyeval::lazy_dots earlier today but it didn't quite click for me.
@bearloga @sckottie Ah, this might be what I need to try: https://t.co/6VIBpRKHXx
@sckottie Have you seen anything about having bare names in the dots? Or some kind of NSE for dots?
@sckottie I would like to have bare names in the dots, but then for list(...) R says: &lt;Error: object 'foo' not found&gt; (Strings are fine.)
AARGH, I mean list(...) not unlist here. Sorry. I would like to use list(...) but pass bare names into the dots?!
Specifically dots &lt;- unlist(...) is not working because I want bare names in the dots, not strings. R says: &lt;Error: object 'foo' not found&gt;
Can anyone point me to a good resource on programming with dot-dot-dot with more detail than this? https://t.co/MmCXwgEisf #rstats
@noamross I always feel like maybe I should learn this language.
@SecretBeck @hollandshaPri (Normally I wear ALL the makeup, even to just run errands but well, it's hot and the end of the day and why not?)
@SecretBeck @hollandshaPri Here is a no-makeup, no-smile selfie for #NationalSelfieDay 👊🏻 https://t.co/Tf54foHUYm
@hollandshaPri I have to be tricked, basically, into smiling for pictures.
@hollandshaPri I have a serious problem in pictures where I don't know what to do with my face. Smiling is especially bad.
@astrobiased Congratulations, Eli!
@karenebayne Oh my goodness! Congratulations.
Maybe more accurate? https://t.co/anwYANjErf
My three children this morning: https://t.co/y3HeQN33eu
@StephdeSilva @JennyBryan There's that Giphy Slack bot; I wonder what's possible... 🤔
RT @jimhester_: All R releases are named after peanuts quotes, 3.3.1 released today is "Bug in Your Hair" https://t.co/l3u4mANfar
@lucaswmuller No, but I was a goody-two-shoes Bible study leader.
Wow, I'm so glad I made this hot food for dinner when it is 100° out. 
🔥🔥🔥😩🔥🔥🔥
Many thanks to Antony Unwin (https://t.co/wbb6615zlW) who pointed out that the formatting changed at &gt;10000 lines in the original release.
janeaustenr v0.1.1 is on CRAN, with all data files updated #rstats 
https://t.co/0cNKvLtzbT
https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY https://t.co/5eS8aS24OJ
@Selkie1970 Been there, Kimberly. Been there. https://t.co/61QTfZkHKr
This is WONDERFUL, and much of it applies also to someone making a career change/shift/etc. https://t.co/pNGotjKThO
RT @hmason: Good advice from @catehstn on job vs career security at small and large companies: https://t.co/dkDVXyIetf
@mtrc I use Jekyll for my website and I like it! Static sites, etc. I forked a nice theme that I liked.
RT @MooseAllain: I'm not a racist but I do think immigrants are responsible for a lot of the rich, vibrant, dazzling variety of our nation'…
RT @pomeranian99: Damn: “Good Bones”, by @maggiesmithpoet — https://t.co/jEMLYytbXh (via @emilynussbaum ) https://t.co/kTaG3ITDJG
@groundwalkergmb @JennyBryan @drob Perhaps so.
@JennyBryan @groundwalkergmb @drob Now my undergrad program DID have me take 2 semesters of computer science (C, since it was the 90s).
RT @PewReligion: The political party affiliations of 30 U.S. religious groups, in one graphic: https://t.co/PKVKBek5Aa https://t.co/WYjG8XE…
@carroll_jono But soooooooo much calculus. 😜 (Not that I didn't love the calculus.)
@groundwalkergmb @drob We somehow were supposed to learn it on the fly and/or absorb it via osmosis?
@groundwalkergmb @drob Oh, my story is actually worse. All through physics undergrad/astronomy PhD, no formal statistics at all ever.
RT @carroll_jono: @juliasilge "I should learn how to get the Bayesian credible intervals for this analysis..." https://t.co/T2iuehfd4z
RT @tek_keller: A correct link to the streamR (@p_barbera) / tidytext (@juliasilge)  #rstats guide is here https://t.co/mqwD2GTxzY
RT @drob: [typical stats class]

A p-value isn't the probability of a null

Whatever you think a p-value is you're wrong

K thats all the t…
Remember when I was asking about the interpretation of confidence intervals? Maybe this is what I should use. https://t.co/Ja4ET03Mel
RT @Carrie_Mayne: Moving speech from @SpencerJCox garnering national attention.  https://t.co/OkXbuSXOzq
@groundwalkergmb My daughters are target demographic so we have seen PLENTY at our house. My son (the youngest) is also a fan by default.
@groundwalkergmb When I first saw this notification, I thought you were referencing MLP:FiM.
@groundwalkergmb We have only watched the first season so far and really did love it.
@groundwalkergmb https://t.co/kGaIXQo2os
@thosjleeper I might be interested in working on something like that, especially as I get more comfortable with survey.
@groundwalkergmb I couldn't figure out how to get the right environment into the formula but this did it.
@groundwalkergmb THAT WORKED, GABE. #rstats Twitter is magic.
@seankross @renkun_ken That is nice; thanks! Have you seen anything with help about programming with functions with a formula as argument?
@groundwalkergmb The survey functions have an argument that is a formula, and I am still working on it, to say the least.
@andrewheiss I actually have it all working for dplyr functions, thanks to looking at what we did in tidytext that @drob wrote.
@groundwalkergmb @hadleywickham I am writing a package that uses functions from a package that uses it, the survey package by Thomas Lumley.
@andrewheiss Yeeeeeeeeees...
I was very happy that @hadleywickham tweeted a link to this earlier today: https://t.co/ixeDKrFK5j
But I am still struggling a bit.
Non-standard evaluation, am I right?!? #rstats https://t.co/8BwTN2rJno
@howiesmith @NishWeiseth I was just looking at this woman's blog!
@NishWeiseth @howiesmith Yeah, not much at all. A few Facebook pages, etc.
RT @Jowanza: https://t.co/hR8sfpWJtL || Long read but worthwhile
@alexwhan WAIT.... Maybe THAT is what my home state needs!
Googling candidates for state board of education so I can fill out this ballot that has been sitting on my desk for several days. 🏫 #utpol
We decided to go with number of candles = number of years married, for convenience.
This is a birthaversary cake because my birthday (38!) was a few days ago and today is our anniversary (14!). 🎂💑✨ https://t.co/kxg8Au8XdL
RT @flowingdata: More firearms dealers than pizza joints https://t.co/0q44y4bQD1 https://t.co/qT5lawjNdV
@AmeliaMN Yes, thankfully. I was SPECIFICALLY thinking, "Better do X then Y so I don't get that infinite loop." Then I did anyway. 😐
HAHAHAHAHA... I just totally started the dplyr/dtplyr loop installation thing even though I was specifically trying not to. #rstats
RT @lincolnmullen: Introducing "America's Public Bible: Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers." https://t.co/aBcJFHnv11
This morning, the set designer for Hamilton commented on my Instagram post about going. Like, "How did you like it?" https://t.co/UPH7CZTHYv
@quominus https://t.co/TIHUtVbACg
@quominus @dataandme @AlexSecanove No, keep the jokes in. Catholics are cool now, right?! https://t.co/copo7MSbPs
@quominus @dataandme @AlexSecanove Oliver, you are one of the best when it comes to not-boring. https://t.co/K7oXkyuXmu
@AlexSecanove @dataandme @quominus Thanks so much for not shutting down or being overly defensive.
@dataandme @AlexSecanove @quominus I know, right? I love funny writing about data science! Everyone be more funny and less boring.
@AlexSecanove @dataandme @quominus feels really awful as a woman who has been in physics/math since I was 18 and now works in tech.
@AlexSecanove @dataandme @quominus sex is such an important part of being human. But what you've got going here, as far as tone and imagery,
@AlexSecanove @dataandme @quominus I just wanted to chime in that I highly value being funny, and I HATE boring writing, and I think that
From the SLC vigil tonight --- LGBTQ friends and colleagues, you are seen and valued and grieved with. https://t.co/yzin3VyE3k
@AngeBassa And then: https://t.co/zc6Um5r2h3
@AngeBassa https://t.co/tYRyEFbR7S
@HaleyNBurke I finished it on the plane and it is SO beautiful.
Eleanor &amp; Park by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have thoroughly enjoyed everything I have read... https://t.co/1wQRHg2STZ
@Jowanza I am no expert on these things but there will be a lot more shows available in NY; people are estimating it may run for a decade. 😳
@Jowanza I've heard they're doing really interesting things at the casting calls for the other cities and traveling company, so ?!?!?!
RT @kaysarahsera: .@Lin_Manuel's show allows us to love our country while we challenge it &amp; demand better, that implicates us &amp; shows us ou…
@Jfpohl @GinnyPohl I'll be honest; that is a reasonable response. It was SO AMAZING.
@Nicole_Cliffe Yes! I had literally no idea about any of it! I started crying when we walked to our gate at SLC and saw where we were going.
I... I can't believe that we are here. https://t.co/BHiUmNMcJq
@jkru Owly? Babymouse?
@AmyRosellini I was just remembering how you used to only eat dessert on your "days off".
Are we eating Zabar's and sitting in Riverside Park? We are. (There is no knish emoji.)
Are we eating an enormous slice of pizza late at night somewhere in Manhattan? We are. 🍕
New York City is magic https://t.co/7UdoES39wN
And we have HAMILTON TICKETS for tomorrow night!!! 😱😱😱
When I woke up this morning, I had no idea that any of this was happening, the plans for childcare, or anything.
It is my BIRTHDAY and Rob has surprised me with an ENTIRE WEEKEND TRIP to New York. 😱😍🎂🎉 https://t.co/dh6tCOzzcj
@alexwhan Sure, sure. And I feel you: https://t.co/H9AcvOHL1R
@alexwhan Were you the one dealing with a rgdal dependency? https://t.co/2jz2X47LyE
RT @quominus: #rstats useRs; we're pre-testing a survey of the community. Please fill it out at https://t.co/BQ4GnJUbRU and pass it to othe…
RT @gdequeiroz: "algorithms aren’t supposed to be “unbiased.” They aren’t supposed to replace human intuition,judgment, &amp; knowledge" https:…
@groundwalkergmb HAHAHAHAHAHA...
@groundwalkergmb I walked in and had a visceral panic/laugh reaction to the video they were watching: the dog-sized ones running around.
@earino @chrisalbon We have been doing this since GRADUATE SCHOOL. 😂

(We are not young.)
@earino @chrisalbon A lot of the time we just pour one glass of each thing to start with and share them, then decide what to do.
@carroll_jono A lot of the time I feel pretty certain I can describe differences, but saying which one is "better"?! No idea.
Tonight we are doing a new release of an Elijah Craig Barrel Proof vs. an older release of it.
It is helpful if Person B makes switching-type noise either way. Also, if the two things are different colors, maybe opaque glasses.
(Person B has not seen this.) Now Person B (out of sight of Person A) EITHER switches or does not switch the two glasses. Voila!
Person A pours the two samples (2 wines or bourbons, etc) into the two identical glasses, which are placed in positions, on the left/right.
My husband &amp; I have developed a method for tasting/comparing two things (say, wine or bourbon) where both people can be blinded. Here it is:
Never not funny/terrifying.
Picking up my daughter from robotics camp and they are watching a video with those Boston Dynamics robots. https://t.co/zXcTx86o9M
This is kind of savage, but it is done IN LOVE?!?! https://t.co/Jd1RaGNB88
@worshipbot @krisshaffer Did you do this? Who did this?!
@TiffanyTimbers The slides are here: https://t.co/vvWhNrnOmq
They post the recordings here eventually: https://t.co/mu8iAKUaiJ
I just watched @rstudio's webinar on flexdashboard and I LIKE IT. 😍 I can't wait to make one. https://t.co/KvRSOPyHez #rstats
THIS! This is what I wanted. 
purrr::by_row(.collate = "cols")
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
https://t.co/66OIlsXLN5
@klahrich !!!!!
@JennyBryan No big rush on any of this; I am just trying to work through it.
@bhive01 instead, it looks like, and use rowwise() and mutate(). I'll have to see which would be better.
@bhive01 The way I have it now, I have one function to work on several input DFs, looking at colnames, etc. I could have several functions
@JennyBryan I am reading about pmap() and thinking about whether this would do the trick.
@alexwhan @noamross I was just looking at that!
Just spent a bit of time messing around with apply() and it does not seem to be doing what I want. Maybe I will stick with purrr? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, it works so it can't be THAT bad, right?!?!? 🤔
I want to apply a function to every row of a data frame, and I am doing 
DF %&gt;% split(rep(1:dim(DF)[1])) %&gt;% map()
Is that good/bad? #rstats
RT @datassist: Thrilled to be at #Eyeo2016 presenting on How Not to Visualize Like a Racist. Already so many kindred spirits.
@howiesmith OMG, that sounds so fun.
@howiesmith Violet is doing the age 6-7 one but there are ones for other ages.
@howiesmith It's one of the ones from Youth Education at the U: https://t.co/x4omtcPt3C
There are several robotics ones under science/tech.
@dmi3k It's based on the Lego robotics stuff, and fairly guided: https://t.co/EsBxThvhZC
@NishWeiseth Yes! It was 1 man and 1 woman. And she may not notice/care?! I'm not sure, but experiences like that do add up.
(Learning to build robots was her idea, not mine, for the record.)
WELP, it appears she is the ONLY girl. 😐 Cue the flashbacks to my physics major undergrad days.
@bearloga Well, THAT looks fun.
About to take my 7-year-old to the first day of robotics summer camp. I'm a little jealous.
RT @kyle_e_walker: I wrote a guest post on @AriLamstein's blog about the idbr #rstats package: https://t.co/27jRGDQXQi @uscensusbureau http…
@AntoViral Yeah, I don't think so!?!?
Wow, this looks like it will be a GREAT resource: Weekly News in R Community https://t.co/s7hAPRNmlx #rstats
RT @sailorhg: "Lessons from teaching myself to code" by @nerdneha #alterconf https://t.co/O1WY0stjrl
@tek_keller @BecomingDataSci Yes, this is probably a better thing to really use than that earlier blog post.
@BecomingDataSci I did a bit here: https://t.co/Q8vJS0L996 https://t.co/HhNHqyC8KJ
@kjhealy These were all so great.
@quominus Also with Census data. Then the question becomes -- is there anything we can do?! Or just go with it?
@quominus For my job, we are working on tools for survey weighting for things like SurveyMonkey and this is something we've run into.
I exercised hard for the first time since the bronchitis extravaganza of May and it felt so wonderful. Exercise, turns out, is good for you.
@Jowanza Gosh, that is really awful.
Off to school for the last day of 4th grade and 1st grade https://t.co/eHQnLebQLh
@williamcmay HAHAHAHAHAHA... The doc at that link is hilarious.
I would feel much more legit if I COULD claim the title "VIM MISTRESS". https://t.co/KBnDsFkpBW
Aaaaaah, this meant to say ggplot2 LEGEND.
Oh, it's been MANY MANY times, Google. https://t.co/RvhXAQFfTw
Had to google how to exit vim today. Also, how to remove the title on a ggplot2. You'd think I'd remember these things by now?
@drob @noamross I ❤️ it, but I have a weakness for puns.
@groundwalkergmb And Redwall! And Narnia!
Today's xkcd is a DELIGHT. https://t.co/OQ0zHCpFY9
RT @MakingInvisible: Making the integral tegral. https://t.co/aiffWCRJlX
@MaryLUE engaged in the world, a reader
@bryancshepherd 😭😭😭 For my oldest, it was when Picky-Picky died in Ramona. Much sobbing.
@SKEdman We had a wonderful dog who died when our oldest was ~2, and I like dogs, but now I CAN'T IMAGINE purposefully getting one.
RT @kyle_e_walker: Life expectancy at birth in southern Africa, 1985-2016 #rstats https://t.co/AVBoq5z0t5 https://t.co/TFbMu7ovDz
Nice! 👍🏼 We Put 700 Red Dots On A Map (via @datassist) https://t.co/j8KnZP6h7E
RT @brian_bilston: The ad said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond;

he painted them
in the changing light,
like waterli…
@AngeBassa @kierisi I faved this while sitting in church.
4-year-old, crawling into our bed at 5am, whispering: "Do some people start counting at zero?"
Me, sleepily: https://t.co/nVplR3dS4M
RT @lenkiefer: Examples on how to use @thomasp85 tweenr packaged to improve $rstats #dataviz animated GIFs: https://t.co/9D6D1dgyuO https:/…
RT @StarStuff42: Escape Velocity of Planets in the Solar System https://t.co/Rkwckw1zvl
RT @lenkiefer: oh yeah, I found some handy animation easing code for #rstats in the tweenr package, making for a better #dataviz https://t.…
RT @godtributes: @juliasilge MANHATTANS FOR THE MANHATTAN GOD
Google isn't sure if I want to know about Manhattan distance or a Manhattan recipe. It's ~6pm on a Friday, Google. https://t.co/xOfwf9GtsH
@AngeBassa My first grader just walked by, saw these, and FLIPPED for them.
@0ttlngr That looks great!
@hollandshaPri HAHAHAHAHAHA... 😐
RT @AmeliaMN: Thanks to @flowingdata for the pointer to @mapmakerbot, a bot that (you guessed it) makes maps from American Community Survey…
@quominus @bearloga @emjonaitis @AngeBassa And now interesting bots have found us.
@AngeBassa @quominus @_inundata LOLOLOL... Oh, that's a good one; I like it.
Sure have stared at some code today. 👁👁
@quominus I mean, inside jokes memes, obviously.
@quominus OMG, making memes is my faaaaaaaaaaaaave.
@ryeslc I want to call you and make a reservation but your phone number will not ring through!
@jhollist Right. Eventually we need to figure it out and hopefully make it behave the same?!?!
@jhollist You know, if you are counting n-grams of 2, what do you do with the last word? Apparently different things in different OSs.
@jhollist think that test can pass on all OS, so I changed how we were testing the n-gram unnesting.
@jhollist Thank you! I think it is how Windows deals with counting n-grams at the end of the data frame; after looking at it more, I don't
@StephdeSilva Gosh, I ran through about my whole battery.
@JennyBryan @kennethrose82 Mmmmm, woke. #truth
@Jowanza I mean, I don't know that swimming is really ALL that much worse than other sports or music things or whatever.
@Jowanza One time we drove to Bountiful (we live in Sugarhouse) for her to swim one leg of a relay, SO ABOUT 40 SECONDS. 😅😥😭
Still soooooooooo many heats of 200 breaststroke before my daughter's next event. 😵😵😵
Been sitting here at this swim meet a looooooooooong time this afternoon/evening. https://t.co/K4qea4eLv4
@karenebayne @Selkie1970 @hpstrawberries @SecretBeck I mean, men can get breast cancer!?! And that is what it is usually called?!
I had coffee with @astrohummel today; some SLC data science people are going to be lucky to have him!
@AriLamstein @gwang0924 Mormons! Not really joking. In Utah, Idaho, Nevada...
@quominus I'm sure not actually my business. I hope your lungs are doing OK, re: possible collapsing and whatnot.
@quominus Do they think it is a pneumothorax? Can we the Twitterverse convince you to stop smoking once and for all?
@cjlortie Also, starting from just telling RStudio, "MAKE ME A NEW PACKAGE" makes things much simpler than what I did before.
@cjlortie Hmmmm... Things ended up OK but I was doing a lot of things manually instead of devtools::use_whatever.
TFW one of our important family passwords is not in 1Password but it is not my fault https://t.co/8QxdpsmScG
@tonyfujs Not at this point, but that is a good idea.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Now it is passing on appveyor and failing on Travis. Because life is a journey, everyone. 😭😭😭
@jhollist Thank you!
@jhollist If it fails for you, I wonder if it is an encoding issue for the text in the tests; I have some ideas of things to try.
@jhollist Do you mind cloning it and running devtools::test()? It's the ngram and skip_ngram tests that appear to be failing on appveyor.
@jhollist Have you looked at our tidytext package at all? It's one of the tests that is failing. https://t.co/eXfXLbgDFo
It's good; it's great. It feels good. 

WINDOWS. https://t.co/mBCWUX1uDj
Remember that chirpy, upbeat blog post I wrote about Travis? Well, now I have a package that's passing on Travis and failing on appveyor.
@Jowanza https://t.co/Efy7U2Wjw7
@HaleyNBurke Noooooooooooo...
IT'S ALMOST AS IF practicing something makes you better at it, and/or doing something for the first time is hard.
I am writing an R package for work and I am doing a MUCH better job getting started on it in a sensible way than the first couple I've done.
RT @EylerWerve: So easy your grandmother could use it, which is to say you need to be able to invent compilers &amp; COBOL while navigating ram…
@Nicole_Cliffe Oh, this is just tremendous. 💞💞💞 Henri Nouwen makes me cry too.
RT @drob: New post: Understanding Bayesian A/B testing (using baseball statistics) https://t.co/i9CdZTfbFO #rstats https://t.co/MWRFtKJvQV
@SKEdman This is so nightmarish.
@Selkie1970 Rob has watched some with me and does understand why I love it and thinks it is good, even if it isn't 100% for him.
Gilmore Girls is a truly great television show, and I will fight you over this. https://t.co/iYvpAFmMR2
@apreshill Oh, that sounds really interesting!
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars Oh, this brought me a lot of delight and joy. I... https://t.co/SX8aV2uM6m
@rgaiacs I had a very nice day of work, wrote a blog post, and then hosted a not-R-related book club. 😊
This morning is my 10-year-old's Girls on the Run 5K and it is raining sooooooo much. 😞
@carroll_jono @sckottie That is so great! And OMG, it feels like such a huge accomplishment when things haven't gone smoothly! 🎉🎈🎉🎈
Wow, @travisci retweeted my blog post! 😎🙌🏼💃🏻 https://t.co/XtmxWFOHAK
@bryancshepherd Nice; thanks!
@AngeBassa R is not my first programming language but I will say that discovering it has felt like kismet for my background/strengths/etc. 💞
@carroll_jono Actually, take a look at geojsonio: https://t.co/PMHneChYYB
It depends on rgdal and builds successfully on Travis.
@carroll_jono Noooooooooo... Have you found any other packages that depend on rgdal? Any of the @rOpenSci ones like geojsonio?
We got an Alexa this week and my children are now highly entertained with stopping/starting the music, proclaiming their love for her, etc.
@jkru @twitter Woohoo! 🎉🎈🍻💫
@andrewheiss Did you see I wrote a Travis blog post?! https://t.co/qQPBkxRQ2L
Many thanks to @jimhester_ for feedback on a draft of the post, and helping prevent me from saying wrong things!
NEW POST: A beginner's guide to Travis-CI for #rstats https://t.co/aLpSYp47ZE https://t.co/lI5l1eY9uA
@hrbrmstr Oh my goodness, BIG DAY. 🎉
According to my calculations, today is my #rstats anniversary, meaning it was a year ago that I first learned there was such a thing as R.
They sang "This Land Is Your Land" but not any of the pinko commie verses.
The cold, dead patriotism part of my heart felt awoken.
End-of-the-year program for our sweet first grader, with FLAGS and AMERICA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/CHCW1R0kAH
RT @arnicas: When you're reading this medium post that's going around on SF rent modeling and it's about work by @enf - original: https://t…
I wonder how many bottles of Delsym I am going to go through before my lungs no longer feel trashed. I miss exercise... 🗣🗣🗣
@drob I watched the pilot the night it aired when I was 15 and am a HUGE fan, so I have a love/hate relationship with Chris Carter.
@drob Ooooooooooh, Chris Carter... To think that I am again feeling mad about Chris Carter's choices 20 YEARS LATER. 😐
@drob The new ones made me happy in some moments but definitely had some disappointing aspects storytelling-wise.
@drob Yes! It was the new episodes that made me want to go back and rewatch through.
I've been re-watching through The X-Files and I'm getting to some of my very favorite episodes. https://t.co/9C2HJcT0g2
RT @carolynwclayton: @juliasilge Fabulous! Just uploaded the first edition of my Twitter data project using your package. So enjoyable. htt…
@carolynwclayton I just added examples (docs/main vignette) on how to tokenize by regex in tidytext, if you want to get the devel version.
RT @Jowanza: NYT always coming with the visualization and informational 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥: https://t.co/jK0uFTEFah
RT @guyabelguyabel: Updated circular plots for directional bilateral migration data in #rstats #dataviz https://t.co/WaNS3ScdRa https://t.c…
RT @andrewheiss: Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump // https://t.co/LjQ8myrdVx https://t.co/1tuBelPJrI
RT @HomesAtMetacoda: Axes of Evil by @grantdraws #dataviz RT @scienceporn: https://t.co/QsXiucAf1L
@Nicole_Cliffe @NishWeiseth https://t.co/6MZYJncxf0
RT @Jowanza: Blogged about mobile home parks in the United States: https://t.co/hJ8WRzQgFR
@polesasunder I love Shiny a lot.
🎶 I am writing a Shiny app for my joooooooob 🎶🎶 I am living the dreeeeeeeeeam... 🎶🎶 #rstats
RT @arnicas: If you like poetry (and stars) run, don’t walk, to read this (via the wonderful @mgiraldo) https://t.co/0giKvHmhO7
Well, this was very illuminating for me. https://t.co/KU5Ze4yiVY
RT @lenkiefer: Watch over 35 years of house price history for over 300 metros in this #rstats #dataviz https://t.co/CWXMF0c2HV
@JennyBryan I mean, Travis seriously feels like just trying random stuff, @andrewheiss 
(Or would a super beginning guide be helpful?)
@JennyBryan This is basically what I said to @andrewheiss when he suggested I write a blog post about Travis! @thosjleeper
RT @AriLamstein: Case Study: Mapping German ZIP Codes in R #rstats #gis https://t.co/yfxHgSj8we https://t.co/9do264pBtZ
RT @diff_eq: Hamiltonian: The new Broadway hit about the sum of potential and kinetic energy. https://t.co/PCJk3imDsq
RT @jonty: Following this thread in realtime absolutely made my Sunday. https://t.co/CYOpJvK118
RT @chromakode: So, for the @stupidhackathon I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there...
Wise, brave words from @micahbournes at my church this morning. Church could always use more spoken word poetry.
@Jowanza table B19013 for the geography you just defined.
@Jowanza So if you want, say, median income in each zip code, you would define a geography of your zip codes, then do a fetch of
@Jowanza Have you decided which table you want/need? I think I sent you this link before: https://t.co/pNPLGEVuWi
@Jowanza Yeah, I am using this a lot for work and it took me a bit to get up to speed. There is a LOT to wade through.
@Jowanza And FWIW, I use a lot of melt(), etc on the output from the acs package to get stuff in tidy format.
@Jowanza This is what I've found most helpful: https://t.co/ehK6AD7Unv
@Jowanza The package has some good resources: https://t.co/mPK8UcJvX0
RT @hrbrmstr: Global Temperature Change in R &amp; D3 (without the vertigo) https://t.co/mBbN4s5XY2 #rstats #d3js
@Nicole_Cliffe WHAT?! That is crazy.
@Nicole_Cliffe We should all hang out together sometime, not only ladies.
@Nicole_Cliffe It's a late 80s BMW K75, and it sounds like a sewing machine.
@Nicole_Cliffe "Oh, let's ride this thing on TWISTY ROADS! With SHEER DROP-OFFS next to them."
@Nicole_Cliffe Rob has one and I haaaaaaaaaaate it.
@Scott_Johnsn Hmmmm, if you want to do sentiment analysis you could check out tidytext or syuzhet.
@SecretBeck 💜💜💜
RT @hrbrmstr: I wish the path to global climate destruction wasn't so pretty #rstats https://t.co/CxrJGnJfs0
@andrewheiss Topical!
@hspter https://t.co/Wrs6FQHjy0
@hollandshaPri HOORAY! 🎉🎉🎉 We tried to get one, failed, and ended up with a 504, which I think (hope?!?) is good enough in our situation.
@jkru Rob thinks I *do* have pneumonia and is being a drug pusher with his tasty tasty antibiotics! But I haven't had a fever, etc.
The circumstances that have led to googling "walking pneumonia" are not the greatest.

(I probably don't have pneumonia and am just sick.)
RT @burnscsb: @juliasilge thx for tidytext -- helped me start/learn some basic sna #rstats https://t.co/JjpUa1ejQD
RT @katecrawford: 70K OkCupid users just had their data published. But researcher says that's cool 'because it's public.' #ethicsfail https…
RT @quominus: So I wrote up a (probably too-long) summary of the OKCupid data release horror from yesterday - https://t.co/9fn8V8h1Rt
This was my first package to review, and it was such a great experience. 🙌🏼 to @ma_salmon! https://t.co/uDvtvVn8VV
@bryancshepherd My department too! I think we overlapped at UT a little. I was in the astronomy department from 2000 to 2005.
@andrewheiss Skeezy. I reiterate my previous GIF.
@andrewheiss Are those your images?
@andrewheiss If s/he didn't cite you, s/he still is probably in violation of the CC license: https://t.co/KLWRhmTli5
@andrewheiss I would at least post a not-too-confrontational comment with the link to your blog, right? It seems inappropriate to let it go?
@andrewheiss (Not you, them). https://t.co/LCZjp20Pkd
@Jowanza If you end up working in R, the acs package is really great for accessing ACS Census data. Learning curve, but works great.
@Jowanza There is zip code tabulation area (mostly like zip codes) income data from the U.S. Census. https://t.co/pNPLGEVuWi
@NevilleLeoniers Are there other ones that you know of that have particular strengths/good points?
@NevilleLeoniers They were the three we'd seen most commonly used, and also the three that are in the syuzhet package.
@hadleywickham Oh wow, the Gingerman -- that is taking me back to my grad school days!
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book, all about a teenage girl’s high school life... https://t.co/OVdDVzpABC
HAHAHAHAHA... I love everything about this, including the hashtags which have just that lovely touch of cynicism. https://t.co/9F8wQQPAWW
@drob #truth
@drob Well, yes, but I did a bunch of little ones first to see how things were probably going to go. We'll see!
@drob No! It's wonderful. The computer is chugging away, I virtuously did what I was supposed to, and now I can gaze into the Twitter void.
The wonderful thing about simulations that take a long time to run is how virtuous and yet relaxed you feel while they are going.
RT @drob: I disagree. "BTW this is a log scale"

is better than

"BTW everything interesting is crammed into 1% of graph"

https://t.co/q6F…
RT @SteffLocke: satRday location voting now open https://t.co/50naOIO6Fe https://t.co/jqDy7BCRvN
@carolynwclayton If you have the devel version of tidytext, passing the args works the same as for ngram (there is an example for ngram).
@carolynwclayton In the mean time, take a look at the tokenizers package and how the regex option works: https://t.co/pMkHHyCDwX
@carolynwclayton Ah, yes, we should add some better documentation for regex. I'll open an issue for that.
RT @Ted_Underwood: Looking back, we'll see Steph Curry and Mallory Ortberg as early warning signs about black-market gene splicing &amp; smart…
@andrewheiss Wow, @hrbrmstr, you are the best. I am still getting my head wrapped around purrr but it keeps solving my problems lately.
Getting to THIS is what I have been trying for. It was using purrr that ended up fixing things. #rstats @datassist https://t.co/cAWca5YwoQ
@andrewheiss Use probably map_df with dplyr statements for the function? Or something like that?
@andrewheiss Maybe purrr is the way you want to go rather than do()? #rstats
@StephdeSilva Yes! Pretty sure it using this case.
And now they take way longer because they are doing what they are supposed to? More yay?????
AH HA! I think I got my boostrap simulations of these surveys working! Or at least I figured out another thing I was doing wrong? Yay?
OMG, Alanis Morissette is my jam and has been since I was 16. 😍😍😍😍 

An Update for 'Ironic' Lyrics 
https://t.co/jpM6mMkyJZ
RT @lenkiefer: Visualizing seasonality in house prices: monthly % changes, blue in winter &amp; red in summer: https://t.co/Y9cqsTyzFD
RT @hrbrmstr: ICYMI: There's a new #rstats podcast in town : R World News https://t.co/2C8z4AGrLL // https://t.co/TUVdqh2koV
@bryancshepherd (Her teacher, who is amazing, was probably less than delighted when she was thinking, "WTF am I supposed to do about this?")
@bryancshepherd It was! She is a delight, and also is on the autism spectrum. Her brain is wired up a bit differently than average.
@andrewheiss I think he's right and, like, nobody is going to vote here in November.
@andrewheiss https://t.co/NNC4pXfrrE
@czzpr She is a delight and a wonder. She also is on the autism spectrum and is wired up a little differently than average.
@emjonaitis She *is* amazing and hilarious. She is also on the autism spectrum and is wired up a little differently than average.
OMG, my 7-year-old did her spelling test on Friday so that it can be read correctly in a mirror. They do not pay elementary teachers enough.
@HaleyNBurke Oh noooooooo... 😭😭😭
RT @hrbrmstr: A student asked how long it takes frm question submit to 1st answer on @StackOverflowR. So, I chkd it out… #rstats https://t.…
@Selkie1970 I guess it is sort of a gray area. Rob doesn't do it much, but for, like, L's eczema and the occasional ear infection? Yes.
@Selkie1970 Pretty much, I guess! I thought this was one of those words like pneumonia that really meant something, but apparently no.
@Selkie1970 Cough syrup, rest, and NSAIDs. What I really wanted was good cough syrup; Rob can't call it in for us, obviously/appropriately.
My husband says bronchitis is a BS diagnosis that doesn't mean anything but I got the good cough syrup so I don't care. 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻😴😴😴
I have had a pretty great Mothers Day, but it has ended with me at Instacare with an "acute bronchitis" diagnosis. https://t.co/r4qiXZ429M
@Jowanza Today I am attempting to use purrr functions; it seems to be working so far. (This is for simulating some surveys.)
Friday is bootstrap simulation day.
RT @MonaChalabi: No correlation. https://t.co/To7ZqQuFr2 https://t.co/0vUVrR65SI
@groundwalkergmb This has all been so helpful. I am working on some materials on using data for nonprofits, for context.
@mhairihmcneill That is a helpful perspective. Although I am writing materials on statistics/CIs for nonprofits! 😳
@andrewheiss My thoughts exactly!
@kwbroman So how do you feel about slides 15 and 21 here? https://t.co/NeaTAqVlaK
@seankross So how do you feel about slides 15 and 21? https://t.co/NeaTAqVlaK
@seankross Not trying to be a controversy-maker or anything; just trying to understand interpretation and how people do it.
@seankross Hadley's notes do include "95% CI has a 95% chance of containing the true value"; do you think that's an accurate statement?
@brycem Dude, I have VERY LITTLE idea on this. This is one of those things that I feel like, "Wait, I *don't* know what that is?!?!"
@brycem Isn't that the same as my first sentence?
I'm an astrophysicist so I learned all my statistics on the fly; no one ever REALLY taught us this stuff.
So "95% CI has a 95% chance of containing the true value" = TRUE?
But "95% chance that true value is in 95% CI" = FALSE?
OK, statistics friends, point me to a good explanation of the wrong/right interpretations of confidence intervals?
@janschulz @hrbrmstr I need to do it every time.
@hrbrmstr OK, this is as much as I'm willing to do during my lunch today. 😉 (No paddles!) https://t.co/qOMDdgXMZ5 https://t.co/H9GBpQaeUO
@hrbrmstr But would I have to make a geom_paddle?!?! 🏓
RT @kyle_e_walker: Explore US metro diversity w/linked @plotlygraphs, @LeafletJS, @Highcharts visuals: #rstats https://t.co/UtDdnmJjXU http…
@hrbrmstr My kids are still young enough that they so often come home with GERRRRRRRRMS. 😷🤒😷🤒
@hrbrmstr @lenkiefer AND he quoted Wendell Berry!!!
I am sick and I need to be tucked into bed with a brandy. (Not an election-related tweet, but an actual literal virus.)
RT @statsforgeeks: Using Data to Tell Better Stories https://t.co/kEOXDNjAmI (h/t @juliasilge)
RT @ma_salmon: The #rstats pkg to @OpenCageData's API has a new home at @rOpenSci! https://t.co/8DWKwnSGPJ 1000 mercis to rev @juliasilge &amp;…
RT @drob: gutenbergr package now on CRAN: download over 50,000 works from history + literature https://t.co/JtkQ0MMdwP #rstats https://t.co…
@AndreaUrban3 Have you seen this series? https://t.co/h0K8TU7M3T
@andresamad Each point is a word that the two sets of texts have in common, so more points (i.e. darker) means more words in common.
RT @RobbyKraft: scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"
@jkru Noooooooooo...
(They are both voracious readers.)
We never do summer reading programs at the library because we are all so sick of keeping track of which books they have read.
We are down to the LAST MONTH of tracking my girls' reading for the school year. 🙄
Ari has been SO helpful and knowledgeable when I have worked with shapefiles. https://t.co/Y8owe0zXEf
RT @albertocairo: The "only" could be a "Wow!", I believe: "Wow! 63% of adults can read a scatter plot!" https://t.co/vqqe9b7fVD
My maiden name was Smith, which is, according to this, the 117th most common surname in the world. I was not sorry to switch.
My surname is apparently the 1,806,124th most common surname in the world, and no one knows how to pronounce it. https://t.co/1wlOsbuL18
RT @hmason: Do you &lt;3 data and space? Apply to be a NASA Datanaut! https://t.co/trBf1zn4N7
RT @thosjleeper: Just discovered the @github dashboard to track issues across projects. Really helpful. https://t.co/M1ENrUMLsq https://t.c…
We came for the Pappy's and stayed for the Chinese food. @ J. Wong's Asian Bistro https://t.co/Bs8kPwoMYF
I'm a little shy of 40 and I don't know that I identify with the label "developer", but this is great. https://t.co/FsFlEz1P6B
RT @calli993: Some stats about #rstats on a daily basis: https://t.co/SdzCL7hZ5B https://t.co/oeSaobhcRE
@_inundata https://t.co/BKOtNF5OaF
@kwbroman We were faced with this about a year ago with my oldest and went with the bigger bike; it has gone pretty much fine.
RT @drob: Use tidytext and gutenbergr to find most common n-grams in your favorite literature #rstats https://t.co/oiZn7W7KAS https://t.co/…
More info on the tidytext package! Also, I used @drob's new gutenbergr package to get more books for analysis and it is SO NICE.
NEW POST: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Text https://t.co/CUQJZNHsAl #rstats https://t.co/paD965OMoG
@drob I just switched this out for the other way I was getting stuff for my tidytext blog post and it is AMAAAAAAZING. 👍🏻👍🏻
RT @drob: Introducing the gutenbergr #rstats package: download any of 50,000 public domain works https://t.co/JtkQ0MMdwP https://t.co/9JwSF…
@HaleyNBurke For Saturday, for inspiration, I guess... https://t.co/bt7aaNUm3u
@bigkage It may well already work but we haven't tested that option much. Let me know if you run into something, file an issue, etc.
@bigkage We have not worked those out yet but the tokenizer we are using (https://t.co/pMkHHyCDwX) has them so that should be doable.
@erincmcgrath Did you see the vignette?!?!
@FakeAcademStats Ah! I think I found an original artist for a version of this: https://t.co/Ae8mX2223e
@idigdata Ah! I think I found an original artist for a version of this: https://t.co/Ae8mX2223e
RT @salvag63: It’s Not Rocket Science, Just Pasta Carbonara | #rstats #dataAnalysis https://t.co/tF7asRsrnx
@wrightinthecity This is free right now: https://t.co/MFr5r7ZLSl
Thanks to @rOpenSci for the amazing #runconf16 where we started work, and to @gdequeiroz who contributed. Blog posts coming soon!
Our tidytext package, for text mining with tidy tools, is now on CRAN! 📄🎉📄🎉📄 @drob https://t.co/eXfXLbgDFo #rstats https://t.co/U3p6kcyrIU
@Jowanza 🙌🙌🙌
@idigdata OK, thanks!
@SKEdman I very, very seldom feel anything resembling nostalgia for Texas, but Lyle Lovett will do it.
@FakeAcademStats Thanks for trying that! I am trying to use this in some instructional materials. For stats, naturally.
@FakeAcademStats Thanks! 👊🏻
@idigdata Is this your work? Or do you have a source for it?
Doing 'git push' makes me think of this, like EVERY every time https://t.co/5dLQ0tY396
@FakeAcademStats Is this your work? Or do you have a source for it?
RT @MicrosoftR: Sentiment analysis, Jane Austen, and z-scores https://t.co/7zEOlxBxD0 https://t.co/SC8aWLidIe
@bearloga One moved back (with her Ukrainian husband who didn't speak English) for many of those reasons. A LOT of systemic brokenness.
@bearloga OMG... Two of my closest college friends ended up living in the former USSR for extended periods and there is SO much disfunction.
@bearloga And now I just saw these tweets, and GOSH, I am so so sorry.
@bearloga there isn't such a Western focus on the individual so everyone is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about someone (or a lot of someones) dying.
@bearloga I took a few semesters of Russian in college and had a big Russian literature phase. I've heard it put more like that
@angebassa Truth.
RT @flowingdata: American Slavery maps https://t.co/U90bxDASQe by @thebillrankin https://t.co/xXqJH4H7bF
@drob IT ME https://t.co/aKFMEegKfg
@Nicole_Cliffe @NishWeiseth So sort of along the lines of that Piper post, a little bit.
@Nicole_Cliffe @NishWeiseth To be fair, NTW was not saying it is actually wrong but perhaps shows not taking resurrection of body seriously.
@Nicole_Cliffe @NishWeiseth cremation I felt so befuddled.
@Nicole_Cliffe @NishWeiseth I love NT Wright so much but when I read his (so good) book on resurrection and he was all "IDK GUYS" about
@JennyBryan Aaaaaaaah... Are they motion sick or SICK sick?
@jaustinwright Hey Austin, did you see my FB message about booking a session?
RT @_inundata: Have you seen the new gapminder viz tools? https://t.co/L2b1E4dY0E
#openVisConf
RT @kosamari: Here is my slide for @OpenVisConf 📓
Pixels! Colors!! Googley 👀!!! and Web Workers!!! 💁
https://t.co/zsplnNM6Y5
#OpenVisConf
@_inundata I am so jealous; I love her work.
TFW your data science and faith communities come in contact with each other 🙈 @peteenns  https://t.co/vdTFBDfeax
It's the New Pornographers and Old Fashioneds here at our house tonight https://t.co/B3m284X0UW
@albertocairo 😬😳🙈 @peteenns
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai My... https://t.co/QjuQ3ZQQ12
@Nicole_Cliffe @lkoturner @zt I barely waved hello to you in passing, but everybody wonderful should move to Utah.
One of my friends from dinner (getting her MPH) says she's about to start learning #rstats. ✨📊✨
Lovely food and drinks with lovelier ladies (and MAGICAL RHUBARB HAND PIE 😍😍😍) @ HSL Restaurant https://t.co/TXTXjZswt2
@hrbrmstr We watched Winter Soldier last night and I learned where that sentence in your Twitter bio comes from! Hope you are on the mend.
RT @lisacrost: Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualisation: https://t.co/rgVMCQdhBa https://t.co/TVnoBl4V94
Dream Work by Mary Oliver My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am always saying I want to read more poetry, and... https://t.co/iE0bBXCEbn
RT @albertocairo: The history of humankind has been shaped by four key inventions: the wheel, agriculture, writing, and R's pipe %&gt;% operat…
@mljockers @datalies @revodavid I'll be interested to see that!
@datalies Yes, I discuss that near the end. https://t.co/8qpLITPsU3
@drob Marie Kondo the file formats, probably. DOES IT BRING YOU JOY?!??
@drob Yes, I am a minimalist by instinct so I for sure don't like complicated formats.
@drob The thing is that it is quite standardized and there are good libraries in C/etc (and R! https://t.co/orQDxDILNu) for read/write.
@drob YES! It does!
@drob In astronomy, it's all FITS files (https://t.co/va59hmRBw2) which in hindsight were not TOO terrible.
@abresler Thank you so much, Alex! The data package is on CRAN now, too.
@SKEdman Kiyonna. I have two from them (one day dress, one fancy) and they are great. 👍🏼👍🏼
@hadleywickham Actually, I think I managed it.
@hadleywickham I am having a hell of a time getting the XML package to install on Travis. XML is, like, 2 layers back in dependency.
@amcasari This makes me feel literally queasy.
There are some dependencies in the packages used for examples in the vignettes that are causing HEADACHES. 😵  #rstats
Would it be bad to skip building the vignettes in my R package on Travis? Why/why not? #rstats
@Nicole_Cliffe We (all of us apartment mates) made this joke to her to a lot.
@Nicole_Cliffe My roommate in college was Faith and she has a sister, Hope; they grew up as Baptist missionary kids in Zimbabwe.
@znmeb Thank you!
@dragonflystats @HeathrTurnr @infrahumano 👍🏻 for me! I have gone to Saturday data science meet-ups and conferences already.
@qSonyaBerg I not-so-secretly wish I had become a computational linguist. Or maybe it's not too late!
@infrahumano If it were in the actual evening post-work, I could swing it with my spouse, but that late afternoon time is just not doable!
SLC has an R User Group, but its meetings are exactly at a time that I can never, ever go (late afternoon = picking up kids, etc). 😒 #rstats
@hollandshaPri Oh man. With you on this one, with some stuff from my family of origin.
RT @ThePracticalDev: Born for it: How the image of software developers came about https://t.co/0x0TMTUFnc https://t.co/BVlXDoSiQu
@Nicole_Cliffe I bought NUDE PANTYHOSE especially for the event. Then I thought, "What am I doing?!?!?!" In more ways than one.
@Nicole_Cliffe I somewhat recently had an interview at an enormous, conservative financial institution with a large office here in SLC and
Whenever I get really confused about what I need to do in dplyr to get what I want, the answer is usually some kind of join. #rstats
I am simulating some CRAZY biased surveys over here. @datassist #rstats https://t.co/iDsGVETDTF
RT @revodavid: .@juliasilge compares the dramatic arcs of Jane Austen with sentiment analysis and R https://t.co/3NTZlSKoRX #rstats https:/…
@revodavid Thank you, David! I have so enjoyed these analyses.
@SecretBeck Oh man, THE WORST.
@JennyBryan @rmflight Ugggggggggh...
RT @drob: When teaching, be careful not to mix up "I learned this a long time ago" with "This is simple"

#rstats
@JennyBryan My maiden name is Smith and I started using Silge while I was only engaged, for academic publications, etc. "J. Smith" = 😱😱😱
Preschool Seder https://t.co/gcXjcsxfEw
@andrewheiss Although maybe that does make me the right person to write a blog post... 🤔
@andrewheiss HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... But I am, like, literally THE WORST AT IT.
RT @neverjessie: Clickbait, circa 1922 https://t.co/RsMCebO8qJ
@ma_salmon I put the blank lines back in so that we could tokenize paragraphs; in the first version I put out, I had taken out blank lines.
@ma_salmon LOL!
Things are going great; why do you ask?! #rstats https://t.co/x3jJQZkuGs
I was so sad about Fresco closing! But I love those Pago folks: Plans revealed for new restaurant in Fresco space https://t.co/yt2XQRyjSv
@astropixie (I am too old for it to have been a big part of my childhood or anything, so I am only peripherally familiar with them.)
@astropixie She is very entertained, at least in her rather unwell state!
My 10-year-old was home sick from school today so I introduced her to the Powerpuff Girls. https://t.co/agtiG3lI4V
@hrbrmstr Oh man, that is a tough break.
@hrbrmstr Wow, that is a long time to be ill! 😷
@hadleywickham Yeah, it does have that: https://t.co/MqHsbZkNgD
@0ttlngr Oh goodness, you're right! I'll go fix that.
RT @AriLamstein: Announcing the R Election Analysis Contest results! #rstats #opendata https://t.co/47iUKnyu5e https://t.co/bqVJ9anyEJ
I talked about what I learned and compiled some helpful resources for a first CRAN submission. #rstats https://t.co/Gt9dpeoYiK
NEW POST: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love R CMD Check #rstats https://t.co/Gt9dpeoYiK https://t.co/oLpYVuuQiE
@andrewheiss Wow, interesting.
@andrewheiss This is on my list to read! I have read some of Enns' other books.
RT @RedSox730: Just your regular, everyday dictionary flame war on Twitter. Nothing to see here. https://t.co/4o5OkF5EXh
Then I remember that it means INSURANCE coding, like medical insurance (he is a physician).
"WHAT?!" I think irritatedly. "He doesn't know any programming languages." 😦😒🤔
Looking over our calendar for this week, and one evening my husband has something called "coding dinner".
@AriLamstein Oh, rural Utah, you do you.
RT @NYMag: UC Davis tries to scrub pepper-spray incident from web, so now it's the top result on Google https://t.co/UxuMMriV3B https://t.c…
@Coffee_myLove That looks interesting, but it appears LIWC is not open-source? https://t.co/UMGHLtb4pU
@hrbrmstr @jhollist Aw, shucks! I sure did appreciate your help.
@jhollist I copied a lot from Hadley's neiss package when doing a data package.
@JennyBryan @polesasunder This is obviously the best day, when my Twitter feed is half full of Jane Austen gifs.
@polesasunder I'm still giggling about this. My 10-year-old just gave me a skeptical, raised eyebrow look.
@polesasunder @rstudio ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
RT @gdequeiroz: My blog post about my experience on the 2-days at the rOpenSci Unconference 2016 https://t.co/7LPoOJy2q9 #rstats #runconf16
@ma_salmon (But not until next week.)
@ma_salmon I'll just skip along and do that. https://t.co/rlrn3NCJ4w
@tylerrinker Oh, thank you!
@jhollist Aw, thank you!
SIGH, I forgot to hashtag rstats my package announcement tweet. What I wouldn't give for an "edit tweet" option.
High five me, everybody! I have a package on CRAN! https://t.co/BFoHYrQrDC
If any of you come through SLC or we are otherwise in the same city, I will take you out for a coffee/drink/manicure of your choice.
Many thanks to @hrbrmstr, @quominus, @drob, @seankross, @JennyBryan, @the_belal, and others (?) who helped me with my first CRAN submission.
My package for the text of Jane Austen's novels, janeaustenr, is now released on CRAN! https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY https://t.co/UufHmaIiCB
RT @alexwhan: New blog post https://t.co/XPkTNUEoxv - where characters appear in Pride and Prejudice, thanks @juliasilge. https://t.co/cqho…
@kjhealy The worrrrrrrrrrrst.
@rodjcano Sure, do the thing that works! 👍🏻  I am realizing that my last question doesn't make sense if what you have is working on Windows.
@rodjcano You say df; you aren't sending a whole data frame with more than one column to get_nrc_sentiment(), are you?
@rodjcano Send me your sessionInfo()?
@rodjcano Oh gosh. I'm assuming you've tried this with nothing but syuzhet attached? And you've updated everything? (including R)?
@rodjcano Hmmmm, syuzhet works great for me on OSX. https://t.co/u0tC1yauYS
@rodjcano Where is it not working?
@rodjcano I did do this on OSX. One thing to be aware of is that this post was before the major update to ggplot2 that changed some things.
RT @apreshill: Different states, different stories from the CDC #autism prevalence surveys #rstats #ggplot2 https://t.co/e9oubu3xoE
@kara_woo Aaaaaaaaaaah...
@kara_woo Oh man... I'm sure it's very beautiful.
@kara_woo @quominus https://t.co/pm5xVyPB7y
@andrewheiss Some local politics person was running with this as part of his platform; he was going to get all the rape kits processed.
@andrewheiss Oh, I have been hearing about this! I still feel confused about it -- an issue of $$$?
In horrifying local-ish news... https://t.co/fr8dmwX8yE
@kwbroman It ended up that I had not yet installed pandoc on my new-ish computer. 🙄 I did keep the README in the build so WE'LL SEE.
@TheAtavism Aaaaaaaaah, this is a new-ish computer and I hadn't installed pandoc yet! 😱 I just installed it and it's fine now.
I mean, I know what this message actually means, but does CRAN not have pandoc?! The README isn't supposed to be in .Rbuildignore, is it?!
ABOUT to submit to CRAN, but a NEW NOTE!!! "File README.md cannot be checked without ‘pandoc’ being installed." https://t.co/D3qCjREY6F
@quominus OK, thank you! 👊🏻
@quominus So to clarify, I don't need to reference any license because these are public domain works? No one can own/license them?
@quominus license (https://t.co/s8CqUiu4TW) in my package (https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY)? In LICENSE?
@quominus You seem to know more than me about licenses. Do you have advice/thoughts for me about how to reference the Project Gutenberg
@Nicole_Cliffe CT does such interesting things; one of our friends here in SLC (not a believer) has written for them about Ethiopia.
@Nicole_Cliffe If this is a serious question, I say no cross.
RT @xkcdComic: Algorithms https://t.co/SJDVwTyzEJ https://t.co/HwLheVp053 https://t.co/A2BOUKupvl
@tylerrinker OK, I didn't know about sentimentr. This looks super great. 👍🏼👍🏼
@sherah1918 @lincolnmullen I have heard about people using R + seewave: https://t.co/LO8GljeVIb
@hrbrmstr Oh, I know, so gut-wrenching. 😞
@Jowanza But will you find it useful to promote Jowanza?!?!
@patternproject Thank you! It is great to see all the work that people are doing in these.
@statsforgeeks Oh man, yeah. 😞
Here is the code: https://t.co/8oo5OIXag6
I made this for @hrbrmstr's #dataviz challenge this week. Where are there more homeless youth? #rstats https://t.co/lCk4LnMvqZ
.@Lewis_Lab For example, for the states, 4 with percent error &gt;5% are black + Asian pops in Puerto Rico, Asian pop in WY, black pop in MT.
@Lewis_Lab No, but I've literally looked at a lot of them.
Making pretty plots may make me TOO happy; I may have a problem.
Mmmmmmm, geom_jitter + scale_alpha_discrete = GEORGEOUS #rstats https://t.co/5gXiU1aePK
RT @thosjleeper: I'm excited to see what comes out of this project! #SurveysStillMatter https://t.co/u3CHzxHCDe
RT @brianabelson: so cool that @source got the “how we did it” post behind #panamapapers 
https://t.co/tHiOoH2sy5
@thosjleeper I'm thinking about this a lot because it's a focus of my new job! https://t.co/OSe8nuDcKE
https://t.co/1UOpblu2i4
RT @angebassa: Whoa. https://t.co/QAbczM0erY
RT @drob: When I'm looking for an introductory resource on an #rstats subject and discover a guide written by @JennyBryan https://t.co/1gz0…
Getting ready to grill homemade pizzas tonight. 1 pesto + fresh mozzarella, 1 pear + Brie, 1 red sauce + mozzarella.
RT @AriLamstein: There's still time: Enter the R Election Analysis Contest! https://t.co/LeBkAexZD8  #rstats #datascience https://t.co/D4vG…
@hrbrmstr Thank you for your expertise! And any day that someone considers picking up Jane Austen is a good day. https://t.co/uD1Xh3jCMj
@hrbrmstr Sure, no rush on these; I really appreciate your help. I am just trying to figure out what all of this means!
@hrbrmstr The stuff about the URLs and spelling isn't a NOTE per se, but just some kind of message?
@hrbrmstr Wait, I just realized that the NOTE on Win-builder is for me being a new maintainer.
@hrbrmstr It has 0 notes locally and on Travis, and 1 note on Win-builder. I think I will leave it? https://t.co/Lev17mnp3w
@hrbrmstr Do you mind doing this, actually? It's here: https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY
RT @JennyBryan: Play with @polygraphing's film data in #rstats https://t.co/7rXPvyiAIJ https://t.co/J8K8mWlWcL https://t.co/mkLLmdF3B3
RT @tvaziri: My goodness. The data.

Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age
https://t.co/oFU6wBfQmO by @polygr…
@Jowanza Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah... 😵😭☹️
I have made myself a second one of these after 8pm, which may be a delicious but terrible decision. 👀👀👀 (⬅️ awake eyes)
@ledell I think I am going to say this: https://t.co/Lev17mnp3w
@ledell I haven't gotten to tidytext yet; I am still working on janeaustenr first, as far as getting on CRAN.
Irish whiskey + cardamom orange peel cold brew + simple syrup https://t.co/fmKxKlFK8Q
@JennyBryan You don't mean in cran-comments but in general? In README, description on Github, etc?
@JennyBryan @seankross @sckottie @drob You think this is good? https://t.co/Lev17mnp3w
@seankross @sckottie The possible misspelling and invalid URLs happened in both.
@drob All right, I'll make a function.
@sckottie I haven't seen this note on Travis or locally on OS X. I have these as the source url in the docs. https://t.co/vQxGs5cIJm
@JennyBryan No, it says this about "possibly invalid URLs", from Project Gutenberg: https://t.co/ld1VgQdE47
I ran build_win() for the first time, #rstats friends. It seems OK except a NOTE because it doesn't like the URLs in my docs? Probably OK?
@JennyBryan Well, making these did not involve THAT much work! I should probably add the scripts.
@quominus I know I have to add Travis to the .Rbuildignore; I haven't run R CMD check for a while.
@quominus Yes, absolutely!
@quominus It's just a data package: https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY
OK, one of my projects for this weekend (next week?) is to try to get janeaustenr ready to put on CRAN. Helpful links? Resources? #rstats
@miaubz @qrs I'm old; I learned C first. 😳
Will I always think in for loops? Thanks a lot, C.
I was about to write another for loop, everyone, but then I managed to get a purrr map function to work. #rstats https://t.co/tGXCJHHiiE
I did this analysis for @AriLamstein's election analysis challenge, and I learned about how voter turnout is calculated (inconsistently).
NEW POST: I mapped voter turnout in Utah's presidential caucuses #rstats https://t.co/q9o60OVIMm https://t.co/7rRf5kizEi
@AriLamstein Aaaaaah! I'm deleting.
RT @ReformedBroker: The average American household’s financial assets are $315,000.

The median American household’s financial assets are $…
@polesasunder Well, I guess I have only seen it happen twice myself, but it's not like I read all @JennyBryan's mentions or anything.
@JennyBryan Like those people I keep seeing who helpfully suggest you might want to try out the googlesheets package.
@hrbrmstr It was so great to meet you in person!
@ironsoap That is very close to my feelings. They have got my number, apparently.
@ma_salmon I just realized I didn't understand what you said you'd already tried. Oops! And who wants # in a column name?!
@ma_salmon I've mostly used readxl from Hadley and it's been pretty painless.
My kids are all about robots this week, want to learn to build them, etc. I'm picturing them turning into this guy: https://t.co/2xQA5fyXpW
I 💙💜💚 the collaborative learning that happens via blogging/etc in an online community. It has been important for me. https://t.co/tgoekGQedd
@DozaHill Thank you for the kind words! I also have learned so much working on these projects.
RT @Maggie: Bleeeeeehhhhhhhh. https://t.co/Xr1gJwrYQI
I think it's warm enough to make a batch of cold brew. *excavates cold brew thingie from back of cabinet*
@SEChildress I am a HUGE fan of @swirlstats; the exercises are so helpful, and also kind of fun. 😬
NEW POST: I went to @rOpenSci Unconference and all I got were these lousy hex stickers #rstats #runconf16 https://t.co/sWCC6JEuxS
@drob OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG...
RT @drob: Pride and Prejudice and Donald Trump: per-sentence sentiment analysis. Amusing! #rstats https://t.co/wfq3riySDX https://t.co/pa1r…
RT @randal_olson: Looks like the #PanamaPapers data set is on #GitHub: https://t.co/h7FafmV0lX

#OpenData #PanamaLeaks
I had a real come-to-Jesus moment today about tidy data. ✨📊✨

(You'd think I'd be over these by now.)
@Selkie1970 @SecretBeck Oh, we are all those things in our family! 😜 Skier, hipster, tattooed, fancy coffee loving, kombucha drinking...
@SKEdman (IDK if you remember but Rob is a pediatrician by training; CHOP is like the Harvard of children's hospitals.)
@SKEdman CHOP has an amazing reputation; I don't know that pursuing something faster/private would even be worth it given that it's CHOP.
@SKEdman You know, it is not 6 months between appointments or anything. It goes faster once it starts.
@SKEdman And my experience is that once the process is started at a place like the U or CHOP, it goes very smoothly.
@SKEdman Yeah. These wait lists are crazy. You could get in somewhere much faster with a private ed psych assessment but it will be $$$.
@SKEdman This is what it is here: https://t.co/8MdCCcal3f I don't know if you can find something similar around you? It was ~1 yr wait list.
@SKEdman a university college of education department of ed psych. Both were wonderful around here, and not as $$$ as private psychologist.
@SKEdman The two places that we successfully got evaluations for ASD (different, I know 😕) were a pediatric mental health center and
@SecretBeck the hipster kombucha brewing people, a thriving tech market. It's a big city for this part of the US, which can be fairly empty.
@SecretBeck It is a quirky city because of its history. Beautiful mountains with skiing, the outdoorsy hiking/climbing/etc scene,
@SecretBeck Mine! Salt Lake City
@SecretBeck They never get to be little girls EVER AGAIN.
@SecretBeck And who would WANT that?! Given what that actually means?
@SecretBeck My oldest is 10 now and I am seeing this; she is definitely clinging to her little girl self in a lot of ways. WHO CARES?!?
@BrentBrewington @Emaasit Most of them are RStudio stickers, and I believe they pass them out at conferences. Maybe useR?
I made a little something for @hrbrmstr's #dataviz challenge. More drones on the weekend! https://t.co/HslvBHnnyb https://t.co/rhPdkXCtqR
RT @quominus: 'When I first heard the term data science, I went "what? Isn't that like food cooking?"' -@billdoesphysics
@Han_Miami @arnicas (but be aware that Autism Speaks is a very controversial organization in the ASD community, especially for ASD adults)
@Han_Miami @arnicas You could check out some of the links here: https://t.co/qZqpsppSpF
@Han_Miami @arnicas Well, the most careful estimates of prevalence are done with those 11 sites: https://t.co/P0owwAmyVB
@WillBogel I am such a fan of your blog, @AnneBogel!
@WillBogel @AnneBogel Oh, excellent! Check out the plots especially, and look at the last couple. https://t.co/BfGOo7OSaq
RT @lincolnmullen: New on CRAN, my tokenizers package for #rstats provides a consistent set of tokenizers for natural language. https://t.c…
RT @SarahFKessler: In 100 profiles, photographer @helena tells a less-often-heard story of "Techies."  https://t.co/NNTR6wZi5Y https://t.co…
@arnicas Thanks! We're going to get it cleaned up and ready for wider consumption soon. @drob
These hex stickers sure have spiffed up my laptop. #runconf16 

(Does my 4-year-old love #rstats? To early to tell.) https://t.co/c9voEWNcn0
@Nicole_Cliffe I'm very tempted to @ mention him here, Nicole, but I will refrain.
@Nicole_Cliffe Also, he mentioned Martin Luther's anti-Semitism, which I always want people to do. https://t.co/1sHIA6qSq4
Farewell, San Francisco. You have been VERY good to me this trip. @ Embarcadero Station https://t.co/Fw83RkV6ZF
I just had omelettes with @AriLamstein; visiting San Francisco is the best. 🍳🙌🏼😊
@drob I finally had the chance to read this and it is HILARIOUS.
RT @seankross: You can find all of the projects we worked on at #runconf16 here: https://t.co/REPr5slbiF #rstats
RT @_inundata: Tidy Text from @juliasilge &amp; @drob is incredibly cool. 

https://t.co/tQN7OCHvJx 

#rstats #runconf16
RT @jdunic: @juliasilge with a cool demo of text processing using https://t.co/XhhtVi1can text #runconf16 https://t.co/fr5LIlbYAw
Always a nice feeling when Travis manages to actually build. #runconf16 https://t.co/7qZfH2OEij
RT @_inundata: I can’t even think of more badass data science folk than @juliasilge @drob and @GaborCsardi https://t.co/u58QqfX48i
Good morning, Bay Bridge. Good morning, Embarcadero. I can see you from my hotel room window!
RT @nicole_soojung: I wrote about my love for @kristiyamaguchi and how much it meant to find my first Asian American hero for @NYTmag: http…
@AriLamstein It's this: https://t.co/QWMx5zyniI I am excited to be here for it.
Also, this time last year I did not have a GitHub account. https://t.co/AAJnwqomnx
SLC✈️OAK for #runconf16 and remembering that this time last year I did not know there was such a thing as the R programming language. 😳🙀🙊
@ravikk @apreshill I would be surprised, given that there was so much scrutiny: https://t.co/3b9gb5IadD
@apreshill @arnicas @Han_Miami i.e. you can compare the rates to each other? The uncertainty in the rates would depend on n, of course.
@apreshill @arnicas @Han_Miami It's says per 1000 by sex/race/ethnicity (Table 5). Doesn't that mean per 1000 for each of those groups?
@apreshill @arnicas @Han_Miami That makes this whole thing make a LOT more sense.
@apreshill @arnicas @Han_Miami Gosh, you're right! I was so focused on the state-to-state sample differences, I didn't notice that.
@arnicas @Han_Miami Just for the record, I have a child diagnosed with ASD here in UT in 2015.
Here is a more recent report (2010) on those sites with more balanced samples for the states: https://t.co/FVwXxzBwTm @arnicas @han_miami
Apparently other people were also concerned about that Utah site: https://t.co/3b9gb5IadD
The 95% CI on the rates are pretty big, comparatively. Also, the UT ASD kids had higher IQs than the other states (fewer severe cases?).
I just looked at this paper; the sample for Utah was the smallest of all the states, ~10% of the number of kids of other states.
Something weird is going on here in Utah with ASD diagnoses. https://t.co/ydXzCpnpRI
@arnicas @Han_Miami Oh, no, I see now that is a prevalence. Sorry...
@arnicas @Han_Miami Is that the % of the ASD population?
My husband and I have a running joke about how many of our conversations begin, "I heard this thing on NPR..."
I just heard this on NPR and wow, really wonderful/amazing... Angel's Story: Prison to the Honor Roll  https://t.co/mnMvZINZBq via @WNYC
RT @treycausey: Demographic variables are easy to think about &amp; convenient to measure, but may not be good predictors of consumption https:…
Options I'm considering for tomorrow:
a) play it cool
b) full #rstats fangirl at all the cool people I will meet
#runconf16
@hrbrmstr @Hadley I learned yesterday of the ggstance package, which has lots of good options for such things. 👍🏻👍🏻
@hrbrmstr @kyle_e_walker There is an rda for 2012 population in counties (with FIPS) in choroplethr; it's called df_pop_county.
@ma_salmon This worked perfectly, by the way.
@bhive01 @analystaash That is not an unreasonable example.
@analystaash Well, I think I am on Hadley's side on that one. 😉
@ma_salmon Ah, I will have to try that!
I sort of hacked together what I wanted using geom_segment instead of geom_bar: https://t.co/YblpI8x27O
You can't use coord_flip at the same time as scales = free?! But what if I WANT to?!?! #rstats
RT @AriLamstein: Announcing the R Election Analysis Contest #rstats #ddj #opendata https://t.co/LeBkAePAuG via @arilamstein
@mallelis WOW. This is very very real for a Monday morning.
Aaaaaaaah, all the @uscensusbureau API calls are working again. https://t.co/JukK7rUIXa
@hrbrmstr @rOpenSci Oh, dude. You have no idea.
All three of my children can fasten their own seatbelts. It's like a WHOLE NEW WORLD.
RT @_aaronmiles: Forbes' best cities for business, mapped using @abresler and @AriLamstein packages and @juliasilge post as template https:…
RT @quominus: So I just wrote up a very long angry rant about the "unicorn wizard ninja" narrative in Data Science right now - https://t.co…
RT @ma_salmon: .@juliasilge's #rstats janeaustenr pkg+Named Entity Recognition https://t.co/WKJxOtmjDl Easy &amp; results=not that bad! https:/…
The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo My rating: 3 of 5 stars A funny, appealing family drama... https://t.co/9mkWe07n00
@klahrich Yes, it was! It was for work for I can't share all the code right now but if you have a specific question?
@hadleywickham @_inundata I see your Campari which reminds me that we are OUT. 😱
I think my mise en place is all in place, so now we can stir fry! Berkshire pork tenderloin, broccolini, bell pepper, scallion.
Blood orange old fashioneds https://t.co/Es38ixJiMj
@hrbrmstr @kyle_e_walker That is really helpful; I was just looking at one of those JSONs in, like, a browser.
@kyle_e_walker Or I guess I know what it looks like for it to be down now, so...
@kyle_e_walker Is there anywhere that you can check the status of them? I am using ACS data A LOT in my new job; it would be nice to know.
@kyle_e_walker Oh, well, at least it's not me. I was so puzzled.
I'm using the acs package and all my API calls that worked day before yesterday are failing. Is it me?! Is something down? #rstats
RT @ucfagls: Modelled trend in global avg temp 1850-2015 &amp; 50 simulations from the model posterior
https://t.co/uAMYGTmjPf https://t.co/gGT…
@astropixie Oh yes, so hot. I forget things like that.
@astropixie OMG, I love all these babywearing pictures. I MISS IT!
@burnscsb Nice! Thanks for sharing that.
@hrbrmstr Thank you so much for your post with the CNN JSON links and how to get started with them!
Utah was absolutely feeling the Bern in our caucus this past week. #rstats https://t.co/eyqoddahWr https://t.co/9EkL9aG9SW
NEW POST: Mapping how Trump lost to Cruz and Kasich in Utah's caucus. Sad! #rstats https://t.co/eyqoddahWr https://t.co/RCYlzVNhUU
@krisshaffer Congratulations, Kris! That sounds like an amazing position.
@ThChln Oh man, that is so interesting! Thanks for sharing that.
@jkru Yes, there are actually color spaces that specifically work that way; maybe I should just use one of those.
@Carrie_Mayne Interesting! I will end up pulling all the ACS data eventually so I'll have to check it out. (Yes, the 25+ tables.)
I'm not entirely sold on that color scheme, though. I need to come up with a good male/female color scheme that is not just blue/pink.
I LOVE making PLOTS in exchange for MONEY... 💵📊😍 https://t.co/1zDQBRhyQX
Regex makes me feel like I'm juggling, in a good way.
4-year-old, on Purim: "Hamentaschen is NOT a healthy food. It is shaped like Haman's hat."
@tdhopper Maple! OMG, I haven't thought about Maple since the late 1990s when I was an undergrad.
RT @UtahProbs: Record turnout.
Trump lost.
I'm so proud of all of you. https://t.co/c0DmgoRV9E
@AdageCat Oh my goodness! That is big.
@andrewheiss I SAW some of those Provo pictures/videos. 😯 It has been similar to this all over SLC, from what friends are saying.
Our mayor was there holding the doors open, though. Did you know that SLC has a democratic, openly gay mayor?
Well, our democratic caucus was CRAZY PANTS. No parking for ~1 mile, line around the block, etc. #UtahCaucus
@NishWeiseth Rob just sent me pictures from our neighborhood by the middle school where he is trying to go to our caucus! CRAZY TOWN.
@Jfpohl Without acknowledging that we existed, in fact. We were not really a necessary part of his class.
@Jfpohl He would walk into the class, straight to the blackboard, and start writing/talking without making eye contact with any of us.
@Jfpohl Oh man, physics/cosmology people can be SO BAD about science snobbery. 😳
@Jfpohl I took a cosmology class from him in grad school. It was... an interesting experience.
@saadsoroya What kind of project is it?
@AriLamstein I have seen a good number of interesting maps and analyses around lately; that's for sure. I probably would!
Ooooooh, my #FirstTweet was all election-y: https://t.co/rJd39Al0VM. What was yours? https://t.co/ilPscD3aI6
I'm totally going to do this after Utah's caucus tomorrow night, provided I can find the data. https://t.co/IKDMVRAjgY
@drob Thank you! It was just as of Friday.
From @drob, a new package for fuzzy matching of columns, with clustering of P&amp;P characters! https://t.co/FejC9uTppJ https://t.co/yMBpzmn2rH
@drob @hspter I SAW.
Lies, damned lies, and data visualization https://t.co/3cA4ECm1ZK
@mrkptr Thank you so much! I enjoyed doing that analysis.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 😱
RT @MegDraws: Hustle vs. Hustle https://t.co/iex5vJRjRR
Warm-ups on the last night of the state swim meet @ South Davis Recreation Center https://t.co/jEjkNQ4sCM
@hrbrmstr Oh, that sounds SO helpful. 💯
@hrbrmstr (I'm setting up a new computer/setting up some things for the new job.)
@hrbrmstr A little while ago did you ask for font recommendations for plotting/dataviz? Was that you? Did you get good suggestions?
@ktneely I cleaned up how I used read_lines a bit too: 
read_lines(..., skip = N1)
persuasion &lt;- persuasion[1:(length(persuasion) - N2)]
@ktneely persuasion &lt;- persuasion[persuasion != ""]
persuasion &lt;- persuasion[!is.na(persuasion)]
@ktneely Sure! It's mostly like what I did here: https://t.co/Vf5a6o1qGs The only extra step was removing blank and NA lines.
RT @kcimc: this is what a neural net sees when it looks at satellite images. wip with @golan @workergnome https://t.co/IdrCly9KVQ
@Selkie1970 AREN'T WE ALL.
@Selkie1970 And last time I looked, DT was not polling as well here. Republicans here are very mainstream. https://t.co/Cb46BeBKGd
@Selkie1970 I registered as IND when we moved here but I keep thinking I should switch to R because Rs are so much more important here.
(Republican Caucus Night is only open to registered Republicans: https://t.co/j6UhM6ZksC) March 22!
Utah friends, here is Caucus Night info for the Democratic Party, which is open to independent/unaffiliated voters: https://t.co/8CuT879lBL
@Lotusfire7 You know what, she DOES kind of look like Meryl Streep!
@dez_blanchfield @DrMel_T I have just joined the team at @datassist; I am really excited about the work we will be doing.
4-year-old: "What is infinity plus 1? What is infinity plus infinity? But what if there WAS a number more than infinity?!?!" 😵
@dez_blanchfield @DrMel_T Well, in my (new) day job, I actually work doing data science for non-profits. 😉
@hrbrmstr I'll join you and live-tweet my daughter's swim meet. THAT LASTS OVER THREE DAYS.
@Lotusfire7 Playing Jane, the sister? No, that is Susannah Harker.
@janschulz It's so great!
@mtrc Thank you! I definitely enjoyed working on it.
@mtrc You can see what I did code-wise in my previous post: https://t.co/Vf5a6o1qGs 
It shouldn't be too hard to read &amp; translate to Python.
@mtrc work to prep the plain text files from Project Gutenberg for analysis. You might try that instead in Python?
@mtrc It is wrapped as an R package and I believe there are not currently easy ways to load these in Python. It wasn't a crazy amount of
@znmeb I've read it! (But not seen the movie yet.) It was QUITE funny, although maybe not enough of a joke to sustain an entire book.
Here's my new R package for Jane Austen's complete novels, ready for text analysis #rstats https://t.co/GVrclq3DFY https://t.co/DTHMIBTJSJ
NEW POST: Sentiment analysis of all of Jane Austen's novels #rstats #nlp https://t.co/YDISIFqT0g https://t.co/QyFAadUOtH
This weekend is Utah's junior state swimming championships, so I just drove to Bountiful for the 1st of 5 times.
@karenebayne Oh, I am so sorry. 💙💙💙
RT @timhwang: "Threadsteading" - two-player territory control game using a sewing machine as the platform: https://t.co/CGagLIlvaR https://…
RT @aparrish: I made an autocomplete interface with all of the lines of poetry on Project Gutenberg: https://t.co/7QtAhG7ezg https://t.co/t…
On the way to school/preschool this morning: "But what shape has INFINITY sides?!" 😭😭😭 

(I did try explaining circle.)
RT @datassist: Datassist is very excited to have @juliasilge join our data science team today. Working to bring useable data science to the…
RT @SenOrrinHatch: Good to see my old friend Hamilton today. I was just a Jr. Senator when I voted to confirm him as Treasury Sec. -OGH htt…
RT @thisgirlangie: Yay! Free stock photos of real women in tech / engineers here: https://t.co/zc6S474LkP #ChangeTheRatio #WOCinTech https:…
RT @Goldman44: Just two guys hanging around outside, having an extemporaneous conversation about civics. #Bam4Ham https://t.co/kzT3Lz4wGX
@kyle_e_walker I love all of these so much.
RT @treycausey: Forget Pi Day. This new finding about prime numbers is slightly insane. https://t.co/ARd4XSsTVa
RT @quominus: Good morning #rstats people! I've written an FAQ about R's weirdest stuff. Warning: it has memes! https://t.co/C7TJdGjMpC
RT @kyle_e_walker: White &amp; Hispanic pops in many Texas counties have quite different structures (e.g. Kerr): https://t.co/Rpih7vaXsc https:…
Our chickens have been going CRAZY with the advent of longer spring days. ☀️🐔🍳 https://t.co/Vsv7csAfau
Sunday evening Manhattans https://t.co/QtcZ1ih3oC
RT @robertoglezcano: A rough timeline of #spacecraft, not to scale by @marsrader #dataviz https://t.co/yZYhAN7FkV
Maybe someday our new computer will be finished. In the meantime, filming the fan in slow motion… https://t.co/yPbigP2ELc
@andrewheiss The first time I tried it, it was a HOT MESS. But I think I have the hang of it now!
RT @arnicas: wow. cc @bitcraftlab  https://t.co/lnOvmxFwXj
@hspter This first time I tried to do a Travis build was SO SAD. 😓
OH YEAH. FIRST TRY THIS TIME. Maybe I will figure this Travis thing out yet. #rstats https://t.co/LZEe8XejIO
@slcFLAKE I mean, we are wholeheartedly bought in to the Costco lifestyle, but I can't get in and out of there in under an hour+ now.
@slcFLAKE Their exchanging is super easy, but going to the BIGGEST COSTCO IN THE WORLD is still kind of a hassle now. 😕
RT @kyle_e_walker: Visualizing gender differences in life expectancy in ggplot2 with the idbr #rstats package https://t.co/nFvqeESOAk https…
@slcFLAKE Were they the organic ones? We buy those and while they're not as good as our chickens', we think they're pretty nice.
RT @NASA: During this week’s solar eclipse, DSCOVR Observatory saw the moon’s shadow on Earth. Look: https://t.co/wpKf0tdlJB https://t.co/S…
@xenocide15 My understanding is the Coursera course is pretty strong on theory.
@xenocide15 I don't work much in Python, but here are good packages in R: https://t.co/gZgcxOGinL
@xenocide15 the most typical algorithms and packages. Get things working, start experimenting, etc.
@xenocide15 And I am a big believer in learning by doing. Looks like you work mostly in Python? I would get some text and try out some of
@xenocide15 I have heard good things about the Coursera NLP course: https://t.co/wnTtiMmHo5
RT @TrestleJeff: It's official: #rstats coders are the happiest, least hairy. https://t.co/If7zbTZiRn
@MonicaPalmirani Wow, that sounds amazing.
@pa_marais Thank you so much!
@statsforgeeks Right, not public domain. 😕
RT @drob: Sentiment analysis of Trump tweets is easy because he annotates them for us. Helpful!

#rstats https://t.co/LlaXzOvXLg
@statsforgeeks Oh man, I would love to see that! I wonder if the overall positive/negative would be much lower?
RT @angebassa: Data Science + Pride and Prejudice = Jubilant Fun

😘👌 by @juliasilge  

https://t.co/5Jv1GIyF3o
@lucaswmuller I have experienced this.
@drob Oh, that is a GREAT idea. I would love that kind of thing.
@drob I'll be honest that this is what sports analytics feels like to me. I'm all, "Sports? The people are fond of them, yes?"
@drob @hspter LOL NOOOOOOOOO... It does sound like you have a solid back-up plan though, Eminem and all. 👍🏼
@drob @hspter https://t.co/GQFQk8eXIY
@hspter Ah, I just found the link with all the multi-platform goodness: https://t.co/aQtFJUe0bv Won an Emmy, from Hank Green et al.
@Kerri_Gilbert I think it's mine too!
@drob I just did this and that makes so much sense now.
@drob @hspter Project Gutenberg does have basically every public domain novel you can possibly think of, FWIW.
@hspter I think it is quite delightful. 👍🏼
@hspter Have you watched the YouTube Lizzie Bennet Diaries?
@hspter It's not my favorite adaptation but it did not elicit the DISGUST in me that it does for some.
@hspter OMG, I have some friends who I suspect would literally slap Joe Wright in the face, given the opportunity.
@hrbrmstr Boy, the best part of this is the HEAD/head crushing joke at the end.
@monkmanmh Thank you! Gifs are, so often, the answer. 😉
For Elizabeth Bennet's sake, I relearned what a Fourier transform is @mljockers #nlp #rstats https://t.co/Vf5a6o1qGs https://t.co/2X1aW9tJRC
It is a truth universally acknowledged that sentiment analysis is way fun https://t.co/Vf5a6o1qGs #rstats @hrbrmstr https://t.co/kFKSGanaMe
NEW POST: You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love NLP #rstats #nlp https://t.co/Vf5a6o1qGs https://t.co/eWE0U5NSda
@MacDiva David was really helpful and responsive and it went very well.
@MacDiva This was my 1st time posting an issue on Github and I was nervous that I was doing it right: https://t.co/ICsU9GQPtn
@Carrie_Mayne Lucky!
Super proud to call Mike a friend -- Amman, Jordan | From the Journal of Michael Friberg #VSCO https://t.co/fWGO8VpN8K
Post affogato @ Dolcetti Gelato https://t.co/7Fu16enWgT
@BrainStraining Thanks for sharing that! So interesting that your month/time distributions are so different than mine!
RT @BrainStraining: For my 10,000th tweet an #opendata analysis of my first 9999 using #RStats, @ProjectJupyter and code by @JuliaSilge
htt…
4-year-old: "Is infinity even or odd?"
7-year-old: "Is infinity prime?"
Me: https://t.co/AWfKGzlHNC
@hrbrmstr I think it is BEAUTIFUL. I'll make sure you see it when it's all done.
@hrbrmstr That fixed it! Thank you so much.
@realCyberTrump LOL -- Thank you, Mr. Trump.
@hrbrmstr I am making heat maps; any ideas why my axis.text.y is so far away? Or how to fix it? https://t.co/8SKWmJCkrD
@mimismartypants Pho! 🍜
RT @jonnysun: IF ANY TIME TRAVELERS ARE READIG THIS YES U MADE IT BACK IN TIME YES THIS IS THE RIGHT YEAR BUT HURRY U MAY ALREDY BE TOO LATE
RT @DTulo: 9 hours into #WomensHistoryMonth and I already found the best gif https://t.co/7ZOlbmLWON
@AriLamstein That's the same data set.
@AriLamstein Yep! You can't see it in my app as much because similar names get over plotted, but here: https://t.co/kFqOyeA3K9
@ironsoap It is so interesting to play with!
@NYspling I will say that the full day was long for my 2nd at the beginning of the year. She was TIRED when she got home.
@NYspling At least here for us, HW is all read-aloud with parents at least through 1st grade. Lots of sounding out, etc in K.
@NYspling Kids are not expected to know how to read ahead of time. Letters/sounds would be helpful, but fall is still MONTHS away.
@NYspling My oldest was not reading at the beginning but did read by the end. My 2nd was reading before K.
@NYspling she would end up bored/disruptive, so we picked 1/2 day + enrichment (which we had to pay for, but still &lt;$$$ than preschool).
@NYspling We had the option for a full-day program for our 2nd but turned it down because she was academically ahead and they were worried
@NYspling good experience and liked both parts of her day. Both girls had HW in kindergarten: math + reading every day, spelling words.
@NYspling My 2nd went to 1/2 day + 1/2 day "enrichment" mainly so I could pick them both up at the same time from the same school; she had a
@NYspling My oldest went to 1/2 day and it was definitely low-key; it felt like she was not in school a lot. Not a con necessarily!
@JennyBryan https://t.co/jgBghNwroM
@drob I am excited to go! I haven't ever met many R people in real life. And thank you for the kind words &amp; always being so helpful.
What might YOU have been named if you had been born in a different year? #rstats
https://t.co/JpVWqBsA8V https://t.co/LXHskKqJCG
NEW POST: Comparing baby names across years based on popularity, with a Shiny app 👶🏽 #rstats https://t.co/3cFikgdLmu https://t.co/mG94AOguXr
@JennyBryan @hspter I also had never clicked on that before you mentioned it in the podcast! Turns out it is lovely. 👍🏼
RT @xkcdComic: Pipelines https://t.co/ZkSi88S4fg https://t.co/bu0BW0Nm9k https://t.co/26v9ObMe2l
RT @treycausey: 👏👏👏 The Wrong Way to Teach Math https://t.co/Dn7AB4D0BQ
And that those two time periods cannot be divided evenly.
Happy Leap Day! Take a moment to ponder that we're on a big sphere-ish thing 🌎 that both spins and orbits an even bigger sphere-ish thing 🌞.
RT @eddelbuettel: New CRAN pkg gunsales with @nytimes analysis
https://t.co/UxNSqUwvtD
#rstats
/cc @driven_by_data @joshkellerjosh https://…
TFW one of your daughters has a terrible cough and you are turning into Mrs. Bennet https://t.co/8J79tmtDqQ
RT @JennyBryan: If you're a bit shy about coding in public, this highly profane and funny blog might help you get over it. h/t @b0rk https:…
@StephanMichard I'm going to have it all (app + post) up by Monday, I think.
Well, I made a Shiny app interesting enough for my 10-year-old to sit &amp; play with nonstop.

I hope she doesn't use up all my hours. #rstats
@smfrogers @timelyportfolio That is amazing and beautiful, but I really wish "fruit salad" were on there.
@hollandsha I just clicked and saw why! 😂
RT @TeamShrub: For all the Austen-loving ggplot2 geeks out there  #rstats #hadleyvsgeorge https://t.co/XdIEsd18gL
@NishWeiseth Just texted you!
@NishWeiseth I do! We have used him multiple times over the years we have lived here. He does impeccable work.
@pssGuy @AriLamstein Nice! Thanks. That is a cool app.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a beautiful, dense, wonderful... https://t.co/YUaMkjI7lW
@JennyBryan They disappeared literally while I was clicking through reporting them all.
@JennyBryan Those were dreadful. I'm sorry.
RT @researchremix: Worth a read. re #preprints and the recent women-coding paper: https://t.co/PDfoLtVIqS
@hrbrmstr I am using readr::read_lines() for something right now and it is way more painless (+ faster) than the other things I tried.
RT @geoawesomeness: Awesome #Map shows age of buildings in #Paris https://t.co/lem2t3mL0m https://t.co/n12448E7In
I am low-key in love with these enchiladas we made for dinner.
@StephanMichard Thanks so much! That was a fun little project to do.
@NYspling My 4yo likes to say "JK" and "BFF"! 😳 It's fairly horrifying.
Sipping fancy scotch to celebrate a week that included accepting a new job. 😍
I needed make a change in my post that affected every single result/plot, but it was quite painless. Two thumbs WAY UP for reproducibility.
I am so glad that I blog using R Markdown.
@hadleywickham OK, it is fixed now. Hooray for blogging in Rmd and something like this being painless to fix!
@hadleywickham OK, I should go back and change that.
@JennyBryan AAAAAAAH...
@apreshill Oh man, this WHOLE DATA SET! Super interesting but wowza.
@hadleywickham When you made these plots, did you use the weights? I ignored that but I maybe should not have.
@apreshill @henrikbengtsson AH HA! That would have been an excellent place for me to look! 😉
RT @hadleywickham: @juliasilge @henrikbengtsson @JennyBryan I whipped this up for a bit of interactive exploration: https://t.co/xibemvw5PQ
@henrikbengtsson Or maybe it goes into "sports or recreational activity, not elsewhere classified", code 1200?
@henrikbengtsson Actually, after another bit of thinking, I wonder if a hang glider isn't considered a "consumer product"?
@henrikbengtsson @JennyBryan @hadleywickham I'm sure we can thus conclude that hang gliding is perfectly safe. 

(BUT ROCKING CHAIRS = 💀)
@henrikbengtsson @JennyBryan @hadleywickham I just looked; all the instances of "GLIDE" are either a rocking chair or playground equipment.
I've been married almost 14 years and WOW: What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage by @hhavrilesky
https://t.co/VexQm2a8Zp
@JennyBryan @_inundata KIDS. https://t.co/npqzvdi1mT
@JennyBryan We need to be doing lots of squats. 👵🏻💪🏻🚽
@JennyBryan @hadleywickham LOL -- My 3 are ♀♀♂ but I am still surprised we've only had the one head/wall ER visit.
Maybe not the best plot for a day when one's 10-year-old is skiing all afternoon? 😬⛷ #rstats https://t.co/KlllLxTHMI https://t.co/7nV1znJmoP
NEW POST: I used @hadleywickham's NEISS package to analyze injuries and injury rates #rstats https://t.co/KlllLxTHMI https://t.co/2DD2UNnzNy
RT @gilgul: Scraping Facebook data to stalk friends and analyze their sleep patterns - by @_notlikethis https://t.co/LB7hKZpoUO
Does Piety Pick Presidents? A little write-up of my earlier post. #OSDC https://t.co/XTsmTM0fzS
@AriLamstein Nice! I like the choroplethr version with no gray lines better. 😉
@drob @NicholasStrayer @simplystats I had never used Jekyll before and @drob's script worked perfectly smoothly. 👍🏻👍🏻
@hrbrmstr You're telling me. You are not the one on that list who should be saying this.
RT @GoogleFacts: In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue. https://t.co/532x0yR3bS
@the_belal Thank you for your help! I think my 2nd Travis attempt is likely to go much more smoothly.
@_inundata I am going to try one more thing before asking for expert help. 🔨🖥
@AriLamstein And I certainly plan to keep blogging, although perhaps not at the same rate as during my job search.
@AriLamstein I am joining @datassist; I am really excited about it!
@JennyBryan I currently have one more idea of something to try. I think this might be related to lazy loading the data.
@JennyBryan That one package that this depends on, I mean.
@JennyBryan But one of the packages already depends on a certain version of R, so it BLOWS UP because of cycle dependency if I add that.
@JennyBryan So I now have it the same locally and on Travis. Still failing (for 1 warning), but at least I have gotten it that far.
Oh great, now it just errored and stopped.
My R CMD check is fine locally but Travis CI is still FAIL FAIL FAIL. I don't even know what I am doing. ☹️ https://t.co/boZO82Fzhn
I have accepted a new job! I am going to be an actual data science professional doing actual data science for actual monetary remuneration.
The blank spot in the NW is our airport; nobody lives there!
I wrote documentation for my census tracts package &amp; wow, maps are interesting. #rstats https://t.co/1bxRWXtkkO https://t.co/Z7QIkLzEj9
Well, I've now achieved a failing Travis CI build. #FAIL
@SecretBeck OH NO.
RT @AntonioFrench: Wow. Let that sink in.  https://t.co/60jlPy8xBR
@hollandshaPri Oh NO!
Happy double digits to Grace! 🎂🎈🎉 https://t.co/iKjYefjcmg
I have been a parent for a decade as of today.
@hrbrmstr This is super helpful; thank you!
@NishWeiseth BEEN. THERE.
@hrbrmstr Do you have a recommended resource for getting started with a viz like this in ggplot2? Maybe even just which geom?
I love living in Salt Lake City but this inversion we have been having is RIDICULOUS. We all… https://t.co/nNhkSmvf2I
RT @AntonioFrench: People are free to support the candidate of their choice, but you Twitterfingers haven't earned the right to disrespect …
I made a Shiny app to go along with it: https://t.co/ljspXQswKz #rstats https://t.co/lGyLLGMW7z
NEW POST: Mapping water use, and my first R package (for UT census tracts) #rstats https://t.co/Fhox1ud2Pp https://t.co/y6TpXFm5e5
RT @rOpenSci: Announcing our 2016 unconference 
https://t.co/jKg0Q1Pnwu
Invitations are still going out but nominations are now open.
@DrSamuelBrown Meeeeeeee toooooooooooo...
RT @PhysRevLett: Our cover this week: Binary black hole merger #gravitationalwaves. 
@LIGO Hanford (Livingston) data in red (blue) https://…
RT @reneehlozek: Here’s the figure from the paper #GW showing the two events seen in the Washington and Louisiana observatories. https://t.…
RT @NSF: .@LIGO announcement confirms a major prediction of #AlbertEinstein's 1915 gen theory of relativity https://t.co/CnClw67w3v #NSFLigo
RT @NishWeiseth: THIS IS INSANE // "With more parents choosing not to vaccinate, Utah on brink of losing 'herd immunity'" https://t.co/HqZS…
Turns out he was wanting Erlenmeyer flasks and such. I at least need to dig out all my old observing/telescope pictures.
4-year-old to me at preschool dropoff: "Why haven't I ever seen you doing science?"
Me: "Oh sweetie, it's just me sitting at a computer."
RT @kyle_e_walker: Gender imbalance in rural La Salle County Texas, located on the Eagle Ford Shale: https://t.co/1vi2713Af6
@Scott_Johnsn That is so great to hear. The point of blogging, I suppose! Thank you.
RT @jamieabrew: please try this recipe i made using a predictive text imitator and The American Woman's Cook Book (1938) https://t.co/X0NgV…
@tinyhonkshus @drob That's actually just the default, but yes, super important for real plots with titles/labels/legends.
So cheerful for Friday afternoon! Causes of death in UT over the past 15 years https://t.co/aDz1Sb41lv @drob #rstats https://t.co/9kogVV4SGZ
NEW POST: I used gganimate to explore causes of death in Utah @drob https://t.co/aDz1Sb41lv #rstats https://t.co/b4fJlXi0YN
@dhmontgomery @AriLamstein LOL, these maps are actually ggplot2 objects.
@AriLamstein @dhmontgomery In one of the examples I have limits set in a call to ggplot_scale. Set the limits to be the same for both maps.
RT @andrewheiss: Perks of having network data for 1.6 billion people: that whole 6-degrees-of-separation thing is outdated. https://t.co/el…
RT @willrad: Physicist: dark matter is undetectable but real
Nerd: ok!
Sociologist: these 417 findings show sexism exists
Nerd: NO, GIRLS A…
@ryanburge So cool to see that!
Where People Run in Salt Lake City (and other places) by @flowingdata https://t.co/P12aGJKVq4 https://t.co/jFXB1c6asD
@NishWeiseth Like, I just start crying a little bit watching the trailer.
@NishWeiseth OMG I don't even know if I can handle that.
RT @iamdevloper: The software development process

i can’t fix this

*crisis of confidence*
*questions career*
*questions life*

oh it was …
RT @albertocairo: Exploring the Relationship between Religion &amp; Demographics in R by @juliasilge @AriLamstein #dataviz #dataJournalism http…
@amgsharma Sure, if you follow me, I can DM you.
@tdhopper Yep, just my Twitter timeline. You are right, of course.
@tdhopper https://t.co/mgpudsUkik
RT @mimismartypants: Why diss people for not knowing about something cool? Just show them the cool thing. Then you get to be a teacher and …
@BecomingDataSci Would you consider adding me?
@juskye I never do test strands. Test strands are for wimps.
RT @bryancshepherd: If you're looking for interesting data, https://t.co/b7t1LC5EQI  is a relatively unknown treasure trove. #DataScience #…
RT @ReligionData: Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Demographics in R (part 2) https://t.co/UTmDtL9ZoO @AriLamstein @juliasil…
It's my second guest post over on @AriLamstein's blog where I conclude my exploration of the ASARB census over there. Thanks for having me!
NEW POST: I look at relationships between demographics and the ARDA religion census. #rstats https://t.co/XYgIPu29W8 https://t.co/cLVjbb0Cgj
RT @nordpil: a neat introduction to maps and geospatial and GIS at Mapschool.io http://t.co/mJnBlWCshP http://t.co/UD8vlZGus6
Sundance movie! Living in Utah is pretty tough, you guys. @ Tower Theatre https://t.co/XVxX9nABOS
I just got ImageMagick working on my computer so my new career is going to be making animated GIFs.
RT @VictorCNN: Man just bolted across a Des Moines coffee shop - to shake my hand and say 'It's an honor to meet you, Dr. Carson!' https://…
RT @shaybstrong: “Wrestling to Define Myself as a GIS Data Scientist” by @shaybstrong https://t.co/Ob9MSvsiIg
@brianabelson Would love to DM you but I think you would need to follow me first?
@ironsoap 💜💜💜 to awk. I did a ridiculous amount of the analysis for my dissertation with awk.
RT @JennyBryan: If they gave Pulitzers for Blog Posts about Debugging, this @davidvgalbraith guy should win. h/t @joelgrus https://t.co/Bhv…
@ORJocee So sweet!
@sharon000 Yes! Or at the least, a post on the project for which I wanted to read a shapefile in the first place with some links I used.
RT @sharon000: How to map Census data with R &amp; choroplethr https://t.co/MvgREvXaxh #gis #ddj #rstats by @juliasilge via @revodavid https://…
Science fair night, with some 4th grade #dataviz https://t.co/oHDLJ5CBjL
@cse_faculty Do you mean data science? Programming/hacking skills are very important, plus statistics. I am not an expert, though!
(I didn't bring it up. It's the science fair tonight so it is all high on my 1st grader's mind.)
Breakfast table conversation at my house this morning: difference between mass, weight, and volume. Makes my physicist mama heart happy. 💜
@bradkentca Thank you! I was definitely interested when I saw the data set; I'm working right now on some maps of the spatial information.
I learned how to read a shapefile into R today, so now I know where Utah's census tracts are. #rstats https://t.co/UysJga2M8f
@Selkie1970 We were pretty far along into jury selection when they came in and told us. This was my first time to get this far into it.
I have been released from jury duty. Turns out there was new evidence and they were arguing about using it, so they could not go to trial.
Wow, I am on the Revolution Analytics blog today! #rstats https://t.co/ZAq1JPOu68 https://t.co/DEGV7aTpHY
@SKEdman Nooooooooooo...
@revodavid Thank you for the link!
RT @revodavid: Sentiment analysis is easier than you think, with this R tutorial by @juliasilge https://t.co/L0fgV2IKOZ #rstats https://t.c…
Jury duty @ Scott Matheson Courthouse https://t.co/KJlEw98AgE
@kyle_e_walker @AriLamstein Those are great ideas; I really like the idea of looking at homogeneity.
@AriLamstein I will talk to you about it more when I have it all (mostly?) working.
@AriLamstein Oh, it is just making the census tract maps but for Utah. 🙄 You probably saw that I forked your repository.
My first R package is almost put together. I know you've heard this before, but thank you, @hspter, for your super straightforward guide.
So much about Beatrice Tinsley makes me feel sad.
RT @dalcantonJD: Tinsley was an incredibly prescient astronomer. She's always been my scientific idol.  https://t.co/mcEC2v9Co8
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide by Alex Reinhart My rating: 4 of 5 stars Readable,... https://t.co/Si2qkFJqVM
@MaryLUE I laugh and laugh and laugh that she was tired of reading about "white boys and their dogs". IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
RT @ReligionData: Want to know what you can do using R and data from the ARDA? Check out this blog post! https://t.co/WrnTvZt4kw
@AriLamstein @01241 Doing something more interactive would be great; I'll definitely think about working something up!
RT @ReligionData: Wonderful example of what is possible on The ARDA. Examine and download the data FREE here: https://t.co/TCPiNPzYZb https…
I used open data from @ReligionData to explore Iowa's religious demographics ahead of their caucuses. #rstats https://t.co/Ekns4Rcxf2
NEW POST: I am on @AriLamstein's blog today talking about maps, religion, &amp; Iowa. #rstats https://t.co/Ekns4Rcxf2 https://t.co/FcehomiI2A
https://t.co/McqMeuDkZp
Guys, I am pretty excited for TV tonight. #TheXFiles https://t.co/hsiMV2F1Tc
@_inundata For sure a benefit of living here. It's &lt; hour from my house to sitting on a lift.
On a BURRITO DATE 🌯 with my youngest while Rob takes our older girls skiing in this lovely powder https://t.co/DGorjr0End
RT @ginatrapani: The Scully Effect - a perceptible increase of women entering the fields of science, medicine, and law enforcement https://…
@dwdeardorff Oh gosh, I love this show so much. And I am wanting/hoping this revival is good SO SO MUCH.
RT @DrScienceCat: I didn't realize USA TODAY was so big https://t.co/F5kKOQfM2Q
I want to put on my resume: "Highly proficient at googling how to do things."
It's funny because it's true. https://t.co/q2UJHvbTqj
RT @orbitingfrog: To be fair @plutokiller owed us a new planet https://t.co/haxz27pyRz
RT @randal_olson: This is actually what America would look like without #gerrymandering. #dataviz

https://t.co/GsaVkXv3xi https://t.co/Rc0…
It totally is! https://t.co/w9Fvy4zfDd
NEW POST: A predictive model for water use in Salt Lake City, plus drought! 🌧💧☔️  https://t.co/BILTbm0tKj #rstats https://t.co/oYma02RfxA
RT @_Pandy: i fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate new scenes https://t.…
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is slowly paced but somehow really engrossing... https://t.co/3jCSqzncZ5
First state qualifying time for this girl tonight! (100 back) @ Fairmont Aquatic Center https://t.co/L8jT5QwvTw
My spreadsheet breaks all tidy data principles, BTW.
I'm starting to prepare for actual interviews for actual jobs, so I am making an enormous spreadsheet. https://t.co/RZKn7wR5Ou
RT @monkmanmh: Nice analysis of health indicators in Utah by @juliasilge using #rstats
https://t.co/E995mlkdT2
#DataScience #dataviz #demog…
I finally got the chance to sit down and absorb this and wow! So helpful! https://t.co/uNfon3FAyX
@Jowanza 😭😭😭
Coffee shop morning for me today @ La Barba Fine Coffee and Churros https://t.co/6bGqGXsiHY
@SKEdman I bought a pair of LL Bean short harness boots last winter that have turned out to be amazing. I wear them nearly every day.
RT @joelcifer: When you hate that it was funny but it was funny https://t.co/ZkOJaOaLyM
RT @benmschmidt: My #SOTU site lets you read this year's speech in comparison to every other one given: https://t.co/UF12UyljuC https://t.c…
@pbjcole 💜
The #rstats community has been really helpful and welcoming to me as a newcomer and a learner; it makes such a difference. THANK YOU.
I used @slowkow's new ggrepel package with k-means autoplot from ggfortify. 💯💕🎉 https://t.co/h2TtMZZxNp #rstats https://t.co/Lw1Dl6zss3
NEW POST: Health care indicators in Utah counties, with PCA and clustering goodness https://t.co/h2TtMZZxNp #rstats https://t.co/DUH5IJ3k94
📷 Slow-Cooked Brisket and Onions from The Kitchn We had a brisket from our ¼ cow in the freezer, and I... https://t.co/aSAoI5wnTj
Complex systems and simulation! (via @treycausey) https://t.co/6hsgZLLHZv
RT @hrbrmstr: I present The Force: Accounted, in #rstats https://t.co/uz8QQJy53L #ggplot2 #StarWars (src: https://t.co/6eqxUF6zlT) https://…
@jkru And $$$ is obviously not the only reason to pick a city or job.
@jkru I guess you just have to decide if/when you really are over the cost of living. Salaries are lower elsewhere, but not THAT much lower.
@jkru Yeah, although it's probably just that there are DS jobs in all cities with a strong tech presence.
@jkru I have started more seriously job hunting, going to meet ups, etc and seriously there are so many jobs here.
My 9-year-old is pretty excited 😊 Just signed up for Girls on the Run Utah Spring 2016 Program Registration https://t.co/lbJAdZLkzt
@SKEdman I remember literally shaking the first time I made this kind of call for V, but it has been SO good/helpful/necessary.
@SKEdman This kind of process is terrifying at the beginning, but it actually is helpful and not terrible once you are in it.
Thank you! I really enjoyed putting this project together. https://t.co/56O2qpXbbr
RT @AntonioFrench: Interesting read. 

"Twitter’s White-People Problem" via @thenation https://t.co/QaYFlqoBm6
RT @lsv: The last sentence is a 3 for 1: It explains the statistical drop, is very funny, and is kind of frightening. https://t.co/opcH48AB…
@Jowanza So awful.
RT @xkcdComic: Judgment Day https://t.co/36WE4dTFxi https://t.co/iua4BkraqJ https://t.co/8BSapK2Xkm
Thanks for the great talk, Braxton Osting!
Tonight at my data science meetup, I learned that college football schedules are not very informative. https://t.co/Si74TTDmXT
@UtahProbs IDK but I feel like most surprises involving knives are not good. 😳
@AriLamstein Not quite yet; I just submitted the form to be added over the weekend.
Fluffy quail in my backyard https://t.co/ZQag1AVL4i
RT @clarecorthell: Glow: “Womanhood, Demystified by Data” Uhg. 
https://t.co/XDdfzyZmx2
@AriLamstein I have! I've made a couple of Shiny apps so far. I will have to think about doing one for these maps.
@Selkie1970 The title is "Masterpiece Mystery."
Many thanks to @AriLamstein for his amazing choroplethr package and all the help he offers in getting started with it.
It's Sunday, so maybe you would like to read about religious demographics in Utah? https://t.co/qcIgggwj7p #rstats https://t.co/KuZuqBLo8Y
NEW POST: Demographics and Choropleth Maps of My Home State https://t.co/qcIgggwj7p #rstats https://t.co/oER4KNl4GW
@laciemesserly Watching it as the parent as a tween girl made it especially gut-wrenching. SO MANY TEARS.
@laciemesserly YES, and also the whole thing at the end with her getting older and having more complicated/sadder emotions.
Well, we watched Inside Out and I sobbed.
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just re-read this, and I have a suspicion that... https://t.co/3RtsVkZOpU
RT @cosmicpudding: Alright, here is my attempt at spectrally analysing #SydNYE fireworks! What do you think? https://t.co/0bzfFwtl2H https:…
Check out My Year in Books on Goodreads!  https://t.co/4qCBhUGn0P via @goodreads
I think I finally managed to make my Git editor NOT vi. Because I have to google how to quit vi every time I end up in it.
RT @treycausey: Fascinating and rigorous analysis. Typography and Google Ngrams strike again. https://t.co/M132DMvxe8
@Jowanza A sign that you live in Utah?
RT @NishWeiseth: You shut your mouth, @Thrillist. Don't encourage more people to move here! #SLC  https://t.co/OrRvSeQXO0
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book made me SO HAPPY. Charming, super duper... https://t.co/SqjLJDe7MH
Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers by Margaret C. Sullivan My rating: 4 of 5... https://t.co/m1ucxkr1Vy
My in-laws are in town visiting so we have come to see the dinosaurs @ Natural History Museum of… https://t.co/O38XOa0mag
@krisshaffer Yes.
She said she liked it a little better than episodes IV-VI because the girl "actually got to do a lot in this one." 😍😍😍
Rob took our (smart, athletic, amazing) 9-year-old daughter to #TheForceAwakens today and they had so much fun.
We are at a movie theater, here to see the Space Fights movie! #StarWars
RT @arnicas: Buzzfeed really is something now - their list of 53 stories in 2015 is worth a gawk. https://t.co/lIbtYc47dK
This movie is THE WORST but this blog post is delightful. 😉 https://t.co/euNKZQHqY1
@HaleyNBurke I will give you some! We ended up with way more than we will use.
Our Christmas goose is COOKED. https://t.co/vfLRAe6poZ
@Selkie1970 If you like dark meat turkey/chicken or duck, it is DELICIOUS. It is also often $$$, unfortunately. We buy one once a year.
@Selkie1970 Roast vegetables, especially potatoes. But this is A LOT! I may need to give some away to foodie friends.
It's snowing and we're roasting a goose out of which we've rendered 4 cups of goose fat. SO FAR.
@dwdeardorff Indeed it is!
Also we have opened a VERY nice bottle of bourbon. https://t.co/wGKkN7Trcg
Real candles alight on our real tree tonight 🎄🕯🎆
Merry Christmas! https://t.co/g3a9uj4TW5
The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the best book I have ever read that consists... https://t.co/1RJ5u13Dv9
Joy to the World, and also Anticipation, Disgust, Surprise: NLP &amp; sentiment analysis https://t.co/Q8vJS0L996 #rstats https://t.co/rFJxQADYEa
@dwdeardorff It was definitely an interesting, enjoyable read.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don’t by Nate Silver My rating: 4 of 5... https://t.co/z0JHU6yCvS
SO MANY birthdays/parties at our house right around now. I'm just a WEENSY SMIDGE tired.
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

Violet is SEVEN! https://t.co/y9Wn1eK6ME
@mljockers Thanks so much for the great syuzhet package! I enjoyed using it here.
NEW POST: NLP &amp; sentiment analysis of my Twitter archive https://t.co/Q8vJS0L996 #rstats https://t.co/MPzNSi5t13
RT @NewYorker: From the @tnyshouts archive: children’s holiday letters to Satan. https://t.co/P0zCssM1CT https://t.co/mE1I7EYGtq
@_inundata High West is local to me! They have an amazing restaurant, you can tour the distillery, etc. 😍
RT @simplystats: A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2015 https://t.co/I7cBY2xWwP
RT @oceankidbilly: 📊📊📊BREAKING: "The default theme_grey() background colour has been changed from “grey90” to “grey92" 📊📊📊https://t.co/R2LK…
Party aftermath -- Happy 39th, Rob! https://t.co/8AE6fvx8Bj
Bourbon cranberry shrub cocktail, to celebrate Rob's birthday with friends tonight! https://t.co/I5s1KquH2i
@AdageCat @SKEdman This book is up there for most lifetime re-reads for me, just behind P&amp;P maybe? Has been a couple of years now, though.
@SKEdman And I just remembered the whole thing with the rose bush. "Oh, look! Now it is covered in LUSH BLOOMS."
@SKEdman And after they were married, she was all so FULL OF LIFE and WEARING BRIGHT COLORS and all that. 😳
@SKEdman I would need to re-read to really make this argument, but I feel like it was part of what she was asking him for.
@SKEdman Boy, I am NOT A FAN of the cover on my copy. https://t.co/eBl877ruSb
@SKEdman I think? Now I need to re-read it. Gosh, I love that book. One of my faaaaaaaaaves...
@SKEdman They were MARRIED. They totally DID IT.
@dwdeardorff This is so true; they do an excellent job.
I went to the BIGGEST COSTCO IN THE WORLD on the SATURDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS and I LIVED TO TELL THE TALE.
@Drew_Lab @BrunaLab @_inundata MI-5 is AMAZING but yes, so intense/gut-wrenching.
@_inundata Luther, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Parenthood?
TFW you get an annual family Christmas letter full of inappropriate-for-children content 😳
Birthday + science = ❤️ @ Natural History Museum of Utah https://t.co/B0X8uUMyfR
Last day for our kids to be in school for a while so... BREAKFAST DATE @ Straw Market https://t.co/XLmO5P79ZM
Discussing with Rob what Harry Potter characters our 3 children are. We have decided:
1) Hermione
2) Luna Lovegood
3) Ron
I finished Andrew Ng's machine learning class on @coursera today! It was in fact good, as everyone said it was. https://t.co/twtBck9r7f
@tdhopper I did a shocking amount of the analysis for my dissertation in awk scripts (the rest in C and Supermongo). 

👍🏻 to awk, for sure.
@treycausey @ChefSteps That job description for Applied Math is written so well and is so appealing -- makes me wish I were up for a move!
RT @treycausey: The best thing I read online this year was @ftrain's What Is Code? https://t.co/ZQ7PO1ddEq
@jkru A gift card, like for a book store or coffee
The code used to make the app is here, for interested parties: https://t.co/BU73qNsyy1 #rstats
I used a publicly available data set from @UtahData to explore the heath of UT counties: https://t.co/zDTGuGhjrv https://t.co/Y7BrRv2PXy
@AdiePrestone Well, THANK YOU. 😉
Code for the app is here: https://t.co/BU73qNK9pz #rstats
I made a Shiny app exploring health indicators in Utah counties: https://t.co/zDTGuGyUj3 #rstats
RT @drob: One reason the "Axes must start at 0" rule doesn't always apply. #rstats https://t.co/BHm9jW9g8Y
RT @NHMU: #snowpocalypse @UUtah @NHMU #Eocene style. https://t.co/kfzCg0Rc5r
My street is all full of drifty, powdery snow. https://t.co/oyiVwebhqV
Salt Lake is a magical winter fairyland (but driving was super unpleasant this morning) https://t.co/AJLt4NQSnP
3rd Sunday of Advent, and the last night of Hanukkah. Things get a little weird around here… https://t.co/VChT1EOLj9
@hollandshaPri Maybe also really dark lipstick.
@hollandshaPri I suggest starting a relationship with liquid black eyeliner and ENORMOUS earrings.
@hollandshaPri This is the problem right here; no one (?) wants to look like her mother.
RT @exostefanom: Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations — https://t.co/eg27T6imVH
My 6-year-old daughter wants a jet pack for Christmas.
RT @UT_Stats: Ten Thousand Tweets https://t.co/K4DBiYlKMc #rstats via @juliasilge
Looks like I am going to be called up for jury duty in January, which sounds super duper overwhelming for us with 2 jobs and 3 kids. 😬
@evnglcalhipster house churches 😉
This is a great collection of resources! https://t.co/qHZ7dtnCdB
I am so excited/nervous for this: 50 Scenes That Do Not Appear in the X-Files Revival https://t.co/iSPUtV9CDp
RT @hunterschwarz: Utah Gov. Gary Herbert referencing 1800s Mormon refugees, saying “the First Amendment still matters." https://t.co/S29Sz…
I'm at a swim meet again @ Olympus High Aquatic Center https://t.co/VV2oUvqgrr
@openMindedSkep Oh, that's a nice idea! Thanks.
@UT_Stats Thanks for the RT! I am actually a UT alum (astronomy PhD in 2005).
@drob I used a nearly identical version of your script and it is working very smoothly for me! Thanks again.
Thank you! https://t.co/OJvStDutH8
First blog post on my brand new website, wherein I get to know ggplot2 a bit https://t.co/zG1GWlkdJJ #rstats
Also thank you to @drob for having your blog on Github in such a way that I could figure out how to turn R markdown into Jekyll blog posts.
Many thanks to @mmistakes for the beautiful Jekyll theme, and for being really nice on Twitter when I had questions getting it set up.
I have a new professional website! https://t.co/AsRoS5KA9b
Will I ever get tired of a) the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack or b) Sufjan Stevens' first Christmas album? 

I think no.
Second Sunday of Advent https://t.co/EB175hDS6W
@hollandshaPri Aaaaaaaaaaaaah... 😳😵🙀
My home town! Amazing work. https://t.co/PQ7clYr1EY
"MATLAB MOOC, MATLAB MOOC," sing-songs my husband to me, like he thinks these aren't real things? Life gets weird around here sometimes.
RT @bigdata: Identifying the essential skills for data scientists: very good @radar post by @dtunkelang https://t.co/coW1g943UI
@exostefanom I miss Austin.
@SKEdman literally shaking and queasy afterward. One of the worst experiences of my life.
@SKEdman I knew she was gone almost immediately but she was missing for ~20 minutes. I was freakishly calm while she was gone, but
@SKEdman I lost V when she was 3 at the SLC farmers market (which is HUGE! and SO SO BUSY!) and it was so intensely terrifying.
I just took the @MangoTheCat #DSRadar Survey, and I am a Modeller, with Visualizer not far behind. https://t.co/SpDwCr41yv
RT @Owl_Meat: Reason to do a PhD #19: 

woman having baby on plane

"Is there a Dr on board"

Me: yes lol *gets out laptop and loads up MAT…
@SecretBeck I absolutely do. Mix those all together and take away the spaceships and English estates and you basically have my husband.
@SecretBeck For me, it's... Mr. Darcy, Han Solo, Fox Mulder.
@SecretBeck Well, undoubtedly in real life some of Mulder would be just impossible, but you are not going to convince me on this one.
@SecretBeck Noooooooooooo.... HE IS SO DREAMY.
First day of Advent https://t.co/li4PpR5kVT
RT @Jfpohl: I wrote this poem for the latest @ASA3org issue of "God and Nature Magazine." I find Utah's geology moving. 
https://t.co/Wo1tX…
Thankful for a nice Thanksgiving weekend visit with my parents https://t.co/dkFrbx5Ved
I didn't take a single picture yesterday, but my parents are here for a Thanksgiving visit! @ Natural… https://t.co/UpSYey8ilt
RT @WesFlinn: *slow clap* Bravo, Vice.

https://t.co/nr1W4yK8gN
RT @ironsoap: RT if you're preparing a brine rn
Also, I have always wanted green hair. https://t.co/HF2eyuCngS
Neural networks are so fun. https://t.co/VYLVopOsae
@DeepForger https://t.co/W1KBpaZwcD
Maple custard tart with GF orange cardamom crust https://t.co/PhPL31Lkas
RT @Slate: Watch @Adele, @jimmyfallon, and @theroots do “Hello” classroom instrument-style: https://t.co/63fQ9YGJaf https://t.co/2cYeS0EF2i
RT @hrbrmstr: Can we call this Turkey Day-ta Science? https://t.co/q7mec3skSB
Yes, as an actual mom with technical skills, it doesn't feel great. https://t.co/G4MsHMiJ5q
@NYspling WOW. That is a long time! At least to me. It is interesting how people's instincts are so different RE: privacy.
@NYspling A day, I think? Via email to my entire address book for my oldest (~10 years ago) and on FB, Instagram, etc for my younger ones.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is my third Liane Moriarty book to read, the... https://t.co/N7YpWepLRl
An evening of climbing for Violet @ Momentum Millcreek https://t.co/j3l0y7UTQ2
@NishWeiseth I pretty much regret every joke I've made about Mormons on social media.
This is beautiful and amazing. https://t.co/XS4YG56cQX
There are pretty plots of principal component analysis about 3/4 of the way down. #rstats
I machine learned something! It is about bicep curls. https://t.co/LFU5EPYjeQ #rstats
It's dress-like-a-book-character day at the girls' school, and Violet is Penny with her blue marble,… https://t.co/kHO3J9NxZp
@jkru Also, linear algebra.
RT @redstatist: teacher: your child won't stop yelling "this is bourgeois propaganda" in social studies
me: have you tried not teaching bou…
@arnicas I am not new to coding in general and I am resourceful, but I had never touched git before and it was OK.
@arnicas Making a Jekyll blog with Github was one of the very first things I did with git AT ALL and it went well for me as a learner.
Listening to the leaves fall https://t.co/CVCQALfIck
RT @NishWeiseth: THANK YOU, @GovHerbert. Thank you for doing the right thing, even if its not politically beneficial. #Utah  https://t.co/P…
My youngest (age 4): "My favorite numbers are INFINITY and FOUR."
@tdhopper I went and got myself a PhD in astrophysics and now I have to figure out what to do with it.
Little bit of snow on roofs and the foothills ❄️😍🌨
RT @amcasari: Most excellent advice: How To Hire Female Engineers https://t.co/1niDxh854k via @techcrunch
@hadleywickham @rstudio I used readr and I was able to figure out how to do what I needed to (ended up only reading in some columns).
@hadleywickham @rstudio I'm QUITE new to using R, but largest dataset so far was 6+ Gb .csv file when I only have 8 Gb of RAM in 2 slots!
@SecretBeck I think in big cities, they report the rates by year and then talk about whether the rates go up or down.
@SecretBeck I guess it depends if you want to talk about this year's rate or your town's average rate.
@SecretBeck If you wanted an AVERAGE annual murder rate, you would average those rates together: (15*0 + 3/1000)/16, which is about 1.8/1000
@SecretBeck Then there was a year with 3 murders? That year would have an annual murder rate of 3/1000.
@SecretBeck Your annual murder rate is obviously 0/1000 and has been for, say, the last 15 years.
@SecretBeck This is such a good question! I know a lot about math but not a lot about how crime statistics are reported.
RT @wordnuvola: @juliasilge here's your word cloud :D https://t.co/brENISS60W
@wordnuvola #wordcloud
Somebody bring me my Doc Martens and my flannel.
Oh man, this playlist for Jagged Little Pill's 20th anniversary is MY JAM.  https://t.co/fp5sAUpdwF
📷 Twice Baked Spaghetti Squash Recipe We had a number of small spaghetti squash from our CSA and I made... https://t.co/sVmYrH3UTV
RT @nicebread303: What's the probability that a significant p-value indicates a true effect? Blog post &amp; a new interactive app https://t.co…
Ah, my undergrad alma mater @TAMU... For sure a good value, even more so in the late 1990s when I was there. https://t.co/3P4WhQEvHW
RT @simoncholland: If you enjoy talking someone down from the ledge because they can feel a wrinkle in their sock, parenting may be for you.
I'm noticing a significant reduction in Elsas compared to recent years.
Happy Halloween! 🎃🕸🍬 https://t.co/NKelEibAk9
@HaleyNBurke Oh nooooooooo...
Family photo booth https://t.co/UqsZ3OoIlQ
On the way to the school carnival: Kwazi (from Octonauts), a fairy, and Sneaka (the cloud superhero) https://t.co/kOETdVIvcF
And that is my first Shiny app! #rstats
I made an interactive visualizing water consumption in SLC: https://t.co/gFTPqDs8sc
Thanks for the great streamgraph package, @hrbrmstr!
It's 62° in our house. Time to turn on the heat?
(He meant Nevada.)
4yo: "Did you know that California and Nineveh are SO CLOSE to each other?!?!"
Some after-school reading https://t.co/1zsaznREqh
Alarm did not go off and I woke up 1+ hours after my normal time. We did manage to get the kids to school on time, but WHAT A HOT MESS...
@treycausey Well, that is rotten. I have found your blog posts really helpful, FWIW.
@karenebayne Also statistics. Also learning new programming languages.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was compelling enough that I read it... https://t.co/d1QW4Zn8Ls
RT @deepselfie: @juliasilge looking at https://t.co/tVi2ln4uEA you get a score of 56.1%. Good one.
.@deepselfie Hello, Selfie Bot! What do you think of my profile picture? https://t.co/qOYXxg7pxk https://t.co/4fbSWOeiXV
It's lovely to have our own backyard eggs again. https://t.co/qtX6NnEfER
@Selkie1970 Preeeeeeeeeetty...
@NishWeiseth Yeah, I thought so. I was all ORLY? It WAS quite cold, on the other hand, and G (+ friends) swam kind of slow.
Well, we survived another swim meet. My daughter's friends' moms and dads declared it a "slow pool", whatever that means. Is that real?
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker My rating: 4 of 5 stars... https://t.co/M7qGNn1ueM
@exostefanom I'm not there quite yet; I'm working on making the move! I work in ed tech right now writing astronomy content for higher ed.
@exostefanom I preceded you at UT by ~10 years!
@SKEdman Did you... did you MAKE those?!
Piano lesson day https://t.co/xjjo44CNNW
@jkru I HAVE TO LEARN ALL OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMMING AND DATA SCIENCE RIGHT NOW.
@jkru Just don't decide to do LIKE HALF A DOZEN AT ONE TIME.
I... I'm taking too many MOOCs, you guys.
@fredericksolt That does look better. Thank you!
I used the dotwhisker package from @fredericksolt, which is lovely. H/T to @JennyBryan
I did some multivariate linear regression, if you're into that sort of thing: https://t.co/CIzUaxCNPC #rstats
Putting on wool socks for the first time this fall. OH YEAH.
@ORJocee YES. They gave me a MAP. https://t.co/PF5U6XuO37
@NishWeiseth https://t.co/KAKrRdbPoA
@dwdeardorff It is pretty amazingly huge.
Our Costco has been remodeled and now it is THE BIGGEST COSTCO IN THE WORLD. (According to the sign.)
@mimismartypants I say... NO! We are doing the best we can and we love these gorgeous human beings!
@mimismartypants My oldest (also girl) is a little younger (almost 10) but I feel so flummoxed by tween/preteen life. AM I F-ING IT ALL UP?!
Well, it's #WorldStatisticsDay so I did t-tests on guinea pigs! No really! #rstats https://t.co/8xf6ozoqbp
I did some wee tiny simulations and it turns out that yes! the Central Limit Theorem is still a thing. #rstats https://t.co/oYhPOv9vxW
@jkru Pho is what I crave/eat whenever I have a bad cold. It is like chicken noodle soup, but way way better.
@jkru The liquor laws here can be VERY annoying in certain circumstances, especially if you don't know how they all work.
@jkru We brought home 5 bottles of bourbon. All unscathed!
We came for the bats, and the lake, and the skyline. The kids basically melted down, but otherwise… https://t.co/rhIYIGYk0f
Grace is such a good travel companion these days. @ 24 Diner https://t.co/fCbUhJMOvV
@HaleyNBurke Never fear. My cousin's new last name is Goodman.
Cousin wedding dance floor #lisafoundagoodman @ Vintage Villas Hotel and Events Center https://t.co/wH9652KUKX
There are giant lollipops at this wedding. #lisafoundagoodman @ Vintage Villas Hotel and Events Center https://t.co/c2ZHeTfUVU
My cousin is getting married! #lisafoundagoodman @ Vintage Villas Hotel and Events Center https://t.co/ZnlTXb44MC
😍😍😍 @ Vintage Villas Hotel and Events Center https://t.co/k6CzlZLqzY
@Selkie1970 I miss having fun color! It always made me happy...
Tea service with my girls and my sister @ The Steeping Room https://t.co/lmf2VoLQWR
Well, it appears I forgot to pack my son's dress shoes for this family wedding today. I guess he will be wearing his Keens!
Here for my cousin's rehearsal dinner @ The County Line on The Lake https://t.co/4gbGZWLBoG
@s_chacko That looks interesting! I will have to check that out.
Fun with lights @ Thinkery https://t.co/Is2SsDpzP7
I'm drinking a fancy beer and listening to live music while my children play on a playground. I MISSED YOU, CENTRAL MARKET.
Eating some pancakes @ Kerbey Lane Cafe https://t.co/7ELHTRdSR7
RT @slcairport: Adventures begin at #SLC! Thanks to pax @juliasilge for the photo! #SLCAirport http://t.co/6Bbkk6IF62
Getting ready for an airplane adventure @ Salt Lake City International Airport https://t.co/jZe73Ir7Fn
Packing for 5 people for a 5-day trip. Horrifying amount of stuff!
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty My rating: 4 of 5 stars Liane Moriarty writes such interesting... http://t.co/5tl0vSvVo5
Discussing with my 4-year-old the relative realness of @SteveBurnsAlive, Shovel, and Pail.
@HaleyNBurke That is not cool, man.
RT @treycausey: You may know that Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator is not scientific. But definitely read on. http://t.co/pKGrUNEEsE http://t.c…
@NishWeiseth Aaaaaah, Grace is supposed to go to a piano thing later today on campus!
@JennyBryan Oh man. I was the only female physics major in my cohort during undergrad. So lonely in so many ways!
Me, age 19 in the very late 1990s, sitting in a dim computer lab while a professor drones on about linear algebra, etc in MATLAB.
I have a MATLAB license for the next couple of months for a Coursera course I'm taking, and that is taking me ALL the way back to undergrad.
@jkru What?! We'll be there for a wedding too -- my cousin is getting married next Sat out by Lake Travis. Maybe we should say hello.
@jkru Funnily enough, we are going to be in Austin NEXT weekend.
@howiesmith @NishWeiseth For Violet, it was the opposite. The countdown game-ified the whole thing for her. But it's not the only way...
@NishWeiseth @howiesmith It is literally so easy for her, etc. But the time timer is very flexible in how you use it, and SUCH a good tool!
@NishWeiseth @howiesmith V's issue was that she is perfectly capable of finishing it quickly, but she has poor focus/on-task behavior.
@howiesmith @NishWeiseth she just is motivated by having the timer count down visually and knowing she is supposed to finish before it ends.
@howiesmith @NishWeiseth math HW is 3 minutes (or less), then I restart it for the other side. She doesn't even need rewards at this point;
@howiesmith @NishWeiseth I have been setting it for 3 minutes and putting it right in front of V where she can see it. She does 1 side of
@NishWeiseth @TimeTimer It is really remarkable how much difference it has made for her. So much easier for her to stay on task and finish.
I've started using the @TimeTimer app for my 6yo's homework and it has made a HUGE difference. She is doing it &lt;1/3 the time than before.
@astropixie Venus + the Moon was AMAZING here this morning.
RT @AmyMainzer: New report on declining astronomy proposal selection rates from @NSF:
http://t.co/yA5yAy9JgA http://t.co/2Cb75nbC4l
@ORJocee Noooooooooo... 😩😱😷
Cozy in bed with tea and @swirlstats to brush up on my probability and statistics. @swirlstats is so addictive. #rstats
@tdhopper I guess you could argue there have been SOME meaningful changes in the astronomy textbooks (exoplanets, dwarf planets, etc).
@tdhopper The worst. I've been working in ed tech/higher ed (physics/astronomy) for the past few years and it is such a scam.
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg My... http://t.co/GES1SuzBjy
First swim meet of the fall season @ South Davis Recreation Center https://t.co/AtUNMogkt5
WHY did I decide to listen to Carrie &amp; Lowell?!? Did I think that Friday night would be a great time for overwhelming sadness?!?!?!
RT @voxdotcom: Obama challenged the media to compare gun and terrorism deaths. So we did. http://t.co/eMmJsi7CbY http://t.co/XHfbbjcEYs
RT @AnneBogel: The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret   https://t.co/f5NPazVRXr
9yo to me this morning: "Well, you're certainly not a YOUNG woman."
RT @treycausey: "Statistics without the Agonizing Pain." Inference via simulation, great short talk from @jrauser. https://t.co/PEEqb98P6H
Such an attractive family... #latergram https://t.co/AfisOsOLcU
@SecretBeck There's also http://t.co/z91p2QIUBC which has reviews and projects and such, but mostly of just Burda patterns.
@SecretBeck Yes, there's Pattern Review: http://t.co/kMixo4KTGU I'd say it's not really as great as Ravelry, but it's something.
RT @ericcolson: Okay, the Han Solo reference got me.  
What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession? 
http://t.co/LOWPy8TUUy http://t.co/s…
Although it does kind of feel like a really long commercial for Azure ML.
I just finished the first week of @edXOnline's Machine Learning Essentials class and it seems great so far.
Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger’s Syndrome by Liane Holliday Willey My rating: 3 of 5 stars... http://t.co/8Gfsa0uk5c
@dwdeardorff Sad!
Wow, lunar eclipse does not disappoint tonight. And a TON of people out on our street checking it out. I love our neighborhood.
RT @AstroKatie: 🌓🌎🌞 &lt;-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 &lt;-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 &lt;-- apocalypse
I like that this neural net thinks I take pictures of Petri dishes.
Here's what a neural net thinks of my Instagram: "entrees, mirrors, dishes, and mountains" http://t.co/mibsmNqk6Q
Wow! So pretty... https://t.co/LVXW9rRmHX
Time to go pick up 1/4 of a cow.
I also love "In the Light"-- Every Track From DC Talk’s Jesus Freak, In Order http://t.co/nzNDw5oulF
@amcasari Yes, it is taught, at a SUPER basic level. Andrew Ng's Coursera class includes much more.
@amcasari I'm in course 6 of 9 right now, I think?
@amcasari I was actually just talking about the prereqs for doing well in the JHU data science Coursera track, and that hasn't come up.
@amcasari In general, absolutely important to understand!
@BecomingDataSci but not necessarily how to do it per se. Basic stats is helpful. Haven't used any calc at all.
@BecomingDataSci I'm also doing this track and I'd say that is accurate. You need to know what a matrix is and that it can be inverted,
RT @jakevdp: This post makes the case that astronomers make the best data scientists. I can't disagree :) http://t.co/Ew4ZDvU2Aq
@ironsoap You have to ramp up and off of it because it is a heavy hitter brain drug, so not something to be taken lightly.
@ironsoap I lost some weight, but not a huge amount. (Some people lose a LOT.)
@ironsoap HUGE at the beginning (memory, ability to come up with words, BRAIN DOES NOT WORK) but after ~2 weeks I was back to normal.
@ironsoap My migraines are super duper hormonal so I will likely need to take it until menopause or so.
@ironsoap The first ~2 weeks on it were killer for me (cognitive side effects LIKE MAD) but then I adjusted and it has seriously helped.
@ironsoap I've been on it for ~2 years now, I think? HUGE difference in frequency and intensity.
@ironsoap I don't know how often you have to be having them for this to be an option, but it DRASTICALLY reduces how often I get them.
@ironsoap I mean, I'm no doctor (at least, not the helpful kind)...
@ironsoap 😕 Have I told you about how Topamax has changed my life?
@jkru I'm eventually going to have a whole blog/portfolio, say, early 2016.
@jkru ggplot is the BESSSSSSSSSST...
I made an #RPubs account this week, which means that I can publish pretty reports like this one on the web: http://t.co/egmrZzkXgh #rstats
RT @katecrawford: Love this: what shape is the Internet? According to patents, it's a blob, an explosion, a cloud and a bean. http://t.co/5…
I got glasses and a dramatic haircut; I'm a NEW ME! https://t.co/W1LVCRs5GJ
@treycausey Thanks for sharing this. I'm looking to move from physics/astronomy to data science and this part is overwhelming. 😐
Lovely... "To Scale: The Solar System" on @Vimeo https://t.co/zaFRFtMTMY
So good! Astronomers are obviously excellent at explaining things. 😉 https://t.co/WxBSx2iWNY
4yo: "Who is this? Is he one of Taylor Swift's friends? Is he going to sing in our car too?"
😍😍😍 https://t.co/znsQPZsyZC
@jkru From the airport? There might be some fights about this? Uber picking up from the airport, I mean.
@jkru Yes.
RT @funnymonkey: Wow, this picture speaks volumes. A 14 yo kid, cuffed for *making a clock*, wearing a NASA shirt. https://t.co/3Ta8hsn8Oa
RT @dpatil: Crazy. I used to being circuits to class too. Back in the day we called it show &amp; tell.  http://t.co/HFPOkyH749 via @anildash
RT @RoyaltyReacts: Prince William asking Kate if she wants another drink is my favourite gif to exist http://t.co/b5UlYqyNGZ
RT @krotondo: “Moms are motivated. Moms work smarter, not more hours.”—@jcsuperstar #techinclusion15
@mmistakes I just need to get my own images/etc in there now.
@mmistakes I'd forgotten all the steps I'd done with the other theme to set up my custom domain. Much better now: http://t.co/WM2vmHBkmd
@mmistakes UGH, yes; I'm sorry. I am not new to programming but I am obviously new to this kind of thing.
@mmistakes building correctly: http://t.co/ATHtdlTmD9
Here is my repository: https://t.co/ozbuyyiGJ6
Does that look familiar to you?
@mmistakes Hello! Do you mind if I ask you something again? I decided to try switching to the So Simple theme, but it seems to not be
@mmistakes All on one page would be perfectly fine for me. I will work on this some more. Thank you!
@mmistakes And this is without plugins? I'm still fuzzy on what Github will/won't do.
@mmistakes I know that I need something before that for loop to make it get the tags from the front matter in the post, but what?!?
@mmistakes I am trying to make it link to this in from the line in the post layout; look at line 48 here: https://t.co/tRk4x6jmo7
@mmistakes I am trying to add tags. I made this page to just list all the posts with the tags: https://t.co/zi3etkRohl
@mmistakes FYI, my background is C/python/R/physics, not web development; I don't really know Ruby.
@mmistakes Hello! I am using your Minimal Mistakes theme to make a website and I wonder if you are up for answering a question.
I need glasses because, you know, MIDDLE AGE. Thoughts? Opinions? #WarbyHomeTryOn https://t.co/VmcG5duYgK
I roasted okra tonight and it was not good. Not good at all.
I have a real weakness for space-themed clothing for my children. #astronomerproblems
My 9yo daughter and I had fun going through these yesterday. Rivers! Airports! https://t.co/iNL4BnRUdQ
RT @LikeTheyKnowUs: Tips for a Having a Successful #Back2School!

-Find school 

-Send child to school

#NailedIt
We're drinking a bottle of bad red wine. Rob's tasting notes: burnt toast, overripe banana, a little roadkill skunk.
@s_chacko I was emacs all the way; I can't even with vi, but it is set as my editor for git now. I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE IT.
@s_chacko OH MAN. I have to google how to quit vi every time I accidentally end up in it.
Violet is having an amazing time in private swim lessons (with a FANTASTIC, sensitive teacher) after… https://t.co/X9OWV3gy2m
@jkru You mean how we Gen X types are old and tired? I just turned 37. Sigh...
Oh man, I love this so much. https://t.co/p111qlbm3D
It's September now, so time for me to keep checking the weather forecast to see if fall will actually come.
Everybody is taking xkcd's survey, right? http://t.co/TNxQH0aFRE
Fall swim season started yesterday for 9yo and she just mentioned offhand that she swam a mile in practice yesterday. 😳
In personality, I mean.
My 16-year-old self would be so happy if I could tell her that.
I am watching X-Files for the first time since they originally aired 😍❤️😍 and I am struck by my husband's resemblance to Mulder.
Back to school for Lewis! First day in his new year of preschool @ Salt Lake City Jewish Community… https://t.co/LZw1gEYd3b
Happy birthday to Lewis, who is 4 today! Now with SLOW MOTION CANDLES https://t.co/PQoRGggZnw
You guys, this is my 10,000th tweet! I can't believe I actually noticed it!
Homemade popsicles after school on this hot last day of August https://t.co/0Ur58psk2X
@jkru My first thought was R, the statistical programming language, and I was so confused.
@karenebayne Oh, hugs to you. Hang in there.
RT @ClarkPlanet: On this day (Aug 29) in 1541, Copernicus' "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," went to print. #spacerocks http:/…
RT @SKEdman: I am willing to go see The War Room. Just a) pay for my ticket and babysitter and b) get me real drunk first.
Oh man, the piano practice meltdowns are escalating.
The lavender is in bloom around here. There is a lot of it in our neighborhood, it smells amazing, and the bees are super excited about it.
We made it to the last day of the first week of school -- TGIF! https://t.co/gqcO7qNKPw
I went to back-to-school night and I am happy to report that no one wants me to record my daughters' reading minutes in 2 places this year.
@SecretBeck We'll see how smart I feel when I start interviewing for jobs!
@SecretBeck Two of you are orange! I am learning a new programming language (R) so I did it in that. I am putting together a portfolio.
Looks like you are my Twitter BFF, @Selkie1970.
I'm doing an analysis of my Twitter archive and I made a word cloud of people I reply to, retweet, mention, etc. http://t.co/Ijtoofaz0b
@HaleyNBurke Where ARE you?
Wow, I want to read a LOT of these. https://t.co/y5cNz1EWh4
RT @pickover: The joy of logic. These 2 books, in theory, contain the sum total of all human knowledge http://t.co/CW5seS3QbN
I've decided that 6yo's 1st grade teacher is like Olivia Pope. She inspires so much confidence in me, and she just HANDLES things.
@AriLamstein Yes, an improvement!
Now 3yo wants to know why bad things happen if God loves us. And also for me to explain the Trinity. So.
Between having older siblings and starting preschool as young as he did, he has no idea how to be alone.
3yo is so full of worrrrrrrrrds... And there is no one here to talk to him today but me.
@Selkie1970 We'd been telling her through elementary school but I don't know...
@Selkie1970 Yes, I am seriously considering letting her move on from this at the end of 4th grade.
It is becoming increasingly clear that piano is something I am making 9yo do, not something she wants to do.
@Katiekrongard And probably too much wine and ice cream or something.
@Katiekrongard Oh man. I have lost weight every fall/winter since L was born, then gained weight every summer. Because I NEVER EXERCISE.
@Katiekrongard It was soooooooo miserable walking to and from school today. BLEARGH...
1st day of 4th grade https://t.co/BLDSwLklI4
1st day of 1st grade https://t.co/iPGgunacwv
Walking together on the first day of school https://t.co/H3kwFzDb6P
Packing school lunches for the first time of the new year!
Slushy Cherry Old Fashioned -- We made these a few weeks ago and they were so delicious that we… https://t.co/ps3fP3gT3n
RT @thingsbydan: There's not a day goes by that I don't think about this caption. http://t.co/ebwtgYwLlQ
Sold by Patricia McCormick My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a moving and at times difficult book that... http://t.co/QBW0qZE37N
@ironsoap Yeah, probably. Also, I probably should delete my original tweet, just to be safe. Real names and all.
@ironsoap It's not an OFFICIAL work function but rather a doctor at work who has invited everyone over to a catered thing at her fancy pool.
Back-to-school date with Grace before 4th grade: burrito picnic @ Sugar House Park https://t.co/Ij3M6TjGkj
Back-to-school date with Violet before school starts on Monday: frappucinos and sandbox playing @… https://t.co/bJSGIrCASS
We've spent a lot of evenings at the pool this summer with picnic dinners and goggles and ice cream… https://t.co/36dnL040lC
3yo: "Mom, do I have any invisible Legos?"
#tbt to one of my favorite pictures that's ever been taken of me. I'm in the ocean in Carmel, CA, and… https://t.co/yfiS8V23K3
@hollandshaPri I still had your old blog in my feed reader and someone else bought it! http://t.co/NQc52L9ZQA It was a bit weird.
Ayn Rand’s The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe http://t.co/xgb1g4KxMQ
#latergram from this afternoon when we hiked across an Alpine meadow in late summer bloom. Utah is so… https://t.co/HPrLORj5fF
We tried (unsuccessfully) to hike to Cecret Lake via one of the longer trails here but we still had a… https://t.co/KH94e6PyAw
Meadow hiking @ Albion Basin https://t.co/mrWUeIz0uk
I talked to my 6yo's new teacher (who also taught my 9yo in 1st grade) and she is the best. I want to give her a big hug and a bigger raise.
@Selkie1970 Where?! I need something for 3yo.
School starts one week from today and there is a significant amount of anxiety at our house about it… https://t.co/hdpyBvsibF
Watching The X-Files pilot for the first time since it aired when I was 16. OMG, I loved this show.
@Carrie_Mayne It has maps for state/county/zip built in, and you can make your own with a shapefile.
@Carrie_Mayne It's the choroplethr package in R; it's very nice.
@AriLamstein Oh my gosh, I apologize; I was wrong. That is the lake! i.e. the Great Salt Lake, what our whole city is named for, etc.
@AriLamstein It looks like there is a ZCTA that should be mapped to Salt Lake County that was not (the blank spot in the NW). Any thoughts?
That low-income spot in the NE is the U of U! #censuscourse @AriLamstein
And income in Salt Lake County exhibits an east-west gradient. #censuscourse @AriLamstein http://t.co/1qkZBEPl5N
Salt Lake County is quite segregated. #censuscourse @AriLamstein http://t.co/dFqspZaUl9
3yo is a bit sad about his eventual adulthood. "I want to stay a kid..."
Such delicious drinks with such lovely ladies tonight 💕 @ Under Current https://t.co/bsTkrZXAqI
@howiesmith http://t.co/xiqPDa9z9M
We've had excellent experiences with the piano program there.
"It's like how Netflix and Amazon how different TV shows.."
Trying to explain the concept of a TV channel to my 3yo. He has no frame of reference whatsoever.
I am drinking this right now and it is delicious: Slushy Cherry Old Fashioned Cocktail http://t.co/RfiUYFsg3a @CHOW
Seriously, this teacher was probably the best one my 9yo has had so far (and none have been shabby AT ALL) and this feels like such a gift!
My middle daughter is going to have the same amazing, WONDERFUL 1st grade teacher that my oldest daughter did and I am SO, SO HAPPY.
We were up all hours getting that sink put back together. And used our lifetime supply of "That's what she said" jokes. Because plumbing!
Our newly painted, newly fauceted bathroom is looking much better than the other day. Black and white! https://t.co/wRT9IfXBMe
@AriLamstein Summit County is up in the mountains, where Park City is (Sundance Film Festival, ski resorts, etc).
@Jfpohl Actually, one of the projects I am working up is on water usage in SLC. It's part of the reason I am learning to make these maps.
Also, we are not very evenly distributed here in Utah. #censuscourse @AriLamstein http://t.co/nSps5dxcVS
Rent sure is expensive over there in Summit County. #censuscourse @AriLamstein http://t.co/O5x1So3u6o
We got tomatillos in our CSA this week. It's really too bad you can't smell this. https://t.co/sRSgn4Ha4w
9yo's summer swim team won their championship over the weekend! And now we are finished with summer swim team. Is there an emoji for relief?
RT @SaltLakeJCC: Congratulations to the #JCC Hurricanes! #SLSLChamps
@SLSwimLeague #SLC #swimming http://t.co/wb2b695vUs
@NishWeiseth Oh man, I am so that mom. They have to have their names on them anyway, right?!?
The current state of our upstairs bathroom, because we decided to replace the faucet. It is spiraling… https://t.co/MYAO1xfIBx
It's 50/50 now whether we end up just remodeling the whole damn bathroom.
We decided to replace the faucet in our upstairs bathroom and it is spiraling out of control.
@howiesmith I put them the zippered, soft-sided lunch bags from Lands End that have pouches on the side for water bottles. Works great!
@howiesmith They are from @goodbyn; I have ordered directly from them and bought them at Target.
The kids are in bed, rosé on the front porch in the late summer evening https://t.co/O5FOeM2ZAg
#FergusonTaughtMe how real and deep the wounds of American racism are.
@AriLamstein There are a LOT of children here. Including my own three, I suppose! I'm looking forward to the rest of the course.
On a date @ Deer Valley Resort https://t.co/T9zyebZ4UR
Turns out that we in Utah are super young. @AriLamstein #censuscourse http://t.co/0iUDLeUUnU
It's supposed to be about how similar counties are to each other. But Salt Lake is that similar to Kane County?!? Maybe I should work more.
I'm working on a project on health indicators in UT and this shows how counties cluster together. http://t.co/pZuSKFTHar
@SecretBeck Because your face isn't 3-dimensional enough!
When you have two older sisters, sometimes you get your nails painted. https://t.co/QzHKr7Zi72
@Carrie_Mayne Oh! I would love to talk about this; I'm working on a data science portfolio and am interested in what SLC people are doing.
Grace did so great in her events tonight. On to the finals tomorrow night! #SLSLChamps
9yo took 4th in the IM! I'm very proud of her; she dropped 6 seconds off her time.
I am at a swim meet. Again. #SLSLChamps @ South Davis Recreation Center https://t.co/i3xg74SCSv
@HaleyNBurke WOW. That is a big deal.
I'm not outdoorsy by pretty much any standard, but it sure is nice to be in nature for a few hours.… https://t.co/syc4cMV4NP
Sibling hike @ Silver Lake Recreation Area https://t.co/XKvMzhdUvr
Tuesday morning up in the mountains @ Silver Lake Recreation Area https://t.co/VUoXtnMMU0
@SKEdman Every time we have moved into a new house, a bunch of stuff has broken and/or not worked right at first. I think this just happens.
Photo: Lemon Paprika Chicken Thighs These were quite tasty, especially considering how easy they were. Good... http://t.co/E3pkyJtbAI
Last day of Violet's social skills group for the summer @ The Children's Center, Utah https://t.co/F4j7qRKktg
3yo: "I call this song BATMAN'S ALPHABET. I'm going to sing it now in SPANISH."
Well, I broached the idea that school is starting in 3 weeks and 6yo did NOT react well. 😳😭😭😭
It's almost 10pm and our neighbor is grilling kebabs. Our bedroom window is open and they smell DELICIOUS.
I should stop reading this statistics book and go to bed.
@Selkie1970 here because we don't have them.
@Selkie1970 I realized the other day that there are no cockroaches here. R is an allergist and they don't even test for cockroach allergy
@Selkie1970 I live there! There is almost no humidity here where I live, it is beautiful, and we have very few bugs.
Lewis seems to be tolerating baked eggs these days without an allergic reaction which feels like it… https://t.co/l2ecbNatiE
I think we'll have figs and brie for dinner, and go to bed early.
Rob has taken the girls to the mountains for one night of camping, so Lewis and I are on our own tonight.
This was quite difficult; I only got about 80% -- Who Said It: John Green or Anne of Green Gables? http://t.co/bskijcoeg5
I've always sort of fumbled around regex so it was nice to see that little tutorial. Free for another day or so!
I just earned the level 5 badge for Regular Expressions on @codeschool https://t.co/NrwcGdYW6i
At a swim meet. But it's the last regular one for the summer! Just league championships next week after this.
@jkru The big public library and sit and read.
@jkru I love love love the Met.
@jkru Have tea at the little cafe at the top of the Saks actually on 5th Ave.
@SecretBeck I don't approve of this idea at all.
@SecretBeck I... don't even understand how this is possible.
Have I really never made it to Idaho? It is so close to where we live now. Also, I am not actually sure on... http://t.co/VNzLLOrV95
I commissioned one of these paintings one year for Rob's birthday and we love it so much: http://t.co/uAETWZ2sFT
Still a few spots!
Man, Weezer is just the best. I love Weezer.
Moved up 514 spots on #kaggle because I just learned how to perform a random forest. https://t.co/3cet8IrHI0
This made me laugh and laugh: Exoplanet Names Two http://t.co/RwVbh9YYJ6
Waking up in one's own bed: 😍🌅✨
Great Salt Lake = really almost home
Salt flats = almost home
Death Star 

(We've watched the whole original Star Wars trilogy in the car over the past two days.) https://t.co/E67sTN7Cfc
Leaving even later today than yesterday. This trip has gone well, but good thing it is almost over!
Some hotel swimming in Winnemucca before our LAST DRIVING DAY https://t.co/nwQXzd4Kxx
Nevada is full of wind and dust today.
So we have made it over Donner Pass, but it is 3:30pm and we are STILL in California!!!
Well, this is less than ideal... EB I-80 traffic still stopped http://t.co/lh6zm4bYMF
Apparently it is hailing over the summit of the Sierras and they have all traffic stopped. We are just sitting here on I-80E. 😐🗻🚘
On the road, heading away from the West Coast back toward home.
@jkru I didn't feel anything in Oakland!
Ice cream sundaes @ Fentons Creamery https://t.co/9K20W7WrEx
Little Piggy Violet @ Children’s Fairyland https://t.co/71p6YYp7xR
Violet &amp; Lewis are riding a wee, tiny Ferris wheel. @ Children’s Fairyland https://t.co/SiDeyvk8p9
We can see all the way to San Francisco from the house we're staying in. https://t.co/oh8UxJg7XO
Oakland, CA https://t.co/tGkJHXtijf
We have successfully reunioned. There sure are a lot of people you don't know at your spouse's high school reunion! But it was still good.
Getting ready to go to Rob's 20th high school reunion and I forgot my cute/small purse! It is back home in Utah!
@jkru @cosechacafe It was so good to see you today! With delicious food to boot!
Well, 15.5 hours later, WE MADE IT. WE GET TO GET OUT OF THE CAR.
We made it to the Bay Area! @ Richmond-San Rafael Bridge https://t.co/V7PNTANhWh
We are in Yolo County, CA #yolo https://t.co/TIOcTN5DRr
We've now been on the road for 12 hours. Still in the Sierras. At least we're in the right state?
Interesting things we've seen today: a dust devil, a stretch limousine with a refrigerator in its trunk, salt flats.
@jkru OH GOODNESS.
We stopped five times before lunch, but we have made it all the way through Nevada.
Nevada, where the kids finally took naps https://t.co/CDEPOm0O5Y
Pacific time zone!
Salty @ Bonneville Salt Flats https://t.co/2xeiEr1vfF
Made with #hyperlapse @ I-80 https://t.co/1mvg5Pzzbm
We put the kids to bed in their clothes last night and got up at 3am to try to do this drive in one day. On to breakfast in Wendover!
Dawn on the salt flats, heading west to California @ I-80 https://t.co/avUug54fcO
3yo decided to be awake for an hour in the middle of last night to tell us all about his new vehicle idea: RESCUE CEMENT TRUCK.
RT @NishWeiseth: Oh, look. Nuance. http://t.co/lRYAFzWuUa
&lt;3 

Although I'm not so sure about the pixels on Clyde Tombaugh's, really, because he used photographic plates. https://t.co/vEtix2v8Rf
@Selkie1970 These things can go sooooooo long.
@Selkie1970 I did that last Tuesday evening!
Dear Theodora by Florence Irwin My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a novel originally published in 1920 that... http://t.co/lN2UtU6Nii
Bunko night in my friend's backyard -- Grace and I rode our bikes there, they had fancy margaritas… https://t.co/0yFpfjWMFn
Five years ago today we drove into Salt Lake City. I love this quirky, beautiful place. 🗻🌆💜
It's 7pm on a Friday and I am working in R while my 9yo daughter works in Scratch. Obviously we are super cool. #changetheratio
@jkru Wait wait wait, are you feeling all nostalgic about astronomy already?!
I would really like my eye to stop twitching, as it has been for weeks now. 

TWITCH TWITCH TWITCH.
It's raining a little bit and I am so happyyyyyyyyyy... 💧😍
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Star Trek, Shakespeare, Hollywood life,... http://t.co/BQ9onm1kEN
@Katiekrongard Just enjoy your peaceful morning! 😘
@Katiekrongard Sorry. That wasn't very kind-spirited.
@Katiekrongard Just wait until they start school.
Who was that Archduke person who was killed at the beginning of WW1? And then Noam Chomsky. It always seems to come back to Noam Chomsky.
Rob and I have been having very geopolitical discussions lately: Mitford sisters + fascism, what exactly is socialism really...
I have no working voicemail on my cell phone right now. That sounds kind of great, right?
@SKEdman Next time I am springing for the Dyson again.
@SKEdman We had a Dyson that lasted 10 years. When it finally broke, we bought something cheaper and it is already starting to have issues.
Just dropped 9yo off for the first day of Scratch programming camp!
I finished Station Eleven this afternoon and I just want to talk about it SO MUCH. TWO THUMBS UP. But not to global flu pandemics.
RT @mdlaplante: World War 2 references are classless and shameful. Don't disrespect our longtime allies or U.S. veterans. #warisnotajoke #U…
Sparkler IN SLOW MOTION https://t.co/328IXI58kI
Sparklers at @katiekrongard's place tonight https://t.co/FoAx3eO12b
I have a real weakness for pale aqua/teal/turquoise walls. I could just keep painting all our rooms variations on this color.
Trying to make my hold list at the library long enough so that it will last 9yo a full week.
@krisshaffer Yes, very true. I will say I am really liking how R works.
@krisshaffer Yes. After that first quiz that had you open a dataset, I just used that the whole time to practice with.
@krisshaffer The Swirl exercises were very nice.
@krisshaffer I did do lots of stopping/starting. And I had the quizzes open before I started any videos so I knew what I was looking for.
@krisshaffer I usually have Rstudio open when I watch the lecture and type their little mini-examples in and do them.
@krisshaffer Hmmm, I felt like it was really easy to type along and do their examples as they were talking.
@krisshaffer I don't think that was a terrible thing to leave out for later, given how R works.
@krisshaffer I think you actually can because indenting is only for readability, i.e. not like Python.
@krisshaffer I remember them talking about indenting. Don't they? It's in the video on "style" or "coding standards" something like that.
SQL seems nice so far.
I just earned the The Ins and Outs of Databases badge on level 1 of Try SQL on @codeschool https://t.co/l9dzvHUz1F
@SKEdman That is very disappointing and troubling. UGH.
RT @AntonioFrench: Why are black churches in America falling victim to fire? http://t.co/nCFubafZ0y via @TheAtlantic #WhoIsBurningBlackChur…
@NishWeiseth WHY AM I COOKING DINNER WITH THE OVEN? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?!
@Katiekrongard Oh man, this happened to my babies after long trips! I'd blocked this out.
@SecretBeck Oh, Baby Boomers...
@karenebayne @NYTOnIt FOR REAL. Just... Ugh... This is AN ARTICLE?!?!
Photo: Alton Brown’s Avocado Compound Butter It’s not like avocados need help being delicious, but this is... http://t.co/Z0ceL4kYKL
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Interesting and reflective, for me as... http://t.co/KYYKOn88sn
@DoctorMac LOLOLOLOL
Here's how Scalia would insult me. How would he insult you? http://t.co/ohBjNIJbQI #ScaliaBurns via @Slate
Picnic dinner at the pool @ Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center https://t.co/YZQWnmLJGu
What's Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah? http://t.co/mUUkWipLtV via @rollingstone
@krisshaffer I'm using Rstudio for R and Sublime Text for Python, and they look different enough for my brain to mostly separate things.
@krisshaffer the environments I use for each look really different.
@krisshaffer I feel like learning Python and R so close together is making me confuse them a little. The only thing that helps is that
@krisshaffer C solidly and I have just recently started learning Python (then lots of shell scripting, etc)
@krisshaffer Sounds like a good plan. I had no exposure to R before this, so I think I would fallen behind doing courses 2 + 3 concurrently.
@krisshaffer This is what happened to me, so I signed up for R Programming in the same month. Worked out great.
@karenebayne That is so insane! New England!!! I remember when we lived in CT being so confused by the school schedule.
@HaleyNBurke Yes! I should buy some of that.
@Selkie1970 more muddled history, been here longer, etc so it is interesting to have such recent immigrants in the family.
@Selkie1970 Specifically they came from Thuringia, for largely economic reasons, in those years between the world wars. My family is much
@Selkie1970 So it's short I + hard G: "Sill-ghee". We get a LOT of mispronunciation, which is funny to me because my maiden name was Smith.
@Selkie1970 I have asked my in-laws why it isn't "Sil-guh" with a hard G, which seems more like German pronunciation to me, but ???
@Selkie1970 German at home; didn't learned English until kindergarten. It is pronounced "Sil-gee" with a hard G, two syllables.
@Selkie1970 It is German is origin -- East Germany. My FIL's parents emigrated in the 1920s (good time to leave Germany) and FIL learned
(The previous was an exercise is cultivated contentment.)
Things I like about summer:
Spending more time with my kids
Iced coffee
Summer produce
Wearing Birkenstocks all the time
On the plus side, we're having mojitos and cedar-plank-grilled salmon. Summer isn't all bad. Right? RIGHT?!?!!
It's our first 100° day, so my reverse seasonal affective disorder is probably about to kick in.
Happy Fathers Day to Rob! I am so thankful for who he is. https://t.co/nUOURY0AAZ
@jkru parents love their kids and are trying to do their best. Hooray! We are doing our best! Hopefully not screwing you up too bad!
@jkru This is pretty much where I am. Do I really think that I or R are really some extra special, extraordinary parents? No, I think most
RT @blackoutcollect: http://t.co/HEMwekWlvI
One of my new favorite things to eat is sardine salad, like tuna salad but with sardines. Sardines + fancy mayo + dijon + apple + scallion.
@krisshaffer I have been doing the first 2 during June and I am starting the 3rd next week!
@jkru I am really sorry for your loss, a decade and a half ago, and also today. What a heavy loss to deal with and carry around...
RT @tanehisicoates: No Nazi analogies or thought experiments needed. Primary sources run this. The Confederacy can speak for itself. http:/…
RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: For parents who now have to explain to their children what a white supremacist is, O Lord, we pray. #Charleston
My neighbors, my brothers and sisters. #CharlestonShooting https://t.co/2gP7jMNkm5
RT @NishWeiseth: Church, persecution in America is not about bakers &amp; gay weddings. It's our brothers &amp; sisters shot dead in #Charleston. #…
My sexy, sexy summer eczema is flaring up real bad.
I have been having my first "I hate hot weather" thoughts of the year. Man, it is the worst.
I am really proud of her.
My 9yo is so responsible and together nowadays at such functions-- performing well under pressure, dealing with success/disappointment, etc.
Well, the swim meet was hot, but it was not as long as they sometimes are and 9yo did so well. All in all, a win?
First swim meet of the summer season https://t.co/geR9nVUBDs
@Selkie1970 I run hot water on the outside for a while, longer than you would think.
Today I return to my PT independent contracting gig, which is not a bad gig at all.
RT @mimismartypants: Don't mind me, I'm just trolling my LinkedIn and endorsing everyone I know for "rodeo" and "bull-riding" skills
@jkru We have a version of that here! It is so great: https://t.co/oV7H2mJRZ8
My kids put on a pretty amazing "show" for us as a birthday gift for me. You should be sorry you missed it. Especially my breakdancing 3yo.
It was actually a combined birthday/anniversary celebration, because things have been busy since I turned 37 on Wednesday.
Happy anniversary to us! Rob and I have been married 13 years today. We had vegan GF cake, grilled steaks, drank wine. Two thumbs up.
I learned how to make BEAUTIFUL violin plots this afternoon. Thanks for your helpful tutorials, @drob! http://t.co/dHmpjCofzl
RT @joshacagan: (•_•) (•_•)
&lt;)   )╯    ALAS
 /    \

(•_•)
      \(•_•)
        (   (&gt; POOR
        /    \

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&lt;)   )&gt;      YORICK
 /  …
I am learning R now and I like it sooooooo much.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Cath, the main character in this book, is off to her... http://t.co/OmFli7BSai
@HaleyNBurke They have rainbow long, skinny ones at Target.
Amazing lemon-pistachio birthday cake that @haleynburke made for me. 

🍰🍰🍰 THIRTY-SEVEN 🍰🍰🍰 https://t.co/y2WVk6UPVC
Happy birthday to me! I am having a chocolate-y coffee drink and getting a birthday pedicure. Treats on turning 37!
@jkru Oh, no judgment or anything. Sleep + toddlers = ?!?!?!?!
@jkru That sounds a little bit like madness.
YES. THIS. https://t.co/Mw77yqDYBf
RT @deray: My Kids. McKinney. http://t.co/XVjAUHxoQN
RT @AnneBogel: 6 things we learned at the big 'Gilmore Girls' reunion http://t.co/lmR8Q26Jgz
@jaustinwright Oh man, DC Talk from my teen years?!?? That is taking back a LONG WHILE.
Arguing with 3yo about infinity. Why does this always happen to me?
Farewell, kindergarten and 3rd grade!
I did not take an official picture of both girls or anything, but we have made it through another year of school. Summer break!
Celebrating some graduation good times https://t.co/anfg3Jm47c
Kindergarten graduation for our sweet, amazing Violet https://t.co/SDdfSDzlTY
I think that summer has arrived here in SLC.
I took the big duvet off our bed, I've only been drinking iced coffee, and right now I have a whiskey + mint + mineral water + lots of ice.
It's moving day for these ladies. https://t.co/DvjlzXzjYd
Fun Run at our elementary school this morning https://t.co/4de2fK56GH
Time to have a red room again. Because I am AN ADDICT. https://t.co/IKlE1BJI0H
@SKEdman LOLOLOLOLOL
Monday of the last week of school!
I've been using emacs for Python since starting ~10 days ago (because yes, AM DINOSAUR) but I just downloaded @sublimehq and WHAT?!?! 👍🏼😍🎉
We're going to be late to church. https://t.co/xIzuynY36G
RT @AnneBogel: Sign that the apocalypse is NOT upon us: there are more libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.  #phew
6yo: "But why can't I be baptized? I believe in Jesus."
3yo: "I believe IN GHOSTS."
I believe I am supervising the LAST HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT OF THE YEAR. #celebrate #goodtimes #helpme
I just finished the Python track at @Codecademy and it was so great! A painless introduction, and now I have things up and running.
Prickly bud after the morning rain https://t.co/k5xAWXWLV6
RT @amandacox: I now think about this chart (about fairness) all the time. You should too. Plus drawing! http://t.co/X33SBRWme8
Quick-pickled radishes https://t.co/S104VIAtcu
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt My rating: 3 of 5 stars This dark, funny Western is about a pair of... http://t.co/bOYIpzipPm
There is no way I am doing a library summer reading program.
We are SO CLOSE to being done recording my daughters' reading for the school year. SO CLOSE.
@Selkie1970 screens for years. This past check-up, she did pretty badly but she hasn't complained at school, etc AT ALL. Nothing.
@Selkie1970 Neither R or I wear them (well, I started using reading glasses recently but that's just age) and she's been 20/20 on her eye
Fortunately, she will be super adorable in them.
9yo had ophthalmologist appointment today and SURPRISE needs glasses. Kind of thought her poor performance on the eye screen was a fluke.
@howiesmith Neither have I. I grew up with one younger sister and somehow it was always her job?
It's green garlic time of year.
RT @MaryDeMuth: My response to the Duggar scandal is on the Washington Post today:... http://t.co/lZfykaP3rO
@lucaswmuller So confusing!
Lewis with one of his beloved preschool teachers on the last day of the year @ Salt Lake City Jewish… https://t.co/VKrO16cfHb
I made wee baby Python programs today.
Trying to get Github to work. Because maybe I want to write code for a job now?
The first week of our CSA share https://t.co/TXP3RG55ro
Pool party at Lewis' preschool https://t.co/KOjvcSFcCu
I just love rainy weather. ☔️
I have got to stop buying cheap shoes for the kids. It is May 15 and the cheapie sandals I bought 6yo are coming apart.
@HaleyNBurke I'm also going on the record to say that Cat &amp; Levi's wedding cake was DELICIOUS.
@HaleyNBurke I am going on the record now as saying that making one's own wedding cake sounds like a terrible idea to me.
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Finishing Me Before You made me want to read something... http://t.co/8KVXsMKWXD
@SKEdman Well, things are not going really great at brick and mortar schools at this time of year either.
I'm halfway through another Jojo Moyes book and all I want to do is sit and finish it. Do you think my children can parent/feed themselves?
And one of my daughters is Violet. What an odd coincidence...
My middle name IS Dorothea! Find out what your name would be if you were born today http://t.co/EWseZ7ravF http://t.co/zBOiQzsfVi
There was only one of those that didn't sound really terrible to me (the ISTP zombie apocalypse one, and even that sounds *pretty* bad).
The Definition Of Hell For Each Myers-Briggs // But all of these sound terrible!!! I still feel like MBTI is hogwash. http://t.co/skmELBsKrO
Just one more #latergram from my sister's visit this past weekend. I'm so glad she came! https://t.co/xdeGtof9DA
@FryAdrian It's still on my "to watch" list but I've heard that it's not 100% consistent from a physics standpoint.
I've seen @scottthepainter make art during a sermon twice now, once when visiting ecclesiahouston and… https://t.co/bJe93j6xcx
@SKEdman They offered me a different job at the same company, which was 50% travel. HAHAHAHAHAHA...
Being laid off is quite an unpleasant experience and we are going to miss the $$$, but having one less thing on my plate might be helpful.
Well, I was laid off on Friday, which makes today DAY 1 of unemployment and/or my return to being a SAHM.
Lewis says he likes fancy brunch because there are flowers on the walls. @ Finca https://t.co/r27Kt0pPyZ
All of us at church this morning @ Missio Dei Community - Salt Lake City https://t.co/2Yd1JceEa5
It has been so delightful having my sister here for a visit! #Repost @texasemily1980
・・・
More selfies… https://t.co/BHeqBOHoIA
Girls' lunch with my two daughters and my sister @ Trio https://t.co/VdFKyWHI8K
This has been A WEEK. That ended yesterday with me being LAID OFF FROM MY JOB.
Fancy coffees with my sister (we're showing her all the cool places) @ Publik. Coffee Roasters https://t.co/7AIu4xiKeB
An illustrated story by Lewis: "First I was sad..." #cleaneating #healthyhabits https://t.co/RLZ0fRlPPe
RT @jkru: There is a lady putting on makeup on the ferry. I can barely put on makeup on land.
@laciemesserly Man, so interesting. It's a whole other world!
Have just made Mothers Day brunch reservations for us to go to @FincaSLC and am PRETTY happy about that.
@markadams44 DAY DRINKING!
@laciemesserly So these people going to the weekday part of the weddings are Mormon enough to have temple recommends?
@laciemesserly A weekday wedding is very culturally different to me, very weird outside of Utah.
Several people I know here have had weddings to go to lately, midday during the week. Is this a Mormon thing?!
@HaleyNBurke That reminds me that I should go start some cold brew.
@HaleyNBurke My coping plans also involve crying and denial!
@jkru The older they get, the more certain I am that I don't know what I am doing.
@SecretBeck Oh man. This is so good to be reminded of. Just had a meeting at school to talk about quirky, challenging 6yo's issues.
@SKEdman I desperately want a picture of it! Talk about a tease of a realtor listing!
@karenebayne I have taught at the college level and I have never gotten gifts. I did get paid, however.
@karenebayne When I finished grad school, my dissertation supervisor got ME a nice-ish gift. (Maybe I should have gotten him one too?)
@karenebayne When I was a traditionally-aged college student, I never got instructors gifts.
Tree climber https://t.co/zCgQ2HkesW
@NishWeiseth I'm pacifist enough that I can't handle exercise classes where you are supposed to pretend to fight people, so don't ask me.
There is one of my room and I have a Titanic poster. I have no memory of this! I have blocked this out, apparently.
I am going through old pictures scanning pictures of my college friend who died in November (FINALLY) for her sister.
Into every life a little pee must fall. #truth #wisdom
RT @LikeTheyKnowUs: There should be a pregnancy tracking app for second or third pregnancies called, "Meh, it's probably fine."
Violet made this Hubble Space Telescope in kindergarten this week, which made me pretty happy. https://t.co/WoHk5phZTi
RT @sarahbessey: Amy Schumer for president! http://t.co/wrGHRbR9oR
3yo and 6yo feel pretty certain that Taylor Swift patched, rather than punched, a hole in her roof. She seems like a nice person to them.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, I have a lot of FEELINGS because of this book.... http://t.co/brV6oL3clC
@howiesmith It's a 25-year-old BMW something or other. It's red. I AM SO HELPFUL.
Noticeably bigger after just one week https://t.co/5I9wMVAFGu
@ironsoap No, it mostly just increases his chances of dying younger. NOOOOOOOOO...
It sounds like a sewing machine.
Well, after talking about it for years now, my husband has bought a (used, affordable, BLAH BLAH BLAH) motorcycle. SIGH.
Lizard tattoo for Violet at a birthday party this afternoon https://t.co/B3Nfn4r933
Fountains @ Bellagio Las Vegas https://t.co/zoN4SbmcdJ
Time for more brunch, with more Eggs Benedict #kcjhrockvegas @ Della's Kitchen At Delano Las Vegas https://t.co/WgJNJ3htZn
I was too old/sober for the last place we went last night, but oh, this has been a nice getaway! Flying home later today. #kcjhrockvegas
Strip view @ The Foundation Room At Mandalay Bay https://t.co/jtzhQbAQFH
I walked over the pretend Brooklyn Bridge tonight. #kcjhrockvegas
My gin and tonic has grapefruit, coriander, and mint. #ginstagram #kcjhrockvegas @ Jaleo Las Vegas https://t.co/cxbsffNABq
Enormous mirror selfie #kcjhrockvegas @ Delano Suites At Mandalay Bay https://t.co/vOvHlyvmWg
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! #kcjhrockvegas @ Mandalay Bay Hotel… https://t.co/VA6tl6z25z
Vegas brunch #kcjhrockvegas @ Mon Ami Gabi - Las Vegas https://t.co/G9J1In4Nzx
I am in a beautiful hotel room in Las Vegas with sweet girlfriends. I have never done anything like this! #kcjhrockvegas
@markadams44 I guess, to be fair, that shows he has been interested in the subject for a long time.
@markadams44 I just remember his talks from when I was in college and thinking, "Why is this dentist giving this talk?"
@markadams44 I've been out of Texas for a long time, so I am hazy on the details of all that political fighting that went on more recently.
@markadams44 LOL, that's who I meant too. I went to Texas A&amp;M, went to church where he was an elder at the time, etc.
@markadams44 Ironically, there was an actual dentist in my college town who was always giving public talks about intelligent design.
@jkru Meanwhile, I have enrolled my 9yo in Scratch summer camp.
@jkru She's currently a sophomore in HS. Not sure if she pictures that (tech, programming, etc) for herself at this point.
@jkru Good, I think. I got the impression she was surprised at how much coding, etc there was in professional astronomy.
@lucaswmuller A MILLION TIMES FAVORITE.
@jkru No, actually I'm calling her this afternoon.
@jkru I'm calling that high school girl tomorrow who is considering astronomy in college, if you want to send me your deep thoughts.
@wrightinthecity To be fair, this week for me a) will be short and b) ends with a fun trip. I shouldn't complain.
@wrightinthecity WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!?!?!
New babies at our house https://t.co/QJGIYZykqb
Sitting in the car with a box of baby chicks on my lap.
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant My rating: 3 of 5 stars We read this with my book club this month, and I... http://t.co/KRxzWZX3bM
This arrived in the mail for Rob today. Should I be worried? https://t.co/8FfSBTU9Xf
@karenebayne Oh man, this is what EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING feels like at our house.
@jkru !!! Not OK.
@jkru WHAT ON EARTH. That is a messed up situation you've got going on there.
They are saying it is going to snow ALL DAY today, until 9pm or something like that. That will be like a foot of snow?!?!
Some mid-April snow for us https://t.co/O5RiNzf9VI
@SKEdman My girls don't really wear many pants; leggings are much easier for skinny girls. (With dresses, tunics, etc.)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Taxidermy,... http://t.co/FUqQcPwI6G
@SKEdman After that breakfast you made him, he's got nothing to stand on.
@karenebayne @NYspling Costco's pillows are great; that is where I have bought new ones lately.
I have been running around like a CRAZY PERSON today but now I am sitting alone on the patio at @CaputosMarket with salad, wine, &amp; a book.
Spring is just ridiculous. https://t.co/JAIsTp5phc
My gluten-free vegan scones turned out a little more like pancakes this morning, if you know what I mean.
Parenting solo this weekend while Rob takes an Arlo-Guthrie-inspired train voyage. So... mac and cheese for dinner!
My 3yo may be guilty of mansplaining: "See, Mom, let me show you how hugs work..."
Lent is over and I am better from the stomach bug, so I bought Bota Box today!
@DoctorMac Not going to happen.
@dwdeardorff We think the potluck was where I (and half our small group) got sick, but that it is a virus, not food poisoning.
Lewis is much better today, and he makes an excellent lunch date. @ Sushi Burrito On 8th https://t.co/oV7H2msh7A
@jkru YES, especially at night, when he cannot bear any kind of apart-ness. He is cuddly to start with.
Sick, sad boy today https://t.co/FQZAjG8ivG
Up in the wee hours with a puking 3yo. Apparently he got the stomach bug I had over the weekend. GERRRRRRRRRMS...
3yo is home from preschool this week on Passover break. He is now eating second breakfast, because he is a little hobbit.
@Selkie1970 I am not really sure, not being very botanically inclined. They don't bear fruit or anything like that.
These trees smell amazing. https://t.co/jPxI6ZZJ6A
Packing school lunches for my girls. I sure have enjoyed having them home for spring break this past week.
I have had a stomach bug and I am not yet well enough to make it to church. Bummed...
3yo: "Do you want to know how to make soda pop? You take some soda and put it in a bowl and stir and then put it in the oven and cook it."
Fully half of the people we ate a potluck dinner with on Wednesday evening are now throwing up. I feel a sense of impending doom.
I mean, this doll (whose roughest handling heretofore has come from my preteen self) will be battered pretty quickly. But it's a TOY, right?
I got her out this week at my 9yo's request and now I am struck that maybe I should not be hoarding this doll carefully in a box.
I have my old Samantha doll (that I saved up for with babysitting $$$ when I was borderline too old for dolls). She has been in a box.
(When one has spent the percentage of the past decade breastfeeding that I have, this is hard to remember sometimes.)
I have a cold and I just remembered that I can take decongestants! Because I'm not nursing!
Today I took all three kids to the dentist. No cavities AND 6yo let them use the spinny toothbrush on her for the first time.
I have a cold, but I ALSO have leftover pho to eat so things could be worse.
It is so cute! It rotates through pink, red, orange, etc in soft, glow-y colors. Hopefully it helps too? We'll see.
I bought this night light for the girls' room (to put on a timer, for some recent early rising from my 6yo): http://t.co/QoeHc3Wc26
@karenebayne Has your 9yo read Elliot and the Goblin War yet?
@karenebayne I need to know this too. One idea: my 9yo is really enjoying Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom.
Did I answer honestly? Or was I subconsciously trying for... I got Elizabeth Bennet! Which Bennet Sister Are You? http://t.co/lN9jzZve01
Photo: How to Cook Everything: Rice Pudding in the Oven I’ve been making this on the weekends (with almond... http://t.co/RnChnCoK5q
Happy Palm Sunday! #shereadstruth https://t.co/gh75vgPvsZ
I'm a little afraid our house will never smell good again.
We ran the self-cleaning cycle on our oven with the cast iron grates from our outdoor grill in it this week.
RT @rachelheldevans: Just when you think the internet is a wasteland, Dave Eggers interviews Sufjan Stevens http://t.co/qnRoyRuhxf
3yo's preschool teachers told them today that "NA NA NA BOO BOO" are words just for home, not for school. So thanks for that.
Nothing Like Looking by Chris Van Hakes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Such a delightfully odd, sweet YA romance... http://t.co/z6YGFkAePy
RT @cindynorth1: Drug companies: You can't use our drugs to execute people anymore.                         
Utah: WE WANT TO EXECUTE PEOPL…
The X-Files is one of my top 5 favorite television shows ever. I loooooooove it.
New X-Files episodes??!?!?! Oh man oh man oh man, I want them to be good so so so so much.
@slcFLAKE Noooooooooo...
I think this is the 2nd time this has happened; we don't even suspect he has an ear infection until it ruptures.
3yo has been a bit sick, then last night was the MOST MISERABLE EVER and today his ear drum ruptured. :(
This gives me a lot of hope.
My oldest child will now order an actual burrito when we go to a burrito place, full of many different, real foods touching each other.
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova My rating: 3 of 5 stars There were some really strong, amazing scenes in this... http://t.co/U4wBdupBrN
@HaleyNBurke Noooooooooooo, don't dooooooooooo ittttttttttttt...
Violet's eyes need some checking out @ Intermountain Salt Lake Clinic https://t.co/zZ7CQLUzEl
I'm a little afraid I just ran a load of laundry with no soap.
Well, I am not very good at this, but it is interesting, for sure: http://t.co/m897GWM46f
Folding clothes, listening to Rob sing 3yo to sleep with "Be Thou My Vision" and "If I Had a Hammer".
9yo gets to use PowerPoint for her report again, and she is PRETTY STOKED about that, let me tell you.
Grace is doing a "how to" report for school. She decided to do it on making snickerdoodles, so now it… https://t.co/gDElDebB7x
Preschool birthday party time @ Jungle Jim's Utah https://t.co/0V66rtNpgI
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Having now invested a few thousand pages in this series,... http://t.co/3FIBNaXVga
Our Saturday morning routine https://t.co/HAHzAHq9HV
@krisshaffer Rob (IDK if you remember, but he practices allergy) says that if it's a true classic allergy (anaphylaxis, etc), very unlikely.
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This... http://t.co/CCQgMtXgon
@angie_amos YOUR BABY!!!
We had parent-teacher conferences today. You know who is extra, super-duper amazing and wonderful? My 6yo's kindergarten teacher.
(Well, the 3yo did do a pretty decent job on his plate, I guess.)
The dinner I made tonight made the MOST ENORMOUS MESS, and then none of the children would eat much of it. UGH.
Well, Rob is now explaining the military-industrial complex to our 9yo.
We've been saving this bottle of Cortese for a while, and a quiet Sunday afternoon during Lent when I… https://t.co/wadoS9XwbF
Piano recital afternoon @ The University of Utah https://t.co/PMkJNci8P0
@jkru IT IS. THIS IS SO TRUE.

I'm having a moment over this right now.
RT @s_chacko: When you read @pomeranian99 and think "much internet": https://t.co/Pju6seuUeT
Purim celebration at 3yo's preschool today, Purim being a costume holiday. Elsa is still big with the preschool set, FYI.
Oh, kombucha, you got me good today. Exploded alllllll over me in the car. It was BEET kombucha, so this dress may be a goner.
Two-way zippers are the worst.
3yo: "Let me tell you something about hamantaschen. They are triangles because they are made out of Haman's hat."
@Katiekrongard Oh, I'm sorry that you got pushback about your work choices. That sucks, for real, because those choices are so fraught.
We haven't seen a whole lot of this stuff this winter. https://t.co/AyWAAk8qot
I wish @Everlane came in sizes larger than a 8-10. Because I would definitely buy ethically produced Ts and tanks at that price point.
@AdageCat I want a room like this.
Life with her is so complicated and baffling sometimes. Seeing her having a really good day and be so proud of herself is tremendous.
My 6yo had such a good day today, navigating some things well that have been really hard for her lately.
I also found this picture I forgot I had of my college roommate who died this past November, which… https://t.co/fcsst6MZM6
Unless anyone wants to read some 10-year-old near-infrared astronomy? Anyone, anyone?
I am decluttering because I read that Japanese tidying up book, and I think it is time to let go of… https://t.co/og3RQcOGkq
@Katiekrongard Oh, Katie... 💜💜💜
@NishWeiseth This is what happened to Rob.
Our children are lobbying for us to add a 4th baby, and they have names picked out. A boy will be named Larry, a girl will be Alabama.
@texasemily1980 I mean, I think the blond is unlikely to be permanent. It's probably just a matter of time.
3yo got a haircut yesterday and he looks MUCH less blond now.
@jkru Heels are certainly great. I work remotely from home so I wear... slippers mostly.
@jkru Wow, you wear heels now? That is a FOR REAL grown-up job then.
Have made my children fish fingers and custard for dinner (well, gluten-free fish sticks and dairy-free rice pudding).
These invitations are addressed to Ron, Hermione, Pig Will and Pig Won't, and that useless creature Huckle.
This afternoon's activity: making one zillion "invitations" with "stamps" (i.e. stickers) out of spare envelopes, etc.
3yo: "I'm going to pretend Taylor Swift is a real person who is really alive."
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō My... http://t.co/HkZbre80A4
Picked up 1/4 cow and 1/2 pig from our local farmer people, which is juuuuuuust about the limit of our chest freezer. Meat Tetris!
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain My rating: 3 of 5 stars After reading this fictionalized version of... http://t.co/oaoNNcb6Je
@NishWeiseth You call a babysitter and come to book club! (I know -- easier said than done...)
@SKEdman This is partly my personality -- I am a minimalist, hate clutter, love to throw stuff away, etc. I would love a tiny perfect house.
@SKEdman number of books we own. Being a library user has really changed my relationship with books RE: ownership.
@SKEdman Yeah, ours too. I think that if I was ready to downsize our living space, though, I would be willing to radically cut back on the
@SKEdman Now I try not to own a book unless I am darned sure I will reread it. (This realization came amidst a move-heavy season of life.)
@SKEdman I became a heavy library user a few years ago and my attitude about books changed a lot. I realized I don't need to OWN books.
@Katiekrongard Really?!? I am a few episodes behind, but that would be GREAT.
3yo: "I learned at school that if you eat your boogers, you CAN DIE."
@SKEdman Are you all home from the doctor/hospital now? Or still in the midst of everything?
@SKEdman Whaaaaaaaaat?!?! That is TOO DREADFUL.
@ORJocee I know! I don't think we're ready yet because it's such a can of worms but I see it coming.
I think we'll hold off a while yet, but I'm starting to see the appeal. She walks to school, has increasing freedoms, etc.
I can hardly believe I'm saying this, but I am starting to wish that my 9yo had a cell phone.
It's Ash Wednesday and this year for Lent I am reading with @SheReadsTruth http://t.co/eFhkp7xmiD
@Selkie1970 Thank you! Getting a dramatic hair cut is one of my favorite things.
I cut my hairs! http://t.co/WOGT7b2ACR
SDO has been observing the Sun for 5 years now, and it is pretty darn amazing: http://t.co/rDoaU4tbUz
Goodbye, long hair! With Violet along today, since she has a cough and is home from school today @… http://t.co/Yr4fB57v7H
Today, I touched up the paint in our guest room, which has needed to be done since before the birth of our last child.
@NishWeiseth @prestonyancey Not reading, but Phil Plait just started one of John Green's Crash Course thingies: http://t.co/ojjEzan4Qq
@NishWeiseth @prestonyancey Also Phil Plait's and Brian Greene's books.
@NishWeiseth @prestonyancey Off the top of my head, I would recommend this: http://t.co/9DrZXUgVKY
A call to pray for the persecuted church: http://t.co/SFC2viMtMs
RT @NishWeiseth: 21 people. 21 of our kin. Executed on a beach in Libya for being “People of the Cross.” Our God welcomes them warmly. We w…
RT @spulliam: Here's some helpful reporting on ISIS's execution of 21 Christians http://t.co/iqNaimuyvd by @erinmcunningham http://t.co/pU8…
Lewis has a birthday party this afternoon at which parents are also supposed to be in costume. http://t.co/GnRAIDRslQ
They put Outlander (the TV show, to buy for $) on iTunes, and now all I want to do is sit and binge watch the WHOLE THING.
Photo: This is my favorite recipe for pork carnitas. I do it slightly differently — I do the first part in... http://t.co/bHWPlsYsYJ
Front flips are Grace's favorite. http://t.co/VemUxToyR4
Birthday party time http://t.co/bHTH65xCT6
... this is not a big date night or romantic type holiday for us. I'm not really bummed about this; just weird how these things work out.
Between her birthday, all the kid/school Valentine's hype, and the difficulty of obtaining reservations and/or babysitting now...
It turns out that my oldest's birthday is right at Valentine's EVERY YEAR, you guys.
Happy birthday to Grace! http://t.co/ewj0GmXPJi
Just signed 9yo up for a Scratch programming camp for this coming summer. And now I am filled with glee.
@NishWeiseth Yes, I think I would!
@NishWeiseth What?!?! Where?
This amazing person is NINE today, and I could not be more thankful for her. http://t.co/VhN6UIVcJh
I got 8yo the first couple Little House books from the library and she is not the biggest fan. Too much Rick Riordan?
Not "very ill" like going to the hospital, but too ill to cut my hair, as I now realize that sounded incredibly callous.
Well, bummer. My hair stylist is very ill and now we have to reschedule my DRAMATIC HAIRCUT.
@Michaelfriberg We saw her in Diary of a Teenage Girl at Sundance, and she was super good in it.
Photo: The spectrum of our Sun. The prettiest. http://t.co/qbWjwVgAOo
@SecretBeck I think it's like playing video games and skiing; if you don't gain the muscle memory in youth, it's hard to be skillful.
@SecretBeck My husband mocks me that I cannot flip anyone off very well. I tell him it is because of my sheltered upbringing.
Tomorrow is my big hair cut day. I'm pretty excited about it. TIME FOR A CATHARTIC CHANGE OF APPEARANCE.
RT @benhamner: Girls outscore boys on math exams graded anonymously. Boys outscore girls when teachers know names. http://t.co/NLuCvCmA9L
6yo, apropos of nothing: "I wish I was a barber."
@SecretBeck LOL -- my 8yo is just starting these and I am remembering how much awful stuff happens.
@HaleyNBurke But librarians are the best! This can only be a good look.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!?! We sent her to public school and everything.
However, today she brought home something she wrote which indicated she thinks that dinosaurs died in a flood. A FLOOD, YOU GUYS.
6yo is doing a dinosaur unit during her kindergarten afternoon enrichment thingie that she does, which is lovely.
3yo: "The thing that holds our poop is called our famous."
You can't rush into purchases like that.
I bought 1989 today and YOU GUYS it turns out that it is an amazing, delightful pop album.
Lewis is having his fifteen minutes of fame early. http://t.co/Izu9SJ0DFH
I don't need to carry a diaper bag anymore, and now I'm not sure what kind of bag I actually want to carry. There are a lot of choices.
Today was the first day of our new childcare arrangements, &amp; it went really well. This was a huge gift, given the painful week we just had.
I'm going to chop all my hair off next week, I think. I'm ready for a change.
The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian My rating: 4 of 5 stars I can’t believe I am getting so close to the... http://t.co/ClrWBn37zz
Photo: I made these with GF ramen noodles, and they were just delicious. One child refused to try them, but... http://t.co/LOA2xNZ08c
@HaleyNBurke We should totally do this. It would be so fun!
@HaleyNBurke Rob makes them PERFECTLY.
@jkru And CONGRATULATIONS!!!
@jkru It's not that it's always terrible. When things are all working, life is fine. It's just that when something falls apart, KABOOM.
@jkru I know this is not a big deal in the long term for our family or our kids, but it was a big deal this week.
@SKEdman Yeah, it is no small thing. When things are all great and running smoothly, life seems doable. When arrangements crumble, KABOOM.
This is far and away the WORST BIT of being a family with two working parents.
Our childcare arrangements fell apart this past week in a painful, stressful way, and we are all just getting our feet under us again.
Rob really knows what I like -- fried eggs with perfectly cooked whites and NO BROWN EDGES WHATSOEVER.
Friday night cocktail: Il Palio. That's a Campari ice cube that melts as you drink it. Thanks to… http://t.co/WG3SLVy9pa
@Selkie1970 She is still struggling with certain issues, certainly, but I think we are in a good spot for now.
@Selkie1970 I would say yes. Her teacher is experienced and sensitive, she loves to go to school, she is reading up a storm.
Violet's kindergarten class did a group experiment. What DO crickets prefer? I mean, really on a… http://t.co/J7mQhd5gRE
Tonight was science fair night at the girls' elementary school. Because science! http://t.co/TyvFYXSagX
@krisshaffer Aaaaaah, madness.
@krisshaffer I.... what.
Is that a supermassive black hole, or are you just happy to see me?
Today I am writing a question about galaxy bulges.

BULGE BULGE BULGE.
Finally replacing 3yo's expired car seat. I'm glad you're always posting/talking about it, @SKEdman.
It's starting to be lighter in the evening already. I love living this far north, and also the tilt of the Earth.
Working at a coffee shop this morning and two grown men are here discussing henchmen so, so seriously.
6yo has been telling 3yo all about bats and echolocation. 3yo to me just now: "What are bats' eyes for?"
My daughter is in 3rd grade and we have not had one snow day since she started kindergarten.
SLC schools never, ever close for snow. Map: How much snow it takes to cancel school in each state http://t.co/fMsJC3wyK2 via @libbyanelson
First Sundance film of the year for us -- animation shorts, with director Q&amp;A afterward @ Broadway… http://t.co/LU18uWAwn6
It's #NationalReadathonDay and I have an hour to hang out during Grace's piano performance class.… http://t.co/FJkgobcEWv
Grace is doing her country report on Rwanda so we dressed this girl in an umushanana today. What do… http://t.co/1PrkHbZhxc
@HaleyNBurke #westsideproblems
You should try the breakfast I've been eating lately: baked sweet potato + fried egg + tahini.
@jkru Well, we've been there too. Money, new town, persnickety toddler, etc etc etc...
@jkru No Paypal account? That's how we pay all our babysitters, which is great.
@SecretBeck LOL -- my oldest is about to turn 9 and is growing into size 2 shoes. To be fair, both Rob and I are tall and have big feet.
My 3yo now wears size 12 shoes. (6yo wears size 10 shoes. He also weighs more than her.)
"I don't like that scary outfit you're wearing."
"When can we go back to our house?"
"Where are your normal eyes?"
Up in the night with sick, fevered 3yo. And I mean fevered in an olden-times kind of way. He was literally hallucinating.
6yo: "It is taking me so long to grow up."
I have the day off so we got ourselves outside to enjoy some winter sunshine. http://t.co/xhSOHPEFP5
Photo: I bought a container of grassfed gelatin and this is the most successful use I’ve found for it;... http://t.co/toIbokE2uz
8yo to me just now: "There is this really fun thing on the computer! It's called PowerPoint; have you heard of it?"
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon My rating: 4 of 5 stars More engaging storytelling in this... http://t.co/FsZ4IXN3OI
Photo: This pork belly and kimchi soup is delicious on this chilly January day, although the children were... http://t.co/Zb5WfvaYCx
Cooking a pork belly kimchi soup for my lunch and the children do NOT appreciate the aroma.
From my kindergartener's class this week. I'm thankful that our school is our partner in teaching our… http://t.co/2ntskHyk1g
@SecretBeck The tone of the book is a little ridiculously affirming, but it has a lot of helpful information.
@SecretBeck It's good if you are starting from scratch as far as curly hair knowledge.
@SecretBeck When you asked the other day, did anyone recommend that "Curly Girl" book? http://t.co/ZgmA5nLhyi
My Pinterest tonight: eye shadow tutorial, pretty Paleo food, hip clothes, PHOTOGRAPH OF A CERVIX.
OH at swim meet, from parent to child: "I know you disqualified but don't worry; your time counts with me."
At a Thurs evening swim meet. It makes me nervous seeing all these people with their phones so close to the pool. Don't drop them!
@astropixie @dalcantonJD See, I have young children so I immediately knew exactly what that was about.
Me, my great grandmother, and my sister, sometime in the mid-80s #tbt http://t.co/B5SIR1ujrQ
@texasemily1980 Wow, yeah, that is not a high percentage. What do you use to track food? Do you like it?
@texasemily1980 Too much or not enough what?
This Tumblr is all full of academic grant/paper review comments, and it is great: http://t.co/vvXJn2i7nN
@lucaswmuller @DoctorMac Oh man, he's going to LOVE that.
@karenebayne b) the nose piercing.
@karenebayne That is so crazy! I get carded here a lot, despite the flourishing gray hairs, I think because a) it is Utah and
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this in basically one... http://t.co/akczDq15M4
Almost home, one more flight. Tomorrow morning might feel rough.
@texasemily1980 No, I think it's going to be OK. It looks messy but I am sitting on my plane now.
St. Louis appears to be working on an ice storm as I am trying to leave. ☁️❄️😬
My other grandfather died about seven years ago. http://t.co/hqTRcLXdxs
I'm staying at my grandmother's house, my other grandmother, not the one whose husband just died. http://t.co/9cRnWVcdPo
(I am really thankful that I am able to come, and it is good to be with family. My dad and everybody seem like they are doing OK.)
Good morning! It is funeral day!
I flew by myself in a plane today to go to a funeral, for the second time in as many months. This time… http://t.co/nlRjn3QXuB
@texasemily1980 UGH. Expensive, complicated. I think we're going to make it work, though.
My grandfather died yesterday after a long post-stroke decline, and now I'm looking at flights to St. Louis for the weekend.
Rob has been reading through Harry Potter aloud to 8yo and Sirius Black IS ABOUT TO DIE NOOOOOOOOO AHHHHHHHHHH...
Oh man, I don't want us all to go back to work/school tomorrow. Winter break foreverrrrrrrrrrrr...
@karenebayne My 8yo is just over the moon for Percy Jackson right now too!
@NishWeiseth I totally get the need to vent over dietary restrictions (DO I EVER...) but if you want actual ideas, there is that too.
@NishWeiseth Are you looking for ideas? Or more just venting? :) Because this is pretty much how we eat because of L's food issues.
@_justlikethat_ intense hunger did not last the whole time.
@_justlikethat_ For me, it would really ramp up through 9-10 months or so, then taper back down. I nursed for ~2 years per baby but that
We got our tree out of the house today and now we must vacuum all the pine needles. Thank goodness for… http://t.co/HSuwhjJLFB
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins by Peter Enns My rating: 3... http://t.co/ln2l8RVCma
Bubbles IN SLOW MOTION® http://t.co/kkHBWIpb9a
I finished knitting something! For the first time since before I had a baby. (That was a long time ago.) http://t.co/ghzA6mFMDx
@jkru Man, I need to go really bad. We are about to be entirely out of fruit.
@texasemily1980 That sounds so nice! Some year you should come here and we will make it happen. (We'll have to make the rice pudding.)
@Selkie1970 Homicide! That was SUCH a good show.
We replaced a bunch of windows a few years back and the new ones are great. The old ones? Not so much.
It is really cold here, and there is ice on the INSIDE of our century-old windows. http://t.co/OTIZXKAbCH
@Selkie1970 L is still too little for group skiing lessons so we still stay home. I am seriously thinking about taking up cross country.
Today was my girls' first day to ski for the winter. They did super great. This will be such an opaque, foreign part of their lives for me.
These snowflakes are just RIDICULOUS. http://t.co/sPD0D8pGVs
@NishWeiseth I tried to go to yoga at the JCC this morning, and the teacher didn't show up!!! We all sort of tried to stretch on our own.
@HaleyNBurke Which job? Or both?
@ironsoap We put those in 8yo's stocking! But we haven't played it yet.
Sleigh tracks @ Homestead Resort http://t.co/fkjcNpfgsE
We're all in Midway for an overnight stay, courtesy of Rob's parents, and we took a sleigh ride. @… http://t.co/ch02bY2TeG
@HaleyNBurke I am so glad you came over!
Our Christmas goose is cooked. http://t.co/itWzaqOFPd
It is snowing buckets and our goose is in the oven and I am so thankful and full of cheer. (Also, I would like a nap.)
Utah came through for us with a white Christmas. Still coming down! http://t.co/9bKL968l5p
@HaleyNBurke WHAT?!
@Katiekrongard Ugh, Lewis &amp; me too. I think we're on the upswing, though; two nights ago was worse than last night.
SIX!!!!!! http://t.co/afTmBFlDYe
SLC friends, join us @missiodeislc on Christmas Eve! http://t.co/QInT7PpsCa
I have felt pretty loopy while observing at the summit of Mauna Kea: http://t.co/2Y3uSuAH2s
Birthday party aftermath. Totally worth it. http://t.co/IYRktEVewv
So happy to have celebrated Robert's 38th birthday tonight http://t.co/k9CcDk2op0
Flip, then flip again!
Celebrating Rob's birthday today, and about to try to get a flourless chocolate cake out of a springform pan. Wish me luck.
About-to-be-6yo's birthday party went really well, and was really fun. This feels like a big deal, given the specifics of who she is. ❤️
Time for a birthday celebration. This little one will be SIX on Monday! @ Jump Around Utah http://t.co/PBX1AAOUz6
Questions from 3yo: "Is it today or tomorrow?" "When will it be tomorrow?" I guess never?
RT @jonathandcole: RT if you think Lydia and Mr Wickham deserve each other
We really hit the jackpot last night. (I should have included something for scale; this thing is… http://t.co/P5M1GmLPtB
Work email inbox zero! Personal email inbox... not so much.
@HaleyNBurke Uhhhhhhhh, are you OK? Are you day-drinking?
I think all Lewis' dreams came true today on a walk with shayleedakota. ・・・ The construction workers… http://t.co/MQ85nAxQE4
Photo: I made chai tea concentrate with this recipe and it is just delightful! I have been drinking it hot... http://t.co/I32d4AaxCZ
Out for the evening at Rob's work holiday shindig @ Alta Club http://t.co/Zs2XGqagaL
@texasemily1980 I keep trying to explain this to them!

(To be fair, Grace is a lot better than she used to be, so I guess there's hope...)
@texasemily1980 Yes, it's really too bad about how they hate everything I cook. :/
I am so unmotivated about cooking lately. 3yo has all his food issues, and none of them like the food I cook. Soooooo unmotivating.
Ah, "Alfie the Christmas Tree"... #paganism #muppets
3rd Sunday of Advent http://t.co/lsKxgvqLJf
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan My rating: 4 of 5 stars 2014 UPDATE: I recently re-read P&amp;P, as... http://t.co/n5vu0HvHGN
A swim meet, for which we woke up sooooooo early @ Cottonwood High School http://t.co/80qBBAESTB
A peaceful moment at the end of the day http://t.co/QIwCKr0xd4
@jkru YES. Upon further reflection, I think it may also be the Internet, and thus it may be 15+ years since I have been bored.
How many years has it been since I felt bored? I think pushing a decade. I can hardly remember what it felt like.
@Selkie1970 "Later I learned that the people we bought this house from birthed their 3rd baby in that bath tub."
@Selkie1970 Although I do have a rather horrifying story of the first time I took a bath in that tub. The punch line to the story is,
@Selkie1970 Four years of trying to keep ours clean. I want to rip it out so bad.
Free advice for any of you who ever may be in the position to remodel a bathroom: 
Jetted tubs are a terrible idea. Just terrible.
@texasemily1980 Sooooo... how are things there?
RT @scifri: Today's Google Doodle honors pioneering astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. http://t.co/H30eMqKJN3 http://t.co/tQH6XBRaLL
I don't use the command line often, but I feel all warm and fuzzy inside when I do.
RT @NishWeiseth: My thoughts on hope, expectation, and #BlackLivesMatter. http://t.co/LH03jgc4HF http://t.co/Dk0Yg6777p
You should hear how 8yo pronounces "Cesar Chavez". I keep correcting her, but she still is continuing to say it like he is French.
5yo to me: "You make me do unimportant things!" (i.e., eat breakfast, get dressed, brush teeth)
It's the second Sunday of Advent and I am home from my trip to remember the life of my friend. The… http://t.co/2NbTWKVD8A
I went to church with my childhood best friend this morning and the artist-in-residence there painted… http://t.co/JKbIibqaB4
Houston: it seems like there might be some moisture in the air here.
I just flew to Houston for my friend's memorial service, which is tomorrow. I am glad that I am able… http://t.co/4roEJS2J1a
If you identify as Christian, that interview with @prophiphop I just tweeted is worth your while.
From @prophiphop at Relevant Magazine: Justice for Black Lives http://t.co/YpZDtCcXau
I know I am a high-maintenance person, but that is really not enough space for my toiletries.
Packing for a plane flight tomorrow and as always, so annoyed with the quart-sized bag for liquids. Is this really making us safer?
RT @bcloritts: In the 60s the conservative white evangelical church was silent (hostile even). Let's not repeat history in 2014. Speak up. …
@SKEdman Yes, I can do this. It seems like a normal thing to be able to do?
My Perdita showing you some of her dance moves (she had somehow lost her hilarious doggie ears by this… http://t.co/mhyHaQl7Jt
A full house at tonight's 3rd grade production of "101 Dalmatians" http://t.co/ZxNHcAYb3m
RT @deray: "I can't breathe." - Black America #EricGarner
RT @ellamorton: Time to protest the non-indictment of a cop who killed an unarmed black person. No, not that one, the other one. No, the ot…
RT @AntonioFrench: No indictment. Cop cleared in chokehold death of Eric Garner http://t.co/K3NCeACYQh via @nypost
RT @PFTompkins: A big step in solving the race problem in America is for tons of white people to STOP PRETENDING THERE ISN'T A RACE PROBLEM…
@wrightinthecity There is room in the world/friendships/church/etc for all kinds of families and choices.
@wrightinthecity If people are telling you that you should have kids when you are ambivalent about it, they are being super dumb.
@texasemily1980 I love you.
Very happy to be at charmingbeard's new coffee shop this morning. It just opened this past Friday, and… http://t.co/ob6jwjwSx6
I guess there are good reasons why we have him on the diet that we do (minimal wheat, dairy, soy; no egg, coconut, potato).
We let 3yo eat normal Thanksgiving food (and a fair bit of normal leftovers) and now his GI issues are NOT GOOD.
@NishWeiseth I read from the Book of Common Prayer this morning at church! And we did a candle on an Advent wreath tonight!
Happy first Sunday of Advent! http://t.co/sqHpTwRWQM
Our first time here @ Salt Lake City Capitol Building http://t.co/EufDp7A9Fb
@texasemily1980 Love you too! Hope you had a great day... 💜💜💜
cranberry pie with walnut crumb topping -- Happy Thanksgiving! http://t.co/O15E8USl8a
@NishWeiseth #JCCproblems
8yo just asked me if I thought there were more Jewish people or Christian people in SLC. #utahproblems
@Selkie1970 Oh, poor thing.
RT @NewsHour: Chart compares witness interviews from the Michael Brown shooting investigation http://t.co/wcI36csRQZ http://t.co/VUFjlvqzre
RT @rachelheldevans: "26 Ideas for Advent" #StayWokeAdvent http://t.co/o4uMmWdFmo
RT @kristenhowerton: We all live in the context of systemic racism that socializes us to be afraid of black men. It's life-threatening, htt…
RT @sarahbessey: #BlackLivesMatter There are no words. Heart broken. Laying down on the floor to pray for and with you, #Ferguson
RT @NishWeiseth: Watching armored vehicles roll towards protesters, underneath a light-up sign reading, "Seasons Greetings." Jesus. #Fergus…
@Selkie1970 I finished Outlander yesterday. I'm waiting to get the next one because I've basically done nothing else for the last 4 days.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really more like 4.5 stars. This is an ENORMOUS book... http://t.co/Gywl54MOCG
@kylecostello One of those people on stage was my ENGLISH TEACHER. So weird in hindsight.
@HaleyNBurke Yeah, the lead singer/bassist was my junior year English teacher. So crazy in hindsight.
@ironsoap Hmmm, that is interesting.
@ironsoap Not too soon for my 20-year-old one-hit-wonder English teacher, but maybe too soon for Robin Williams + depression.
@ironsoap The whole thing was so dramatic for me. He left song lyrics for us to find on the blackboard after he was booted out, etc.
@ironsoap Even my 15-year-old self thought this. He was a really good teacher too.
@ironsoap was all, "NOPE."
@ironsoap It was still just getting regional play in the DFW/Denton area (maybe Texas as a whole) when it got public enough that the school
@ironsoap That song/band got big enough that I'm sure he would have eventually quit, but that's not when he was booted from my school.
@SecretBeck It really is. It was just super dramatic at the time, but 20 years later, wow, that is very very weird.
He was then no longer my teacher, partly because my Christian high school was not a fan of this whole "rock music" thing. It was traumatic.
In fact, he was my teacher right when that song blew up in popularity.
I just heard the 1995 song "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Twitter, have I ever told you that my high school English teacher sang that song?
@SecretBeck I love a red room. Also, I'm a fan of gray-ish lilac. Also, tangerine-y orange.
New Parenting Study Released http://t.co/JSLNJVgcmY (maybe don't click if language offends you)
Overheard from the other room while I make dinner: "Let the wild rumpus start!" Should I be concerned?
@_justlikethat_ This was my favorite during the not-newborn but not-toddler-nursing months: http://t.co/ZhkEgsYQtq
@_justlikethat_ Yes, I am familiar with ALL THESE FEELINGS.
@_justlikethat_ bra after that and just pull it down/to the side. That is a good way to wear out your bras pretty fast, but eh, worth it.
@_justlikethat_ Bras are tough when you're nursing. I wore some nice Bravado ones for the first year or so, then I would switch to a normal
@_justlikethat_ Yes, my babies wouldn't watch TV either! Not until they were, like, 2 or 3. I just wanted to take a shower...
So You’ve Finally Started Wearing The Right Bra Size http://t.co/rEd5CklOqO
I actually join the chat. "AAUGH. NEED SOME LIPSTICK."
I do a fair number of video chats in my remote, work-from-home job and I am so thankful for the preview that shows what I look like BEFORE
RT @s_chacko: Living the new American dream. "http://t.co/2CKLCZrhYf" cc @MsEliseR @CTJinSLC
RT @rachelheldevans: Bible Verses Where "Philistines" Are Replaced With "Haters" http://t.co/z0mvUHVx9b
RT @KashannKilson: Just let that sit with you for a while.
RT @KashannKilson: 1000 cops, the national guard, and a *preemptive* state of emergency as a response to unarmed folks protesting police br…
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had very high hopes for this... http://t.co/kLsP7cc81A
@howiesmith I think this is Rob's dream car too.
Looking at flights to go to Houston for the memorial service of my friend. I think it will be good to go, but really this is the worst.
Somebody lost her first tooth! http://t.co/9aimXLLMmR
New requirement for scientists: You cannot be a sexist pigdog http://t.co/tCy2EYTtbl via @hormiga
@jaustinwright Oh gosh, that's so close to where we used to live! Although we went to Northwest Bible Church back then...
@kathykrey Thank you. I feel so sad that she's not here in the world with her kids, etc.
@Selkie1970 Thank you. Yeah, it is pretty awful -- sudden, 4 kids including a baby. I found out Wed and I have been really shaken by it.
@ironsoap Yeah, I am so sad, for her kids, etc. I found out last Wednesday and have been really shaken.
@NYspling Thank you. I am really sad that she's not here in the world with her kids, etc anymore.
@SecretBeck Thank you. I have been really shaken and sad.
It is not a great way to catch up with old, dear friends; that's for sure.
I have been really sad and have had a hard, heavy week. A close college friend/roommate died last week under rather awful circumstances.
@Selkie1970 @SecretBeck We don't own ANY real Lego yet, only Duplo. I think that might change soon.
@SecretBeck I think my kids are at good ages for this! My youngest is borderline young for real Playmobil but he does OK with it.
@SecretBeck Playmobil Advent calendar! That is a great idea! I am looking at this online right now. Do you usually do the Christmas-y one?
@BeckShorter Oh, that's really unfortunate. I'd love to be able to follow your new account.
I get so dramatically sick with GI viruses compared to the rest of my family. If I got cholera, I would be a goner.
Stomach bug, all day. Badness. It seems very similar to what 5yo had 10 days ago, but doesn't that seem too long?
@wrightinthecity Well, shows what IT knows.
RT @EbolaPhone: #Ebola Map of Africa for the Geographically Challenged

Inspired by @JuryReporter:
https://t.co/P7UwqPx3Bw http://t.co/Mldq…
Long, but super interesting/amazing: The Ebola Wars http://t.co/0drOetEVAH via @newyorker
Rob is a timer so they have to stay until the bitter end.
NINETEEN HEATS of the 50 free.
Rob and 8yo are at a swim meet tonight and they will never get home as there are TOO MANY HEATS of each event.
@BeckShorter My 8yo inherited my enormous feet so this will soon be applicable to me. :)
@BeckShorter You might look that up, but I'm pretty sure that's right. You add 2 to girls' size to get womens' size.
@BeckShorter Girls' size 3 is the same as womens' size 5, so you might look at womens' winter boots.
What a beautiful morning... @ Natural History Museum of Utah http://t.co/VqRWq2PCCH
RT @Independent: Women with actual PhDs review 'sexy PhD costume' on Amazon http://t.co/BGsZvOTK2J http://t.co/oLzqsB7iON
CANDY IS THE WORST. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!
UGH, CANDY.
@NishWeiseth The Christian school I went to when I was small celebrated Reformation Day ONLY and we could only dress up as Bible characters!
Halloween is a big deal here, you guys. Utah looooooooves Halloween.
I am now done helping organize the 3rd grade Halloween party. We made these bats: http://t.co/AYnMMGZeMH
Now we have had the Halloween parade where every child in the school walks by in their costume.
@Casepeeler http://t.co/LgtvbscMYY
Now it's time for the kindergarten Halloween program/performance thingie. There are a lot of Elsas.
@Casepeeler My kids are the three Totoros!
My three Totoros http://t.co/VL1rP3dcxO
@texasemily1980 But not as productive as my actual job!
@texasemily1980 I just want to read my book while the kids are at school.
The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was going to give this 4 stars until... http://t.co/nafz5DIXA9
Kindergarten is going pretty well. http://t.co/6DNZDRLwRG
@HaleyNBurke When did you start taking them?
What do you think is a good age to read Anne of Green Gables for the first time?
@dawnwrightPR I've been really happy buying @thredUP! I hope that you love the stuff you get. :)
@karenebayne I feel nervous that I will screw it up, but there are also those timing thingies they touch. (Thingies! I am so knowledgeable!)
@karenebayne We did our first USA Swimming meet at the beginning of this month! I am timing for the first time next weekend. :|
@HaleyNBurke Rob thinks it is good that you went tonight, for the record.
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Recipe | http://t.co/gKm1xtaksm - We got tomatillos in our CSA this week so I am making... http://t.co/bEMYI5FCOf
@Selkie1970 That is sooooooo delightful.
Thankful for never-ending Blues Clues and Little Bear for my sick, miserable, fractious little one.
@Katiekrongard I'm not what you call a naturally talented driver.
@Katiekrongard was until later so I didn't really look at whether I messed up the thing I had parked by. GAH, I feel so awful.
@Katiekrongard It was this low, structural thing at the town homes where Grace's piano teacher lives. I didn't realize how bad the bumper
Not a day full of win.
Also, 5yo ended the day with some a childhood stomach bug classic, not making it to the toilet to puke. 😨😣😩
I sort of hit a thing with my car and now my front bumper is only semi-attached. 😳😨😵
@Katiekrongard It's so Halloween-y!
@SKEdman For me, it was 4th grade. At the time, I attributed it all to my teacher but of course who knows...
@_justlikethat_ I feel like this is not helping my strong readers at all. Is it actually effective at helping weaker readers? I don't know.
@krisshaffer I haven't yet gathered the you-know-what to be the parent who says, "No thank you, I'm not going to do that."
@krisshaffer LOL -- yes. My 3rd grader's teacher wants us to log minutes BOTH on a paper calendar and online. Super lame.
I mean, I basically understand why, but they are both such motivated readers. It feels really burdensome.
I really don't enjoy all the tracking of my girls' reading for school (minutes read, calendars, etc.)
@MaryLUE @wrathofmom @BeckShorter It rubs me the wrong way.
@MaryLUE @wrathofmom @BeckShorter I'm picturing myself as, say, young and not white and needing spray paint for the very same project.
This makes me want to take up graffiti.
I'm buying spray paint for a class project and it is ALL LOCKED UP. They walk it to the register for you. Is it this way everywhere?
@BeckShorter I think that @karenebayne is probably right and she is mad but not actually surprised.
@BeckShorter Well, I also would say no to the drinking. We aren't hyper conservative about alcohol, but that sounds like a terrible idea.
@SKEdman I use an app called gowatchit. It's pretty decent, but I wish it included TV shows.
@HaleyNBurke I think you were logged in as the wrong account here.
One benefit to being a semi-lapsed seamstress is that I had almost everything I needed for the costumes in my sewing closet.
I have not done much at all since starting this whole FULL-TIME JOB thing last December. Them's the break, I suppose!
I've been working on the kids' Halloween costumes this weekend, and remembering how much I like sewing.
This will be Day 3 of him home from preschool, poor guy.
THIS JUST IN: sick toddlers do not sleep well.
@krisshaffer I am a lifelong fan, but that is so true.
@SKEdman Oh, you made me actually LOL. Hilarious.
Our front yard was all ripped out yesterday. Goodbye lawn, hello xeriscaping! http://t.co/0zN6Ll37pW
3yo has been sick, stayed home from preschool yesterday, feverish last night. Upon getting up this morning: "Why is our house so swirly?"
And apparently this is Grace's instinct when asked to be in a picture with her great-grandmother. https://t.co/V7hpDCVcB0
I finally am editing pictures from our St. Louis trip and I love this one of Lewis. https://t.co/o1l6SRBibC
This pumpkin grew from a seed planted by one of my kids during @missiodeislc's Easter celebration this… http://t.co/YmU9NziExP
@HaleyNBurke LOL, not per se. I roasted the kabocha in chunks, so like "roasted unpeeled potatoes", if that makes sense.
@HaleyNBurke For the record, the squash skin was edible. It was like eating potato skin.
The internet tells me that we can eat the peel of this kabocha squash. I feel a little dubious, but I trust you, internet. Here goes...
The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning My rating: 5... http://t.co/FqbVpxeReh
Going to hear one of your favorite bands play a bunch of songs you love = so, so great.
The New Pornographers were so amazing. http://t.co/omcj8O6qcV
Date night! Rob hates selfies a lot. @ The Depot http://t.co/83ePmRnQJ9
We are going to a concert! We are going to be out WAY past our bedtimes.
My gorgeous BAMF sister is featured in the Oct/Nov issue of Paleo Magazine.

Because of her extreme… http://t.co/2B5LbmzR4B
Funny, and so nice to hear from someone in Hollywood: Jennifer Garner Confirms Baby Bump http://t.co/N0kWzpD3qT
@astropixie Oh no, Amanda!
RT @NishWeiseth: Holy hell, @amenabee. You CRUSHED this. http://t.co/EiVi7N73BC
My girls are taking gymnastics this fall and it is turning out to be SUCH a good thing for Violet. http://t.co/bgjlaWEjY4
Alright, never mind, now Rob has gone back to Big 10 football.
The pipe organ is, in fact, enormous. It is surrounded by a sea of white men in suits with really conservative haircuts.
He called me in to the room with the TV so that I could witness the size of the pipe organ.
It's his first time to ever watch it, and he is enjoying it while drinking a bourbon cocktail.
Rob turned off college football to watch #LDSConference. I... I don't know what to do with that.
Last race of the morning @ South Davis Recreation Center http://t.co/QCW0orkBNm
8yo can totally do a flip turn now.
Swim meet time @ South Davis Recreation Center http://t.co/NaIVmiBddS
(I do not actually enjoy getting up super early on the weekend. Although goodness knows I haven't "slept in" for years and year.)
8yo is doing year-round (more serious) swim team this year, and her first meet is tomorrow! So, so early! Yay swimming!
@BeckShorter That sounds delightful! And like it may involve a lot of cleavage.
I want to hone my personal style; I'm thinking either Jane Austen character who wears Birkenstocks, or aging hippie art teacher.
RT @sarahbessey: 31 Days of Prayer for Public-School Parents // Thanks for this, @SortaCrunchy! http://t.co/JVa5pqUP0T
RT @absolutspacegrl: Boys get chemistry, engineering, and astronomy. The girls get "science with a sparkle". It's shit like this, people. h…
@Selkie1970 IT IS NOT.
RT @LikeTheyKnowUs: Photo: "I love going to the store with multiple children! My toddler always goes right into the cart and... http://t.co…
@Selkie1970 No, we don't get that cable station. Hopefully it is streaming somewhere eventually.
@Selkie1970 Well, I like all of those things! I think I'm going to start them soon.
@Selkie1970 Should I read the Outlander books? I am thinking maybe I should.
@MaryLUE Oh, I forgot to respond! That book looks super cute.
@Selkie1970 That is so, so gorgeous.
@HaleyNBurke Rob told me once that there were people in pre-insulin olden times who would quasi-control diabetes by running sprints.
@s_chacko Oh gosh. I would totally eat that.
So glad to be in my own bed but WOW not happy about setting this Monday morning alarm. I'll never be a jetsetter type.
At the STL airport, not late for once! Soon to be heading homeward.
(I mean, not awful where we are, which is the white part of super segregated St. Louis. I only know anything secondhand.)
(Not to mention, apparently terrible problems with police/race issues/etc, which have flared up again during our visit. So awful.)
They have mosquitoes and humidity here in St. Louis. I'd sort of forgotten about what both of those are like.
Celebrating my grandmother's 86th birthday http://t.co/Nw8t7QoavG
Lots of rolls for the player piano http://t.co/qhXWt9eNkn
One set of my grandparents has a player piano in their basement. http://t.co/h6MrMe0UUm
Zoo time @ St. Louis Zoo http://t.co/Ks5Yp9Ttr6
Violet and her great grandmother watering some flowers http://t.co/ppBKuqYb3a
Children loooooooove hotels.
Speak: How Your Story Can Change the World by Nish Weiseth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Such a great reflection... http://t.co/rbgOc5wGtX
This time tomorrow I will be on a plane with my entire party-of-5 family. Wheeeeeee...
@HaleyNBurke Yeah, me too.
Having a deep discussion with Rob about the definition of salad. What *is* salad?
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde My rating: 5 of 5 stars Few contemporary series have... http://t.co/TchEpMBpLT
RT @NekoCase: Just saw the set lists for upcoming @TheNewPornos shows.. DAMN! Craaaaaaaaazzzzzzzy! You'd be wise to come over.
@lucaswmuller US TOO. Although less so since the beheadings and all.
@Selkie1970 Although part of me craves that cathartic high of the really dramatic hair cut.
@Selkie1970 I'm thinking I'm just going to get some short/retro-y bangs: http://t.co/P9OHWkckfn
@krisshaffer Man, there is nothing like the cathartic high of a really dramatic chop of a hair cut. "It's a new me!"
Also, I don't think I actually want short hair right now; I just want to *change* my hair.
I bear little semblance to Audrey Tatou in any way, except that we are both brunettes.
I keep looking at pictures of the Audrey-Tatou-esque curly pixie cut but (and you would think this would be obvious)
I have a hair cut tomorrow and I have been feeling a little doldrum-y so I am in the mood for a BIG CHANGE. This is sure to end well.
@HaleyNBurke supposed to be making them for HOMELESS PEOPLE so I felt really awful.
@HaleyNBurke When I was a teenager I once switched out cornstarch for baking soda in cookie bars. They did not rise (OBVS) and I was
A little Throw Back Thursday, back to 2000, I believe. We had to use shoes as phones back then. http://t.co/PiGhygrT1Y
RT @sarahbessey: &lt;sarcasm font&gt; Finally! A realistic depiction of motherhood! *reclines on white couch in heels* &lt;/sarcasm font&gt; http://t.c…
You can lead a child to a healthy breakfast but you cannot make her eat.
BioLogos Basics Video #5: How Old Is the Earth? | The BioLogos Forum: http://t.co/QphyfHyHcV
@Selkie1970 Oh, was he a physics major in undergrad? That's what I was! The only woman in my year...
Oh, that LRT... I don't regret going to grad school, but people need to KNOW THAT before committing that time/energy/blood/sweat/tears/etc.
RT @AcademicsSay: PhDs vs. Jobs. cc @nature 
http://t.co/5d3EhLznJr http://t.co/95v03cwHuU
Something very fun came in the mail today! http://t.co/IJLf1SW32n
Gluten-free peach scones for Monday morning breakfast -- hopefully a good sign for how with it I will… http://t.co/QE2M8q5FGv
@HaleyNBurke "Baby, baby, baby ooooooh..."
I'm reading a @jasperfforde book, which made me look up epizeuxis on Wikipedia, and the examples are pretty great: http://t.co/g6qONC4pHP
(The wine came from a box.)
All of this (except the wine) came from Utah. http://t.co/Xy9cVIZc6g
But do you know what Wendell Berry does not like? MACHINES. The man seriously and for real does not like machines.
I've been reading that new book of Wendell Berry's Sabbath poems that was just published, and wow, it is so lovely.
RT @AnneBogel: All Seven Seasons Of 'Gilmore Girls' To Be Released On Netflix http://t.co/jyMqyNv20b  // Hurray!
My 3yo gives really good compliments: "I love your hair because it has sparkles in it."
@SKEdman The one tire couldn't be repaired because of where the nail was, and the rest were borderline worn out.
I am now sitting at Discount Tire despite the fact that church people will arrive at our house in one hour.
Apparently I ran over a roofing nail today, and now I am buying new tires. Not a fun way to spend money, but that's adulthood for you.
@_justlikethat_ @Katiekrongard @SKEdman weeks to get things to even out. Keep the supply/demand thing in mind as you make choices.
@_justlikethat_ @Katiekrongard @SKEdman My supply ramped UP UP UP until about the 8 week mark and I feel like it took a good number of
@_justlikethat_ @Katiekrongard @SKEdman Yeah, I had a rough time with oversupply/forceful letdown with V and it did get better.
@Katiekrongard @SKEdman You can try 2 feedings on one side, then switch, to help with the oversupply.
@Katiekrongard @SKEdman I wouldn't hand express because then you're still telling your body to make more milk.
Well, we ate the liver for dinner tonight (with bacon, onions, figs, balsamic vinegar). I'm not going to lie; it wasn't 100% pleasant.
Rob discovered that we had all the ingredients to make French 75s, which has definitely classed up this Sunday evening.
Apricot-maple-vanilla jam (because this weekend I finally got the rest of the apricots out of the… http://t.co/J0q3J9fsKz
Defrosting some beef liver for dinner from our fancy local meat people. I'm a little nervous, as I have never cooked or eaten liver before.
@BeckShorter Nooooooooo... There's enough tasteful neutrals in the world.
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Kate Rorick My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s a book… based on a web video... http://t.co/7MYEVXn2Of
@ironsoap Yeah, crime fiction/police procedural is not really my genre, so I haven't gone for that one yet. Probably I will eventually.
I think I may have a problem. http://t.co/xJmjrpLvv9
First day of a new year of preschool for Lewis @ Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center http://t.co/oFn045L7CN
@ConMartin What is your other favorite? I am in a Regency romance mood lately.
This is not something I would have expected to see from her:
http://t.co/MAljMcr5ZZ
But it is lovely.
My (white, conservative) family hails from St. Louis and several of them really love illustrator Mary Engelbreit, also from St. Louis.
It's Labor Day so we will GRILL ALL THE THINGS!!! (burgers, corn on the cob, peaches)
We all watched The Lego Movie this afternoon and although it rather terrified our younger two, it was hilarious and wonderful.
RT @DoctorMac: L watches the Lego Movie with us. It's going great. http://t.co/Ol0qOy2aIY
@MaryLUE @BeckShorter I cut them in 2012 and only just now sort of grew them out through inertia. I am vacillating on whether to go back.
@BeckShorter @MaryLUE Most recently I have a lot of pins about bangs. Obviously I am trying to decide whether to cut them again.
I think I must be in a not-very-high-minded fiction phase right now instead.
I go through such phases with Pinterest, swinging from addiction to utter boredom. ("It's all the saaaaaaaame...")
The Lady Julia Grey Bundle by Deanna Raybourn My rating: 4 of 5 stars I continue my tour of escapist,... http://t.co/0miJ9KhKIC
@BeckShorter Happy birthday! That fuzzy cake looks delicious! (I never remember that you share a birthday with my youngest.)
My littlest turns 3 today! Happy birthday to Lewis... http://t.co/723I3nDKKb
@karenebayne If she sticks with it, she can ride her bike there in another couple years. For now, we can be back at the house very fast.
@karenebayne Yes! Dinner! Ours is MWF 4:30-6pm, but I actually am lucky that it is SUPER close to our house, just ~5 min away.
@karenebayne My 8yo is trying out year-round swim team this fall too. I feel intimidated by the commitment.
The lavender is in bloom here (there is a ton of it around my neighborhood) and it is SO beautiful and smells SO good.
I just put her in front of her favorite episode of Super Why with some lemonade. Hopefully that will help.
It's Thursday on the first week of full-day kindergarten, and my 5yo is fairly frayed.
@BeckShorter Getting renovations done around your house IS exciting; there's no way around it.
@Katiekrongard My kids all dropped their nap just past their 2nd birthdays.
@Katiekrongard I say embrace it. I know it's hard with a newborn, but I never mourned the end of the nap. Bedtime is so much easier!
I've read two Georgette Heyer books in a row, so now I should probably read some really dense, serious nonfiction or something.
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wow, what a fun, fun read… This is just a... http://t.co/DgKLlRmFvt
My 5yo (who started kindergarten today) has now attended more public school than me.
RT @micahjmurray: If you are an alum of Christian #homeschooling, please take this survey! And share with other alumni you know! —&gt; http://…
First day of kindergarten http://t.co/YSnL4Wnyzd
First day of 3rd grade http://t.co/RbLn7z5JUk
Walking to school together for the first time http://t.co/YJH2kmPkba
Packing the first school lunches of the year!
Turns out Sonic is right next to some kind of Tongan church and they are singing outside. It is LOVELY.
Back-to-school date (location her choice) for my soon-to-be-kindergartener @ Sonic Drive-In of Salt… http://t.co/CpmNnK440I
My 5yo is such a picky eater, but she sure can put away the kale chips.
I think my 3 children have now all agreed to be the 3 Totoros for Halloween. It's going to be so awesome, you guys.
Back-to-school date with my eldest -- pedicures and treats. @ Tulie Bakery http://t.co/LmGlK5A0uK
RT @rachelheldevans: Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson - The Atlantic http://t.co/UN4ObYRQ1L
We've never had a child this age without having a new baby at the same time before. I don't change… http://t.co/Mb1a12so07
@HaleyNBurke You *should* go get some good sleep!
A Black Boy is Dead – A Deeper Story http://t.co/Ixskq8Uepj
Frederica by Georgette Heyer My rating: 4 of 5 stars If the world seems pretty awful and you are in the... http://t.co/sjAnnVjBRp
Heisenberg looks much more jolly than I would have expected. http://t.co/Lou1R6DQ3l
RT @sethhaines: Protestors cannot assemble in a single spot? Hmmmm... Some founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.
RT @HaroldItz: Heavily armed cops feel threatened by unarmed people standing still #ferguson
@MaryLUE I think so. I've had good meetings with the principal/teacher and I think we are off on the right foot.
One week from today, this sweet girl goes to kindergarten. KINDERGARTEN! http://t.co/tphTG9Wbkv
She arrived here on Friday from Rwanda, which is an 8-hour difference. She couldn't make it past 7pm tonight. OUCH.
A newly arrived international student stayed with us for the weekend (she moves into a dorm tomorrow) and the jet lag is hitting her HARD.
I know I am totally late to this party but it was delightful: http://t.co/DORU0Tkbxr
I have been feeling sad/upset lately about world events (DUH...) but I did binge watch The Lizzie Bennett Diaries this week.
RT @rachelheldevans: SO GOOD: "Becoming a White Ally to Black People in the Aftermath of the Michael Brown Murder" http://t.co/LgOjQmMNmQ
RT @devincf: So police changed tactics in #ferguson and now the tone is totally different. This erases all doubt: it was a police riot the …
With Highway Patrol, hugs and kisses replace tear gas in #Ferguson http://t.co/nKF51JVKfN via @washingtonpost
RT @kristenhowerton: Racism, police brutality, and the dangerous act of being black:

http://t.co/s8QAUNflxd
If your pro-life ethic doesn’t include black lives, then your pro-life ethic is useless via @sarahbessey #Ferguson http://t.co/GJLWS1d4sq
For you, @jkru: “@ResearchMark: Sup thesis submitters. Congrats :) http://t.co/wUm8mnXMtl”
I normally struggle with weeknight dinners, but somehow tonight I've managed ratatouille and slow cooked lamb shoulder. How did I do this?!
JULIA'S EXPERT SIMPLE SOLUTION: let's fix this whole militarization of police thing. And also systemic racism.
We are planning a trip to see family in St. Louis next month, which feels weird given that they seem to be having RACE RIOTS right now.
@SKEdman My friend @Katiekrongard suspects her newborn might have tongue tie. Do you have resources to recommend? She's seeing an LC Wed.
Photo: betterbooktitles: Veronica Roth: Divergent Reader Submission by Paul Hamilton. Follow @DanWilbur for... http://t.co/c5T8F5g2Uw
@ironsoap I think triptans can be useful but they are not good drugs to take every day, in my opinion. Just... be aware of all that.
@ironsoap and then I had rebound headaches when I *didn't* take them, which was ALSO NOT VERY PLEASANT.
@ironsoap I think triptans can be great generally, but I ended up taking them every day for a while when I was having a ton of migraines,
@ironsoap Be careful, man. I ended up with wicked triptan rebound headaches.
My neighbor gave me the MOST ENORMOUS bag of basil so it is time to freeze some pesto.
@s_chacko Aaaaaaah... That does not sound good.
Swim team is OVER and I am SO GLAD. They did great but wow, is my 8yo tired today...
RT @CT_women: Why I love living among #Mormons: @NishWeiseth's dispatches from Utah http://t.co/dun1frSvgB
Swimming at conference finals @ Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center http://t.co/C7Eebs05A8
@jkru OK, you're not taking more data or anything.
@jkru WHAT?! Like, for your defense?
@Selkie1970 (She did not qualify for this conference final thingie last year, obviously.)
@Selkie1970 She's really gained a lot of skill this time around.
@Selkie1970 Last year was her first summer of swim team &amp; it was success that she learned to dive in, do strokes that were recognizable, etc
Seriously, I felt so jittery today about my 8yo's big swim, but she did SO well.
I was soooooooo nervous today for Grace but she did great! She qualified to go back this evening to… http://t.co/Rl5KKcc3OH
We got up earrrrrrrrrly to get here. @ Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center http://t.co/jVFliJGZsy
(This would, obviously, be emotionally stunting and undo a lot of why we encourage her to do things like piano and swimming.)
My 8yo copes super well, but I still sort of have this instinct to want to erase all stress in her life.
It is such a crazy/weird thing to watch your child have these first performance-anxiety-inducing experiences, like this or piano recital.
Big day for my 8yo tomorrow -- she is swimming in the conference finals for her swim team. Super proud of her for making it to this meet.
RT @rachelheldevans: It always amuses me a little when people are like, "I know God's not a man, but He is DEFINITELY not a woman."
World of Wonders by Robertson Davies My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the final installment in Davies’... http://t.co/zLdRDI87dW
Gosh, I miss them.
We had @creamerdan and @creamer_laura and their baby over for dinner tonight, so you know, BEST FRIDAY NIGHT EVER.
I shall celebrate by going to the gym for the first time since I got sick over a month ago.
The week that I go to the doctor to get a pertussis test is, of course, the week that I FINALLY start to feel better.
Cold borscht = the prettiest lunch ever? http://t.co/YNMKKy59es
Last day of social skills group for the summer! I'm so proud of my sweet girl. @ The Children's… http://t.co/dP4qg95elo
Some homemade popsicle action http://t.co/VXX1CvS9S8
@HaleyNBurke I am happy to agree with you that that is also delicious.
@HaleyNBurke Meeeeeeeeee toooooooooo...
@wrightinthecity I like to think this tweet is related to your last one about your bacon hair.
I am still coughing soooooo much, so I am going back to the doctor today. Am approaching a MONTH of this illness now.
@_justlikethat_ Now I want a tangle of salted grilled shishito peppers!
@HaleyNBurke But it is summer! And they are so delicious together!
Just eating some prosciutto and melon together, @HaleyNBurke.
I can't think of anything else.
Things I DO like about summer: the produce/food, having my kids out of school and with me more...
I am no fan of summer weather, and I am really feeling it right now, being sick and all. BLEARGH.
@Katiekrongard We even skipped the infant car seat with L and went straight to the big convertible from birth. Turns out it's safer!
@Katiekrongard I got a "travel system" with my first and that was pointless and crappy and we never used it.
@Katiekrongard Yes, I think a good quality stroller for a toddler can be money well spent. It's like a bicycle.
@_justlikethat_ everyday, 1 mile round trip 2x a day, with a 2yo who couldn't walk it. So I did spring for a good double stroller then.
@_justlikethat_ With my 3rd, he got REAL BIG REAL FAST (15 lbs by 2 mos) and I was walking a lot, including my oldest to kindergarten
@_justlikethat_ With my 2nd, we lived in a car-centric city and I NEVER used a stroller. I used the sling/Ergo for shopping/walks/church/etc
@Katiekrongard I experimented waaaaay too much with carriers but ended up deciding my perfect combo is ring sling + Ergo style.
@_justlikethat_ Two of my babies did not sit in a stroller until they were 9+ months old. Definitely doable if you don't want one.
@Katiekrongard Don't be stressed by the beautiful African babies! I can totally tutor you on this one -- no problem.
@Katiekrongard LOL -- I also wouldn't mind stopping by your house when you have an actual tiny floppy newborn. :)
@Katiekrongard I am thinking yes. I started antibiotics yesterday and I'm on the mend.
PNEUMOOOOOOONIA. Walking pneumonia. I guess that explains why I've been feeling like crap for the past 2 weeks.
@jkru Oh no, for real?! That is extremely bad timing, and just awful all around.
@ironsoap OMG YES. Terrible.
@_justlikethat_ These are the ones, if you want to dabble when you need a new size or something: 
http://t.co/pe0lp6RNbm 
They are great.
@_justlikethat_ This does surprise me quite a bit; they don't absorb much!
@_justlikethat_ The GMDs got a little tough to snappi when my babies were in chunky stages but I mostly folded in 1/3s and laid in a cover.
@_justlikethat_ YES -- Green Mountain Diapers. I had their regular and organic prefolds, both great. Lovely little company.
@jkru Fun! If you do come this way, we have a guest room. (Or restaurants to meet for lunch or whatever might work for you.)
@_justlikethat_ Believe it or not, I sort of miss the soft squishy cloth-diapered booty. 😍
@_justlikethat_ That makes sense. FWIW, prefolds (folded in 1/3s) + covers were my favorite on my slimmest baby.
@_justlikethat_ Do you think it's a fit issue or a wicking issue? (We never problems with wicking until we moved to SLC. Hard water here!)
There's a lot of crying at swim meets.
Swim meet time http://t.co/eaaQi9WJ6I
I love our @BeStrawsome glass straws for smoothies; we've had them for years! I finally just ordered a set of their kid smoothie straws.
RT @Maggie: Listen, gadget manufacturers. Stop trying to make digital picture frames happen.
@HaleyNBurke My asthma is acting up soooooo much right now. It's bad.
(Turns out we skipped the 20" size because we waited so long, so the difference between her old bike and her new one is really significant.)
We bought my 8yo a new bike today, and it looks SO ENORMOUS.
Room by Emma Donoghue My rating: 4 of 5 stars More like 4.5 stars really. This book was so moving for me;... http://t.co/ww8u6H3uO3
Heading home, back to the people I belong with http://t.co/QOVjU8NguM
Burrrrrrrrrrger @ Hopdoddy http://t.co/puooqJ6yo5
A night on the town with my lovely sister texasemily1980 @ Rainey Street Historic District (Austin,… http://t.co/yDVZf4bAoK
They have a few beers here (with texasemily1980). @ Banger's Sausage House &amp; Beer Garden http://t.co/uGcrHV8QXW
(I don't have a car because I am staying so close to my work/downtown/everything else.)
Are umbrellas one of those things that fancy business-traveler hotels have that you can borrow? I guess I will find out.
It's raining here in Austin! I sort of forgot that's something that happens, living in the semi-arid climate that I do.
Glowy @ The Driskill http://t.co/0KjaTxrrsb
Thanks for having dinner with me, @jkru! I like making internet friends into real friends.
@Michaelfriberg No, what?!
On the plus side, this afternoon I played pub quiz and had beers with my coworkers.
Austin is humid, you guys. I'm not used to it anymore.
I read an entire book today on the plane, in my hotel, etc but it was a lot about motherhood and pretty sad -- NOT MY BEST MOVE.
Even though that was 10+ years ago now.
I'm at the Austin airport, which I still associate with flying out to west Texas to go observing at McDonald.
Today my flight is leaving several hours before Rob gets back from his out-of-town work trip, which has been interesting to arrange.
Look at me! I'm a BUSINESS TRAVELER!!! (Very difficult to wrap my brain around.)
I'm at the airport heading to Austin for a work trip, i.e. imposter syndrome is kicking in right about now.
@karenebayne Yep. Me too. I've decided to just go with it; I'm not covering it.
Yesterday's jam: apricot + rosemary http://t.co/ebeUnewIFo
@Selkie1970 Yeeeeeeees. It's especially the littler ones.
At a dive clinic (for ages 6, 7, 8) for 8yo's swim team this morning. Sooooooo many belly flops.
I made DELICIOUS FOOD that I can keep in a cabinet without spoiling for OVER A YEAR.
I have a PhD, 3 children, &amp; a job but few things in life give me a greater immediate sense of "I accomplished something" than making jam.
"Pop, pop, pop" - my jam jars
The beginning of apricot shrub syrup

(Now it sits there for a few weeks.) http://t.co/pFZMqWVWs1
Four years ago today we drove into Salt Lake City! Thankful to call this beautiful, funny place home.
In the next week, both Rob and I are traveling for work (separately). Should be interesting!
At a swim meet. 8yo's dive has become a thing of beauty, and her fly is not half bad either.
I've met people who have left polygamous communities, so I know they are real, but not people still in them.
I saw a polygamous stick-figure family on the back of an SUV today! Do you think it was real/serious?! Or a Utah-esque joke?
@_justlikethat_ This is my oldest and there was SO MUCH DRAMA when she first started losing teeth. Now she is mostly nonchalant.
@krisshaffer GAH, so weird.
Also, the process of losing one's baby teeth is so weird.
8yo lost one of her bigger teeth and it SPLIT IN HALF while waiting overnight for the tooth fairy. Teeth are so weird.
Whenever I lose my voice, part of me suspects that God is trying to tell me something about my parenting/marriage/relationships/etc.
A summer cold -- I've lost my voice. Always such a challenge to the parenting!
Shelling peas from the CSA http://t.co/QxvEvqCSkr
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon... http://t.co/l9LAKAwskg
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women by Sarah Bessey My rating: 4 of 5 stars... http://t.co/dzWivzReal
Holding a 12-day-old baby while her mom takes a nap. WEE TINY BAAAAAAABY.
(Turnips are not my favorite.)
This year, I'm trying this with my turnips: http://t.co/p4l3Fu6LtK
It's everyone's favorite aspect of joining a CSA -- TURNIP TIME!!!
I wonder if we will gather the inner strength to take any of our children to fireworks tonight...
@hollandsha wall so I think I will have to go neutral and save fun colors for other rooms. (Freakishly tiny amount of actual wall!)
@hollandsha I really love turquoise-y blues like that. I've been thinking about painting our kitchen but there are only tiny strips of
@hollandsha Oh, that is GREAT.
Summer evening swim @ Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center http://t.co/nYcOY33kz1
@jkru LOL -- yeah, maybe sugar is the way to go this time around.
@jkru I did a lot of self-soothing with food during that whole late-grad-school time.
@jkru Oh gosh, I gained quite a bit of weight those last months of grad school. Then I IMMEDIATELY got pregnant with my oldest. Not ideal.
@HaleyNBurke Wait, didn't you tweet this from an airport or out of town or something?
I have learned a lot about Mars this week, because my job is pretty great.
I LOL'd: How To Breastfeed Appropriately http://t.co/qv8QDdUzhq
@jkru Soooooo not helpful at this point.
@jkru ?!?!?!
@jkru NOT. COOL.
@Selkie1970 Yeah, ACA has plenty of good things in it but it is a MESSY HEADACHE for sure, and it's expensive.
@Selkie1970 The whole thing makes me more convinced that having our healthcare tied to our jobs is a bad, bad idea.
@Selkie1970 I don't know -- not compared to a woman working somewhere else.
@Selkie1970 That doesn't seem unreasonable if it were a church, or a religious school or hospital or something, but any for-profit business?
@Selkie1970 the religious tenets of their bosses.
@Selkie1970 I'm conflicted about all of this, but it does seem reasonable to say that decision today forces employees to accept
@hollandsha That sounds like a color I would really like.
@Michaelfriberg Whole thing makes me more convinced that having health insurance tied to our jobs is a bad, bad idea.
RT @kwcollins: BREAKING: SCOTUS says your boss's religion matters more than yours does.
Our dryer is on the fritz; I think the heating element died again. Just hung a load of laundry on the clothesline. At least it's summer?
These ribs have been cooking for over seven hours now. They had better be good. http://t.co/QNFXts1TdI
Backyard picnic dinner, minus the smoked ribs which are taking foreeeeeeeeever http://t.co/teBSWrSM7C
In contrast, I also just made some peanut butter rice krispie treats, also safe for 2yo and his food issues, and they seem delicious.
I made some gluten-free, egg-free bread, so you know, we'll see how THAT turns out. &lt;she said grimly&gt;
2yo has a shirt with Halley's Comet on it and I'm pretty sure he thinks it has something to do with @HaleyNBurke.
THIS JUST IN: bacon &amp; scrambled eggs &amp; coffee are good together.
@jkru Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS on getting into the fellowship.
@jkru We really love it here, for many of the reasons we loved Austin, and there is a big tech market, FWIW. (For the long-term plans...)
@jkru Rob grew up there, so we always kind of toss it around, but it doesn't appeal to either of us really, for all those reasons.
@jkru THAT. LOOKS. AMAZING. Does your husband have a job? Do you want to stay in the Bay Area?
@jkru Lovely! What kind of job did you get?
@ORJocee a Oh gosh...
RT @Katiekrongard: @juliasilge @HaleyNBurke thanks, Twitter. http://t.co/mEzinEOr4j
@HaleyNBurke I'm not 100% sure either way. He ate super clean today, but he doesn't seem sick otherwise. Fine since last night. AAAAAAUGH...
My children are sitting in a bath watching My Little Pony while I clean up vomit.
@NishWeiseth @HaleyNBurke No, you need to try this lime sherbet she made. It was AMAZING.
RT @BenWinslow: BREAKING NEWS: #10thCircuit ruling in #Amendment3 case. Same-sex marriage remains legal in #Utah. @fox13now #utpol
Sometimes I would like to ctrl+F in an actual book.
@_justlikethat_ A shirt on baby's head! I totally forgot that I did that!
I think there might be primaries too but I can't even figure that one out. Absolutely opaque if people are running? Who? For what?
I mean, school board candidates, you guys. Somebody give me a trophy.
Researching school board candidates for our election tomorrow because I'M A LEGIT ADULT #Vote2014
@Selkie1970 @NYspling @karenebayne Those are all helpful things to think about. Oh, poor her! Such a rough time...
@karenebayne do you have any resources to recommend? (baby was born ~12 hours ago)
@karenebayne I just had a friend here go through a long, difficult birth that ended in a C-section. She seems moderately upset/traumatized;
@karenebayne GAH, YES. And somehow I've decided that we need "healthy" sunscreen, which is like little tubes of gooey $$$.
@SKEdman Oh, I am so sorry.
(Apparently my cool carrot moment is being lost amidst the sports.)
A strand of three carrots is not easily broken.
Twisty! (from our CSA share this week) http://t.co/0JwPmwZk0f
@laciemesserly It's SO FANCY, Lacie. It's FROM A BOX.

But seriously, you could do worse than the Bota Box Cabernet.
@Selkie1970 WOO HOO SATURDAY NIGHT LAUNDRY FOLDING.
@MaryLUE Quite well, at this point. Not back to normal as far as energy and exercise, but other than that, doing good. Thank you for asking!
ALSO I AM GOING TO FOLD LAUNDRY!
(Rob is at a baseball game with 8yo, who is going to be out ridiculously late for her. After-game fireworks + summer solstice = late night)
I WIN AT SATURDAY!
I got my hair all prettied up, then I had coffee with @s_chacko, &amp; now I'm about to put my 2 littlest to bed and watch Dr. Who with wine.
@karenebayne important value as a family for us.
@karenebayne Yes. I think it's natural for young kids to start off with a preference for kids "like me" but acceptance/kindness is an
@karenebayne to all kinds of people, etc.
@karenebayne We haven't gotten to that extreme but we have emphasized girls can be friends with girls AND boys, it's important to be kind
Beets from our CSA = really disturbing pee
@laciemesserly Oh, I love it! So glad you are taking the reins!
Photo: judgmentalmaps: Salt Lake City, UT by Matt Pierce Matt Pierce Copr. 2014. All Rights Reserved. http://t.co/KXGOMkSyRU
@ORJocee My 8yo is way thinner than I was and they say body weight is related, so she may get a few more years. I can't imagine the drama.
@ORJocee My oldest is 8, and I started at 11. That seems... SOON.
These people and their really good advertising... First Moon Party http://t.co/NcCLAFjUAM
@Selkie1970 Oh wait, I just saw about the death in your family. I am sorry. :(
@Selkie1970 Happy birthday! I hope you get some sleep eventually! :)
I met my internet friend @chaseafterwind today! You should all visit SLC so I can see you! http://t.co/ROz4L9GJYu
I went to yoga this morning, the first time I've exercised since my little surgery. Nice to be getting back to regular life.
Rob is reading Harry Potter (Goblet of Fire) aloud to 8yo right now. The word "auror" sounds so weird read aloud, a la "rural juror".
@stephwalzer She is in the publicity photos for the tour, so I hope so! They will have just released a new album.
I just bought tickets for us to see @TheNewPornos here in October and I am soooooooo excited. They are my favorite.
@krisshaffer It really was so nice! They had the most lovely midwives...
I love weather like this.
High in the 50s and rainy today = I am so happyyyyyyyy...
@hollandsha McKinney, Texas? Wow, so close to where I spent a large portion of my life.
Happy Father's Day to Rob! I could not be more thankful for who he is. http://t.co/kbDxjpafFL
Since I just turned 36, this means I have been married to Rob for 1/3 of my life.
Rob and I have been married 12 years today! We went on a fancy date to a delicious restaurant.
@Katiekrongard Oh, they're cartoons dubbed in English with fancy actors. Ponyo has Betty White, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, &amp; Liam Neeson.
@s_chacko LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.
@Katiekrongard Same director Miyazaki did a movie that my kids love called Ponyo, also super lovely. I'd say that one is good for age 2.
@Katiekrongard It is a really lovely Japanese movie -- seriously beautiful. I'd say.. age 3 or 4? Although Lewis has seen it.
Would people have any idea who they were?
my kids love My Neighbor Totoro, and there are three of them. Should they be the 3 Totoros?
The movie character costume issue of yesterday/today made me start thinking about Halloween costumes --
I'm not feeling like I succeeded at much beyond surviving this week.
This was the first week trying to do normal life after my surgery and oh, how weary I am...
@PreschoolGems From 4yo: "Chex" is how you say "corn flakes" in Spanish.
WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO ME?!?!?!
Our limited number of costumes are all way too hot for summer, sports-y activities. Who is she supposed to be anyway?
8yo is supposed to dress as a "favorite movie character" tomorrow at summer camp and I don't know what the heck to do about that.
@NishWeiseth That song is from 1988. Is it just me, or has that aged ridiculously well?
Thanks to @NishWeiseth I am listening to some Rich Mullins and now I *might* be weeping. (at Wheaton College 1997) http://t.co/pnIkM9hZm3
@lucaswmuller WHAT IS THIS HILARITY.
@NishWeiseth Oh, RICH MULLINS.
(Someone didn't show up, requiring last minute shuffling of relay legs.)
8yo is about to swim the fly in a relay, which is problematic given that if we're being honest this is not a skill she's entirely mastered.
First swim meet of the summer http://t.co/qDRfYvnqCS
My birthday gift from Rob -- dandelion locket 💜 http://t.co/mU8eDTNXqs
@ORJocee That's the kind with chia seeds in it, which I have not tried (although I will admit I have put chia seeds in smoothies).
I have developed a taste for kombucha. Maybe I should start making it? Am already total hippie anyway.
It doesn't hurt my incisions when I sneeze anymore; that seems like a really good step in the right direction to me.
@wrightinthecity Thank you!
@ironsoap Thank you!
@BeckShorter Thank you! A very talented photographer friend took portraits of me today for my birthday.
Happy vegan birthday cake to me! http://t.co/TqhZOn07ch
Thank you to @Michaelfriberg for the lovely birthday portraits today. I'm glad we did them!
Photo: I turn 36 today, and our friend Michael Friberg had said he wanted to shoot some portraits during... http://t.co/tqxfPLe0z0
@laciemesserly Thank you so much!
@Selkie1970 Thank you -- not absolutely normal, but a fairly good approximation.
It is my birthday today! I have mostly been working, but I did just purchase a beautiful cake for us to eat later.
@s_chacko Oooooooo, haircut?!?!? I love a dramatic haircut. It is the best feeling.
@s_chacko (Mostly just conditioner though -- this is a fairly common thing for curly hair and natural African-American hair.)
@s_chacko I use conditioner everyday but not shampoo. I use baking soda occasionally to cleanse, then apple cider vinegar.
@wrightinthecity I successfully quit shampoo, but not yet conventional facial cleansers.
@wrightinthecity It was the hassle of it that ended up getting to me, and I missed the "clean face" feeling.
@wrightinthecity I tried OCM and there is a lot to like. It didn't make me break out, and I am SUPER acne prone.
@wrightinthecity You can buy castor oil at Whole Foods, and there isn't really a special kind.
@MaryLUE So far so good. Tomorrow is the day we all go back to normal life after my week of leave so we'll see how THAT goes...
Getting ready to leave the house for the first time since I got back from the hospital post-surgery. Hooray!
RT @Selkie1970: Did you know that one’s nieces and nephews are collectively called nibblings? I shall be using this word liberally.
@HaleyNBurke I think it's in vows now, but Rob and I were married in pre-social-media days.
(Things are fine, just, you know... they cut me open and all.)
Abdominal surgery: 2 thumbs down, would not recommend.
Finished! http://t.co/L3CaXZgzIL
I feel like I could sleep for the next 24 hours straight, which I am told is normal.
I am home from the hospital, glad to not be hooked up to anything anymore.
@NYspling It's so terrible when medical office people are rude or unhelpful. I switched pediatricians once just because of office issues.
@NYspling UGH, this makes me feel guilty because Rob had to cancel all his appts today because I was in the hospital. I hope they were nice!
@Michaelfriberg We are in the same boat! And I really want to watch True Detective. Sad...
I'm getting real tired of these leg-squeezy things.
@Selkie1970 Oh dear... My first set of lap scars really are no big deal by now; hopefully these will follow suit.
@Selkie1970 We have ALL THE SCARS!
@Selkie1970 I did stay overnight but I will go home today. I'm feeling woozy/icky but things are going well.
@BeckShorter Not especially. My lower abdomen will be a constellation of tiny scars! (The old ones are very faint, from 2001.)
This is my 2nd laparoscopic surgery (1st was having my gallbladder out in my early 20s) so now I have 8 little holes poked in me.
@Selkie1970 It's one of those sudden/acute things that isn't really that serious if treated right away but is an emergency.
@Selkie1970 Yesterday afternoon I thought it was probably a stomach bug but overnight it became obvious that was not the case.
@MaryLUE To be honest, I wonder if stress contributed to inflammation and being vulnerable to infection and all.
@BeckShorter I feel fairly rotten but it was an uncomplicated situation and it all went smoothly so... yes? I think?
@MaryLUE For sure. Abdominal pain since yesterday afternoon, getting pretty dramatic overnight.
I had surgery this morning to have my appendix out! I am feeling pretty out of it but everything went smoothly.
@HaleyNBurke @danistocking ?!?!?
@wrightinthecity ME TOO.
How To Tell If You Are In A Jane Austen Novel http://t.co/5QHegomyOv via @TheToast
@MaryLUE Part of the stress is that she is more complicated/quirky/challenging than our other two, but still... stressing is not helpful.
The fan in our bathroom is starting to sound a bit like a Cylon. Now I want to watch Battlestar Galactica.
@MaryLUE And how many little girls literally don't get to go to school at all, right? It is ridiculous that I have been this stressed.
Kindergarten! How to decide between our many choices for our 5-year-old girl! I need to CHILL OUT.
I have been ridiculously stressed out lately about a ridiculously first-world problem.
The roses here are getting to that ample, full-blown, lush stage. They don't go in much for modesty. http://t.co/BjD61BHlGT
Today was the talent show at 8yo's elementary school and she reports that 5 people sang "Let It Go".
@SKEdman http://t.co/6qs0mc5XHp
I wish I had thought to cold-brew some coffee yesterday.
@juskye I will admit that I have eaten/drunk weird things at weird times of day while traveling.
@Jfpohl This is my Tumblr of cool and interesting things that I have found on the Internet: http://t.co/J2xJnmWNM1
@Jfpohl This is my sort-of personal-ish Tumblr: http://t.co/ODyl4N1SQ2
A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Master and Margarita is one of... http://t.co/UUuZVYw7JH
@HaleyNBurke UGH. You know I am with you on this.
@DixieGirl I have been so full of migraines in the past year or so! It has been really, super awful! Hang in there...
RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: After he had broken the bread, Jesus lifted the cup, saying, "So raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right wa…
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease! Ah, childhood illness...
Why don't 8yo's haircuts ever turn out weird? This only ever happens to 5yo.
Surely an Anna-Wintour-style bob is not that hard to describe and/or execute?
Got girls' hair cut at local kids' hair place and 5yo's results are not quite what I hoped. It seems... weird.
The medieval part of my brain is especially unhappy about the situation.
Poor 2yo is all feverish and miserable, not sleeping, shallow breathing, fast pulse -- ibuprofen won't bring his fever down. BLEARGH.
@Michaelfriberg Oh, you know you love it. It's totally your fave.
@_justlikethat_ SOB
(Keep in mind that is was MY FAVORITE and I may be broken-hearted if my daughter doesn't like it.)
What do you think is the right age for one's first exposure to Anne of Green Gables?
Took 5yo to little introductory session for summer social skills group today. I am happy for her to do it again; it was so lovely last year.
@SKEdman Oh, hugs to you. I am sorry.
@NishWeiseth If I remember right from last year, it's Memorial Day.
@krisshaffer SO TRUE.
I chuckle when my Pinterest has a juxtaposition of beautifully styled interiors with raw chicken breast cut into chunks.
@karenebayne It depends on how sick, but I mostly leave it on.
And the last day of preschool EVER for this little one! @ Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center http://t.co/Ds8hBp6XPV
Last day of Lewis' first year of preschool @ Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center http://t.co/cUDVJjGkvs
I love our elementary school, you guys.
Grace with a mustache, and a photobomb by the gray-haired Princess Leia pianist. 

So what I'm saying… http://t.co/MRb9lrZlVN
2nd grade end-of-year school program -- right up my alley! http://t.co/eJTmkgB3tW
@Selkie1970 Thank you! I have been in survival mode over here, but I think I feel myself starting to emerge.
BUT. I think I am getting over the adjustment period and I feel like I am getting my feet back under me. Here's hoping...
I've been awash in migraines lately and it's been bad, and then I finally went on a preventative med and the med has been SO BAD, YOU GUYS.
@BeckShorter Perhaps weirdly, my taste now skews very clean/modern, but I too live in a 100-year-old house and wear only dresses.
@BeckShorter I had a subscription to that during some VERY FORMATIVE YEARS.
OK, I'm going to change how I boil eggs: The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs | Serious Eats http://t.co/6520zaTJdZ
This song is making me feel happy tonight: Gungor "God is not a white Man": http://t.co/WdGEZQUKNQ
@Katiekrongard For us, going from 1 to 2 felt like less of a big change than having our first, more like an upping the intensity.
@Katiekrongard People should stop saying stupid stuff! Why are they so stupid?!
@SKEdman I first read that as you being 37 weeks pregnant and I was all, "WOW THAT WENT FAST."
Things That the Children Are Obsessed With Right Now - Grace Nancy Drew origami Frozen the Rescue... http://t.co/u9vK8FX50m
Has anyone watched the Nancy Drew movie that came out? Thumbs up/down?
8yo loooooooves Nancy Drew.
Panda Grace http://t.co/oTGZ5ZQV0G
Art Night at our elementary school! Food trucks, face painting, a drum circle, etc... http://t.co/zgO6YUQsr9
@DixieGirl Oxytocin! I seriously feel HIGH on it for approximately a year. It's like a hormonal cushion for the sleeplessness, I guess.
I have decided to cut myself off of triptans for at least a week so now I have the TRIPTAN REBOUND HEADACHE.
RT @Maustallica: Have you ever thought to yourself "what's the most 90s thing that could ever feasibly exist"? Well, wonder no more. http:/…
@wrightinthecity We are all out. SAD FACE.
I have taken SO MANY triptans over the past 10 days. Like, ridiculous.
RT @drflanders: Health care practitioners: please don't tell new moms why they should breastfeed. Rather, offer help and (access to) suppor…
Now it is cool and rainy, and it is 63° INSIDE our house. Time to get back out the tools? A conundrum.
It was 80° last weekend so we turned the heat off, a process that takes ~20 min and requires tools (house is 97 years old).
@Katiekrongard stuff at Whole Foods today to do that again. At the very least, it has to help with stress.
@Katiekrongard I got obsessive about Epsom salt baths with essential oils in Aug/Sept during my last really bad spell. I bought a bunch of
@Katiekrongard It's definitely hormonal + stress, but I haven't quite figured out what to do about it.
I hate even saying this out loud, but I am having a ton of migraines again, and I am not functioning so well.
@Michaelfriberg I feel a real need to understand exactly what these people's definition of "fun" entails.
@s_chacko LOL

Are we the same age? I feel like I remember that. I turn 36 next month.
5yo would like you to share with you that "Chex" is how you say "cornflakes" in Spanish.
SUPER FUN.
8yo got a new origami book today and it has a "fun facts" section. One of the "fun facts" is about the Hiroshima-1000-paper-cranes girl.
I got some really nice work-related affirmation today and I am so thankful for the whole situation in that area of my life.
@Katiekrongard LOL -- oh, gosh...
I see recipes on Pinterest that start with a bottle of moscato and, like, Sprite and I shudder, "NO NO NO NO!"
@Katiekrongard YES. For me, the issue was less giving up career stuff and more just being exhausted in constant survival mode. HUGS.
@Katiekrongard part of a decade in about the same spot.
@Katiekrongard It really, really does. Hang in there, and let me know if there can be any burden-sharing. I spent the better
@Katiekrongard implicitly assume that there is someone else supporting the person with the job &amp; keeping their life running.
@Katiekrongard couldn't BOTH have big stressful jobs. It's just life, I know, but I think it kind of stinks that some careers
@Katiekrongard DUDE. Just really exhausting. This type of situation is a big part of why I quit my fancy research career when I did; we
@Katiekrongard Oh man, such a tough situation to be in. This was our life all through residency/etc and it is HARD.
2yo, watching me start some @charmingbeard coffee cold brewing: "Why did you put dirt in there?"
MOPS here in SLC has been such a positive thing in my mothering journey; I am really grateful for this community &amp; what it has been for me.
Today was the last MOPS meeting of the year, and my last MOPS meeting EVER as our family is moving out of that life stage.
@Selkie1970 No, they are chewy. And they are SO DELICIOUS. Like candy.
The dried strawberries that our Costco has right now are the BEST THING EVER. NOM NOM NOM NOM.
I get it, 60s girls. I get it. http://t.co/1wgfxEnQT3
Elvis, man. ELVIS. I totally get the appeal.
5yo is now registered at two places for kindergarten. KINDERGARTEN DRAMA/STRESS.
RT @ResearchMark: Sup. Best stats joke ever. Boom. http://t.co/ll69dJGjNi
@SKEdman Oh, good! I had an (adult) friend have a concussion within the last year and it is nothing to mess around with.
@SKEdman That's so good! Did the ER say he *does* have a concussion, or he *might* have a concussion?
Our 2 girls are more different from each other than either of them are from our boy.
A pet peeve: when people claim something about children is a "girl thing" or a "boy thing" when it is so not.
@HaleyNBurke Yeah, I should do another FB cull.
@HaleyNBurke On FB, it's basically everyone I've ever gone to school/church with EVER.
@HaleyNBurke I think most of the people I follow and interact with are reasonable/kind even if they disagree with me.
@astropixie Also, maybe my parents. :)
@astropixie Oh yes. For realsies. Mostly childhood friends who are still squarely within that culture.
Also, it turns out I don't know much about evolution. THANKS, CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.
If I said that on Facebook, so many people would freak out.
We are working on astrobiology/exoplanet content right now at my job &amp; I am writing questions about evolution.
Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park My rating: 4 of 5 stars Are you in the mood for some charming and non-smutty... http://t.co/vSsLXYmeNj
@Selkie1970 I was in that morning foggy mental state and said something totally unclear about electrons and power and energy.
@wrightinthecity I was all, "Electrons in wires? And power = change in energy / change in time?" I think she's still confused.
Happy May Day! Arcade Fire - Month of May: http://t.co/GH4bQ7fiY5 via @YouTube
I have a BS in physics and PhD in astrophysics but when 5yo asked me this morning what electricity was, I was all, "Uhhhhhhh..."
Have just registered 8yo for swim team that starts next month. Then I remembered how HOT it was at the meets last summer.
@SKEdman Aren't all your children's names in the sibling list here? http://t.co/glDgtxt9XH This woman's book is AMAZING.
@SKEdman Alright, after this, I stop: http://t.co/rZ22idvlua TOO MANY KALES.
@SKEdman In case you don't know what KALE is. "Here is my new baby son, Chard." "Here is my sweet daughter, Arugula."
@SKEdman Like, maybe people should just google the name they are considering for their child and look at what the top hits are.
@SKEdman the most popular vegetable ever, but STILL. IT IS A VEGETABLE, people. I can't imagine someone doing this in 2012.
@SKEdman When I did nursery at our Dallas church in ~2004, we had a baby Kale. That was slightly before kale really hit the big time as
@SKEdman A wee boy! Congratulations!
I have my first ever corporate America annual performance review today. So that's... different from the whole rest of my life.
@wrightinthecity Your dog weighs more than Grace.
Soooooo... am I going to watch *any* episode of Call the Midwife without crying?
@karenebayne Here she is on that trip we just took. :) https://t.co/YTh4NKU8Rv
@karenebayne Speaking of which, I am on MST, which means I need to get all 3 to bed!
@karenebayne Yes, she is who she is, which is stunningly amazing and beautiful.
@karenebayne my stomach turn in dread. Like, way more than ASD. We don't pick these things, though, do we?
@karenebayne There is history of pretty serious mental illness on both sides of our family (non-ASD), and of course contemplating that makes
@karenebayne YES.
@karenebayne The social issues made everyone (us + specialists) think ASD, but who knows...
@karenebayne Sometimes I wonder if we have been barking up the wrong tree entirely, and she has unrelated issues, like anxiety? IDK
@karenebayne ended up saying they didn't think it would help a ton. We are doing social skills group, which seems like the best fit for now.
@karenebayne I still feel a little uncertain about what will help her, other than time/maturity. We did evals for speech &amp; OT, and they
@karenebayne That is really wise.
@karenebayne That is really good to hear. Sometimes I feel like I really get her, and sometimes she feels like such an enigma.
@karenebayne that, even where we are without a diagnosis.
@karenebayne I am so glad that embracing who he is has helped you see how beautiful your life together is. It is good for me to think about
@karenebayne She doesn't have obvious sensory issues, and she doesn't have typical ASD coping mechanisms. I guess we'll just see!
@karenebayne Her speech is normal, and she does really well with adults; it's her peer social skills that are the big issue.
@karenebayne I guess I just need to be OK with living in an ambiguous space for now.
@karenebayne I guess I am thankful that people are not super eager to jump to a BIG LABEL in situations where it isn't super clear, and
@karenebayne for years and year and finally end up with a diagnosis, or if she really is just smart/introverted + socially immature.
@karenebayne have said NO to any big diagnosis. She is maturing but still has issues, and I wonder if we are going to be revisiting this
@karenebayne Were things really ambiguous with him when he was younger? My 5yo is quirky and has social issues but all our evaluations/etc
@DixieGirl Those things are the worst! Good for keeping a baby safe in a crash, I guess, but not practical for getting around.
This means that there are all these pretty young things running around with my name now. BOTH my 2yo and 5yo have a "Julia" as a teacher.
My first name was unusual in 1978 when I was born, but then it got REAL POPULAR in the next decade or so: http://t.co/hdfErMX8Lg
Also, there were hoodoos.

Hoodoos! All hoodoos all the time! https://t.co/KvzM7aFbk9
Now I'm finally editing the pictures from our southern Utah trip earlier this month. Lewis found some nice red mud. https://t.co/ifSVim3H67
And oh, how this sweet boy has my heart...  https://t.co/FS52GVYYQT
I love this one from Grace's birthday party back in February -- Gluttony? https://t.co/AG0opMdiMW
I am spending this rainy Saturday editing photos, which I haven't done since JANAURY (yikes!).
Also, a big chop right now would get off all my processed hair and I could have just my natural, graying hair (which I want, to be clear).
I am feeling the first twinges of wanting to cut all my hair off. There is nothing like that cathartic feeling of cutting off 6+ in of hair.
First piano recital @ The University of Utah http://t.co/i7DKpNHRET
@lucaswmuller I haven't gotten a sunburn this bad for YEARS. I was so unprepared.
Also, my horrible Easter sunburn is peeling and IT'S SO HORRIFYING.
We're having goat for dinner.
On a real bicycle! http://t.co/TWupPuLscI
@SKEdman Here's the imdb: http://t.co/sVXHRX531I None of those names really stand out to me, although that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Will it be good?!?!
BBC America is making a TV series of Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell, which I LOVED LOVED LOVED so much: http://t.co/qs3iNOHmUo
Mmmmmm, cardamom bitters... (+ Bulleit + sparkling mineral water) http://t.co/810n07zR6o
I want to get one of those spiralizer things, since we're off wheat &amp; no one but me will eat spaghetti squash. But another kitchen gadget?
I am stressed about kindergarten. I thought we had everything decided but now... it's not, I guess? UGH.
@Katiekrongard He was all better after some Benadryl. I didn't even think about it ahead of time.
@Katiekrongard Poor L had a big hive-y allergic reaction to Franny, which was a surprise to me. Benadryl fixed him but WHOA.
@Katiekrongard It sounded like they did really well! They aren't used to dogs, which I always forget since we had one until V was 18mos.
@wrightinthecity My sunburn is REALLY bad, after all. :)
I have professional people coming to clean my house tomorrow; I have no right to complain.
No, too complain-y! I delete those tweets!
@jkru Mine is pho with TONS of hot sauce in it.
Time for the first episode of Call the Midwife. Let's see what this is all about!
@kathykrey remotely from here. Company does online HW for STEM courses. I am doing writing and instructor support for astronomy courses.
@kathykrey It's the same ed tech company I was working for PT as a contractor; I started FT in December. Company is in Austin; I work
@kathykrey Yes! Although some days I wonder what the heck I am thinking. :)
@HaleyNBurke No *regular* babysitter. This is going to all work out thanks to you, @Katiekrongard, and Genevieve.
The Story of God, the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible by Sean Gladding My rating: 4 of 5... http://t.co/TyiwwH3Qmf
I have 3 videoconferences in the next 2 days, with no preschool (Passover break until Wed) and no babysitter (she has finals). 😬
Vacation was so nice! I'm happy to be getting back to regular life, though.
I did not find my social media fast super meaningful or helpful, but celebrating resurrection today definitely was.
Hello there, social media! I have reinstalled the Twitter &amp; FB apps on my phone.
@HaleyNBurke Me too! The poor back of my neck...
Heading home http://t.co/A35S3GxleC
Today was our last day of exploring; tomorrow we drive home. @ Zion National Park http://t.co/Td4Q9qufhF
We have started our last day of vacation by locking all our keys in the cabin. Now we're waiting for a… http://t.co/guunzbIRE8
This is about when it started to snow on us. The kids were all wearing shorts. Still awesome. @ Agua… http://t.co/cNq8U6j0Lx
It looks like some geology may have happened here. @ Bryce Canyon Sunset Point http://t.co/OWp90sH0pg
Amazing @ Zion National Park http://t.co/ZvH1Hq9AM3
Good morning! @ Middle Of Nowhere http://t.co/2TxW9m94yW
It took us NINE HOURS to drive here yesterday but what a view... @ Middle Of Nowhere http://t.co/slNZV9ZQHT
@NishWeiseth Zion &amp; Bryce Canyon, until Friday. It's our first time to southern Utah!
Spring break road trip! Off to southern Utah... http://t.co/tiv3BT2oH1
I wish I could Instagram how these smell. http://t.co/iv6cjX1WIN
@s_chacko Well, there were also questions like "Have you been to an observatory?" "Do you have a PhD?" etc.
@s_chacko It was my non-interest in comic books, video games, etc that got me, I think.
@s_chacko I got an 83/300. I've gotta say that if I am "a little geeky", then their standards must be QUITE high.
Seder time @ Jewish Community Center http://t.co/lwxGvYvavA
These were picked for me today. I am loved. http://t.co/D7dDsu3V9p
@Selkie1970 Yes, thankfully. A MESS.
I did not see this happen, but I definitely heard it. http://t.co/LU5ku6NkVo
@BeckShorter I hate tasteful neutrals too! (Well, most of them...) I have a clown house.
Photo: (via Strawberry, Banana, n’ Nut Butter Love Muffins — Oh She Glows) I made these tonight with some... http://t.co/vpQ59O08jJ
Some post-bath, pre-bed reading http://t.co/Rat7P8mIkx
Sunday afternoon yawn http://t.co/daP2Xl8ZS0
The museum is CRAZY today. Everyone is here. @ Natural History Museum of Utah http://t.co/H2KiI7MmzN
Last batch for this week. None of them are the same tonight. http://t.co/EhLlo5jEAs
Violet didn't do so well on the vision screen at her check-up so here we are. @ IHC Salt Lake Clinic http://t.co/I0LLpmRLuX
Little rock climber @ Jewish Community Center http://t.co/htH7GOVSd4
I'm sick with a horrible cold that my children have given me, so I need some pho. @ Indochine http://t.co/CidIuKd2WD
Polishing the Petoskey Stone: Selected Poems by Luci Shaw My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve been trying to read... http://t.co/VL2ys4Vxgg
The Manticore by Robertson Davies My rating: 4 of 5 stars This story continues Davies’ Deptford trilogy,... http://t.co/A4r39i3NEz
@reemeyer @DoctorMac That whole story is one of my favorite things ever. I can't believe we ever even got the pictures back. Amazing!
@_justlikethat_ @Katiekrongard My favorite diaper bag ever was a Fleurville Sling Tote. It had that "just right" size for me.
@_justlikethat_ @Katiekrongard Nice to meet you! Congratulations on the baby! Cloth diapers are awesome!
I've never really committed to one before; I feel ambivalent because social media has been really positive in my life. Hmmm...
So... I'm considering a social media fast for Lent.
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies My rating: 4 of 5 stars I started this book six months ago and for some... http://t.co/aByt2z8AsS
The Great Salt Lake, from my flight earlier today http://t.co/gTolHRLN1i
Home http://t.co/owYAwBViNj
At the airport, waiting for my flight, happy to be headed back to my people.
@Selkie1970 I go home today! It's been so great but I am looking forward to being back with my people.
Well, it took about 48 hours, but now I really miss my husband and children.
Live oaks and the Capitol http://t.co/JVzHIl9pso
Austin = breakfast tacos
@jkru Hey, do you want to have lunch with me, Andrea, and Eva today? Downtown somewhere. I'm in Austin!
@jkru A Leap Day baby! How cool! Happy birthday to R...
@HaleyNBurke That sounds amazing.
@Selkie1970 My sister lives ~1 hour from Austin so she's driving in tomorrow evening.
@Selkie1970 To Austin! I'm going to the office for my job tomorrow (I work remotely) and then spend the weekend with my sister here.
I flew on a plane, you guys. http://t.co/KgTlYDWum4
I'm on a plane! Alone! What is this even! http://t.co/WQjCKMX16E
RT @rachelheldevans: Walking the Second Mile: Jesus, Discrimination, and ‘Religious Freedom’ http://t.co/t7VqxToMIc
I really WANT to be one of those mascara-and-lip-gloss kind of women, but I am not. I am a zillion-toiletries kind of woman.
Am packing for my trip in a few days and wishing I was more low-maintenance.
@krisshaffer What are "scale degrees"? I think Grace's piano teacher is doing intervals first.
AMAZING: "Painted Stone: Asteroids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" http://t.co/YPNTjWZYNo
@krisshaffer I think too! But then I realize that's probably what people in UK think when they hear US actors speaking with British accents.
@Selkie1970 to get to know them better. They did have some art that depicted Jesus and a big planet. I don't think it was Earth?
@Selkie1970 Not too crazy -- dinner, a family devotional (Daniel &amp; the lions' den), and dessert. We really like these people so it's good
Have gone to our first "family home evening" at friends' house. We are real Utahns now?
I haven't gone on a trip like this, well, ever!
I have gotten out a suitcase and I am packing to go to Austin later this week, to see my sister &amp; my company's office. Such a big deal!
Grace playing with the Snap Circuits she got for her birthday. She really likes it, and my inner… http://t.co/oGBE3eJ2L5
IKEA on a Saturday actually went quite well, so let's keep this party going by now shopping at Costco on a Saturday.
This is how we buy our meat now -- from the back of a truck in a parking lot. And weirdly, I feel way… http://t.co/3p5SefR7BW
Off to IKEA! Pray for us!
Would it be better to go to IKEA late Friday afternoon or first thing Saturday morning? Or are we screwed either way?
My kids think Pig Island is a real place. They want to go there for vacation. @SandyBoynton
Affirmations - Violet was full of admiration for me today. Earlier in the afternoon, she looked up from her... http://t.co/B9gjjZknqg
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka My rating: 3 of 5 stars This short novel about Japanese mail-order... http://t.co/K8Wc0E8NAR
@NYspling Is Kipper the Dog still on Netflix? Super cute.
this rush of relaxation to see ALL THE PRETTY THINGS.
I'm kind of addicted to Pinterest right now. I had a mild interest in it when I first joined, then I didn't care much, and now it is like
@AdageCat Lovely! I think there are enough neutrals in the world. :)
I am liking my ever-more-numerous gray hairs but I wish it was coming in a big giant streak like Rogue from the X-Men.
RT @KJinSLC: How do you feel about your dead brother? So do you miss your dead brother? What does your dead brother mean to you? -NBC #Soch…
Also, I feel a little bad for the wee introverts who were at the party, including my 5yo. It was... loud. And crazy.
We survived 8yo's party! I remembered why we have avoided parties at our house for a couple years.
Almost time for Grace's birthday party, with a hot chocolate bar and cake pops. (Party planning by our… http://t.co/WP4KYKSsPb
the preschool's extra pants they have for just such occasions. LE SIGH.
2yo came home from preschool today in the PANTS OF SHAME, i.e. he peed in his original pants + the extra pants I packed, then had to wear
THREE STEPS FORWARD TWO STEPS BACK, you guys.
Potty training regression LIKE A BOSS.
Potty training regression LIKE WHOA.
Eight years ago today I became a mom. So thankful to be celebrating our sweet, amazing, biggest girl... http://t.co/LwlL0UNMj3
That's so cool to me! There's nothing earth-shattering in the video, but just seeing her home is amazing.
World Vision made a video about the community where our sponsored child is: 2013 Mali Nonsombougou: http://t.co/AjlxvJbfPm
Going to put on more makeup now.
I'm trying to record video of myself this morning for work and GAH MY FACE IN HD!!!
I've been up 2 nights in a row with 5yo who has a TERRIBLE COUGH. Am very sympathetic to Mrs. Bennett now.
RT @lisaharveysmith: Mars is red,
Uranus is blue,
That's because of methane,
Wait, come back!
#ScienceValentines
@SKEdman @krisshaffer Small world!
@SKEdman Do you know @krisshaffer? We went to church with Kris when we lived in CT.
@s_chacko @NishWeiseth @DoctorMac @kylecostello Like, extemporaneously? Or with advance warning?
@Selkie1970 Of all the people I know who are super in to genealogy, you are the only one who isn't Mormon. :)
@Selkie1970 Family is HUGE, because of the details of their eschatology. (And soteriology too, I guess.)
@Selkie1970 people who would strongly object to being still considered LDS.
@Selkie1970 their names off the rolls. Is technically possible to be excommunicated but not really ever done. We go to church with
@Selkie1970 We have friends who are non-practicing &amp; don't identify as LDS anymore, and other friends who left and threatened suit to get
@kylecostello We're going so WE'LL SEE...
@Selkie1970 According to Wikipedia and my ex-LDS friends, it involves board games, dessert, and sometimes a lesson/devotional. We'll see!
Wikipedia will help me with my lack of knowledge of LDS culture: http://t.co/6dkBWwoJTp
Some LDS friends have invited us over for a "family home evening". WHAT IS THAT? I FEEL SCARED.
@karenebayne Good luck!
@HaleyNBurke OH MY GOSH. So crazy...
Is there any other kind of steam?
This hair thing I just bought uses MOLECULAR STEAM!!! 'Caruso Traveler 14 Molecular Steam Hairsetter' via @amazon http://t.co/QEB0EfT5cP
You guys, I am helping to host a baby shower for @beffiesmith this Saturday, and I just wrote HOME BIRTH MAD LIBS.
RT @peteenns: I'm officially impressed with Nye and I was wrong to say in my blog post that he doesn't know what he is getting himself into…
RT @NishWeiseth: It's unfaithful to Scripture to use it as a scientific text. Full stop. #creationdebate
@NishWeiseth Usually yes, but I've never had to see her for a sick visit during cold/flu season. So sorry you're sick... :(
Weirdly, that's the less affluent side of town, but better high school options.
Whenever I look at high school options in SLC, I think about moving to the west side of town. So much better!
2yo and 5yo are doing a bang-up job of pushing each others' buttons this afternoon.
@MaryLUE Ah, beginning-of-semester office hours. When no one comes.
Weird confession: I miss cloth diapers. Not the poop and all that, but the cloth diapers themselves.
@Mrs_Soap @ironsoap Oh no! You guys hang in there...
Listening to Weezer in the car and 2yo is demanding "DIFFERENT MUSIC!" Sad mommy...
@bkhristen Violet has recently discovered Frog &amp; Toad and she is a BIG fan.
SPOILER ALERT: Toad's lost button was in his house the whole time!
@SKEdman I haven't yet. I'll have to wait until I'm in the mood for SOBBING.
Confession: Sometimes I cry when my kids watch Mr. Rogers. "I like you just the way you are" and all that.
I had 2 breakfasts this morning, one that I cooked for my family and then one that @s_chacko cooked for me. I am a hobbit!
Maybe I should consider finishing the weaning process with 2yo before leaving for a weekend...
I haven't seen her since we moved to Utah in 2010, and I haven't gone a trip by myself since 2008 (that was for a funeral).
In one month, I'm meeting my sister in Austin for a girls' weekend. I am so excited about it!
@creamerdan One time nesting made me change all our electrical outlets from beige to white. Not the covers, the actual outlets.
@MaryLUE Super cute! I just ordered a new down parka for myself from them, + kid coats for next year, etc.
Science fair night http://t.co/TB4raBHQOk
RT @randal_olson: How much #snow it typically takes to cancel school in the U.S. http://t.co/FzmAd0a5Cr #map #dataviz http://t.co/42noOoov8Z
@SKEdman Mike is a friend of ours, not to mention an amazing photographer. :)
@SKEdman You're a fan right? RT @Michaelfriberg Photoset: Nick Cave for Variety shot at Sundance Film Festival 2014 http://t.co/OewhNKjgLo
@MaryLUE Stomach bug -- BLECH! I am still praying that none of my children get it. I am not 100% today, but the worst is over.
@MaryLUE I was so sick yesterday too! My little ones stayed home from preschool because I was too sick to drive them there!
Have managed to get children to school and eat actual food for breakfast, so my week is looking up.
@bkhristen You guys have had such ridiculous cold weather!
I think this is the first time my kids are missing school because *I* am sick.
UGH, stomach bug. I feel like I get these more than the average person. Monday early morning is not great timing, either.
5yo to me in the midst of bedtime story: "Why are your teeth so big?"
RT @DoctorMac: I’m not really sure what’s going on with this creation Lewis has made, but I am sure it’s awesome. http://t.co/Ctuvksxoy1
Went to our last Sundance thing tonight -- a program of documentary shorts. So interesting/fun/good.
@Katiekrongard I finally watched this, and now I too am dead from the laughing. OMG.
Just saw a panel on the independent films of 1994. Kevin Smith was on the panel and we saw Silent Bob… http://t.co/BogdsgDEEr
@booksnchickens I so enjoyed your first book, by the way. So fun.
@booksnchickens Oh, interesting! I thought you just got the name wrong in your tweet. I will have to look...
The handiwork of either the 2-year-old or the 5-year-old, neither of which is a reliable witness. At… http://t.co/3ZQxwLobSb
School night routine http://t.co/tnTyPYQI7h
7yo started reading Ella Enchanted today and she loooooooooves it.
@s_chacko @ikaare @RyanTronier LOL -- I don't wear PJs but I do wear slippers. Most of that was good, though.
@Selkie1970 It is frustrating to be 35, have dry-ish skin, and STILL be dealing with break-outs. LE SIGH. It's all hormonal.
@Selkie1970 Yes, I've seen people say that. I like how those silicone primers look on the skin, but I think they make me break out.
@Selkie1970 It is silicone-y? Do you have Sally's around you? This, from them, is almost my favorite lip thing now: http://t.co/Le408wfiFp
@Selkie1970 super-dry but BLEH. I am liking a nice traditional creamy foundation now.
@Selkie1970 I used to wear those powder mineral foundations but they are NO GOOD anymore. I don't know if it's age or living somewhere
@Selkie1970 Is this the primer you liked? http://t.co/dmjElH2WV6
@Selkie1970 Yeah, I do just powder on low-key days (i.e. just school pick-up &amp; errands) but I do like to wear foundation other days.
@Selkie1970 I've also been trying to order online and guess on color but it hasn't been working. I just need to go and find a match.
@Selkie1970 I've been trying out the primer thing, but I'm afraid they are making me break out (the silicones?).
@Selkie1970 I have tried one of theirs and I liked it; the lightest shade was just too dark. :/
@Selkie1970 I'm REALLY fair and ELF (along with most drugstore brands) never have anything light enough for me, especially in winter.
I want to go to Sephora without my children and find a new foundation but I have this JOB thing now. Inconvenient.
@Katiekrongard Austin is definitely the easiest airport of those three, if it's workable.
@karenebayne My husband is. For real. It would take time in the mail, though.
I watched the first 30 minutes of the new Sherlock episode last night, and I already want to watch it again: http://t.co/ZbvHxZssgh
RT @sarahbessey: NEW POST: In which I am learning to live with the ache http://t.co/h0w6ovqr9C On life after realizing there will be no mor…
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Surprisingly great,... http://t.co/djzO8DVQGy
RT @tejucole: The super rich are huge gaping assholes. They are also an excuse for us to avoid thinking about our own greed.
@SKEdman Yeah, it made me queasy.
RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: Eau my! (Via Anne Lane Witt) http://t.co/FRwGdgXS4L
I definitely recommend it to anybody interested in photography or the African-American experience.
I saw this film today at @sundancefest and it was so great! http://t.co/PsFgndFxID
@s_chacko Wait, what?!
Today Rob is taking the girls skiing while I go to a documentary at Sundance.

Living in Utah is pretty rough, you guys.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I think the issue may be that I am near the middle on several of those spectrums?
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I take the quizzes and I always get different answers, and none of the descriptions sound like me.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I know I am in the minority on this, but I have never found Meyer-Briggs stuff helpful. So I don't know.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Mint is also super helpful for me, because I HATE budgeting/financial stuff.
@HaleyNBurke So fun to hang out with you... And such an amazing book.
@s_chacko That's so link-bait-y. None of the substance of what Pollan said would be disagreed with by most Paleo people.
@Katiekrongard AAAAAAAAAAAUGH...
@HaleyNBurke I hear you on this a lot of days.
Paid off a student loan of Rob's today! Still plenty to go, but YAY!
@s_chacko Whoops, I didn't see this.
@s_chacko What did you get? I got Portland. :)
@karenebayne I know A LOT OF PHYSICS. :)
@HaleyNBurke I am only halfway done! Aack!
@SKEdman Doooooooooooooom...
Taking my company's maximum 401k matching contribution. Because I AM A GROWN-UP.
I told him he was just like Jesus! He was taking the punishment for her sins! Substitutionary atonement!
Yesterday Rob ended up doing one of her chores/consequences because it had to be done after she went to bed--
consequences/punishment? What did it mean when I said I forgave her?
THE ISSUE stems from carelessness, not malice. She says she is so sorry and I say I forgive her-- what does it mean then that she still has
We are going through AN ISSUE with 7yo and I am having metaphysical angst RE: forgiveness &amp; punishment.
@Katiekrongard I think pull-ups are good just because they make navigating being out more convenient; I don't think they "help" per se.
@Katiekrongard I wouldn't buy pull-ups for using at home; they feel too much like diapers. Maybe try a few days at home with nothing?
@Katiekrongard If you're trying at home, keep her naked, or panties maybe.
@Katiekrongard They are way more convenient for using public bathrooms than diapers, but they're so much more $$$
@Katiekrongard How often is she going on the potty? I'd stick with diapers until she's comfortable using public bathrooms.
RT @nprmonkeysee: Chris Christie And Pulling The Red Handle. http://t.co/YAvXBuJD7C
RT @sarahbessey: NEW POST: In which I disagree with Candace Cameron Bure about “biblical marriage” http://t.co/Qp3EkiHfbj
@Katiekrongard Those look great! I just added it to my list.
@wrightinthecity better than me after 1/2 of a lesson.
@wrightinthecity I can hardly wrap my mind around how well the girls ski. This is Violet's 1st winter to ski and she was basically
@wrightinthecity and fell, all the way down. It felt terrifying. The chair lift, on the other hand, is super fun.
@wrightinthecity The day of my last lesson, Rob convinced me to go on a green run (I'd been on the bunny slope only) and I fell and fell
@wrightinthecity taken a break. I haven't gathered myself enough to try again. I am sooooooo bad at it.
@wrightinthecity I too have tried to learn skiing as an adult, the 1st winter we lived here. I then got pregnant, had a baby, etc so I've
We need to go to Costco, though.
Rob took both girls skiing so it is a quiet Saturday morning with just me and the adorable 2yo. Cuddles! Books! Tea! (Not for him.)
@Selkie1970 angry, red, gross, etc. have been on antibiotics for a few days &amp; it is a lot better.
@Selkie1970 I had a spot on my jaw that was irritated/open and then apparently got infected and WENT CRAZY. Hugely swollen,
@Selkie1970 I am hoping it doesn't scar or anything.
@Selkie1970 I have/had an ABSCESS on my FACE. UGH. AWFUL.
@NishWeiseth @Katiekrongard Yeah, I really think that's a good way to go-- the "natural consequences" idea.
@HaleyNBurke gets us there, but I am all about discipline in the sense of cultivating a disciplined mind/spirit.
@HaleyNBurke Yeah, I REALLY WANT HER to understand boundaries, what is OK, etc. I feel not quite convinced that punitive discipline
This has been a rather horrifying experience.
You will all be glad to hear that my FACE ABSCESS is much better. SHUDDER. The culture came back and it is not MRSA, so that's good.
@Katiekrongard Again, we are total softies.
@Katiekrongard Or is moving her toward making better choices the point?
@Katiekrongard I'm finding myself being weirded out by punitive discipline as a concept as well. Like, is "punishment" the point?
@Katiekrongard @NishWeiseth That's actually what we're leaning toward. Folding clothes, emptying dishwasher, etc.
@Katiekrongard @NishWeiseth for school. We haven't decided yet. We are such softies...
@Katiekrongard @NishWeiseth Yeah, it feels weird/terrible to take away books, and she is supposed to read a certain amount of time every day
@booksnchickens I've had really good luck with Lavanila.
Also, ARGH 7YO YOU'RE KILLING ME HERE.
The fact that we can't figure out what to ground her from makes me think maybe she doesn't do enough fun things? Or has enough freedom?
7yo made some really bad choices today and we need to, like, ground her or something. We can't figure out what to ground her from.
@bkhristen @Katiekrongard "Allergy" is not the right word technically, but red wine is a common headache trigger.
RT @s_chacko: The U.S. population, as measured in Canadas http://t.co/AZqMCbfKkb
@ironsoap didn't bother me, really, given the specifics of the job and my 4-year break from working.
@ironsoap The job I have now required a writing sample before the interview (specific enough that it was new writing). At the time, it
@bkhristen Noooooooo...
@bkhristen LE SIGH,
Is it even really objectively good? I have no idea.
Just the music comes on and I feel myself become more relaxed and happy.
Finally finished the new Downton Abbey episode. I have no rational sense of perspective with that show.
@bkhristen Still lots of headaches? :(
@Selkie1970 That is just like my 2yo's class! I cannot even imagine being those teachers...
Snowflakes so enormous &amp; fluffy that they are ridiculous.
@creamerdan Pretty much. Currently, Rob &amp; I are the only ones tall enough to reach the fruit snacks, so we hold all the power.
Our house functions on an economy of fruit snacks.
@Katiekrongard The best: Grace would demand a fork &amp; spoon, and slur the words together. "Give me a fucking spoon!" from sweet 1yo Grace.
I am kind of traumatized. But I have antibiotics now.
I've been freaking out about it for 2 days &amp; I spent my morning at the dermatologist having unspeakably disgusting things done.
This is borderline too gross for social media but YOU GUYS I HAVE AN ABSCESS ON MY JAW!!!
@jkru That is a LOT of sections! There were only 4 when I was there, I think? M-Th nights?
@jkru You're giving me flashbacks.
@ironsoap It's better than book 2, not as good as book 1. I still cared enough about the characters/work to want to finish it.
@ironsoap Yeah, it definitely seems like THE END of the story to me. Had you heard otherwise? I think they are publicizing it as final.
@juliasilge He also has a couple classic IgE-mediated allergies, which are easier to identify (hives, watery eyes/nose, breathing issues).
@Selkie1970 With these "experiments" where we're re-introducing foods, it's more like abdominal pain, less extreme GI issues, reflux.
@Selkie1970 When things get bad (ie, LOTS of problematic foods): vomiting, diarrhea, aspiration.
I wish this was all more clear-cut and obvious. I do better with obvious, and I hate restricting his diet so much for subtle issues.
We let him "cheat" quite a bit at lunch today at a restaurant and he was a bit of a mess the rest of the day.
We've been trying out some dairy with 2yo and I'm not sure how he's doing. If there is a problem, it's subtle, which is good, I guess.
Allegiant by Veronica Roth My rating: 3 of 5 stars A mostly satisfying conclusion to this dystopian YA... http://t.co/98WKRcG46P
This week, 2yo and 5yo have started fighting over who gets to pick up and put away toys. 

I know. I KNOW.
Now that we have a son, Rob finally had someone around the house to call "bro".
The cooked beets Costco sells + balsamic vinegar + EVOO + S&amp;P = SO DELICIOUS!
RT @neiltyson: January 4. Merry Perihelion to all. Earth, in its oval orbit, is closer to the Sun today than on any other day of the year.
@BeckShorter SIGH... And I really LOVE soup.
My children hate soup SO MUCH, you guys.
I used to be really good about meal planning, but 2yo's food issues sucked away all my planning mojo.
5pm on a Friday evening. WHAT ARE WE HAVING FOR DINNER?!?!?!?
@wrightinthecity I'm enjoying picturing this!
@wrightinthecity For realsies? Figure skating?
The view where I worked this morning. Loveliest "office" ever! @ Salt Lake City Public Library http://t.co/HDc2ikYdPO
@NYspling @SKEdman That combo was AMAZING for us for leaks overnight. Like, better than a disposable.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I need to put my mediums on diaper swappers.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman This combo worked GREAT for us. I used the SBish regular covers, not the pants.
@SKEdman Have you ordered them yet? What size do you need? I have some mediums.
My two little ones go back to preschool tomorrow. Sigh... I sure have enjoyed this quiet, peaceful break.
Bubbles!

Happy New Year! http://t.co/m7sMpHsghv
@Selkie1970 He was looking out the window, waiting for his beloved babysitter to arrive. He is such a charmer...
This is the 1st time I've had a child this old without being pregnant with another one. http://t.co/PmQPbHclZo
I think we may have turned the corner on potty training finally. 2yo wore only one pair of underwear all day long. No accidents!
I love these quiet days between Christmas &amp; New Year. Looooooove them.
7yo to me: "Mom, do you know slang?"
@Michaelfriberg Rob keeps talking about this since that court decision.
Cooking our turkey because we waited too long yesterday &amp; ended up eating Chinese take-out for dinner.
So excited about my big Christmas present! http://t.co/w4WfgkKSyD
@krisshaffer That is such a bummer!
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. http://t.co/fpfasvEux7
@MaryLUE He was just a shopper! A real beard, which Violet declared to be very soft.
He just walked up to us while 5yo ate her pizza and asked her if she was ready for Christmas. Her mind was blown a bit.
Apparently Santa is at Costco today. @ Costco http://t.co/EgPMW86ZcW
This sweet girl is 5 today. http://t.co/d6jztagNGc
Birthday celebration time for Rob @ Fresco Italian Cafe http://t.co/0R07ATh2sE
Really high heels, really short skirt -- must be Robert's birthday!
Gingerbread Cookies (vegan, gluten-free) - Cookies for Christmas! I made these for a cookie exchange last... http://t.co/v7OCURsmB2
@krisshaffer Personally, my own traditional/heterosexual marriage does not seem UNDER ATTACK today compared to yesterday or anything.
@krisshaffer Unrelated in a specific, legal sense. I'm sure some would argue it's all because of crumbling of traditional family etc etc.
(No one at our house is named Lucy.)
2yo is walking around saying, "Luuuuuuu-cy... Luuuuuuu-cy..." like he is a miniature Desi Arnaz.
When I told Rob that gay marriage was legalized in Utah yesterday, he literally didn't believe me. 

Yeah, I didn't see that coming either.
@s_chacko Of the men there, I'd say 1/3 SAHDs, 2/3 guys with not-quite-traditional jobs, and then 1 guy who has gone back to college.
Apparently a lot of our friends are stay-at-home dads, have weird jobs, etc.
I was surprised how many dads were at V's birthday party yesterday, given that it was at 2:30pm on a weekday.
@wrightinthecity It's a lot. Every year! Rob talked about having a big party for him this year but I totally flaked. :/
From Violet's birthday party earlier today. 

How I love this girl... http://t.co/E7ehBJZE1U
@Selkie1970 I'm supposed to be off sugar right now but.... yes.
And then, you know...
Wednesday = Jesus' birthday
Today = middle child's birthday party
Tomorrow = Robert's birthday 
Sunday = middle child's actual birthday 
Tuesday = my sister's birthday
Today began our celebration extravaganza.
Birthday party time! http://t.co/3mw1yBBmsg
Well, this weekend was rich in fun &amp; friendship but low on relaxing &amp; downtime. Feeling a little exhausted...
@wrightinthecity The gender-switched versions (a la She &amp; Him) come off as sexy/funny/cute, which shows us that we still need feminism.
@wrightinthecity It is the most rape-y of all Christmas songs.
Also to benefit my 2yo, who can't eat dairy, eggs, wheat, etc etc etc.
Vegan gluten-free gingerbread cookies! For a cookie exchange tomorrow to benefit missiodeislc 's Red… http://t.co/rDJ3dXFcqn
Picked up 1/2 a pig from the local farmer person we buy meat from. Bacon for days!
RT @SLC_Inversion: Remember, do your part and drive at least two cars to work today
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: first week of quasi-new job
@hollandsha This is also my soon-to-be-5yo. The highs are in the 20s and she takes off her socks and pants whenever we're at home.
I keep typing "bourbon" instead of "boron".
I'm cleaning human feces off a shoe. Not the sole of the shoe, but the top part with lots of stitching and detail.
RT @extranapkins: Back in the 90s everyone used to listen to Radiohead and worry about the cyber dystopia but now that we live in one it's …
@Katiekrongard @lucaswmuller I know that we are, and I think it's at 6pm.
RT @zamosta: The best case ever for the Oxford comma: http://t.co/gDt1gUOfJk
@HaleyNBurke I have done it! They were delicious, pretty similar to the cube ones at Whole Foods.
Who would like to lay a wager that they will try to deliver it during the ~30 minutes that I will be gone doing the preschool pick-up?
I'm getting a new computer (for the new job -- yay!) and it is being delivered today requiring a signature.
@SKEdman most of a winter. It was terrible having to pay all at once to fill it, but then it was done.
@SKEdman I don't exactly remember from when we lived in CT, but one refill of the giant black scary tank in our basement would last for
@Katiekrongard Nooooooo...
Day 1 of quasi-new job! First order of business: conference call with company headquarters in NYC at 7am my time. Early!
@BeckShorter Those are both really rare foods to have issues with. WE ARE SO LUCKY.
@BeckShorter That's weird -- my 2yo has a (classic) allergy to coconut and a more-GI-related (eosinophilic GI disease) issues with potato.
Big dump of snow yesterday and last night, but so sunny today! The albedo of everything is ~1! Where are my sunglasses?!
Me and my date for the theater tonight. Seeing "Babes in Toyland"! @ The Children's Theater http://t.co/k7gEX8cC34
From my 2yo: "Shabbat Shalom! Shabbat Shalom!"
RT @TheOnion: Nelson Mandela Becomes First Politician To Be Missed http://t.co/spFugx6Nmg
VENUS LIKE WHOA. Right next to the Moon, you guys.
Unsubscribe from unwanted emails &amp; combine the rest into a single daily digest with @Unrollme. https://t.co/LJ3HbNICzJ
LOL -- what? This is one angry astronomer here: http://t.co/ERHhMHfkAN

I've never seen an abstract like that.
@bkhristen Those leeches could have KILLED HIM. Obviously.
@bkhristen WHAT ON EARTH. I'm pretty sure we take the LIVES of our CHILDREN seriously.
It's still coming down out there, too.
Snowy day http://t.co/Cbg2un24S4
What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children by Sarah Park My rating: 4 of 5 stars A... http://t.co/Veb3QagMI3
2yo is singing, "Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel..." but that's all he knows of the song.
@krisshaffer Yes. :) It was just a blog he was reading, but I'll let you know if he starts reading some great book.
@Michaelfriberg It turns out they're sort of anarchists &amp; Noam Chomsky and all. Apparently it's a real thing.
Rob is reading aloud to me about libertarian socialists, trying to decide if that's what he is.
Happy first day of Advent! http://t.co/bonoccrWH5
This makes me really happy, on multiple levels. http://t.co/RHDcYeukjC
Middle child, who will turn 5 on Dec 22: "This is going to be the best birthday tree ever!"
It smells soooooo good in our house right now.
Rob has a lot of help this year. http://t.co/Xckg8Zx39K
Sufjan Christmas album!
I have found a new addictive app: @CovetFashion. It's like playing paper dolls, all outfits and fashion-y and whatnot.
Turkey stock is simmering, I'm still full from earlier, 7yo has stopped throwing up. Thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving! Vomiting 7yo! She was the only one who hadn't gotten the stomach bug yet.
@SKEdman Oh, OK, that makes sense. I was picturing you cutting it in stages and being unhappy with a 1st attempt... :)
@SKEdman WAIT. Did you do that YOURSELF?!
@SKEdman I feel like the cute pixie is easier to pull off with straight hair? I don't know...
@SKEdman get over my fear of ending up with the haircut she had in the 80s/90s.
@SKEdman YES. I keeping thinking about going short but my mom had/has short, curly (permed) brown hair for all her adult life and I can't
@NishWeiseth I did that last year! It wasn't even for Thanksgiving stuff; we just needed regular things. BE STRONG.
@SKEdman Oh, super cute! It looks chic and funky.
I said a prayer in Hebrew today and lit a Hanukkah candle. First time for everything.
@bkhristen It was NOT pretty, that's for sure. We did our turkey like this last year and it was very good so fingers crossed!
It's all done now, though, and the turkey is dry-brining. A day later than it was supposed to be, but that's life sometimes.
Spatchcocking a turkey is really hard work.
2yo put an unpeeled banana in the piano stool today.
It's, like, on the level of a decent sitcom.
My Little Pony has been on almost all weekend (thanks, vomit-fest!), and I will now say that it is a legit entertaining show.
I want to watch the Doctor Who special, but I think I should probably just go to bed. Pre-9pm bedtime FTW!
We actually ended up getting Zofran for the 4yo, but by the time we got it picked up, she had turned the corner.
My stack of "extra" quilts is entirely used up after our stomach flu extravaganza. So much laundry.
I AM doing better. If I could just get a good night's sleep, I would be more-or-less functional, I think.
Now Rob is sick. Aaaaaaaaaah...
Why does vomiting happen overnight so much? Or does it only seem that way? Someone should do a study.
4yo is the latest to fall ill with this stomach virus. It feels a little post-apocalyptic over here.
I am so thankful that Rob was home today. FOR REAL.
@HaleyNBurke LOL -- NASA? Really?
I am doing better but I haven't eaten in 24 hours and I'm feeling it. What should I try? I tried rice &amp; it was like sawdust.
I'm way more sick than he was, naturally. He threw up 3 times in 1.5 hours; I am going on 12 hours of misery.
I have fallen ill with the stomach virus 2yo had the other night. Given that he threw up directly on me, probably was unavoidable.
RT @kylecostello: @juliasilge it feels semi-ridiculous but I feel the same way then I think oh but my house is made of brick. Applying 3 li…
@Katiekrongard Stuff like that has always affected me, but motherhood made me just, like, ugly cry and sob about the state of the world.
@Katiekrongard WHAT?! Why are you doing this to yourself? I can seriously barely handle that kind of stuff.
So windy! Sounds like our house is going to blow away.
@slcfoodie I ordered mine on Amazon. Like, seriously, everything else I buy. :)
Job interview via video chat. Here we go!
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems by Annie Dillard My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve been wanting to ready more... http://t.co/UQhV9mByG7
I have another interview tomorrow, in a Google Hangout. I will dress very professionally from the waist up. (Plus slippers.)
@SKEdman OMG, I can only imagine...
Speaking of which, do I want to work more? Lean in and all that? There could be a lot of pluses.
Ah, a phone interview for a job the day after I've been up in the night with a vomiting kid... MOTHERHOOD, YO.
I have obtained a lovely organic turkey. Soon I shall spatchcock it.
RT @jasonboyett: From 1644-1660 in England, Christians banned all Christmas-related activities for being too pagan. Including pie-baking. #…
Number of times I was vomited directly upon last night: 3
@SKEdman "THAT'S ME." I don't retain information that I hear, I hate the phone, I don't understand lyrics in songs, etc.
@SKEdman One of the diagnoses on the table for my 4yo is/was auditory processing disorder. When I read the list of signs/symptoms, I was all
I have made PHONE CALLS today. Given my hatred of the phone, that is really saying something.
Working on my astronomy job and WOW the name "Hubble" is weird. HUBBLE HUBBLE HUBBLE.
@HaleyNBurke Then you are one in a long line of illustrious women: Teresa of Avila, etc.
@HaleyNBurke I don't know; do you want to be unable to unhear it too? The 1st verse of Phil Wickham's "You're Beautiful."
I cannot unhear it.
We sang a song that I really like at church yesterday, but I realized that the first verse is SOOOO "Jesus is my boyfriend".
Photo: (via Cuban Picadillo | Mark’s Daily Apple) We had this for dinner tonight using grass-fed beef that... http://t.co/gTCyKpj2mJ
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott My rating: 3 of 5 stars I read this once over a... http://t.co/92ylOHo9oP
@jkru though, because it just doesn't happen, or at least it doesn't always happen. Plenty of drinking, sex, etc at my Christian school.
@jkru There are lots of good reasons to choose private schools or homeschool. I don't think protecting our kids from stuff is a good one,
.@andy_kahn Now, the aesthetics of American pop music in general, that's another issue... :)
.@andy_kahn I was being a bit facetious with the outrage; the song was "Firework", which does not worry me in its content.
@andy_kahn The thing is that homeschool/Christian schools do not protect your kids from exposure to pop culture.
@andy_kahn I remember girls in my 2nd grade (Christian school) singing "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." Yikes!
@andy_kahn Of course, it was all the same when I was homeschooled and went to Christian school. :)
@jkru She also heard a clean version of "Thrift Shop" from kids at school. (Note: I went to all private schools &amp; it was the same there.)
@jkru LOL -- it's "Firework" which is all positive and whatnot. These particular 2nd graders have older sisters.
Some of 7yo's classmates are teaching her the lyrics to a Katy Perry song. THAT'S WHAT WE GET FOR SENDING HER TO PUBLIC SHOOL.
Chocolate Chip Cookies (vegan, gluten-free) - These cookies are so good! I adapted them from a recipe in The... http://t.co/p2Vd0sVNBk
Lost and Found by Chris Van Hakes My rating: 4 of 5 stars A really delightful example of enjoyable, romantic... http://t.co/ndkOJsThzQ
She got pretty high before deciding she was done. http://t.co/55szqDJLAZ
Rock climbing @ Jewish Community Center http://t.co/j9FVhjAWeK
@HaleyNBurke I agree. The CSA uses them for pest control, but still...
Number of snails I found while chopping up the bok choy from this week's CSA share: 3
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain My rating: 3 of 5 stars I... http://t.co/1yPvpbPA4D
4yo is getting some iPad time and she says: "I want to play the destroying food game."
Photo: Memories… on Flickr. I decided it was time to close up shop on my Blogspot blog so I took all of... http://t.co/l9qoF0u0jk
I am declaring my blog of 7+ years finished: http://t.co/lA9d9tR3dZ
@HaleyNBurke THAT FREAKS ME OUT. WHAT?! I need to get on some things.
@HaleyNBurke They turned out so good. Here's the first one: http://t.co/zHpd7Nji80 You can scroll through on Flickr.
Photo: Sweet toddler boy on Flickr. Our super talented friend Michael Friberg did family portraits for us... http://t.co/WD4jUz9pHE
@SKEdman AAAAAAAAAAH...
@wrightinthecity Rob got back this evening. Hooray! He did bath time! We can be together!
@wrightinthecity You and me both, sister.
I'm going to pay her $5 if she fills up our big garden/compost bin. http://t.co/GtfD8H1rzI
Last day on my own without Rob! He gets home this evening! I hereby resolve to get the 4 of us here to church on time on my own.
That conversation was initiated by why Grace wasn't drinking soda, FYI.
Also, one of the 7yo party guests couldn't wrap her mind around the fact that we go to church but aren't Mormon. SLC, everyone!
At a birthday party at one of those indoor bounce houses with all 3 kids, including the toddler who had not napped.
@wishpot Are you guys down right now? What is the timeline for it being fixed?
Slept in! While solo parenting! Will I be able to get children to school not too terrible late?!
@ironsoap Anyway, enjoy your beers and decompress.
@ironsoap @DixieGirl charter schools, etc. A good public education is attainable with a bit of effort.
@ironsoap @DixieGirl The neighborhood schools are a mixed bag but you can request spots in nearby schools that are better, lots of
@ironsoap @DixieGirl beautiful city/climate, lower cost of living, no traffic, great libraries, decent schools if you work the system, etc.
@ironsoap @DixieGirl Well, I'm putting in my plug now for you to extend your job search to SLC. :) People tell me there are tech jobs here,
@ironsoap You're still in the numb phase. Maybe, not that I know what other people are feeling. Hang in there...
@ironsoap Oh no. That is AWFUL. I am really sorry.
@ironsoap What does that mean? Like, your job?
It's the tiniest bit fluorescent, but I'm thinking I'm going to like it.
We're painting our basement media room &amp; hallway. I'm thinking this light apple green: https://t.co/ZxB0ncC5Dr
@s_chacko I'm not a big fan of them raw, but these are quite good! Chopped up, olive oil, salt, &amp; pepper -- roasted at 450° for ~30 min.
Thumbs up on the roasted radishes! Delicious!
Roasting radishes. I'm dubious, but I'll try almost anything once.
Rob has left for Baltimore! Parenting solo for the next 5 days! Bring on the weird food and excessive TV!
Got a long-awaited haircut yesterday and it feels SO nice.
RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: Jesus said, "Surely you have heard it said, 'Hate the sin, love the sinner.' But I tell you, that's a terrible thing t…
@SKEdman Nooooo, I thought you'd already closed?!
@FlyingPhotog We got it instead!
@SKEdman I remember this from when we lived in CT! So much money, paid in one big chunk!
@wrightinthecity I found 3 pairs for the kids this morning but not my own! Thankfully it's not TOO cold.
Snow makes me so happyyyyyyyyyyyyy...
Scrambling for gloves and hats. The snow was a bit of a surprise to me.
First real snow of the season! http://t.co/p3uLSRHxg4
RT @LeVostreGC: What doth Guy Fawkes saye?
Filling out the form to renew my expired passport, because you never know when you'll need to have an international adventure.
Naaaaaaap, glorious naaaaaaaaaap...
RT @SciencePorn: TECHNOLOGY
Price of 1gb of storage over time: 
1981 $300000 
1987 $50000 
1990 $10000 
1994 $1000 
1997 $100 
2000 $10 
20…
@HaleyNBurke Never any guys, huh? Chefs are more men than women, right? But not pastry chefs?
@NishWeiseth She apologized &amp; folded all her clothes to put away.
@NishWeiseth Yes, definitely. Walking around the block calmed her down, then she sat in the front yard for a while. Tucked into bed now.
@wrightinthecity Rob &amp; I have had many discussions about this phenomenon-- nature or nurture, etc.

They were nice, I will admit.
They are both female dermatologists (i.e. professionally beautiful people) so naturally my skin broke out. I blame the Halloween candy.
We are going to a work function tonight for Rob with 2 other MDs &amp; their spouses/SOs.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 YES. I have been off sugar and eating some candy last night made me feel ill. It's like it might not be good for you?
@SKEdman She is currently sitting wrapped in a blanket on our front lawn. SIGH...
@Selkie1970 The immediate impetus was piano-practice-related but she's tired, long week, etc.
@NishWeiseth So far, she's walking up and down our street.
Grace got really mad at us and decided to run away this afternoon. http://t.co/4eo6GWU43g
7yo is packing her clothes/money/etc to run away this afternoon. SIGH...
Feeding my children kale before they go trick-or-treating. For balance.
@SKEdman But that is SO GOOD. Really. Picture the mortgage for that home lifting up as a balloon away from you, never to bother you again.
@SKEdman Yeah, well, she has much more of an actual excuse. He was REALLY young when he started (~20 mos) so I wonder if that's part of it.
turned on the whole idea. He now refuses to go anywhere near the toilet and is approximately 0% potty-trained. Wheeeeeeee...
Do you remember when my toddler suddenly learned to use the potty last summer? WELL. He got about 75% potty-trained and then totally
RT @evnglcalhipster: Happy Reformation Day!  I'm sure carving the church into 30,000 Protestant denominations is what Luther had in mind! I…
For the 2nd grade Halloween party! http://t.co/eqB21sq9pV
@bkhristen And this describes exactly my situation tonight, as Rob is at a work thing.
@bkhristen ME TOO. Doing bedtime alone after all day is so rough. It's even worse if I haven't done the dinner dishes yet.
Row row row your boat... http://t.co/Y7rFGnIbhQ
@Selkie1970 I buy, seriously, all my shoes from Zappos. I have really tricky feet and free returns are a must.
@HaleyNBurke @Katiekrongard @wrightinthecity Great! My Saturday evening is free, and thus I shall join you. Text me details whenever.
@Katiekrongard @HaleyNBurke @wrightinthecity So if you talk about these things on Twitter, then I may invite myself to join you. Thoughts?
RT @ANNELAMOTT: I am starting to think that this body is the one I am going to have the entire time I am here.
This is day 3 of toddler eating wheat and he hasn't thrown up yet, or seemed obviously worse than before. Maybe wheat will be OK?
RT @richarddeitsch: Fox College Saturday drew 69,000 viewers last week. At the same time, "My Little Pony Freindship Is Magic" on Hub Netwo…
7yo went to a birthday party there this afternoon. Oh, heavens...
Chuck E Cheese selfie http://t.co/78eSp9gM8U
@HaleyNBurke Well, that's something, I suppose!
Rarity and Rainbow Dash http://t.co/tlwnKFT69v
@SKEdman It's been a while since I read that one; I am not specifically remembering the Belgium bits.
We sat on a restaurant patio for lunch. Gorgeous leaves, just-right sun, coffee, huevos rancheros.
This day could not be more ridiculously gorgeous. Autumn! Utah! It's almost too much.
@SKEdman Did somebody in Rilla go to the Congo? I don't remember that.
RT @astropixie: ps. incredible chart shows converions between various distance units, age of universe, etc. http://t.co/pVbkUg0CwO
Two pony costumes FINISHED.
We're re-introducing wheat to 2yo this weekend. I am not expecting it to go well.
Sewing on a deadline is never my favorite.
I think I'm in good shape to finish these MLP costumes by Friday evening. Deadlines!
RT @SKEdman: Is there *anyone* John Piper will not exploit to pitch his vision of patriarchy? I'm so grossed out right now.
@jonathandcole @HaleyNBurke Interestingly and simply, I am not a fan.
Just say no to adverbs, everyone.
Doing editing for work this afternoon, and there are a lot of adverbs floating around. CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT.
@Katiekrongard Aaaaaaaaaaaaah... NOT OK.
I took a HOT SHOWER and it was GLORIOUS.
Still need to do ears, wings, &amp; a unicorn horn.
I'm sewing MLP:FiM costumes with a Friday deadline (elementary school carnival). Manes, tails, cutie marks finished.
Photo: (via Recipe: Roasted Cabbage Slaw with Hazelnuts &amp; Lemon Recipes from The Kitchn | The Kitchn) I had... http://t.co/uwod2xpb3w
@bkhristen I miss you too!
@DixieGirl ME TOO. Rob uses one but it scares me. As does the idea of putting in contacts.
@HaleyNBurke Yeah, not so much.
@HaleyNBurke Well... He's beautiful in the sense that we all have the imago dei imprinted on us as humans and thus are beautiful.
A man is here fixing our boiler. A beautiful, beautiful man.
Bath water http://t.co/DNMtjeenTi
@HaleyNBurke I will have to look at those! I really like the Costco ones too.
Vegan gluten-free chocolate chip cookies that are REALLY HONEST-TO-GOODNESS delicious. Hooray! http://t.co/KpwKiC7yCF
@FryAdrian I don't even know what that means.
Heating a giant pot of water on the stove to give children a bath before church tomorrow. It's all Little House on the Prairie up in here!
Song I have stuck in my head: "The Music of the Night"

I don't even like Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Realized that 2yo can eat the no-slavery chocolate chips from Costco! He seems to be OK with small amounts of soy, and they are dairy-free!
Am googling if you can run a dishwasher with cold water.
No hot water until Monday! Fortunately it's not a very cold weekend.
We have discovered a problem with having one boiler that runs both our radiators &amp; our hot water. When it breaks, you have neither!
@bkhristen I just never have cash, and thus it is a perfect system. :) They can transfer it to their bank account if they want.
@NishWeiseth Ugh, that makes me feel a little sick.
Babysitters who I can pay with Paypal = THE BEST
I've read it before, so it's not the end of the world if I don't finish tonight.
Pajamas, herbal tea, trying to finish my book for book club tomorrow night. http://t.co/xzzKrHsNLG
My 2yo's head is too large for toddler-sized bike helmets. He is reasonably tall but his HEAD and FEET are enormous.
Oh, these three... http://t.co/HhJ3khzfAK
@HaleyNBurke Do YOU need anything?
@karenebayne It was receptive speech that was the worry, so I did a lot of research on that. Interesting stuff I hadn't thought of before.
@karenebayne Well, we were needing to rule stuff out with her (ASD, speech issues, etc) so it made sense. But not fun.
@hollandsha It was stressful &amp; expensive &amp; generally AWFUL, but we got actual answers that are helping him.
@hollandsha OH NO. My 2yo had an endoscopy (+ other stuff) this past spring &amp; I was a mess, but it went really smoothly.
@karenebayne Our evaluation was ~1/2 that, which still felt like a lot, and then she turned out to have normal speech/etc.
@karenebayne UGH. We went through all that with my 4yo over the past year. We have good insurance, but speech wasn't covered.
7yo has discovered Webkinz. Not entirely sure how I feel about that.
Adequate sports bras = $$$. I don't even want to contemplate how much I have spent on them through my adulthood.
@SKEdman It's awful awful awful. Just keep hanging in there, because God willing it WILL actually end.
I put a hole in my favorite cardigan today. :/ The only consolation is that it was starting to pill.
Just did a side-by-side comparison of my children's feet, and 2yo's feet are now bigger than 4yo's.
@howiesmith @beffiesmith Yes, I observed at one of the telescopes there a handful of times. Really amazing place.
Such an amazing place... Mauna Kea Heavens http://t.co/d1FdGXAoJO
Reading this fall's @edibleWasatch and @EvanLewski and his wine are in it! Fun...
Rob got his fancy whiskey. So thankful for @juskye who is watching our kids! DATE NIGHT.
RT @DoctorMac: I have had Pappy Van Winkle’s. And it was what I hoped it would be.
DATE NIGHT. Plum Alley, &amp; now here. @ Bar X http://t.co/lKaRpYzqll
@Selkie1970 One of my office mates in grad school was from Ireland &amp; he always complained about U.S. Guinness.
RT @HolaBrody: The @WashingtonPost delivering snark realness http://t.co/BC9ImXOwil
RT @tejucole: "Do you know that this person you like for this one thing has in them another thing you might not like?"

"I know. Thank you."
@SKEdman why would someone feel like that is something to give you trouble about? Silly...
@SKEdman I like date nights, but right after you've moved to a new city seems like a very impractical time for it (babysitter, $$$) --
"I PLAY LOUD!" http://t.co/EycUioEng1
I think we have gotten to a season in our family's life where I can shower without another adult here. GAME CHANGER.
RT @JenHoward: The things they do with Photoshop nowadays. http://t.co/q2usOq3kRP
@karenebayne Ours doesn't have a delayed start, but it does keep the rice warm and REALLY nice (not gummy or gross) for HOURS.
@karenebayne LOL -- yes. Sometimes I eat bits of meat for my breakfast as I'm shredding it up.
@karenebayne They actually get dried out if you let them go longer, and they are full cooked by then (&lt;6 hrs on low).
@karenebayne put it back in slow cooker crockery &amp; into refrigerator, then back in slow cooker to reheat on low at 2-3pm.
@karenebayne Another thing I do with slow cooker: put pot roast/brisket/etc in slow cooker overnight (~11 hrs) on low, shred up in AM,
@karenebayne Also, anything with chicken breasts can be totally finished in ~3 hours on high in slow cooker.
@karenebayne Often I have put braises/etc that are supposed to go into the oven for &lt;1 hr into my slow cooker for 3 hrs on high.
RT @mimismartypants: I get sad seeing labels stating that chickens were fed "a vegetarian diet." Does that mean no bugs? Chickens love bugs!
@karenebayne Rice in the rice cooker, I mean.
@karenebayne I have made liberal use of the slow cooker, etc. Rice can sit in the slow cooker that long, + curry in slow cooker, for example
@karenebayne I am kind of in this situation too, for several days a week. Sometimes I literally just reheat leftovers in microwave,
We could all use a room like this, I think. @ The Childrens Center http://t.co/36u61kCTaI
@wrightinthecity Gosh, I'm really feeling it today.
So dark in the morning, and still a month until daylight savings time changes.
@SKEdman Wait, I got my dates wrong-- 2005 and 2008 Julia bought those houses.
@SKEdman SO rough in your situation too. For a while I obsessed about going back in time to tell 2000 and 2005 Julia NOT TO BUY A HOUSE.
@SKEdman imagine having to bring thousands of dollars to closing to SELL your house. UGH. HOUSING MARKET.
@SKEdman At least you're not upside down? Probably doesn't feel like much consolation... We have several friends who have been, and I can't
@SKEdman That sucks so much, and I feel your pain. We lost money on the 1st two houses we bought, although not a huge amount.
I changed the jewelry in my nose piercing for the first time ever tonight. It was... stressful.
RT @Selkie1970: I made myself sick laughing at these. “@jpodhoretz: With this one site, Tumblr proves it was worth $1 billion. http://t.co/…
Video: (via Making Acorns Grow - My Neighbor Totoro | Studio Ghibli | Disney Video) Violet is obsessed right... http://t.co/vvJy9ZWcfA
@astropixie Yeah, me too. :/
@HaleyNBurke I am glad that you enjoyed it, at least for this one time.
@HaleyNBurke Man, I don't get this. Sleep is so great! At least I think so...
@MsKristySteffen On http://t.co/IKMiVdj4or. I've had good luck there. You have to join, post a certain number of posts, &amp; then you can sell.
@scottao11 I just googled pictures of that and YES. That is what we had.
Photo: (via Spanish Carrots with Fennel, Toasted Hazelnuts and Slide Ridge Honey Wine Vinegar | Vintage... http://t.co/iKhNT8Giu0
No, it's more like a hail/snow hybrid.
Wait, is that... snow?
I'm selling my cloth diapers now that 2yo is done with them. They hold their value remarkably well, considering people poo/pee in them.
RT @tsh: Child slavery &amp; chocolate, and the EASY stuff we can do to still enjoy it. Important to know before #Halloween. http://t.co/gIuojF…
@SKEdman They were a Christmas gift last year from Rob. I'm not totally sure, actually. I will ask...
I'm wearing TARDIS leggings today. http://t.co/41jqtz6EGt
@Katiekrongard Oh Katie, that sucks. Hang in there... 💙
2yo just put a ziploc bag of ponies in the refrigerator.
@HaleyNBurke AAAAAAAAAAAAH... I do not deal well with dead things,
@HaleyNBurke WHAT.
RT @daily_kale: Send a letter to your congressman encouraging them to consume nutritious kale, they need the manganese to increase brain fu…
Hanging out at the neurologist, seeing what can be done about my migraines.
@HaleyNBurke I already had a class card there with 2 classes left on it, just to hopefully make things clear.
@HaleyNBurke There usually is room at that time. With the Groupon, it will be easier to show up in person &amp; have them make your account.
@HaleyNBurke I got it! I just signed up for the restore class on Sunday.
RT @KimKierkegaard: Everyone knows I don't do long nails. Short &amp; nude, maybe a little color. Anything beyond this is in the province of pa…
@HaleyNBurke There's definitely a lot to be said for embracing the known (vs. the unknown) sometimes.
I know when the Aggies make a touchdown because Rob comes out of the TV room to kiss me, but I don't actually know who A&amp;M is playing.
Nom Nom Paleo: Roasted Butternut Squash in Lard - I roasted my first butternut squash of the fall this... http://t.co/mR2EmdlTMM
@HaleyNBurke Big decision! Or at least, choosing not to make a big decision? (Not a criticism AT ALL, by the way.)
The new oven totally works! I am roasting/baking ALL THE THINGS!
Picking up our monthly @charmingbeard, then getting chicken feed at the farm supply, then braving Costco on a weekend.
I am sleeping so much better since the weather turned cool &amp; it's not hot in our bedroom anymore. So thankful for summer to be over...
@jkru Fall in TX is rough. By that point, it had just been SO LONG since any nice cool weather.
Flannel sheets, footie pajamas on the wee ones, wool socks... I could not be happier about this weather.
@jkru The new one is a decent gas range, and I have high hopes for its ability to cook our food.
@jkru we really don't want to spend $$$ on a nice range now. The old one was entirely non-functional, though, so we had to.
@jkru It is so not fancy. We think we will remodel the kitchen in ~5 years and move to wall oven + range, not a freestanding range, so
GOODBYE, broken range. I am not sad to see you go. WELCOME, shiny new range. Please cook my food.
@SKEdman Grief seems like an appropriate response; guilt less so.
@SKEdman Oh, I am so sorry. I would be there too, in your circumstances. You have put in so much time &amp; energy in doing the best for him.
@SKEdman WHAT.
@slcfoodie Did you see the picture that Grace drew? It was in the tweet right before that one.
@Jfpohl The picture she drew that was on the previous tweet did look more like the ham was around the cantaloupe, I admit.
I'm going to get some ham! And I will somehow wrap cantaloupe around it!
7yo made a snack chart at school, and I enjoyed this entry on it. (Also, @HaleyNBurke needs to see this.) http://t.co/N60DORqgbi
RT @DixieGirl: I'm Coming Out... as Pro-Vaccine http://t.co/Bv0n8ZWN3M via @HealthyLiving
RT @evnglcalhipster: Agreeing to help out in the nursery at church is my "I volunteer as tribute" moment.
@SKEdman This fall, I want to make some of these: http://t.co/VyFrZ038ay Tunic/dress length for over leggings, with the longer sleeves.
@SKEdman I'm trying to carve out a little creative/fun time for me, knowing that it helps me feel refreshed.
@SKEdman Well, some. I noticed a big decrease in my sewing energy/time when I started working. :( That's just life, I know.
@SKEdman I think it's good to wear what you want. :) I am very often the only one wearing a dress around me.
@jonathandcole He did actually pee in the backyard the other day. He was wearing pants &amp; underwear at the time, unfortunately.
@s_chacko I've been doing this for 7+ years &amp; it has always been fine with every-other-day laundering. It's not working anymore, though.
@SKEdman That, with tall boots, is my fall/winter uniform.
@SKEdman There's a lot to be said for the leggings + tunic/dress combination. It feels like PJs but one looks more put together.
By the time I get enough worth doing a load of laundry, they are terrifyingly awful, an object of horror and loathing.
I am considering declaring myself done with cloth diapers for good. 2yo is only wearing them overnight and the laundry timing is now weird.
@BeckShorter This is just the US, but interesting still: http://t.co/xMNeH4fFXj
@bkhristen Classy Beth!
@slcfoodie @HaleyNBurke I'm definitely going to try something like this. Or else our whole grocery budget will go to L's Larabar habit. :)
@DixieGirl Man, that's a tough thing during pregnancy...
Have any of you made homemade Larabars? @HaleyNBurke? 2yo will eat 3 at a time.
Tough guy http://t.co/y1KfERePkD
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to - We tried reintroducing potato to Lewis over the past few days and his eczema has... http://t.co/6fwmfrMzgN
@bkhristen Yeah, it is definitely different, and that isolation + small child situation is HARD.
@HaleyNBurke Oh, thank you. It is exaggeration to say I am NEVER alone, but it is rare.
@bkhristen I'm not saying that's worse or harder or anything, to be clear, just different.
@s_chacko @bkhristen @HaleyNBurke I, in contrast, feel like I am never, ever alone.
This day could not be more beautiful.
OFFER: pee-soaked couch - I am on the freecycle list for Salt Lake City and I never cease to be amazed what... http://t.co/WpPVBDUZsK
Photo: (via spaghetti squash noodle bowl lime peanut sauce » The First Mess) I did spaghetti squash like... http://t.co/PAX9K9g2F5
@wrightinthecity I think I found my 1st gray hairs around 27. It's been changing a lot faster in my mid-30s.
I'm becoming more sure I'm not going to color my gray. I kind of like it.
@hollandsha This is me! My head is enormous. Stretchy hats for winter, and summer is just problematic.
RT @fnoschese: 6 fig newtons = 1 newton http://t.co/Ibl3eX5i8a
Our oven cannot even bake a batch of muffins anymore. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED, OVEN.
@karenebayne Throwing stuff away is the BEST FEELING. Seriously.
@slcfoodie It's definitely going to be fine, but it is such a painful/annoying place to have an injury.
@SKEdman Pennsylvania, right? It's state law, if I'm remembering what R's PA-dwelling aunt says. WELCOME TO MY WORLD.
RT @evnglcalhipster: Not into confrontational evangelism, think conversations about God should be organic. And real. And local. I'm now des…
@s_chacko Yes, although this is going to HURT and take FOREVER to heal and interfere with everything. SIGH.
Chef's knife accident! Goodbye, small chunk of my index finger. Aaaaaaaaaaaah...
@s_chacko  And quantum mechanics was one the big reasons I went to grad school in astronomy rather than physics. :)
@s_chacko I finally got a chance to watch this. Too funny...
Photo: (via Easy Vegan Overnight Oats — Oh She Glows) I made this for breakfast this morning and it was a... http://t.co/t9n2dzECMP
Toddler Kisses - This morning Lewis told me that he wanted to “kiss MORE.” When I tried to kiss him, he... http://t.co/wg4KnFULZu
@slcfoodie Sure!
Photo: (via Beet, Banana, and Raspberry Smoothie | Vintage Mixer) I made a smoothie with my friend Becky the... http://t.co/T9YpGlsZp2
RT @slcfoodie: {One Handed Recipes for New Moms and Other Busy Folks} Beet, Raspberry and Banana Smoothie by @juliasilge http://t.co/gpSdOj…
@bkhristen This, along with Twizzlers/Red Vines, is my junk food kryptonite. I do NOT feel well after eating it, though.
@s_chacko I want to do Alpine Loop at some point (farther away, a drive rather than a walk). I would imagine similar time frame.
@s_chacko I was in Big Cottonwood Canyon today and I would say give it another ~2 weeks there. Silver Lake is a lovely/easy walk.
Tall trees @ Silver Lake http://t.co/FsAdNLw5Zr
Out in nature for a bit this morning. @ Silver Lake http://t.co/iaDbOt9Uxm
My 7yo beat a bunch of Crossfit types at a bar hang challenge: http://t.co/GPLoUSOlFi
Finally watched the new Star Trek. SO MUCH FUN. AND SO MUCH LENS FLARE.
Buttons/zippers on pants meant for 2-year-olds are such a TERRIBLE idea, and yet so ubiquitous.
@karenebayne Meeeeeeeeee toooooooooo...
Tonight's discovery: 2/3 of my children will eat frozen peas. I am mother of the year!
@SKEdman Wow, you have been on a marathon of struggle with feeding this little one. You are doing an amazing thing meeting his needs.
@HaleyNBurke Do you remember Thanksgiving when we were hitting the oven? That doesn't work anymore.
@Selkie1970 This one is WAY newer than that but it is an off-brand type thing. I think we may be headed for a new range at this point.
OK, I will stop venting about my oven anymore. And I will go eat some raw food.
Apparently, these parts can literally not be had anymore.
On the last round, the appliance guy said that the malfunctioning part is made at a plant in Japan that was destroyed by the tsunami.
We've tried to have the oven repaired multiple times, to no effect.
You had ONE JOB, oven!
OMG, OUR OVEN!!! It has been growing more dysfunctional over the last year; it's getting to the point that it can't cook ANYTHING.
The checks we use have our address on them from FIVE moves ago. We moved out of that place in 2005.
Peaches! Peaches! I just want to buy boxes and boxes of these amazing perfume-y peaches!
Probably the most amazing rainbow I've ever seen http://t.co/B415QZfbax
I'm so mad at myself. I switched 7yo's and 2yo's packed lunches and 2yo ate it all, filled with wheat, dairy, etc. Now he's all unwell. :(
The Gmail "undo" function -- sooooooo thankful for it occasionally.
RT @renovatuspastor: If you want the world running smoothly, don't put the father of Luke 15 in charge of anything. Elder sons are more  ef…
The X-Files pilot aired 20 years ago TONIGHT. I watched it that night (15 years old) &amp; was hooked. I might need to re-watch that tonight...
I am so happy about these honestly cool evenings we are starting to have.
@angie_amos Me too! I watched the pilot the night it was broadcast! I love this show SO much.
All 3 of my children are in school for the first time ever. I'm freeeeeeeeee... To do uninterrupted worrrrrrrrrrrk...
@Selkie1970 I love maxidresses... Sadly, R is not a fan so I feel conflicted. He probably wants me to wear miniskirts &amp; halter tops. :)
We need a new couch in our TV room after 2yo is actually totally potty-trained. Pee is sterile, I know, but still.
@jkru That is FOR SURE. There's a lot to not like about living in Texas; I was pretty unhappy when we moved back after postdoc/residency.
Photo: (via Pumpkin Pie Cookies (Vegan, Grain-Free) « Detoxinista) I was very skeptical about cookies that... http://t.co/Xfpdvc4AiO
@Selkie1970 I'm not tiny myself; I wear size 12/14 and can often wear the smallest size from plus-size designers.
@Selkie1970 They looked weird to me for ~2 years but now I think they're cute. And I do think they look modern/hip on bigger women.
@Selkie1970 I will respectfully disagree. :)
Packing 3 lunches, 2 of which are kosher, and 1 of which is dairy/wheat/egg/coconut/soy-free.

And yes, the last two categories overlap.
First real day of pre-K for 4yo, first day of MOPS, first private piano lesson for 7yo... Suspect I am going to be zonked by this evening.
Rob is grilling in the rain again, which is weird, given how infrequently it rains here in our arid valley.
@Katiekrongard That is SO strange, Katie. For reals.
Today's 2yo antic: he got into the rice and spread a good amount of it over three rooms.
So I find the harem pant/drop-crotch pant trend very appealing, but that would be pretty extreme for me. Will I? Or won't I?
@s_chacko Well, I wish you victory against the hard problems, I guess.
@s_chacko I'm not sure how I feel about the use of the term "war room" here.
@jkru 5-inch heels + a big train? You are super woman or something! Or maybe you have more practice in heels than me, what with the height.
So... I've started wearing reading glasses when I work on the computer. I've decided to think of them as a cute accessory.
@jkru OMG, how tall are you? Now I'm picturing you super petite. I'm 5'8" and wear size 10 shoes.
Not really. My job is really great and I am super thankful for it. Am just in a mourning period for how we used to do things.
My job is making me CHANGE how I DO THINGS. It now involves SPREADSHEETS. THE HORROR.
@s_chacko You have no red on your map! I need to know what that means...
I grew up in the D/FW area in Texas and my parents are from St. Louis, so that map mostly makes sense.
Super interesting dialect survey: http://t.co/cQK8MAEdRj My results are here: http://t.co/YBlpbFlTP3
He poured about 3x what the bowl could hold.

It feels too early for this dramatic a mess.
...then toddler decided to get almond milk out of refrigerator, put bowl on dining room rug, then pour almond milk into bowl.
4yo was eating some dry cereal after our walk to take 7yo to school. I went to the bathroom, 4yo left her bowl of cereal on table...
@BeckyMarvin I think that mom and I are coming from different places as far as gender, modesty culture "rules", etc.
@BeckyMarvin I absolutely think being involved in kids' social media is necessary, &amp; limiting who they interact with might be too.
@BeckyMarvin I hope our conversations are more like this: http://t.co/gCtYI9C29J
@NishWeiseth I'm not normally one for social media outrage, but occasionally the instinct takes me. :)
@Katiekrongard And one more truly hilarious one: http://t.co/Ro7sDAR4YX
@Katiekrongard Here's a nice take on it: http://t.co/V6tpsuXjej
@Katiekrongard Here's the original post: http://t.co/YLLlM7aeR8
@BeckyMarvin The judgment/policing of young women's bodies struck me as all kinds of messed up.
@BeckyMarvin And I think energy is better spent teaching sons AND daughters to see the dignity and full humanity of each other.
@BeckyMarvin She illustrated her post with arguably provocative pictures of her shirtless sons, though, which screams double-standard to me.
@BeckyMarvin Oh, I am ALL for modesty as a Christian virtue in attitude, even more so than dress. That post seemed weird/bad to me, though.
I don't know why, but I took the bait and responded to FB people's posting of that horrible teenage-girl-selfies-are-bad blog post.
@NishWeiseth That's so wonderful. I have been really impressed with all the staff there, whether my kids were being "easy" or challenging.
@NishWeiseth Hopefully so... Do you remember the teachers' names?
@karenebayne I did that yesterday! Took me 1.5 hours.
@NishWeiseth Oh NO, I am so sorry. That is just awful.
@NishWeiseth Oh no, horrible day?! Was the preschool thing part of the horribleness?
@jkru I usually dressed up a little: modest skirt + tank, cool/breezy dress. Then again, I just dress up in general.
When did they come to our house to film this? http://t.co/6SJdE22gKl
She was her most lovely self, found the classroom delightful, read words for the teachers, and was just generally happy &amp; charming.
My quirky, complicated 4yo had a GREAT meet-the-teacher time this morning at preschool. Am so thankful.
And last but not least, Violet's first day at pre-K! @ Jewish Community Center http://t.co/mFlLYVPGmD
@Michaelfriberg YES. Although fun to unexpectedly see SLC in a movie.
@Michaelfriberg I'm just glad the world makes sense again. I felt rather vertiginous for those moments when I thought you liked this movie.
@Michaelfriberg Googling has told me that the Sleepwalk With Me guy did a comedy special with the same title. Crazy...
@Michaelfriberg This is making more sense now, though; you saying you really liked this movie was kind of blowing my mind a little.
@Michaelfriberg No, it's a movie. Starring Alyssa Milano, came out in 2010. Quirky romance kind of thing.
@Michaelfriberg You saw it filmed? It pre-dates our time in Salt Lake.
So far have seen the airport and Sugarhouse Coffee. So surreal!
Just started watching My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (random movie streaming on Netflix I heard was pretty cute) and WHOA it's filmed in SLC.
@jkru Well, I've obviously made decisions based on marriage/family rather than pursuing some perfect career; I'm definitely not sorry.
@jkru Do you have plans of some sort for after you finish? I'm always curious about what paths people take...
@Katiekrongard Travel with kids is just hard. Sooooooo stressful. Plan on a few days to recover when you get back.
@Katiekrongard It can go the other way, though; Benadryl makes some people (especially kids) wired/crazy. Try it beforehand.
@NishWeiseth Violet has HER meet-the-teacher day tomorrow so maybe I'll see you. :)
It's actually just a short meet-the-teacher day, and he doesn't start for real until after Rosh Hashanah.
First day at preschool for my newly-minted 2yo! http://t.co/iw1B34Y0IB
@jkru AST 103L? It sucked to work in the evening, but I admit I loved teaching that class.
Made this tonight with the MOST delicious carrots from our CSA: http://t.co/1ERnXOt4vr Simple really is the best sometimes.
@BeckShorter I never get those except when I've been pregnant, but they literally make me feel like I can't walk and MIGHT NOT MAKE IT.
@BeckShorter Noooooooooo...
@Katiekrongard In my experience, they're usually worse. But change of scenery can totally defuse a situation sometimes, so FINGERS CROSSED.
Back to being super careful for a while. Sigh...
Well, 2yo's streak of no vomiting was broken this morning. :( Probably the eggs he had for a few days, maybe the potatoes he had yesterday.
@HaleyNBurke Grocery stores on Sunday afternoons are the worst.
@HaleyNBurke Well, reintroducing was the plan, so we could find out. No real harm done, and now we know.
Have been reintroducing eggs to 2yo. Gave him scrambled eggs for breakfast and he had a big ol' rashy allergic reaction. :(
Happy 2nd birthday to my littlest! http://t.co/qdTqnlmzlw
@debdenbraber When I got my nose pierced, I started getting carded again.
Two Years of Lewis: http://t.co/ZXfeQUuO2i
Birthday balloons for our birthday boy http://t.co/Rjk6OWAghm
We have received a "Happy New Year" card from the JCC (aka Rosh Hashanah). I have learned that is the year 5774.
Happy birthday to my littlest one!
Two years ago right now, I was holding 3-hours-old Lewis and Rob had gone home to get Grace to her 1st day of kindergarten.
@wrightinthecity This one was not super violent all the way through -- definitely some gruesome events but not overwhelming throughout.
@wrightinthecity It was really lovely!
@BeckShorter LOL -- I totally cried.
@BeckShorter I did think it was so good. I know some people who scoffed at it, but I thought it was amazing.
My oldest child starting piano, not the meeting, just to be clear.
At a parents' meeting for beginning piano program at the U that 7yo is doing this fall. I'll admit that I'm excited for this. :)
Aaaaaah, this is so nightmarish! And it actually happened! EVA 23:  http://t.co/lpLzGkX0ug via @astro_luca
Oh, thank goodness, the piano tuner is finally playing actual music instead of horrifyingly random-sounding plinking.
OK, this piano tuning is about to DRIVE ME MAD.
@SKEdman Um, that is not how a LIBRARY works, people.
@Selkie1970 other food-allergy-type symptoms with it, if it's a straight-up allergy.
@Selkie1970 I just now saw this -- sorry! Rob says you can definitely get hives from any food you are allergic to. Mostly likely would have
Every once in a while, piano tuner says, "Hmmm," as if he is surprised by something in our piano.
@BeckShorter Oh my gosh, that book made me do the ugly cry. For reals.
Today a piano tuner is here (tuning our piano, natch) in the same room where I am trying to work. Little bit rough, I will admit.
peach + rosemary jam http://t.co/W4xA6OdoHS
@reemeyer V did watch the whole thing but she absolutely broke down at the end. Still too intense, I guess. Sweet sensitive kids...
All of our schools here (preschool, elementary) have their back-to-school nights AFTER the 1st day of school. Does that seem weird?
Refusing to stay in the room, quivery bottom lips, etc. So sad...
Rob just tried to watch Monsters Inc with our kids and 4yo and toddler are TERRIFIED at those first scenes.
Trying to straighten out 4yo's hair with sewing scissors after 2 cocktails. So, you know... GREAT!
Gin + basil + cucumber + mineral water = YUM http://t.co/N80NbYINCw
Don't get me wrong; she's still crazy adorable, albeit in an urchin-type way.
OK, the more I look at 4yo, the more I think she looks like she cut her bangs herself. That was not money well-spent.
Violet with umbrella, lollipop, and bangs. http://t.co/qthb8yKkAH
Just got a haircut for 4yo, with BANGS!

Actually not the greatest look (partly fault of 4yo's wiggles, partly fault of stylist person).
No more aspiration! Hooray!
Back at the hospital for more tests @ Primary Children's Medical Center http://t.co/jBCEvWKsmM
Heading to the hospital with toddler for a repeat swallow study. Hoping hoping hoping that he's not swallowing stuff into his lungs anymore.
Working on a question today about spiral/elliptical/irregular galaxies and the word "spiral" no longer means anything. SPIRAL SPIRAL SPIRAL.
@BeckShorter I am considering changing my 4yo's hairstyle to have bangs, but I'm a little concerned about the need for frequent trims.
@s_chacko Is it the Salt Lick? I miss Austin; what a fun town...
@s_chacko Where are you?! Austin?
I am having another 2-day migraine and am only half-functional. Related, the webpage of the headache clinic at the U is open in my browser.
First day of second grade http://t.co/ZaCGMZntT9
Just packed the first lunch of the year.
We were also accompanied by @howiesmith and his crazies, which was very fun.
Last day before school starts, so a trip to the pool with these 3 crazies: http://t.co/VvvkaYgI8b
@NishWeiseth Definitely not sorry we used them, but didn't love it so much that I didn't want to try another one.
@NishWeiseth We did that one our first summer here: great people, slightly fancier produce, I felt like a bit more $$ for what we got.
@NishWeiseth Also, I've known people who do this one over the winter: http://t.co/fK0FcRcOkf
@NishWeiseth The one we're doing now has a fall share that you can check dates/availability for: http://t.co/9A40Jxflf7
Whenever we get corn in our CSA, it's the very first thing we eat from it. Like, pretty much right when we get home.
@HaleyNBurke Ripe, fragrant cantaloupe with prosciutto + some prosecco, and suddenly summer doesn't seem that bad.
@HaleyNBurke LOL -- ice cream... For the record, I'm willing to argue that prosciutto-wrapped melon is honest-to-goodness classic pairing.
@HaleyNBurke If you're actually-for-real in a terrible mood, I'm really sorry.
@HaleyNBurke Next you're going to say you're over peanut butter and banana or something.
@HaleyNBurke NO!!! Melon/prosciutto is CLASSIC and you can pry it out of my sticky/fragrant COLD DEAD HANDS!!!
@Selkie1970 Oh, I am so sorry, for the uncertainty and sadness and how hard it all is.
@BeckShorter That's a rule my husband (who's a pediatrician) has too. One at a time. We'll be lame together!
@krisshaffer Yeah, a bunch of the good astronomy stuff comes out of CU.
RT @Moochava: Yearly reminder: unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia.…
I'm pretty sure I just stepped in a puddle of pee, but I'm not 100% sure.
@BeckShorter I KNOW. My littlest is off dairy/eggs/wheat/etc right now and it turns out food tastes much worse without those things.
I made this vegan quinoa breakfast pudding thing for today, and it was NOT GOOD, let me tell you.
Well, this weekend was the best of times (book club, my dad in town) and the worst of times (migraine that stretched over 2 days, hot).
@bkhristen I've been looking into supplements &amp; maybe need to commit. I hate feeling like I need to take something everyday.
@bkhristen I had bad ones frequently during puberty but have had less than 3 per year between when I was 20 and ~1 year ago.
@bkhristen Yeah, this whole latest round has been ramping up since L started nursing less &amp; my cycle came back, ~1 year ago. HORMONES.
@HaleyNBurke Maybe so? I feel like I get more GI symptoms with gluten but maybe?
@bkhristen Historically stress has been a big trigger for me, but I feel like I'm managing stress pretty well?
@BeckyMarvin Me too! We can trade those diapers for peaches.
I had another migraine late yesterday, and I feel really upset about how frequently I'm getting them these days. I can't figure out why.
Pedicure date with my sweet 7yo http://t.co/EtC0qdMvaJ
Last weekend before my oldest starts 2nd grade, so we are off on a date!
@wrightinthecity Me too! At least now that I don't have a stressfully tiny baby I've left.
@s_chacko You are so important! :)
Getting ready to take my dad to the airport after another little visit. So thankful to have him stop by!
@BeckyMarvin Yay! I would definitely love to take any you'd like to send my way.
Being hot at night when you're trying to sleep is no fun.
So hot in our bedroom. Feeling totally over August/summer.
@s_chacko It was a brand-new Bota Box, so yes. :) Plenty more to go around.
@s_chacko Well, it goes in the slow cooker, so I am actually just this side of late.
Opening a Bota Box before 10am. But it's for the Osso Buco, I swear!
@wrightinthecity Yay yay yay! Deep breaths!
@wrightinthecity Are you done?!
Sickly toddler is taking a nap on my bed wearing only undies. He is not potty-trained to an extent that I feel nonchalant about this.
@BeckShorter Oh, I hope this movie is good! I read the book it's based on and it was MEH.
First day back at home and we have a sick toddler with fever and related misery. Poor wee fellow...
One week from today, my oldest starts 2nd grade! Have so enjoyed summer together.
I'm home! Beautiful home! So exhausted. So much laundry.
@howiesmith That would be great!
Bridge over the Bay, on the way back to the airport http://t.co/twasDRWORY
Last breakfast in Healdsburg, now off to the airport!
@SKEdman They will pack ANYTHING. We were warned that they would pack full garbage can, etc.
Sonoma County cliché #sorrynotsorry @ Top of Fitch Mountain http://t.co/y6EWzwp6be
@Selkie1970 He's not actually taller than my 4yo like it looks here, but he is big!
Russian River near Rob's parents' house. http://t.co/nTrY8oS7uS
Swinging all together @ Giorgi Park http://t.co/lygZGeUM1U
My threesome: http://t.co/LGON5evgLn
@colecwilson Oh no! You've been hacked! Stop sending me spammy DMs!
Scary http://t.co/JGsYGLEgi8
Watching cartoons in hotel, getting ready to drive to the grandparents in Sonoma.
So glad to spend time with @DixieGirl and @ironsoap today!
@MaryLUE Rob is California born/bred so we are visiting his parents.
@MaryLUE Yes! Not near you, though. Bay Area today, then Sonoma County until Tuesday.
Toddler unexpectedly taking time-change-related nap. Delaying some California fun, but probably worth it.
California http://t.co/h42AUv0DjM
(We actually just landed in California and it went quite smoothly.)
I'm on a plaaaaaaaane! With a half-potty-trained toddler!
A week of goodbyes. Sigh... Everybody can stop moving away for a while.
In case any of you are in the market for an online astronomy homework system.
Hey, look! It's the project I've been working on for the past year: Sapling Learning Astronomy 101 on Vimeo http://t.co/GuhasFI0pV
@Selkie1970 The highs while we're gone are going to be around 100 so we're worried about the hardwood floors, electronics, etc. :/
Also, I just packed a book in my suitcase for our California trip, but I suspect that is wildly unrealistic.
Last time it broke, our attic (where the blower is) flooded and our ceiling nearly fell down.
Trying to come up with a strategy for our programmable thermostat to keep our finicky AC from totally breaking while we are out of town.
@ironsoap GASP. This might be the worst one I've seen!
@wrightinthecity Oh man, I have the OPPOSITE PROBLEM.
RT @tejucole: Enough glumness. Read the best Craigslist Missed Connection of them all. http://t.co/4KnzmF37WR
Working on an epistemological-type question and WHOA "belief" is the weirdest word ever. Now feel uncertain that it is a real word.
@jkru Oh man, hang in there...
I'm kind of in denial about the fact that I need to pack for the FIVE OF US to get on an AIRPLANE in THREE DAYS.
@BeckShorter SO TRUE.
That really appeals to me about homeschooling.
Weather-wise, I love autumn and DISLIKE summer, but I will miss getting to be with my kids so much when they are back at school. SO SOON.
@hollandsha My 4yo doesn't like to wear pants either! When we get home from somewhere, she takes off her shoes, socks, then pants/shorts.
Camouflage for my toddler's clothes is an absolute NO for me. My inner pacifist cannot do it.
Ordering a new backpack because 7yo starts 2nd grade in TWO WEEKS!
@Katiekrongard I want new dishes.
The new IKEA catalog just came. I always say I want to buy less mass-produced stuff, but man, they've got my number. THE PRETTY THINGS.
@HaleyNBurke @bkhristen And the staff is GREAT with quirky kids, kids with sensory issues, etc.
@HaleyNBurke @bkhristen This place is pretty awesome: play houses, TVs on the ceilings playing Pixar movies, headphones for the kids, etc.
Wow, you guys should try this vegan gluten-free sandwich bread I bought at the store. It's... interesting?
@bkhristen Mainly because Violet has EPIC MELTDOWNS about the spinny toothbrush thing and the vacuum-y thing.
@bkhristen This is the first time I did it by myself. I've always made Rob take off work to help with the dentist appointments.
@bkhristen Me too, this summer! It kind of sucks, I will admit.
She was kind of mess, but NO CAVITIES for any of them so I'll not complain. http://t.co/TFRz9XT2Bo
At the dentist with all 3 children. Aack! Although they are all very cooperative so far.
I put raw beets in my lunch smoothie and it is a) the most beautiful color you have ever seen and b) quite delicious.
@HaleyNBurke Oh, thank you, you kind person! The mix of less exercise and more sugar has left me feeling kind of gross, I will admit.
Contemplating ridding ourselves of all this diapering paraphernalia. I've been cloth-diapering for 7+ years, so there is a LOT.
Result: I am feeling less than awesome body-image-wise.
This summer, I have had less time to exercise (kids out of school) &amp; I've done a lot of experimental baking for toddler's food issues.
Back from the goodbye party for @creamerdan and Laura. Oh, how we will miss them...
@HaleyNBurke There was a LOT of crying today.
Made a breakfast that toddler actually ate a lot of! Rice pudding made with almond milk.
Man, even just the opening credit music of Little Bear makes me feel happy and relaxed.
I just discovered that 4 seasons of Little Bear are streaming on Amazon Prime! I am inordinately happy about this!
A week from today we'll be in Sonoma with my in-laws. Mentally gearing up!
It's World Breastfeeding Week! That must be why I just wiped breastmilk off my iPhone.
I don't often wear sunglasses, but when I do, I wear enormous ones:  http://t.co/OtuvkRAIxV
@Michaelfriberg I liked what I heard! Rob had work, then we grabbed a quick dinner, then we were not on time.
I keep buying cherries to do this: http://t.co/bYIHGpoEkG But then we eat all the cherries.
@SKEdman I do not get it, but it seems like a very young trend so maybe I'm not supposed to.
Time children woke up this morning - time I fell asleep after going to concert = NOT ENOUGH SLEEP.
I like this Bob Dylan person, as well as the earlier Wilco fellows. (Were too late to hear much of the first band.) http://t.co/HfKzzxQWQQ
Summer sky earlier tonight at the concert: http://t.co/O5lP7Z23WP
I usually feel so old at concerts (on the rare occasion I go to one) but NOT TONIGHT.
I am on a date! At a summer outdoor concert type thing! Bob Dylan later, and quite the mix of ages in the audience.
My dad is in town for a quick 1-day visit, which means that it's ukulele time. http://t.co/L1GpIDGDhk
@HaleyNBurke But it's SICK, Haley. And WRONG.
Working today on astronomy stuff and I have typed the word "Earth" so often that it looks really, really weird. Earth? Really?
@BeckShorter This is my oldest! Who is about the same age. I think the books for them are too short or something.
4yo is writing 10, 100, 1000 and correctly identifying them. This crazy-smart girl...
@wrightinthecity @HaleyNBurke @Katiekrongard @bkhristen I also would love to be invited to this.
Toddler has discovered drawing today, and it may be the most adorable thing in the history of everything.
My kids just watched this three times: Riding the Booster with enhanced sound: http://t.co/Wlvnysw9Av via @astropixie
Last day of 4yo's summer social skills group! It has been a really great experience. http://t.co/fTtwpnKIEi
@BeckShorter I love cardigans! My husband looks askance at my non-sexy cardigan habit.
Toddler is SO chatty in that impossible-to-understand kind of way. Amazing to see him work so hard to talk to us.
Maybe we'll go to the playground instead.
I was going to pack us up to the pool this afternoon, but it's actually overcast and not hot. Will we be all shivery and miserable?
@Michaelfriberg I love the idea of a personal style uniform. For real.
@HaleyNBurke I just found out a writer I really like has a commentary on Ecclesiastes: http://t.co/rEYWL7Ci95 Might be overly technical?
@Katiekrongard @kylecostello We have a ton of it in our yard to. Rob hates it. It's an invasive vine-y thing.
@lauramontyg Yay! Apparently that's what is happening with us,
RT @DoctorMac: When our boy plays with the toy kitchen, wears a tutu, or potty trains well before our girls did, I feel compelled to say "h…
We have had some kind of potty training miracle over here. I can't get over it.
I have not changed a poopy diaper in a full week. It has been a looooooooong time since I could say that.
Toddler's first hair cut! http://t.co/bd6PUWLzkj
Rob and I got paid on the same day for the first day, like, EVER. Wow! Our bank balance! (Until we pay all our bills...)
Swim team is just about wrapped up, and not a moment too soon. 7yo has improved dramatically, but it has been QUITE taxing.
@jkru Yeah, what a messed-up, monastic system it is... I had a lot of guilt when I left Yale/academia but I've gotten over it.
Toddler just asked to sit on the potty, only to fart, then be "all done".
@jkru Wow. How did that happen, I wonder...
@jkru Almost all of my grad school friends are women.
@jkru We'd all come from physics programs where we were the only women in our classes; it was a new/great experience for all of us.
@jkru My class was a) freakishly huge and b) over half women. It was a statistical freak, but really nice.
@jkru Yes, Amy Forestell. Was Andrea grad rep just after I left? I think maybe.
I really love the work the @BioLogosOrg does: Beethoven Symphony on Vimeo http://t.co/aSwEm4U3pT
Related, this morning after I used the bathroom, Rob offered me a package of fruit snacks. Because I did such a good job!
Buying tiny boy underwear, which is a new experience for me.
Happy Pioneer Day, Utah! You are crazy, but I love you.
Fancy Jell-O shots turned out pretty! Now off to our party... http://t.co/g23dT6Amm3
@Katiekrongard If you're in the mood for some CRAZY, walk down to Liberty Park for the parade.
@Selkie1970 I'm doing it like this:  http://t.co/sChknYbWQ0
@Selkie1970 @BeckShorter Well, I can't eat mine tonight. These are kind of involved, it turns out.
I've never done anything like this before. Pics tomorrow if they turn out!
The next stage involves sweetened condensed milk; it's a broken glass kind of thing.
There are so many strange things about that sentence.
I'm making fancy Jell-O shots for a Pioneer Day party tomorrow that is in the morning. http://t.co/XcHY1PXyuW
RT @TheLeakyBoob: Quoted @rachelheldevans heavily, thankful for the inspiration to finally address #modesty and breastfeeding.  http://t.co…
@SKEdman Well, disappointment &amp; grief are probably appropriate emotions.
@kathykrey We'll see if this sticks. This is 7-10 months younger than the girls potty-trained.
Toddler has not pooped/peed in a diaper since sometime yesterday. I... what? How did this happen?
RT @astropixie: we're all in it!  RT @marsroverdriver: Did you #WaveAtSaturn last week? Then you're in this gorgeous picture: http://t.co/s…
The Earth and Moon, viewed by Cassini that is in orbit around Saturn right now: 
http://t.co/odMosDEJrm
My kids are eating gluten-free vegan donuts (the baked kind) for breakfast. Very crumbly &amp; were better warm last night, but not bad!
@HaleyNBurke He VERY often asks to sit on the potty right after he pees in his diaper.
Was not expecting to potty-train him this early. He doesn't turn 2 for another 6 weeks. Should we just go for it? I feel so skeptical.
Toddler just pooped in the potty for the first time ever. In the bathroom at Chipotle.
Yesterday's jam, with fruit from @BeckyMarvin's tree: apricot-maple-vanilla http://t.co/LH5Li5q7yR
Date night! Sharing a pitcher of beer at a dive-y bar while @HaleyNBurke wrangles our little ones.
@jkru Yep! Jars sterilizing right now...
It's jam time. http://t.co/0lxf3NHju8
@HaleyNBurke Well, it will be full of people, delicious food, and July heat. Does that fit your definition?
Crap, I'm out of pectin.
Oh, this sweet face... http://t.co/akrVrhAawM
What a great write-up of @EvanLewski and his tasty, tasty wines... http://t.co/ilesVvM7K1
@andreaburley In a month, I will be where you are. :)
@Selkie1970 You are correct! It was quite nice. People seem to use it with pasta or as a topping, for either sweet or savory things.
@Selkie1970 It's very easy, actually. Soak cashews in water for 8+ hours, rinse, put in blender, cover with water, blend away. Quite good.
For dinner I made rice pasta with peas, ham, and cashew cream. It was actually quite good! Toddler gobbled it up!
Post-swimming movie night as I do the solo-parenting thing. Introducing my littles to My Neighbor Totoro!
@karenebayne That's a good idea. I haven't bought any recently because they're out of season, but maybe I'll get some anyway.
@HaleyNBurke I will definitely try the Nut Thins after we add potatoes back in. So far I haven't found rice cakes he will eat. :/
RT @kristenhowerton: This incredibly vulnerable essay about lessons from his mother on race is required reading: http://t.co/VyOgT6kmlT
I have yet to find anything toddler can/will eat that I can spread peanut butter on. These rice tortillas I tried today are BAD.
From 7yo: Well, hummus isn't the WORST thing in the world. For instance, I dislike rocks more than hummus.
Big fat summer raindrops.
I'm melting into a puddle of sweat at this swim meet. http://t.co/wnjeE6nE7C
@BeckyMarvin Oh no! So miserable...
@Selkie1970 No, it's so terrible. You see all these small people jumping in and out of the cool water, and just MELT/SWEAT.
High of 101° today, and 7yo has a swim meet this afternoon. UGH.
We watched some Harry Potter tonight and now toddler is lying in bed, sleepily murmuring, "Where Dobby go?"
RT @meganamram: Years ago, scientists knew barely anything about space! It was probably because those scientists were babies
@BeckyMarvin I would love some apricots! They are ripe? Still on the tree or picked?
And to make things even better, I didn't lose any of my children today!
It was HOT up in the canyon today, but beautiful as always. We're lucky to have this 20 minutes from our house: http://t.co/KprNVlpgUS
Spent today up in the mountains with @missiodeislc. http://t.co/dz7jfgIv4H
RT @tejucole: The basic question which no public event alters: how can I, myself, in my limited sphere of influence, be more just?
@reemeyer Ugh, yes, the fear of backing over someone... I am so thankful that it turned out how it did.
This girl, safe in her bed tonight thanks to the grace of God, the kindness of strangers, and @lucaswmuller: http://t.co/oDInlrSjNT
@ironsoap and she ended up being found clear on the other side of the farmers market.
@ironsoap I am literally still shaking from all the cortisol or whatever. It happened SO FAST while I was buying something from a vendor,
@AdageCat She was not upset, which is good, I think? Or bad? She was just calmly walking around looking for me.
@BeckShorter Sort of? Was about 30 minutes of PURE STOMACH-TURNING TERROR. Still feel sort of queasy. So thankful.
Police were looking for her, etc. She ended up found because @lucaswmuller happened to see her from the @charmingbeard booth.
Well, THAT was the worst trip to the farmers market ever. Because I LOST MY 4-YEAR-OLD. Am still shaking.
@HaleyNBurke WHERE HAVE I GONE WRONG?!?!?!
@HaleyNBurke Tonight all 3 rejected hummus, and 2/3 rejected SWEET POTATO CHIPS.
@HaleyNBurke You are FAR from the worst, but we will be up in the mountains for church on Sunday, if it's convenient to bring stuff.
@jkru To a certain extent. I can't handle a lot of separate meals, and he gets mad anyway if the girls get the old favorites.
@BeckShorter That's what it's like in Utah too! I am a little surprised that we have this in common.
Don't they know about the STARVING CHILDREN? Or the children in France who eat everything?
In the meantime, children are grumpy/hungry yet refusing to eat this perfectly fine food.
I am in high frustration mode right now with our food/eating situation. Haven't found new things that children will really eat.
A lot of that is fruit, but still.
We're about 10 days into toddler's new diet and so far, he seems to have replace a lot of starch/dairy with sugar.
@krisshaffer Dynamic in SLC is similar to CT in that there's not that many good options as far as doctrine, so you embrace what's there.
@krisshaffer Our planting organization is http://t.co/b3di4JHuKr but they focus on East Coast &amp; less-churched places than CO, I would guess.
@krisshaffer No, there are a couple of people using that name around. (Which is fine, obviously.)
@krisshaffer It's Missio Dei Community. It's nondenominational &amp; a plant of Imago Dei in Portland (if you've read Blue Like Jazz).
@krisshaffer i.e. what I'm saying is our current church would probably not be considered reformed
@krisshaffer Good ideas! We consider ourselves informed by &amp; open to reformed tradition but not 100% committed to it.
@krisshaffer Yeah, I guess I was thinking of the evangelical world more, which is my background. Trinity was my 1st Baptist church ever.
@krisshaffer Boulder may be slightly different, but Christian culture in Colorado is ANYTHING but liberal.
@HaleyNBurke OHMYGOSH! THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER!!!!!!!
@krisshaffer That's the way it is in Texas, too.
You guys, my kids LOVE Duck Soup. I would not have guessed this. That movie is 80 years old, for Pete's sake.
Overcast day with highs in the 80s. We are at the pool and all the children are shivery and teeth-chattery.
Three years in Salt Lake City today! I love this city.
Yeah, still true. (That is a fun app, by the way.)
Me, one year ago today:  http://t.co/EYJqikGIVL
The big thing is that I can't drive while I have one because of the vision disturbances, and I have to pick up kids at certain times. UGH.
I had another migraine today and I am so mad about it.
This was Day 5 of no naps for my toddler. Is he transitioning out for good?
Was about to pack us up for the pool but it is closed because of "contaminants". Ah, bodily fluids...
@HaleyNBurke @wrightinthecity for ALL IN COMIC SANS. When I saw it, I texted Rob demanding to know if he also uses this intake form.
@HaleyNBurke @wrightinthecity The allergist Rob shares an office with, who also is the person who's following L's allergies, has her intake
@Katiekrongard The plan is to keep him off coconut/dairy/wheat/soy/egg for a couple months and then reintroduce them one by one.
@Katiekrongard No, not really. If it ends up being his only allergy, that won't be that big of a deal. FINGERS CROSSED.
@Katiekrongard Still not sure. It's possible that *only* coconut bothers him, but we should be off everything for a while, then reintroduce.
Took toddler back to allergist's (i.e. husband's) office and he IS allergic to coconut. Positive skin test and everything.
I NEED TO KNOW.
It's by Paper Route: "The Music". I feel like it was in a video at @missiodeislc? Help me out here @lucaswmuller? @kylecostello?
We just watched 500 Days of Summer and I loved it so much! This one song is driving me BONKERS, though; I know it from somewhere.
And now I remember why we only eat fava beans once a year -- so many layers to get through!
@MaryLUE We're still in process, trying to figure things out. In the meantime, I'm thankful L is growing/content, all things considered.
@MaryLUE Oh no! You guys cannot catch a break! I'm so sorry...
We eat fava beans, like, once a year when we get them in our CSA share. Tonight we're going to grill them: http://t.co/uma3uyFIxV
@jkru with Lambert's face on them. This coin is now an inside joke at our house, with Rob and I hiding it for each other to find.
@jkru He very well may be. My last year, the dept put on this conference honoring Lambert and we got, I kid you not, COMMEMORATIVE COINS
@jkru Who's your advisor? Lambert?
@WasatchFood Nice! I hope there's lots of good cocktails in that bottle's future.
On plus side: wine, conversation, friendship.
Spent evening with friends and children were up WAY past their bedtimes. Wailing/gnashing of teeth.
Cross-referencing the vegan list on Trader Joe's website with their gluten-free list, trying to figure out what to feed toddler.
@jkru I don't even know. I tried strawberry chia pudding today. SIGH...
Not sure if it was the chia seeds or the coconut milk.
Toddler had an allergic reaction this morning to the gluten-free dairy-free egg-free soy-free breakfast I made him. AAAAAAAAAAH...
Ran into multiple neighborhood friends at fireworks show, walked back home past terrible post-firework traffic. I really love where we live.
About to walk to Sugarhouse Park with 7yo for fireworks, just the 2 of us. Will be my first time to see fireworks since before she was born.
@jkru His issue is a dose-dependent thing where you can cheat every once in a while without getting sick.
@jkru nursing that much longer, not that much gets into breastmilk, &amp; his issue is not an IgE-mediated allergy with anaphylaxis, etc.
@jkru He is still nursing a little, ~2x per day or so. I am thinking I probably won't cut out all that stuff for me, because he won't be
At another swim meet for 7yo. It is swelteringly hot. http://t.co/4rR8psOPcJ
@jkru Thankfully he has always grown well and he likes to eat. At least I'm not worried about him being sickly/scrawny.
@jkru We don't really know because the thing he has (eosinophilic GI disease) is not well-studied. Not a lot of answers.
Well, we're going to try cutting out wheat, dairy, egg, &amp; soy from toddler's diet. SARCASTIC YAY. But hopefully it will help.
At the allergist's office (which is also @DoctorMac's office) with my toddler, about to do a bunch of skin testing.
@EvanLewski Yes! We really enjoyed it. Fun to see it at the wine store.
@MaryLUE LOL -- yes, I am sure.
@MaryLUE That is a different variety of kale, but you can cook it the same.
@MaryLUE That is kale.
Han Solo, Fox Mulder, Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye -- now you know the fictional crushes of 14-year-old me.
"I will find you!" GAH.
Am re-watching Last of the Mohicans for 1st time since I was 14. It made a big impression on me; Daniel Day-Lewis was so dreamy/gorgeous.
@MaryLUE It's kale, I bet. Make kale chips! Or sauté.
@BeckShorter I am also in the market for summer pajamas! Excitement!
@Selkie1970 About the same? Maybe his reflux seems better? He is refusing the thickened juice stuff. :/
2/3 of children are in TERRIBLE moods, though. Pool trip will either be disastrous, or help soothe their savage breasts.
Record high temperatures today, so I think we will head to the pool.
Lovely visualization of the galaxies in the local universe: "Cosmography of the Local Universe" http://t.co/TUL0SidLYg via @astropixie
Took 3 showers on this hot, hot day: 1 when I woke up, 1 after exercising, 1 before bed to cool off.
It's 100° out and I just hung the cloth diapers outside to dry. Somebody give me a medal!
@s_chacko @DoctorMac Hilarious -- ummmm, what?!
You guys, 7yo is STILL talking about Duck Soup. Now discussing why Harpo didn't speak.
Watching Duck Soup and 7yo thinks the Marx brothers are HILARIOUS. Nonstop giggling.
Ugh, and now toddler has vomited up entire dinner. SIGH. Appointment to talk about his food issues with allergist is this coming week.
RT @SlateVault: This ridiculous "literacy" test, used on new voters in Louisiana pre-Voting Rights Act, will turn your brain to mush: http:…
@HaleyNBurke @DoctorMac She was hidden in a nook in the back of the piano! Behind the couch! Violet is running around full of joy.
My favorite marinade for grilled chicken: http://t.co/t56KRAepVA So good! We use boneless chicken thighs usually.
@Michaelfriberg Oh geez, you guys be safe.
OK, I bought some moscato and it is WAY too sweet for me. Ideas on what I could do with it? Cocktail ideas?
Drinking a cold bottle of @EvanLewski's wine on this hot, hot evening.
@ironsoap Have you read her memoir about parenthood? Amazing.
My life is richer for being able to text tiny images of skis, pizza, and a flamenco dancer.
Pretty sure that Rob regrets putting emoji on my phone. It has greatly increased my enjoyment of texting him, however. 😜
This question (about the difference between astronomy and astrology) is causing me to have an epistemological crisis.
a) It's kind of complicated and b) the song is stuck in my head.
Today, I am writing a question that is requiring me to learn what the Age of Aquarius is.
@Katiekrongard Girly-stuff-wise, when she's old enough to get it, the new My Little Pony is pretty awesome.
@Katiekrongard UGH, I can't stand Dora either. Our regulars include Kipper, Pingu, Blues Clues, Word World, &amp; Sid the Science Kid.
RT @SandyBoynton: It's not hard to get your child to sleep through the night. Just redefine "night" as 10:47 PM to 2:26 AM. http://t.co/5Pw…
@Katiekrongard That is a great book, I think.
@krisshaffer I did AWANA!
Thing I just said: "OK, man with the yellow hat, time to put on your panties!"
@hollandsha I watched that one! I liked it.
Making it again because I bought some local lamb at the farmers market this past weekend. IT'S TAKING ME BACK. Like, 10 years back.
This was a standby recipe for me when we were newlyweds: Quick Coconut Lamb Curry Recipe  | Food &amp; Wine http://t.co/1oAJpfx9AJ
@MooreMichael Thanks! My oldest is still a little young, but I'm pretty sure they all need to learn to code eventually. :)
I wish I could spend my whole day reading for fun...
7yo has read the 1st four Encyclopedia Brown books today, and it's just barely 2pm. I'm kind of jealous.
@MooreMichael Can you send me the website or whatever for the Code Camp?
Thickening his liquids is not going so well.
This morning, upon being offered gooey juice concoction, toddler declared "NO JUICE" and carried it to the refrigerator to put it away.
7yo's swim meet this evening is at a straight-up country club, which feels a little weird. It's... really nice here.
Getting ready for 7yo's 2nd swim meet of the season. I think I will be better prepared this time.
@SKEdman That sounds like a decent plan. We sold 2 houses at a (small) loss, and it definitely sucked.
@SKEdman Is selling your house probably going to go OK?
@SKEdman Oh, that is SO great. Moving can be so tumultuous, but that kind of thing makes a huge difference.
Midsummer Blur: http://t.co/LhGOD6QPA1
@aldousmom I have a weakness for anything claiming to be "mattifying". They never are.
@jonathandcole I need Banbury Cross to give out free donuts. That, I would show up for.
This morning, had our 1st declarations of "YUCKY JUICE" &amp; "DON'T LIKE IT".
Finally made the xanthan gum gel for toddler's drinks over the weekend and dude, that stuff is unappetizing.
@Selkie1970 That might be a good way to go...
@Katiekrongard Oh, that is great! I'm going to look through some stuff there.
@FryAdrian It IS. That is very true. Unless you have easy access to laundry, maybe?
What do you think about Nancy Drew for a 2nd grader? She loves mysteries &amp; is fine reading-level-wise, but I'm concerned they're too mature.
I took a nap instead of going to yoga. No regrets, really.
@Selkie1970 LOL -- what could I get insurance to cover? Tummy tuck? Laser hair removal?
@MaryLUE That is so tremendously awful and traumatic. I still can't quite wrap my head around it. I am SO sorry.
@Katiekrongard Super great for winter. And if you're still here in a few years, their swim lessons are great.
I recommend that you avoid having any medical drama with your children. Adds up fast.
Just paid a WHOLE bunch of medical bills for all the various crap that's gone down lately.
@Katiekrongard We have spent so much time at that place! Swim lessons, gymnastics classes, etc.
RT @feministtswift: Even though I'm not the only one who feels / The way I do / I'm alone / On my own / The only woman in my higher level p…
@BetsyTacyTib Aw, that's so fun! It's some of my favorite children's literature ever.
Our 1st farmers market visit of the summer. Gorgeous day, cold-brew @charmingbeard, garlic scapes, local lamb.
You guys, there is a Betsy-Tacy bot who RT'd me yesterday: @BetsyTacyTib. The Internet is a wonderful place.
I'm up so late! But book club is always worth it. So fun to hang out at @Katiekrongard's place...
@bkhristen You are going to be so missed!
7yo is reading Betsy-Tacy books behind me and she is literally LOLing. I love having a child who can read. Deep, deep joy.
I am writing a question about solstices on the summer solstice!
@MaryLUE I can't even imagine; that is SO terrible. I am so, so sorry.
@MaryLUE This was YOUR new dog? GAH.
@MaryLUE WHAT?!?! Oh my gosh, that is so traumatic and awful! I am so, so sorry.
@emthecoolest She wasn't choosing between perfect job situation &amp; staying home, but between actual job she had &amp; staying home.
@emthecoolest There's a lot of truth in that, but what stands out to me is how she describes their life when they were both still working.
Tomorrow I have to be somewhere at 8am with all 3 children. Haven't done that in weeks. Eep!
These times of nap transition (like 2 naps to 1 nap, 1 nap to no naps) are kind of unpredictable and tough.
No nap yesterday, no nap today -- both days I really would have liked him to be functional past 6pm.
I have never been known as someone super good at getting my kids to sleep/nap when I want them to, but BOY toddler is kicking it up a notch.
This is the theme book for MOPS this year: http://t.co/jpFZkHEeRf I'm excited to read it!
@Katiekrongard when both parents were working are true in my experience. It's CRAZY; our life is much more manageable with 1 parent home.
@Katiekrongard Yes, she gave up stuff, but she would have given up stuff if she'd stayed at work too. Those sentences about how hard it was
@Katiekrongard There is some truth in what she's saying, but what jumps out to me is how tough life was when both parents were working.
We'll see how this goes.
Just made a gel from xanthan gum that I'm supposed to put in all toddler's drinks to keep him from aspirating. Super disgusting.
RT @pannapacker: Please Give 5 minutes to the Ph.D. Placement Project: 1,000+ already have. Prove this could work. http://t.co/rMoZuNdBM2 v…
RT @tejucole: Ain't saying she a gold digger, but it's 1849 and she's in a riverbed in the Sierra Nevada with a shovel and a pan.
I feel confused; is this an actual real movei? The LEGO® Movie - Official Teaser Trailer [HD]: http://t.co/ox7jGpISoW
7yo is gobbling up Roald Dahl books.
@Selkie1970 Good, actually! The speech therapists did a great job having them all interact with each other.
At social skills workshop for 4yo, watching her through a one-way mirror.
RT @JonAcuff: The 2nd line of this worship song is the grossest church typo ever. (Via nolen_) http://t.co/SDgTg1aolq
@HaleyNBurke We should have instagrammed our food!!!! :)
Got a little dressed up to have dinner with a friend. 7yo said I look so pretty! Especially from far away!
I can drink iced coffee disturbingly quickly.
I just made pesto with the carrot tops from our CSA! It's quite tasty: http://t.co/RK9u96ELwn
@HaleyNBurke L is not totally ready to be finished with naps, but he is approaching that transition.
@HaleyNBurke Yes, I have never been sad about toddlers dropping naps. More daytime flexibility, easy bedtimes.
Toddler did not nap today but he conked out at approximately 6:48pm.
We went to 4 parties today. That is too many. I want to go sit in a hole for a while, but I really love all those people.
And @juskye babysat our 3 crazy children while we were there. She fed them dinner &amp; gave them all baths. :)
We went to @PagoSLC for our anniversary/birthday dinner and it was so good! Happy...
First day of therapy to teach toddler how to swallow. Fingers crossed.
Hooray! Today I have been married to Rob for 11 years! I am so thankful for him.
@s_chacko Definitely. Most babies nurse for ~1 year. I feel like a 6-week maternity leave is inhumane.
@s_chacko If mom has an office that locks, she's golden, but lots of people don't. Hence, pumping rooms.
@s_chacko Yes, pumping breastmilk to give the baby while mom is at work. (Pump one day, give it to baby next day.)
@s_chacko That is a thing, for pumping. I'd argue there will never be more women engineers if companies don't do things like this.
I think the world needs to see this: http://t.co/VuyeIQVoRt
@SKEdman Wow, that sounds really nice.
@Katiekrongard We are CRAZY PEOPLE this week. I do not like feeling busy; it's not good for me.
I think I over-scheduled us this week. I may need to re-think our summer plans.
Did you know Francis Collins &amp; NT Wright wrote a song together?
It still has diapers in it, obviously, although actually, this morning toddler peed in the toilet for our babysitter!
For my birthday I bought myself a new bag. I am carrying something other than a diaper bag for the first time in, you know, EONS.
@SKEdman My oven is broken too! It turns itself off whenever it feels like.
@DixieGirl Thank you!
@howiesmith I hope your boys like the camps there! I was impressed last year with the quality of what they do.
On the plus side, @HaleyNBurke made me a cake, and I think I'm going to take a bath. http://t.co/djoZTEUaG1
Spent my birthday evening at 7yo's 1st swim meet &amp; it was MISERABLE. Hot, and I am seriously unimpressed with this swim team's management.
7yo has paleontology summer camp; the little ones and I are just messing around.
First stage of birthday (i.e. working) complete. Now on to some @NHMU fun. http://t.co/IvHBwIJoLb
@HaleyNBurke Thank you!
@bkhristen Thank you so much!
@Katiekrongard Thank you!
There was a lot of very modernist apologetics in my faith background that I now see as problematic.
Something I've been thinking about in recent years: Is Christian Apologetics Secular and Unbiblical? http://t.co/KfJPKHJMWg
Hmmm, that sounded bitter, which I am not feeling this morning. I think it will be a nice day, if not especially celebratory.
Happy 35th birthday to me! I shall celebrate by having a normal/busy Monday! :)
@HaleyNBurke I have never liked tchotchkes, clutter, etc. I'm more about zen, clean, simple.
My Pinterest is all blown up right now with ideas for "bookshelf styling". I tend to go with just, you know, BOOKS.
@Katiekrongard @andreaburley L just does it when he's really tired &amp; wants to go straight to sleep. If he's less tired, he will read it. :)
When I try to read Goodnight Moon to my toddler, he shrieks "Noooooo!" Or alternatively, "THE END THE END THE END." Not a fan, apparently.
@ironsoap @DixieGirl Oh, FUN. I really want to see that.
@Jfpohl I watched the first half this morning &amp; it was amazing. It's streaming on Netflix.
@Selkie1970 Oh, those are so gross!
Gymnastics meet for 7yo today: http://t.co/aH2iNLleqB
@Michaelfriberg YES. I think from you linking to it a while back. So hilarious.
Watching a documentary about cave in France (Werner Herzog is SO excited about it) and folding BIGGEST EVER pile of laundry.
I have had two migraines in the past week, which is UNACCEPTABLE. I'm going to start meditating or taking wacky supplements or something.
@Selkie1970 Yes, we are taking some next steps. Moving forward is good.
I really want to get his weird health issues figured out and fixed.
Today my toddler threw up into my hands while we were at the pool, in front of horrified onlookers. Yes, it was as horrible as it sounds.
A hair cut may be in this one's future sometime soon: http://t.co/Fb7F1bXeol
This one is, too: http://t.co/KSw48rj8W0
I've decided to attempt to be better about using our good camera more, because she is such a beauty: http://t.co/mSaza7KueW
So who wants to teach me how to take photographs that are in focus? I swear only 1 of every 10 shots I take are in focus.
“small-batch, artisanal high-fructose corn syrup” | Grist http://t.co/lvKHkCPeE0
Last day of the year of gymnastics for my 4yo! http://t.co/hf0ktwMHIg
RT @rachelheldevans: Homemaking is not a woman's domain or a man's domain. It's God's domain. And all are invited to see the sacred in it.
AC back on, maybe for the duration this time.
My voice is back this morning! Hopefully we are on the way to health.
@wrightinthecity I like it both blended up and just with the seeds mixed in. It's a little weird, I admit; Rob hates it.
@wrightinthecity Whenever I make it, I plan to eat it the next day. It definitely firms up overnight.
@wrightinthecity I made chia seed pudding tonight too! Mine is chocolate peanut butter, kind of like this: http://t.co/gPegNgauOz
Rough day at our house. However, refrigerator is all fixed, miserable toddler is asleep, and tomorrow is a new day.
@MsKristySteffen I am about to move from a diaper bag to a handbag, I think. BIG STEP. (L still has ~1 year in diapers, of course.)
@juskye Rob and I have a secret board! :)
Grim times around here. Refrigerator broken, toddler has a fever and is a mess, TERRIBLE sleep last night. ZOMBIE JULIA.
Refrigerator is broken. We've had quite the bad luck in refrigerators in recent years. VERY thankful for the chest freezer.
Last day of 1st grade! http://t.co/FC41WXpsUP
@andreaburley We were perfectly willing to just make her do it herself, but she did a TERRIBLE job, or else used ALL the toilet paper.
@andreaburley Well, let's just say we were faced with the conundrum of, 'What if she poops at kindergarten?'
@andreaburley It is a looooooooong time, let me tell you.
The penultimate packed lunch of the school year. http://t.co/LJQojb49IC
@hollandsha Six inches! That's dramatic! I love those super dramatic, transformative haircuts...
Those precooked beets from Costco are my new favorite convenience food. So good in salads!
@jkru Using it all can be a challenge at times. This is why I WIN at this week.
@jkru The one we do here is spring/summer/fall so we get a long time off over the winter. The climate is super different obviously.
Of course, it's still very early in the season. Shouldn't declare CSA victory too early.
Our CSA pick-up is on Mondays and as of today, we have eaten everything from last week. This means I WIN!
Toddler had taken to throwing his arms around my neck and declaring, "BEEG HAHG!"
@kathykrey Well, at least I am not alone. :)
@amyjackson Thank you! Getting through his anesthesia/procedure is what was really stressing me out; I'm crashing now. :)
So there's today's episode of JULIA IS CRAZY.
I've had ALL OF THEM in the past 2 days. Apparently I was really stressed about toddler going to hospital.
So I have these quasi-psychosomatic things my body does in times of stress: migraines, GI misery, losing my voice.
@Katiekrongard We did wrap our chicken up in something.
@Katiekrongard AACK! But seriously, when one of our chickens died, we discovered that's what you are supposed to do.
RT @RadioAstrology: My cosmetologist friend is fed up with people asking them about the epoch of re-ionization. If only people would learn …
@MsKristySteffen Our tankinis are from Lands End; they've held up well through 2 girls. I tend to buy them small-ish so that they stay on G.
Toddler just put cracker on the floor and then danced/stomped on it to crush it to crumbs.
Fun Run at 7yo's school this morning, with @DoctorMac participating. http://t.co/NmyIWTirVJ
Have mostly done tankinis for her but she's doing swim team this year &amp; probably needs a more athletic one-piece.
My 7yo is extremely thin (especially after that illness she had in May) &amp; finding one-piece swimsuits that fit is HARD.
We are home from the hospital! Things went smoothly; I am very thankful. No big answers yet as far as toddler's aspiration.
My toddler in his hospital gown and hospital car, getting ready to go back to the OR: http://t.co/Csd8jBBqsE
@juskye Indeed. He's not allowed to eat before we go to the hospital in a little bit.
Toddler is hangry.
@Selkie1970 The reflux isn't the big concern per se; the aspiration of all liquids is the worrisome thing. The reflux is a possible cause.
@Selkie1970 Endoscopy, laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy. It will feel like an outpatient surgery experience on our end-- in the OR, etc.
DEEP BREATH.
Just heard from the hospital about toddler's procedure tomorrow. No food after midnight, no liquids after 9am, at the hospital by 10:30am.
Sitting in donut shop, listening to a woman try to explain hash tags to her husband.
Bribery for the morning's errands. http://t.co/fBKzC1lHGZ
@andreaburley I did, each time. It made me feel so much better, and my hair looked thicker and less stringy.
I feel SO FREE. I can just WALK THROUGH MY HOUSE.
I took down the baby gates! They were to the point of being more annoying than helpful. Does anybody local want them?
It has been missing since our move from Dallas to SLC; Rob just found it in a pocket of our good camera bag.
This is a 1903 edition of one of my favorite children's books, and it has been lost for ~3 years. Rob just found it! http://t.co/INfjxkYSq5
@HaleyNBurke She handles intense stuff in books a lot better than in movies, although she did literally cry when Picky-Picky died in Ramona.
@HaleyNBurke She &amp; R just finished reading it; reading the book first helped a lot because she knows what happens.
2am vomit! (Not me.) Motherhood is so GLAMOROUS sometimes...
@Selkie1970 4yo is either not really tuned in to the story or not as sensitive to scariness.
@Selkie1970 Rob just finished reading the 1st one aloud to 7yo, who is our sensitive one. Doing book first helps her not be as overwhelmed.
Family movie night! We're watching the first Harry Potter. :)
Out to dinner with our gaggle of children! 7yo was in a bit of a mood... http://t.co/utuSxJTgiY
It was a little chilly, if I'm being honest.
Sunscreen, goggles, big towels. First pool day of the year! http://t.co/gmVqf8nkZN
We only started watching Arrested Development sort of recently, and we still have over a season to go. Can we do that before Sunday?
@karenebayne Us too! We only started watching recently &amp; have over a season to catch up on.
@jonathandcole Apparently so!
Magical upholstery cleaning lady is here and she has magically removed toddler's Sharpie drawings from our upholstered chair!
Iced coffee with heavy cream in it: mmmmmm...
Toddler is playing with an empty Bota Box from our recycling.
RT @astropixie: astromemes: every conference produces at least one! http://t.co/zoX9BpQlmj by @drphilmarshall and @jgeach
Dear Muncie, you don't know how good you have it, with @bkhristen moving there and all. #loveletterstomuncie
Oh man, I want to see this: @nprnews: 'Before Midnight': Jesse And Celine Are Older Now, And So Are We http://t.co/UfpaQOvKEB
@ironsoap I'm pretty sure I will never be in the mood to read that book.
@jkru Thank you! I'm glad that R is nursing again; I think a traumatic weaning experience would be really tough for me.
@jkru My children have eaten SO MUCH COSTCO PIZZA over the course of their short lives.
@chaseafterwind My children have eaten SO MUCH COSTCO PIZZA over the course of their short lives.
Also, I am super thankful for our health savings account.
Just preregistered toddler for his outpatient hospital thingie a week from today. WAAAAAAAAAAAH...
We are fully invested in the Costco lifestyle.
Scary how quickly I can ingest iced coffee.
In all these little boy haircut videos, I think the kids look better beforehand.
All I do know is that I want him to have a big hipster 'fro, just more even than it is now.
I don't know ANYTHING about little boy hair.
I'm starting to contemplate a haircut for toddler. Was looking at DIY videos &amp; they all involve clippers; is that how this is done?
Right now 4yo writes capital Es with, like, a dozen horizontal lines. I could not love that girl more. http://t.co/bBHz5e5WZZ
@ironsoap I am with you on this.
Toddler just had another cough/gag/vomit episode. Boooooo... One week until his endoscopy/laryngoscopy thingie.
Last day of school for my 4yo! So thankful for how well this year has turned out for her... http://t.co/f55Atyhfth
It's a day of school functions for me today. Now off to 4yo's preschool.
1st grade end-of-year performance! (One of the red ones is mine.) http://t.co/uG4yb2Uoha
I suspect my 4yo is trying to do the opposite of the Paleo diet; she only wants to eat gluten-y bread products, pasta, &amp; sweets.
Hmmmm, one of our hens seems to have taken up pecking herself on her back. Not good.
@NishWeiseth @Katiekrongard Aw, thank you!
@Jon_Dostert I know those are issues of personal preference and opinion, and people will think differently.
@Jon_Dostert I don't know; I feel like there is so much miserable about it as far as climate, culture, etc. Really glad to have escaped.
I wrote a little guest post for my friend @Katiekrongard today: http://t.co/AV0JPea4pO
RT @Katiekrongard: Mothering Authentically by Julia @juliasilge http://t.co/LmppzOpA21 #sahmseries
@Katiekrongard @HaleyNBurke Awww, you guys!
Preceding opinion obviously influenced by the fact that I was unhappy there, especially as an adult.
Spring = hail &amp; tornadoes, summer = hell, fall = nonexistent, winter = no snow.
Have spent most of my life in north Texas &amp; tornado disaster has reminded me that there are no good times of year in that part of the U.S.
@SKEdman I'm going to PM you what I have this evening and see what you want. I'm thinking probably I'll fill a flat rate box for you.
@SKEdman I have some leftover PUL, fleece, etc from sewing diapers. Would you be interested in it? Maybe pay me for shipping?
@SKEdman As a big-time sewing type, I will tell you that Joanns is famously awful about stuff like that.
So thankful to have just sent healthy 7yo out the door to school. (1st time in a week &amp; a half!)
Poor Curious George... http://t.co/oDegy5Tx2y
@HaleyNBurke I would love that! I will tell you next time.
Today at yoga we had open doors/windows + rain + Tibetan singing bowls, so basically THE BEST EVER.
@Selkie1970 This makes me not want a dog again anytime soon. I'd forgotten this part.
Church, then lunch, then climbing around. http://t.co/6gA9hfiDO7
@howiesmith cheesy production values.
@howiesmith Start with the episode titled "Rose" and give it ~5 episodes before you decide what you think. First couple episodes have
RT @finslippy: Someday in the future, someone'll look back and say "remember ombré?" and the rest of us will be too embarrassed to admit th…
Cooking fennel, onion, &amp; green garlic in butter. Mmmmmm...
Drinking some @EpicBrewing IPA, writing about Earth's orbit and the seasons.
I took a 2-hour nap and I FEEL SO ALIVE.
Tonight is our last book club before @bkhristen moves away from SLC, &amp; we're discussing a really sad book. Probably shouldn't wear mascara.
My middle child's name is Violet. Right now, toddler pronounces her name 'Butt'. "Hi, Butt! Butt! Hi!"
What's keeping me from going heavier in my deadlift is the skin on my hands. Ow.
Exercised for 1st time in a week. Hooray! Maybe life can get back to normal for us.
I have 2 glasses of wine, so now I shall ask-- how do grown women go to the bathroom wearing rompers? And ROMPERS?! REALLY!?!?
Toddler is running around living room entirely naked holding the tea kettle.
@Katiekrongard Yeah. Me too.
This has made me feel all emotional and broken.
7yo has missed an entire week of school. Her amazing teacher stopped by today with get-well notes from her whole class.
Also some more labs came back looking more consistent with this being some crazy virus, not Kawasaki, so YAY!
My 7yo is doing so much better today-- temperature 100° or lower since she got up, eating a little bit. Hooray!
@HaleyNBurke the scary heart-damage Kawasaki thing. I think the drama may be drawing to a close!
@HaleyNBurke Her temp this morning is 100°, the lowest we've seen in a week, and some more labs came back looking more like a virus than
@HaleyNBurke @bkhristen Yes! I have been kind of laughing maniacally because of the threat of hospitalization around here.
If she still has fever on Friday, the plan is to admit her to the hospital.
If you are of the praying/faith persuasion, will you pray that Grace gets better ASAP? Perhaps that she wakes up with no fever?
@Selkie1970 OK. I feel worried that we're overreacting, worried that something really is wrong, sort of in disbelief, etc.
New plan for 7yo: no echocardiogram today, give her 2 more days to get better, treat her for Kawasaki disease on Fri if she still has fever.
Blood work, peeing in a cup, echocardiogram for 7yo. WHAT IS WITH THE HEALTH ISSUES LATELY?!?!
Day 6 of fever for 7yo. LE SIGH. Today we go to the doctor.
My 4yo, taken by our friend/babysitter Laura: http://t.co/UzM9YYlAZG
@HaleyNBurke I would miss you if you left for 3 months.
@HaleyNBurke Although does your parents' lake house have internet?
@HaleyNBurke Unexpected death of unknown uncle who leaves you scads of money! New job where all you need is a computer + Internet like mine!
@krisshaffer Big changes! We love living in the West.
RT @JenHatmaker: With a little bit of fear and trembling: "Examining Adoption Ethics: Part One" http://t.co/9xyUcYsp3A
I have turned on the AC. Because I am a WEAKLING.
@Michaelfriberg I'm not sure if I want to go that route. She did drink part of a milkshake yesterday; maybe I can coax her to some rice.
@Michaelfriberg LOL...
Day 5 of fever and other related misery for 7yo. Related: you just cannot make a child eat if she doesn't want to.
@NishWeiseth They've technically ruled out sensory issues with her, but sometimes I wonder...
@NishWeiseth And then there's Violet, who has been refusing to wear pants since, like, February.
Rob is reading the first Harry Potter aloud to Grace during her illness. It's so beautiful it's going to make me cry.
@Selkie1970 LOL-- it absolutely is.
@bkhristen Both girls dropped naps around their 2nd birthdays &amp; started going to bed at 7pm. I will admit I was very happy. :)
@bkhristen When my kids conk out early like that, I feel like they must have had a busy/fun day. :)
I'm feeling less positive about the splattery-olive-oil burn I got on my hand tonight. HURTS. BLISTER.
I'm feeling shockingly positive about this 90 degree day we had, given my general attitude toward summer. I didn't even turn the AC on!
First week of our CSA! So glad the growing season has come once again. http://t.co/i0REwFA8S0
7yo looks visibly thinner than last week. EAT SOMETHING. DRINK SOMETHING.
RT @jasonboyett: Wow. Amazing. And a little depressing: http://t.co/4m49dvQVSp
Healthy 7yo would be so stoked about this white rice &amp; apple juice breakfast I'm offering her. Sadly, actual sick 7yo is indifferent.
@HaleyNBurke It WAS sad. I've gotten used to having my evenings to myself but it's not happening right now. Sigh...
@jkru I don't actually think he's ready to drop his nap, but I would love my evenings back. The older 2 start baths at 7pm, in bed ~8pm.
@jkru most afternoons, but that is gradually starting to inch his bedtime past 9pm. I've gotten used to evening "me" time so it feels hard.
@jkru With older kids in school/preschool, we have to all get up early; he gets up ~7am or a bit before. He is still napping ~2 hours most
I'm may be feeling ready for toddler to drop his nap because he is STILL AWAKE. GO TO SLEEP.
@karenebayne @Selkie1970 My oldest did the same thing at her 5-year check-up! I literally LOLed.
@karenebayne I WISH carrots were my favorite thing to eat!
@BeckShorter I love that pretty much the only accurate thing there is my favorite color. We have been talking about colors a lot lately.
My favorite color *is* green.
I have had a bit of an atypical Mother's Day, but it was great. Here is what my 4yo says about me: http://t.co/6aid0a2BtR
@HaleyNBurke Thank you for coming to yoga with me! It was fun to have you there. :)
@DixieGirl You too! Enjoy the day...
Since our child is strep-ridden, Rob stayed home with the kids and my date for Mother's Day brunch was the lovely @s_chacko.
STREP. Again. We just had strep at our house a month ago!
@bkhristen STREP. So at least we can get her on drugs and head her toward health.
This morning, I am taking 2 healthy children to church and Rob is taking remarkably ill child to InstaCare.
@krisshaffer Rob did that with the suction cups one time to fix something. It totally worked.
She hasn't eaten much of anything since late Thursday.
Have just walked out of grocery store with pudding &amp; juice in my bag-- not my usual fare. 7yo is so sick and claims she will eat these.
Wow, 7yo is REALLY sick. Pitiful/awful/sad.
@Selkie1970 Have so much fun!
Off to another appointment for toddler, I think the last one until his procedure in 3 weeks.
RT @GlobalHigherEd: Any guesses what U.S. state pays its university hockey coach more than any other public employee? http://t.co/T4unoesKaR
@SKEdman I think there's generally a problem with singleness, so maybe single men (not entirely by choice, maybe) face similar issues.
@SKEdman I got married quite young so haven't personally experienced this, but it must be SO SO hard to be a single woman in the church.
Now 7yo is sick. Man, these sick children are really messing with my work/exercise/productivity plans.
Cuddles http://t.co/hYNvRtD11G
@jkru For you? Or your little one?
It's hard to spell "Schwarzschild" correctly over and over again.
@Katiekrongard It's at the end of the month, in 3 weeks. Fingers crossed for no big problems before then...
So I've mentioned some of the health issues with our sweet toddler; here are all the details: http://t.co/0wOllHvLii
@Katiekrongard You crack me up with all the words on your Wordless Wednesday posts. ;)
4yo is sick-- coughing like crazy, poor thing. No school for her = no working out for me. Bummer.
@Selkie1970 I buy those ciabatta or pretzel rolls at Costco and keep them in the freezer. Rob thinks I'm enabling them.
@Selkie1970 Normal dinner for kids = what we eat + fruit + a roll. A lot of the time they just eat the fruit &amp; roll.
1/3 children ate what I made for dinner tonight, which is pretty typical. It's never the SAME child, though.
Just opened the last jar of applesauce from this past autumn. Sadness!
WOW, having a hard time concentrating today. Am flighty.
Hanging cloth diapers outside on this ridiculously beautiful morning. Utah has the BEST seasons.
"Beep beep! Car!" - toddler, as he is falling asleep
Today was the last day of MOPS for the year. Still so pleasantly surprised by what a positive thing this group has been for me.
RT @rachelheldevans: Wow. Why we MUST address purity culture issues in the Church: "Elizabeth Smart speaks on human trafficking" - http://t…
I would not mind sitting in perfect silence for an hour now.
I did a lot of great things today, but they were all very people-oriented, and I think maybe I AM an introvert. So exhausted.
Also, we made those cheater margaritas with beer. MARGARITAS MARGARITAS MARGARITAS.
I am just loving beets right now. BEETS BEETS BEETS. Tonight, roasted &amp; sliced with avocado + balsamic + olive oil.
@MikeSalz Like... right now? :) You just had some kale sitting around?
@HaleyNBurke I would LOVE that. Seriously.
The girls were VERY excited when @DoctorMac told them they could sleep in the tent tonight. http://t.co/MpdS4rY5Qn
@astropixie Toss chopped kale with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder; 20 min at 400°. Not too crowded in pan.
@MikeSalz Toss chopped kale with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder; 20 min at 400°.
Kale chips kale chips kale chips... I could eat the whole pan.
@Katiekrongard I love that little patio area-- so pretty!
Things that 6yo likes &amp; 4yo will not eat: salmon, cucumbers, sugar snap peas.
Things that 4yo likes &amp; 6yo will not eat: scrambled eggs, goat cheese, kale chips.
http://t.co/iegoQKoaxj
The Olympus E-P3 has dropped below $400 on Amazon. I've put the micro 4/3 idea on the backburner for &gt;year so is this still a good idea?
RT @rachelheldevans: Why Progressive Christians Should Care About Abortion http://t.co/8r45SPRUXE
And it's @DoctorMac's last day of work before the weekend. Yay for Thursdays!
Thursdays are so pleasant right now: 4yo has gymnastics (which she loves), I get to take toddler to library story time.
Just had a WWJD conversation with @DoctorMac where the answer was "Spit room-temperature coffee out of his mouth".
If we could convince our 10-year-olds to ride in car seats, they would be safer.
She is tall enough for the booster, just borderline on the weight. The thing is, of course, that car seats are safer than boosters.
Totally hypothetical, of course. *I* would never do such a thing. (Not actually hypothetical.)
So which do you think would be safer for a 4yo in the car? a) an expired convertible car seat or b) a booster
Gave toddler the salad spinner to play with. He has filled it with MLP:FiM minifigs. I really think he considers them food.
@Selkie1970 I have childcare most of the time I'm working at home.
@bkhristen The problem is that I make tea, then I walk away and forget about it. I should start using a timer, maybe?
I over-steeped my tea.
@ironsoap @dixiegirl LOL-- we like It's Not the Stork.
I believe that it is snowing?
@SKEdman Wow, you are having an all-over crappy day.
Toddler just saw a picture of Willie Nelson on the computer and pointing, declared, "Daddy!" Uhhhhhhhhhh...
@SKEdman I've got nothing against history, but math is so beautiful and fun!
They put a camera up toddler's nose, which he found strangely non-upsetting. No obvious answers, so on to the next step...
@HaleyNBurke @doctormac LOL-- we are trying to teach her to put Twilight Sparkle away when she's done with her, with little success so far.
Waiting for the ENT, hoping this turns out to be simple.
NPR is talking about Syria and "red lines" but I keep hearing "Red Vines". Which would be a lot better, you must admit.
We have the next step in our surprise-toddler-aspirating saga tomorrow morning: ENT appointment. I'm thankful it's all moving so fast.
@jkru Oh Julie, I am so sorry!
RT @mollrob: Best. Sentence. Ever. " Radioactive feral pigs are threatening Europe." From: Who Can Stop These Adorable Pigs? http://t.co/Cz…
Spring, and body image, and whatnot: http://t.co/RWCxldbHQy
@lucaswmuller I'm 95% sure I've seen the 1st movie but I have no memories of it. (Twizzler comment meant I have read the books, to clarify.)
@lucaswmuller The books are like the literary equivalent of Twizzlers, I think. And the LDS themes are super interesting.
@lucaswmuller So you know the author is LDS, right? It actually is super Mormon, I think.
This picture from our zoo outing this afternoon cracks me up: http://t.co/QpOkuBo6LR
First 70-degree weekend of the year = madness at the zoo. SO busy.
The zoo after burgers after church. The zoo is hopping today!
@SKEdman LOL-- we used some of that when I was a kid. Oh, the memories...
Chickens loooooooove watermelon rind.
Tonight's cocktail: moonshine from  @JJMidnightMoon, lime juice, maple syrup, sparkly mineral water. Yum!
I love Lyle Lovett. Road to Ensenada may be my favorite album ever.
So now every time toddler does his cough/choke/gag thing, I get to picture stuff going into his lungs.
We had Art Night at 7yo's elementary school tonight. There was a lot of art. And general fun times. http://t.co/UNC4Fz8lql
@bkhristen In the meantime he gets to nurse all he wants and hopefully doesn't get dehydrated.
@bkhristen Next we see an ENT to see if there is something anatomical causing it. If so, surgery. If not, feeding therapy.
@HaleyNBurke A little surprised &amp; shaken, but OK.
@SKEdman The next thing we do is have him go to ENT to look for reason why. What do you know about tongue tie &amp; ENTs?
If he doesn't stay hydrated enough just nursing, he has to get an NG tube.
Well. Toddler is aspirating the heck out of everything. I'm not allowed to give him any liquids but breastmilk.
Swallow study time. Hopefully this is easy.
RT @scifri: It's almost go time! Up first, Utah’s fossil finds. Heard of the Utahraptor?
The @scifri recording I went to last week is being broadcast right now!
Nose piercing selfie, toddler photobomb: http://t.co/ngay2R5NDw
Toddler is having a swallow study in a few hours to try to figure out his choke/gag/vomit issues. Time to cut him off on all food/liquid.
@bkhristen Rob is obsessed right now. It is really fun. (With Macklemore, not therapy. Although therapy is awesome too.)
Just finished the last Amy &amp; Rory episode of Doctor Who while folding laundry. Saaaaaaaaad...
@chaseafterwind That happened to me too! After my first birth, I kept telling Rob how thin I felt and he was all, "Uhhhhhh..."
I mostly stopped wearing pants &amp; jeans about 5 years ago, but I stopped wearing shorts more like 10 years ago.
This J. Crew catalog is full of ectomorphs wearing short shorts. Not so connected to real life for me.
@Katiekrongard I think preparation is really important but doesn't have to be a class. Good books: Hypnobirthing, Birth Partner's Guide...
A carousel ride with @HaleyNBurke this morning. @bkhristen http://t.co/4pX7wtej6H
@MaryLUE Yay!
@jkru Hang in there...
@HaleyNBurke @doctormac He's being difficult &amp; contrary. We will forgive him because he has a virus that has made him very grumpy.
@danistocking It does remind me that really REALLY people are not thinking about me as much as I think they are. :)
@DoctorMac He's not 2 yet, either. What's up with you and your tweeting this evening?
Several friends did do double-takes and I saw them thinking, "Did Julia always have that?"
I went to MOPS today and no one said anything about my new nose piercing. :) Too subtle?
RT @lucaswmuller: Got the WORST kind of junk mail today. @doctormac http://t.co/AuQEjeTZFp
RT @HonestToddler: The Food Network would be more realistic if they put a small, crying child at the feet of each chef.
RT @HonestToddler: In a store called Anthropologie. Looks like a cross between a garage sale and a wedding.
I have lost 2 inches around my hips in the last month but 0 lbs. The magic of strength training...
@BeckShorter I'm not sure I believe you. I have been diapering for 7+ years so naturally it appears this will go on forever.
@HaleyNBurke For real, though? Wine? Gelato? Fun magazine you like?
@bkhristen I can't tell if it's getting worse? Rob thinks it is...
@HaleyNBurke Maybe to take the edge off a dismal payday?
@HaleyNBurke If I were to bring you something to say thank-you for babysitting, what kind of thing would you like?
@Jfpohl I think I'll look for you to chat. Sort of seems like it is getting worse? Haven't mentioned it with pediatrician since he was tiny.
Ugh, toddler has the weirdest cough right now-- reflux-y? He's also thrown up a few times recently from eating too much. @Jfpohl?
@Selkie1970 I've wanted it for a while &amp; it is a reward for sustained healthy exercise/food habits. :)
I got my nose pierced today! I'll do pictures when it isn't so red and angry-looking.
RT @ZooeyDeschanel: Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL! “@joelmchale: Oh my RT @peterogburn: http://t.co/F3sbpmq9WO”
The very last of last summer's apricots: http://t.co/suN5waLyhk
Science Friday was so good! They say it will air next Friday.
Almost time for Science Friday to start! @creamerdan http://t.co/75d61wcX06
I'm at the recording for @scifri today! It's not being broadcast because of, well, you know... but I'm still excited!
RT @mimismartypants: So (warning, speculation) is this like a combo of regular terrorist/maniac spree killer? WORST MASHUP EVER.
I take back everything I've said about those angels not being that scary anymore.
Just watched 5 minutes of The Angels Take Manhattan. Can't do this right before bed.
RT @jasonboyett: "Like something out of Mordor." CRACKING. UP. Dove Real Beauty Sketches - Men: http://t.co/7m25tY2LjA
My current bag/purse is wearing out. Toddler is 19 months old. Should I get one last "real" diaper bag, or move over to a large regular bag?
@SKEdman Gosh, that is such a long haul with the solo parenting. Hang in there...
A Brony bot RT'd my My Little Pony tweet.
In other MLP:FiM news, toddler's favorite way to play with the ponies is to put several of them in a toy pot and cook them in play kitchen.
But I JUST KNOW that she will immediately turn up if I do that.
Twilight Sparkle minifig has been missing for days, and 4yo is still sad about it. Considering buying a new one on eBay.
My 4yo watching a paleontologist at work earlier today at @NHMU http://t.co/9Y7Mj4pd7q
@HaleyNBurke I love spicy food, so when it is too spicy for me, it is REALLY spicy.
Every few years, I cook something that is unbearably spicy. Apparently today is that day.
@SKEdman Oh man, I love all those things. The loaded potato chips sound intriguing.
@bkhristen BIG NEWS! We are going to miss you so much.
Time for dinosaurs on this snowy April morning @NHMU http://t.co/TNq8ZI14n1
Aw, I missed my 7,000th tweet today! This is my 7,005th.
@NishWeiseth @HaleyNBurke @bkhristen @Katiekrongard These early-2000s shows were what I watched when I was in grad school. :)
@bkhristen @katiekrongard @haleynburke What was I watching? Firefly, The O.C., Alias...
Some tiny hooligan bit my toddler at the gym childcare this morning. So now we have to test that other kid for rabies or something, right?
@Michaelfriberg That was not a sarcastic "nice". An actual, really great "nice".
@Michaelfriberg That's pretty amazing. And a Temple Grandin quote on their wall-- nice.
Today is Israeli Independence Day. At preschool, 4yo made a flag and had a parade.
@hollandsha Have you read the Hyperion series? I really like it.
I wonder if I need to dig out the girls' big coats...
Snow! Not much, but mid-April snow.
My 4yo just cheerfully introduced herself to another little girl with lovely, sociable language. I... I'm not sure what to do with that.
A dry-climate problem: my hands are really dry, I put on lotion, then I pick up my phone. Yuck.
This print is really beautiful; I can hardly believe I might be down to my last 6 months of breastfeeding EVER. http://t.co/2Eza8ysAHh
@SKEdman Oh, that is so not OK-- I am really sorry.
In the midst of a possible DIY fail. CAN THIS PROJECT (blinds in girls' room) BE SAVED?!?!
RT @DoctorMac: Busy explaining CF carrier status to 7 yo. Culminated in me telling her she should marry a person without white skin. Sor ...
Toddler dancing to hip-hop is beyond adorable. He's got moves.
Women vs. People http://t.co/iJsQyFTqF9
These seem like really reasonable questions about coverage of the Gosnell trial: http://t.co/7sl8TUDv0R
Just saw a lady lick her iPhone.
My grad school friend @astropixie just got mentioned by @neiltyson! So exciting! :)
RT @astropixie: oops, i just stared at this for 15 minutes. #mapaddict MT @_struct: World population density map: http://t.co/bIeegMwEm8
@HaleyNBurke Is it a movie? I know about the song with that title. There's a fun version on the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.
Important things 7yo has learned in school: http://t.co/UmTsw0XOXd
There is a little girl at library story time named Genesis. After the band? The book of the Bible?
Now zoning out at library story time with toddler while 4yo is at gymnastics. Feels good to just sit here.
One of those morning where getting our whole family fed, dressed, and out the door felt like pushing a boulder up a mountain.
@NishWeiseth Are those the Mossimo or the Merona ones? I can't remember which ones of those I didn't like...
I need some new T-shirts (to wear with cotton summer skirts). Who likes their T-shirts? Where did you get them?
I miss Battlestar Galactica:  http://t.co/IPvssIEyOK
@bkhristen @Katiekrongard what kind of hormonal weirdness was going on...
@bkhristen @Katiekrongard I have not experienced this, but both girls weaned VERY gradually when I was pregnant with next baby, so who knows
@Katiekrongard an eye on things is a good idea. Be so understanding and gracious to yourself.
@Katiekrongard http://t.co/DXHZfnNqpu Seems like it lasts a few weeks usually, but depending on your mental health history, keeping
@Katiekrongard http://t.co/1VmBvpfLWb
@Katiekrongard Here are some links, mostly just women's experiences: http://t.co/cgjsJ3XPzX
@Katiekrongard So some women get straight-up weaning depression when it doesn't happen gradually. It's a real/hormonal/physiological thing.
@bkhristen Yeah, he didn't sleep AT ALL until 7pm. I kept trying, but no nap. Crazy.
Some days I feel very zen that my children don't like my cooking. Some days I feel like insisting, "But this is GOOD. I PROMISE you."
Approaching 4pm and toddler hasn't slept at all today. I wonder if he could make it all the way to bedtime at this point...
@ironsoap The new/different stuff is much better.
@ironsoap There's a lot to like in recent seasons of Doctor Who but they brought back those angels a couple times &amp; it's not as good.
@HaleyNBurke I'm not usually much of a white wine person, but it was DELICIOUS.
@ironsoap I'm not much of a scary/horror aficionado, but that episode SERIOUSLY got to me. So good, but borderline too much for me.
BREAKING NEWS: Chardonnay &amp; strawberries are really good together.
Mending clothes. Always goes so fast-- why do I wait so long to do it?
Ironing tiny little dress shirts for toddler. They're kind of cracking me up.
RT @James_Kpatrick: These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge http://t.co/MF8ME8tJOM
Tonight for dinner we had a local grass-fed organic blahblahblah sirloin tip roast. Toddler liked it and called it "HOT DOG!"
So the antibiotic I am taking for the strep I had has given me a horrendous rash. I AM SO SEXY RIGHT NOW.
@SKEdman UGH. Terrible. Totally hear you on the distance thing.
Dentist appointment. Nothing makes me feel like more of an adult than going to dentist on schedule.
It's April and I still have 1/3 of my jam stash from last summer. May have overdone it a bit.
Almost done with our paintings... http://t.co/b6cXORW28I
Doing one of those group painting things with my MOPS group. Fun! http://t.co/rtHJ85eCAY
Do you know what I really want to wear in my everyday life? This: http://t.co/VM8iTTQMXu How can I get away with this?
Time-lapse images of Earth from the ISS: http://t.co/LupHOwLQnN AMAZING.
@DoctorMac I might actually go with the JJ Abrams one.
@Selkie1970 I... I make my girls wear leggings under their dresses if they will be playing somewhere.
Wow, Mars is far away: http://t.co/VxXVKjqrnX via @astropixie
Our lovely babysitter/friend who watches the kids while I work is named Laura; toddler has started calling her "Arla". @creamerdan
Girls are outside with ice cubes on different colored sheets of paper to see which one melts fastest. Science!
RT @rachelheldevans: Hahahaha: "Infomercial GIfs, because real life is hard. - Imgur" (via @alisewrite) http://t.co/QfmEfQxxou
@Katiekrongard I hear you. I write, like, 1-2 blog posts a month.
Putting holds at the library on massive numbers of American Girl books. Spring break for my 1st grader!
I like it! http://t.co/SRxBu87Gpm
I'm not MAD about her hair being straight, to be clear. Just weirded out.
Grace with straight hair-- what?! http://t.co/7gsEdVo9ui
OK, this stylist must just really be into blow dryers &amp; round brushes. Now she is straightening my eldest's very curly hair.
Violet with her blow-dried hair http://t.co/HuzLJPtmlY
Getting haircuts for both girls. Stylist is giving 4yo a blowout, which is weirding me out a little. Grown-up hair!
@FryAdrian Ugh. That's terrible.
Sleep stuff with the toddler is going so well right now. He didn't nurse until 5am last night, and he didn't really wake up or cry either.
Planning on getting 7yo a hair cut tomorrow morning (spring break!). She says she wants to go very short; I'm thinking chin length.
Pretty eggs http://t.co/JVH89pqIXh
7yo has been asking to dye eggs for most of Lent; we finally sat down to do it this afternoon. http://t.co/dg5T4Y8IBE
@Katiekrongard Going from 2x a day to nothing is rough.
@Katiekrongard Depending on how uncomfortable you are, you could pump once a day, 4 oz one day, then 3 oz, then 2 oz... Put it in her food!
RT @missiodeislc: "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" - http://t.co/Lo4IewV0jJ
Join us today to celebrate Resurrection! #SLC
@Katiekrongard If you're interested, you can wean more gradually-- skip a day, then 3x a week, etc. Or you can power through discomfort.
@Katiekrongard Sudafed?
@HaleyNBurke We ended up spending the day figuring out a) our new desk &amp; b) blinds for girls' room.
@HaleyNBurke Aaaaah, the day got away from me...
This has been a shockingly painless IKEA trip for a Saturday.
I feel SO ALIVE. Feeling better after you have been sick is SO AMAZING.
@hollandsha Comfort is very important, except for special occasions. I have fallen prey to buying things &amp; then never wearing them, sadly.
It is 2013 and grad students in the department where I got my PhD are STILL programming in Fortran.
In bed before 9pm with a hot toddy and a book. Actually feeling a little better. Maybe I WILL survive strep throat after all!
RT @DoctorMac: 4 year-old playing by herself keeps maniacally yelling, “NOTHING can stop me!” Don’t know whether to be proud of her, or  ...
@LoquaciousKiana Where is it? Is it good?
@HaleyNBurke Hang in there... And really, eat, like, a vegetable and some protein or something.
@HaleyNBurke Hmmmm, that doesn't sound like self-care to me... :)
Our lovely, amazing babysitter will be here in 2 hours so I just have to hang in there until then.
Real talk: the only time I am honestly wistful for my pre-child life is when I am sick.
And yet, he continues to run around the house, emptying cabinets, playing with the muffin tin, looking the opposite of sleepy.
You have no idea how badly I want the toddler to go down for his nap so I can sleep off some of this strep misery.
My youngest is 18 months old: http://t.co/Y0b7yKMjPi
@HaleyNBurke Did you share tonight? How are you feeling?
@Selkie1970 I'd say yes. He got swabbed at work so I didn't have to get us to an appt. Then he called in antibiotics for all 3 of us.
STREP. At least for the oldest three of us. Hopefully the littlest two will stay healthy.
@bkhristen (I actually did get pho for lunch today. Good but SO PAINFUL to swallow.)
@bkhristen What about something kid-friendly but "real" for the little ones to eat? Tonight or tomorrow would be amazing.
@bkhristen I'm trying to decide whether to take you up on that. The thing is we haven't really been eating, what with the throats &amp; all.
Soooooooo sick. @DoctorMac is going to get swabbed at work to see if what we have is strep.
Still sick, &amp; now 7yo has joined us, home from school for the day. I might need some pho, my very favorite food when I have a cold.
@Katiekrongard @HaleyNBurke Rob was just talking about this after your laundry tweet, too. Seriously, if you EVER want to do laundry here...
Ugh, you guys, I am all sick &amp; miserable.
@NishWeiseth Wow, that was amazing.
Our hens are sunning themselves on this spring-ish day and look very happy.
This package of basmati rice from Trader Joe's says I need to rinse it before cooking. But do I REALLY?
We have been all full of illness over here. First that GI bug, now colds and sore throats. Isn't it spring now or something?
@HaleyNBurke Don't be sad!
@jkru Dude.
Took a middle-of-the-night shower last night to wash vomit (not my own) out of my hair. Then was sick myself a few hours later.
RT @DoctorMac: Violet has her tutu on and wants to dance, but decries all music as not loud enough. Only satisfied when I put on The Ram ...
@wrightinthecity I am curious about the context of this tweet.
the kitchen AND packed lunches. Somebody give me a cookie!
I am proud of myself. @DoctorMac is out to dinner with his stepbrother (in town visiting) and I put all 3 children to bed AND cleaned
@Selkie1970 Chrome. So far, so good.
I'm a few days into using Feedly, and I think I like it pretty well.
He is not the giant chubby chunk he used to be.
My toddler is slimming down so dramatically. It's striking me as a bit pitiful right now when he is getting over a virus and miserable.
I may have opened some delicious beer at 4:52pm. @EpicBrewing
March snow! Down here in the valley even. My 7yo is super annoyed/mad about it.
@HaleyNBurke Grace is super mad about it this morning.
@Selkie1970 Ugh, hang in there...
I use a lot of semicolons, even in my texting.
Pitiful toddler with a fever and a rash and stuff. :(
@Selkie1970 An AMAZING feeling, to be honest.
To be fair, it was a conference in exactly my old research topic.
Serious warm fuzzies, especially after being out of research for 5+ years.
Also, she introduced me to somebody else at the conference who RECOGNIZED MY NAME and said she USED MY PAPERS ALL THE TIME.
I saw some snow today, driving up to see my grad school friend.  http://t.co/0K6gwbCxtc
RT @DoctorMac: 7 yo has gone from My Little Pony to playing Star Wars. Sadly, not w/ ponies. But I think we can all agree Rainbow Dash w ...
RT @DoctorMac: I am not entirely sure what is going on here. I am fairly sure it is awesome however. http://t.co/LmVhqjwuBJ
A grad school friend is in town for a conference &amp; I am about to go have coffee with her! Hooray!
Turns out it is pretty big: http://t.co/SpkrG1md3P
There's a thing out there called the Huge Large Quasar Group: http://t.co/IxUylE4iwc
Time for a preschool Seder. http://t.co/08P6tHf77X
Rhetorical question: when ARE my children going to be able to handle evening outings with equanimity? Somebody pour me a drink.
We all went to a gymnastics meet up at the U. Evening outings = meltdowns, but other than that, it was a fun thing to do!
I am on a crazy homemade mayonnaise kick. I can't get enough of it. I used to hate mayonnaise! Glad the chickens are laying lots of eggs.
Open windows &amp; a tank top down here in the valley, Rob &amp; my 7yo are skiing up in the mountains.
Book club night! Followed by birthday drinks for a friend! Am super sociable Julia wearing eye make-up!
Yes. Yes, this is exactly what  these are called. via @pinterest http://t.co/yIly7hp35j
@Katiekrongard In winter, my uniform is short dress + leggings + boots. Plenty warm for me. In summer, obviously super easy.
@Katiekrongard I quit wearing jeans about 5 years ago because it turns out I hate them. Skirts &amp; dresses FTW!
@Katiekrongard Well, I'm pretty much always wearing a dress. :) I do not own pants or jeans.
For lunch, having a baked potato topped with mixed-up applesauce &amp; peanut butter, an idea I stole from @aldousmom. So delicious and filling!
Is boot season over? Turtleneck season is over for sure.
@HaleyNBurke Summer is by far my least favorite season but summers here are nicer than anywhere else I've lived.
WHAT NO NO NO NO NO: http://t.co/IC87hWOeIo
First 60 degree day! I love living somewhere with four awesome seasons!
@Katiekrongard No, I don't. I know more about chickens &amp; growing herbs than flowers and all that. Am super utilitarian about plants/etc.
Time for some jasmine tea and cosmology.
@Katiekrongard It is SUPER beautiful outside today. Is 50° too cold to open all my windows?
@NishWeiseth We'll have to catch you guys on another one of these gorgeous sunny mornings!
Toddler is at a great age for the zoo. He shrieked in delight at every animal he saw.
Checking out the seals http://t.co/GLa5aX4Kw8
I know that hearing parents complain about the time change is super annoying, but it's after 9pm &amp; my toddler is JUST NOW going to sleep.
Writing a question about the age of the Universe and pondering how most of the people I grew up around would call it blasphemy.
I want a mango lassi. And saag paneer. Oh, and just ALL the Indian food, while you're at it.
@SKEdman I don't think it is a GOOD thing, but it is certainly true of me. If I were more holy, it would be less true, I'm sure.
@SKEdman That's big news, certainly! Will this get you out of your current house mortgage situation? In a good way?
I can finally do crow again! Haven't been able to do crow since before my 1st pregnancy.
Trader Joe's on a Saturday afternoon. What was I thinking?
Singing hymns to toddler as he falls asleep. A fleeting moment I hope I remember forever.
RT @jasonboyett: This is welcome news: Evangelical homeschoolers embracing evolution in their kids' curricula. http://t.co/yNkW39kAI1
RT @EugeneCho: Women birth 100% of the world's population, do 66% of work, produce 50% of food but earn 10% of income &amp; own 1% of th ...
Such important information on abuse, for parents &amp; everybody else within the Church:  http://t.co/M5LHhWZX7m
@Katiekrongard Too cold. Don't plant things yet, but do get your beds ready. You can start seedlings indoors now, if you want.
@karenebayne Good luck!
@HaleyNBurke @Katiekrongard If I baked all the time, I would need to buy ever-increasingly-large clothes. Me + baked goods = trouble.
I've got to stop trying to cook real dinners on weeknights this semester. Such a disaster.
RT @DoctorMac: A tough negotiator. http://t.co/PRcplpxwso
@Selkie1970 Oh dear. It's terrible when people don't get your taste.
I finally finished this blog post about my oldest turning 7: http://t.co/eRxmYfI9u1
The Honest Toddler Creator revealed: http://t.co/tEzjsgihvT
@howiesmith Well, Twitter bought it so I think the people are all still working and busy, just on Twitter stuff now: http://t.co/zGLOQ5zres
If you followed me on Posterous (or Google Reader back in the good old days) I'm now going to share things here: http://t.co/W2seLlNKMc
Posterous is being taken down, if you haven't heard. SIGH.
@HaleyNBurke Well, maybe now you will figure out what you want to do with the next stage of life. :)
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- are you feeling over it?
RT @georgeTHEarab: I don't care how sick of the Harlem Shake you are. This Lego version by @jasonboyett is impeccably impressive: http:/ ...
I tell my children to be cool like 3 little Fonzies more often than I would have guessed.
@krisshaffer Um, YEAH.
@NishWeiseth I know! Funny in light of your Scout-- Mockingbird names for ALL the baby girls!
I have a friend pregnant with a baby girl who is naming her Atticus. I... what?
At the hair salon. I think watching someone get a blow-out is hypnotic.
@NishWeiseth Half-day, and we're doing half-day next year too. G also did half-day kindergarten so we'll see what feels right for V.
7yo this morning: "I feel so tall today." And then she stood up next to me and SHE DID FEEL TALL. She grew overnight?
RT @connerkrey: What the White House Looks Like Completely Gutted http://t.co/zQZvRbTD3S via @mashable
Oh, Calliou... http://t.co/zTgdryArIm
RT @jasonboyett: This site: either the work of unclosed H3 tags or the scrolling version of slow-build horror. http://t.co/Pyo7dILALH (v ...
Next year I will spend the money on good snow boots instead of cheapie ones; she has worn them to school nearly every day for months.
7yo has totally worn out her snow boots but I don't want to buy new ones at the end of February.
@NishWeiseth JCC is awesome if pricey-- hourly childcare for babies/toddlers is lovely, pool is amazing, I really like fitness classes, etc.
@NishWeiseth Yeah, he's a year younger; V turned 4 in December. She's in a 3/4 class this year, will go to 4/5 class in fall.
@NishWeiseth We've been really happy at the JCC, FYI. Grace loved it, &amp; they've been so awesome with challenging, quirky Violet.
@NishWeiseth Yes! G went there for pre-K, V started there this January. Is R starting in the fall? Is he the same year as V, or younger?
It's been fun learning about Jewish holidays while our kids have been at Jewish preschool.
Celebrating Purim at preschool http://t.co/MrNbnH9Kcr
@bkhristen Um, JEALOUS.
@Katiekrongard I just ordered a different kind of refrigerator lock-y thing. SIGH...
We keep a rolling island in front of the refrigerator, FYI, with the brakes engaged.
Today's toddler antic: he got hold of a carton of chicken broth &amp; emptied it into crisper drawers of refrigerator.
This is an inconvenient amount of snow.
I'm not tired of snow for its own sake, but I really need to go to the grocery store today.
RT @sarahbessey: How It Felt Watching Season 3 Of “Downton Abbey” As Told By “Downton Abbey” http://t.co/DMb6OOGbhw
RT @DoctorMac: To all the people I know having babies: Give them the middle name Entropy. Trust me on this.
I think my toddler just wants to watch the world burn.
Noooooooooo... Toddler just ripped to pieces a vintage sewing pattern from the 1940s.
@ironsoap It's even bad on NASA's website; I don't know why they even allow comments on their photos and videos and stuff.
RT @ironsoap: Hey is there a Chrome extension that just turns off all the comments sections on all the websites?
@HaleyNBurke He is utterly intolerable. I'm feeling a little mad just thinking about him.
Long but interesting: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food http://t.co/jV7TnMVxtl
4yo will not be happy about this.
Taping ripped books back together. Also, moving all the paper books up where toddler can't get to them. Board books only now.
@HaleyNBurke Do I need to yell SELF-CARE at you again?
@HaleyNBurke Shouldn't you be asleep?
@HaleyNBurke We sang that in front of Grace once and now she will also sing about throwing things on the ground.
@Selkie1970 Oh, I hope this fixes everything! Do you think this has been the sleep issue all along?
Other countries' politics are so opaque to me.
A Grenadian friend is going CRAZY over election results &amp; my googling has not left me feeling very enlightened about the situation.
@HaleyNBurke That is actually the size he has grown into! He is only 1 size behind Violet!
We are in a several-month period where we must exercise vigilant frugality, so naturally all 3 children outgrew their shoes.
Toddler is a bit on the sick side, not sleeping well, etc and suddenly at 9am the sleep deprivation has hit me like a truck.
I watched The Notebook while Rob was gone (I'd never seen it) and I find this rather accurate: Honest Trailers -- http://t.co/IhBM6ZI9
RT @DoctorMac: I don't normally Instagram my meals, but this Haitian spaghetti deserves it. http://t.co/ZWz78vfn
@HaleyNBurke @wrightinthecity Oh, was it the astronomy stuff? I'm sad I missed it to go to the airport.
@HaleyNBurke @wrightinthecity Wait, what did he say about me?
@BeckShorter AHHHHHHHHHH...
Thankfully the SLC airport is very manageable and small-ish.
Kids really want to go into airport to pick up Rob, so we're going to do the whole parking/stroller/walking circus.
4yo keeps insisting that monkeys have 4 hands and I'm having a hard time convincing her about opposable big toes.
You know who I really like? Sybil's Irish chauffeur husband.
Last bedtime on my own before @DoctorMac returns tomorrow.
Tried a new mayo method tonight and it worked SO WELL: http://t.co/ttSimwsM Super easy, super thick and yummy.
@Katiekrongard Oh, and he never wants to nurse while we're out and about anymore (just at home) which is normal for a nursing toddler.
@Katiekrongard At night it varies a lot, from 1x to 10x (!!!) when he has a cold, etc. Feeling like I might be ready to make changes.
@Katiekrongard During the day, I don't offer but don't refuse; probably 5-6x/day including right before nap &amp; bed.
Of course, that makes me think if I just stay the course for a few more months, everything will get better without a lot of effort/drama.
With my middle one, we moved here to SLC during those months so I didn't mess with her habits; by the time we were settled, things were OK.
I did night-weaning a la Jay Gordon with my oldest when she was ~18 months and it worked pretty well.
I am thinking about night-weaning my toddler when Rob gets back. Feeling sort of drained and over it right now.
Gorgeous thaw day (40°!) and girls are scootering and balance-biking up and down our long driveway.
@howiesmith NO. What?!
Toddler is well on his way to becoming a brony.
RT @XIANITY: LOCAL: Area mother just gives up for Lent.
Actually, in this situation, the line was BUSY so I couldn't even leave a message so I still have to make the same phone call.
I really hate talking on the phone, so it's very disappointing when I finally gather myself to return a phone all and no one is home.
Also, just discovered toddler put skein of yarn in washer before I started the last load. ARRRRRRRRRRGH.
Uggggggggh, sad Downton Abbey....
I need to learn how to take pictures that are in focus. SIGH...
From our bounce house party this afternoon: http://t.co/MZF8s9GA
Birthday party all done! Kids have bounced themselves silly.
Swung too far the other way after last year's scarring experience of bringing her late to her own party.
OK, I overdid it with the earliness to 7yo's birthday party. Now showing kids a DVD in our car to kill some time.
@wrightinthecity @katiekrongard Exactly.
@wrightinthecity I am mainly afraid of it. Afraid that I will look like a dowdy fundamentalist.
@HaleyNBurke It did me too, actually.
My oldest was late to her own birthday party last year so this year we are leaving 1.5 hours before it starts.
My 4yo is telling me about how she ate delicious challah bread at Shabbat today. :) I feel like she is more chatty than a month ago.
Rob will be in Haiti for a few more days; he wrote another blog post yesterday: http://t.co/NqYjgUoE
Some photos of Rob (who I miss) and everybody in Haiti: http://t.co/yCNTlGd2
I'm nearing the end of Day 7 of solo parenting (out of 10). Somebody beer me.
Today, when I wasn't looking, toddler opened the refrigerator, took out bottle of maple syrup, and emptied it onto the kitchen floor.
I did it! I got the Kaboost out of the attic and I declare us finished with the booster seat. http://t.co/nXqm3LVk
Still finding soup in various places from explosion the other night.
Today is the day my toddler graduates from the booster seat because I CANNOT BEAR IT ANYMORE. The grime!
I'm reading the Lent For Everyone Bible reading plan at @YouVersion. Check it out here: http://t.co/cjUdci0G
@HaleyNBurke Sometimes I suspect that gluten isn't my friend, not like my sister with her straight-up celiac disease but more mild.
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- my thinking was that maybe without the wine I would have felt OK? I don't know...
Ugh, I had pasta (which I hadn't had in months) AND a cupcake AND wine and now I do not feel well. My stomach isn't used to that anymore.
@Selkie1970 Two of them got kind of charred but no fire! And they were nice and s'mores-esque.
Seven candles for our big girl http://t.co/ig8jGJnX
I'm doing this with 7yo's birthday cupcakes tonight: http://t.co/8MmJ9YhT Been wanting to try it since I saw it in magazine YEARS ago.
@Selkie1970 :)
@Selkie1970 LOL-- it really can be hard sometimes to write "good" wrong answers. :)
@HaleyNBurke Today I am struggling to write "good" wrong answers, basically.
I am trying to write good multiple choice distractors today on gravitational lensing and it is HARD.
I've gotten several texts from Rob in Haiti, but I don't think he is getting my responses back. A little frustrating.
Just sent off my newly-minted-7yo to school. Happy birthday, Grace!
@Selkie1970 It was epic! I found more this morning, and there are a few permanent turmeric stains around.
OK, I think things are cleaned up enough that I can go to bed. I'm sure I'll find more when the sun is up but EH WHATCHA GONNA DO.
Mess is contained to 1/5 of kitchen now. PROGRESS. Currently cleaning my knife block.
@HaleyNBurke The children WALKED THROUGH IT. There is seriously kale-cauliflower-curry soup EVERYWHERE.
DON'T OVERFILL YOUR BLENDTEC.
This is seriously the biggest kitchen mess I have ever cleaned up in my 34 years of life.
OK, children are all asleep and now I return to the soup disaster. Also, whiskey is in order, I think.
RT @telestialstate: Spoiler Alert: Democrats liked Obama's #SOTU speech and Republicans did not.
Soup contained turmeric. Some things may be permanently yellow. There is kale between my toes. I just. WHAT.
You guys, I can't even.
Just had the first blender/soup explosion of my life. Would not wish this on an enemy.
It's getting all Lenten up in here.
Pancakes for dinner!
@SKEdman  So what you're saying is that I shouldn't have read the Twilight books?
@Jennifer_deG That happened to me while pregnant! Eating (or just swallowing, like tea or anything) staved off the nausea.
@kylecostello Eventually you will do it in parking lots. :) If you/Joy want in-person help, I'd be happy to come over for 20 min.
@kylecostello LOL-- it took me 3 days with Grace to feel confident with it. Put him in/out over a couch/bed until you feel good.
@SKEdman @bkhristen They said they're not allowed to. SIGH... Litigiousness really sucks.
They're not allowed to do anything about it, apparently. Oh, litigious society, how I loathe you... What if I worked full-time?
Got a call from elementary school that 6yo partially ripped her fingernail. I am now supposed to go up there with nail clippers.
RT @jasonboyett: Follow this link for the awesome pictures of peaceful dinosaurs coexisting with humans. Stay for the words. http://t.co ...
Just realized I linked to that evolution thing on Darwin's birthday. HA!
@wrightinthecity Oh, heavens... There is an example of a defensive stance against the sciences if I've ever seen one.
I never took biology in college, meaning my last exposure to biology was during my Christian school &amp; homeschool days.
This looks really interesting to me, given my background: http://t.co/irCu9Jw1
OK, Downton Abbey Season 3, let's do this.
@Selkie1970 It's this, which I now realize is a local product: http://t.co/2X18lKiX It's carried at Whole Foods here.
I love helping new mamas with breastfeeding questions.
@kathykrey Out of curiosity, I just asked Grace if she knew who Justin Bieber was. She said, "Sort of." She knew that he was a "showmaker".
@kathykrey Wait, your kids know about singers and all that already? Texas kids must be more savvy than the ones here.
Am I having rosemary truffle popcorn and red wine for dinner? No comment.
@Jfpohl know there were any options but YEC until adulthood, etc.
@Jfpohl Oh, it definitely was. I was just interested that he is an astronomer because that's my background. I also grew up in TX, didn't
@Jfpohl Contemplating YEC from astronomy background is interesting; all astronomy must be discarded as utter nonsense from a YEC view.
@Jfpohl Thanks for sharing that. What kind of astronomy background did your friend come from? It's a small field. :)
Holy moley, Utah, you are crazy beautiful today.
Rob blogged from Haiti today: http://t.co/KDhEknqx
My 4yo loves @HaleyNBurke so much that today she tried to keep her from leaving by locking the door &amp; barring the door with her little body.
@bkhristen I definitely think we need to move to a multiple hamper system.
@bkhristen I do OK with actually getting the laundry done; it's more the physical storage that I am pondering.
@NishWeiseth That's where I am too, but the hamper I've had since college finally broke so I'm thinking it's time for a SYSTEM.
I need a new system for dirty laundry at our house. Ideas? Especially some of you mothers of multiple children?
@wrightinthecity Is it hair coloring day?
Anybody local want to come shovel our drive? Or alternatively watch the kids while I shovel it?
@creamerdan Yay! If I get a ton of apricots next year, I'm thinking about making a shrub instead of liqueur-- sort of the same idea.
After a lifetime of hating mayonnaise, homemade mayo with eggs from our backyard chickens is one of my new things.
To everyone we gave our homemade apricot liqueur to (@HaleyNBurke? can't remember who else): BEST mixer so far. http://t.co/OjIHcWIL
@kylecostello He's amazing! Congratulations!
Don't worry; by day 4 it will be Netflix and frozen pizza.
Day 1 of solo parenting: I made children a hot breakfast and took them to natural history museum.
LOL-- Rage Against the Minivan: best adoption announcement ever http://t.co/kPOnYcFW
@lucaswmuller Saaaaaaaad.
I like these Passion Pit people.
All three children asleep! Now I have wine, a HUGE pile of laundry to fold, and the series finale of 30 Rock.
@MsKristySteffen Thank you, Kristy! This is definitely the longest I've been on my own.
Helping with the suitcase http://t.co/iQy642sT
And so begins the solo parenting...
@SKEdman Love it! Hilarious but awesome. :)
Saying goodbye to @Doctormac as he leaves for 10 days in Haiti http://t.co/SNEgl3jQ
RT @DoctorMac: In 2 hours I will turn my phone off and fly to Haiti. Can’t remember the last time I turned a phone off for more than a f ...
Globes at Grace's elementary school http://t.co/boJP1WCA
In more positive news, I'm probably down to my last year of diapering EVER. (Out of a probable total of 8 years. GAH.)
Hey, guess what, you guys? Poop is really gross.
And I've been all, "No, no, the flight leaves Saturday." ?!?!?!
The funny thing is that all week people from @missiodeislc have been saying to me, "So you're getting ready for Rob to leave on Friday?"
WHAT?! How have I been so confused?
So I have just learned that although I have been thinking that @DoctorMac leaves for Haiti Saturday (tomorrow), he actually leaves TODAY.
Our new vacuum, on the other hand, is making me super happy! The rugs look so clean!
My plan for dinner is not working out very well.
@HaleyNBurke Are you serious about looking? Are you thinking evenings? Or a regular weekday thing? I have friends &amp; such.
Toddler needs to get back to his normal sleeping habits STAT.
And then I laughed and laughed and laughed because I am punch drunk with sleep deprivation.
When @DoctorMac asked me to go to the bank to get small bills for his Haiti trip, I only thought of this: http://t.co/ihYaxtGZ
@DixieGirl If you need it defrosted REALLY quickly, put it in a bowl in sink with running cool water on it. It will defrost in ~30 min.
@Katiekrongard He has the black BookBook case, white iPhone. It looks nice.
@Katiekrongard *has, I mean. He still uses it.
@Katiekrongard Rob had one of those cases! It is snazzy.
Breaking out my planisphere for the first time in years.
Today's horror: strawberry yogurt &amp; cinnamon toast.
4yo typically goes through the five stages of grief at the horror of what I have served her for breakfast.
"It is not ok to show predatory formula ads next to the breastfeeding content on parenting websites." http://t.co/2YYzM1Nr
This is pretty funny because @DoctorMac started college thinking he would go to vet school. http://t.co/mJlMfcBS
@s_chacko I will definitely keep an open mind. :)
I quite enjoy tea in most forms but WOW I do not understand milk in black tea.
RT @finslippy: Just discovered "WTF, Evolution?" and that's it for me, folks http://t.co/Q2otm26E
@Katiekrongard @DoctorMac What is that place we took the Vibe to over on the west side of town?
@Katiekrongard Yeah, this one that just broke is a Dyson we got 10+ years ago. Has been good this whole time until ~1 month ago.
And OH YOU GUYS, toddler emptied the 1/2 full canister AFTER the vacuum broke. That was fun to clean up.
Vacuum cleaner broke again, for real this time. Is trailing bits of plastic as I pull it out to garage.
We're getting ready for @DoctorMac to leave for Haiti in a few days: http://t.co/ltzqzFik
From 4yo: "Let's just pretend I obeyed you."
@Selkie1970 Just abou-- 17mo. Teething? About to be sick? Just some weird quirk? We'll see...
Toddler, who normally sleeps quite well, woke up a dozen times last night. Am zombie. Also, worried he's about to be sick or something.
Maybe I will catch up on Downton Abbey while Rob is in Haiti.
Finally watched last week's New Girl. I REALLY like this show. HOLY MOLEY KISS.
Booster chair is so disgusting &amp; hard to clean.
I think I will keep toddler in booster seat at dining table for 1 more month, then switch to regular chair on our Kaboost.
@HaleyNBurke You are good people, Haley.
I overcooked the spaghetti squash.
RT @evnglcalhipster: Sin had left a coffee stain / He washed it white as snow.
We went on a date and it was so lovely... Thank you, @HaleyNBurke!
@nickcernoch For real! So expensive...
6yo goes to public school; I wonder if that $2 is subsidized somehow?
Lunch at 6yo's elementary school is $2 but lunch at 4yo's preschool is $5! So expensive!
RT @tejucole: When you wake up, you plan to be as wise as Prospero and as light as Ariel, but some idiot always brings out your inner Ca ...
Toddler claps for me when I start a load of laundry. Yay, me!
RT @jonathandcole: I like when people choose to be politically incorrect and just wind up being regularly incorrect.
My vehicle was just pushed put of a snow bank by 4 strangers. Winter here is not messing around this year.
Having a smoothie for dinner with coconut milk + avocado + fruit and it FOR REAL tastes like a milkshake.
It's not what you would call a *sophisticated* look.
I am wearing some right now, and I do sort of feel like it is something my 12-year-old self would like.
LOL-- Twitter, you are not in agreement as to the age appropriateness of glitter nail polish.
Is 34 too old for glitter nail polish?
@SKEdman Sounds pretty paleo to me. :)
@SKEdman Oh, you! Hang in there... Deep breaths.
RT @HonestToddler: Daddy called to say he'd be home late. Her face: http://t.co/4oLniOp7
@BeckShorter Wazoodle is a nice company, if they have what she's looking for.
@Katiekrongard "Who knows"-- exactly. Parenthood summed up.
@Katiekrongard My babies seem to go to 1 nap around 1st birthday, then drop naps around 2nd birthday.
Have now accused @DoctorMac of being part of the patriarchy for his attitude toward Downton Abbey.
I need some kind of good wife award because @DoctorMac has been playing video games all evening while Downton Abbey is on.
Twitter, you make me feel really motivated to catch up on Downton Abbey. Not that know when that is going to happen... I miss TV.
RT @DoctorMac: This just in: if you are 6, “butts” is the funniest word ever spake by mankind.
More snow! Tiny little balls of snow this time.
In the length of time it took me to do lunch dishes, toddler removed houseplant from pot. Houseplant that was on our mantel.
Cry havoc and let slip the toddlers of... war? chaos? I don't know, but there is a lot of havoc around here.
RT @worldofwire: @marcuschown  @DoctorKarl Mike Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture. h ...
Foggy morning walk http://t.co/02DFZDAo
I miss all the TV I used to watch when I only had one pre-verbal child.
RT @jasonboyett: "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that doctrine determines conclusions." http://t.co/GkEsYnzp Great post by @pete ...
I *may* have made terrible food decisions today. There *might* be tiny panties strewn about my living room.
Washing blocks that were dumped in the toilet, time-out for hitting, spelling words. THURSDAY NIGHT.
@Katiekrongard Yeah, what do you think about that length, over leggings +cami, but wrap and with full-length sleeves? Maybe 3/4 are cuter?
@Katiekrongard Very, very modest chambray.
@Katiekrongard My issue is that everyone was wearing chambray when I actually WAS a Christian homeschooler in the early 90s. :)
@Katiekrongard LOL-- me.
Fashion question: do you think a chambray wrap dress with long sleeves would be cute or Christian-patriarchy-homeschooler-y?
Pouring myself some wine.
GRAND HOMEWORK BATTLE. This happens about once a month with 6yo, when she is extra tired or quasi-sick.
@hollandsha LOL-- it can be pretty, um, interesting. Sometimes they sell mass-market versions in special displays at the Costcos here in UT.
@Selkie1970 She eats the parts of dinner she likes, i.e. the carbs. I exaggerate; she is finally becoming less picky about food.
When 6yo gets home from school, she eats a whole meal's worth of food, entirely carbs.
@Selkie1970 Indeed. "Mommy! Lewis has a snot!"
4yo thinks the word "snot" takes an indefinite article.
@ironsoap Ugh, that is horrifying.
Wonder what he wants? Lemonade, whiskey sour, a nice vinaigrette?
Toddler just brought me a lemon (from refrigerator, which was blocked by our rolling kitchen island) and the citrus juicer.
I am so impressed with @nancyholtzman's info for new moms on sleep, BFing, etc. Here's a bunch of FAQs from her: http://t.co/xrKnC3X5
P.S. Please don't steal those ideas if you are a first grader in my daughter's class.
Here are my top two ideas: http://t.co/P76K2qV3 PUN http://t.co/nbUkXO1V PUN
When did Valentine's become the holiday of puns? Everything is puns.
Browsing class Valentine ideas for my 1st grader because I would like to not be thrashing around at the last minute for once.
@DixieGirl The highs have been in the 20s and teens lately; I just can't believe her!
Walked to 6yo's elementary school to help with science fair stuff this morning. Fun! However, 9 degrees + no hat = no bueno. MAH EARS!!!
@HaleyNBurke Although if I did that she would probably then switch and only wear long sleeves.
4yo still insistent on only short sleeves. This set of 4T long-sleeved hand-me-downs is going to go largely unworn.
Tonight my toddler climbed into the bath fully clothed, diaper and all.
@bkhristen I remember last winter seeing women wear BALLET FLATS with NO SOCKS when it was 20° out. It's boot weather, you crazy people! :)
@SKEdman Did you really say that?! LOL
@SKEdman What is it with weather- related busybodies?
I have this in my oven this morning and it smells goooooooood: http://t.co/yb1ShOD5
@Jfpohl Aaaaaaaaah...
UPSIDE: I don't have to wash the slow cooker!
The crock part of my slow cooker cracked today so there's probably lead or something in the dinner we ate tonight.
4yo has been writing me "notes" today. http://t.co/BFHRiZ99
The suggested ages in that thing I just RT'd seem a bit old to me; we have been shifting all those categories younger.
RT @kristenhowerton: Resources for talking to your kids about race, racism, and civil rights history. http://t.co/VWj0ogyK
@BeckShorter "...need to talk to mom about something..." That is my new favorite thing.
@SKEdman Oh my gosh, so sweet. BABIES.
RT @jasonboyett: Dear @marshill: Please hire a new ghostwriter for @pastormark's twitter account. The current one is making him sound li ...
@SKEdman FOR REALS. That stuff is weird.
I've never been sure about that "togetherness" idea-- Why Is There A Winter Flu Season? http://t.co/8BIsyOp6
Also, it is still LIGHT at 5:30pm! The Earth has turned away from the solstice toward the equinox.
Yay for Sunday afternoon yoga! Bliss...
@bkhristen @haleynburke Thank you guys! I sort of wish I'd seen how it was edited, but I sort of hate hearing myself on video soooooo...
Home from church with sick toddler. Sigh... Hopefully we'll be all healthy in time for a new week to start.
@creamerdan @lucaswmuller @DoctorMac Well, it's streaming on Netflix-- "Iron Sky".
Hmmmmm, @DoctorMac has turned on some movie about Nazis on the far side of the Moon. I should go to bed.
@DixieGirl Um, no. I did however take a 2-hour nap. Hoping Lewis feels better before the week really starts.
Icy icy icicles http://t.co/dFwQqsD3
@NishWeiseth Here is a good video: http://t.co/Fr2js9hR I'd also love to help in person; L is sick so church is a maybe for me tomorrow?
@NishWeiseth I think the easiest for newborns is tummy-to-tummy, like in the top pic here: http://t.co/WcugMVEj
@NishWeiseth There is a learning curve to a ring sling but it is my FAVORITE for babies before they have head control or get too heavy.
@starstryder @krisshaffer Small world! I went to grad school with Pamela.
Croupy miserable baby! Terrible night! Will I still go to my yoga class this morning? Oh, the suspense...
@Katiekrongard We lived in CT when G was born and I loved going into the city so much. Lucky you guys!
@Katiekrongard One of my favorite places ever. New Yorkers love babies. Don't bother with stroller-- impossible on stairs for subways.
Holy 4-year-old breakdown, Batman !
Toddler looooooooves freeze-dried banana chips from Trader Joe's.
@WasatchFood Unless, you know, you have the kind of ethical/moral problem Ramsay does with debt.
@WasatchFood Yeah, our rate is SO low that it would be silly to pay more than minimum payment.
@WasatchFood We are really lucky; Rob's interest rate on his med school loans are RIDICULOUSLY low.
@WasatchFood Like for buying into a practice? Or trying to pay down med school loans faster than they make you?
I have a friend on Pinterest who keeps pinning the same haircut over &amp; over again. Has been going on for a WHILE now. PULL THE TRIGGER.
RT @sltrib: ‘Mother of all Inversions’ setting up house in northern Utah http://t.co/ZKTLB0Mg
Toddler is on a nap strike. Until about 5pm. SIGH...
@Katiekrongard This thing is on its THIRD kid. Our high chair was a lot better crevice-wise (the IKEA one) but this booster is gross.
I think that the most disgusting thing in our house might be the toddler's booster seat at the dining room table. Tiny crevices!
@SKEdman @SKEdman You are doing such an amazing thing! Also I really like your rainbow sling.
Sleeves I do not care for: puffed sleeves, those roll-up sleeves with buttoned tabs.
Mid-winter closet purge.
So useful!
So now I'm obsessing about where we will try to send our VERY SMALL children.
The school district sent us a thing about all the charter schools, special magnet high schools, etc they have here.
Wendell Berry on gay marriage: http://t.co/wDCAfJMp
Wendell Berry: “Heterosexual marriage does not need defending; it only needs to be practiced, which is pretty hard to do just now."
RT @DoctorMac: Maybe the greatest political commentary I've seen yet from @theonion: The 6 Best Dresses At The Golden Globes http://t.co ...
4yo only wants to wear short sleeves, preferably dresses with no leggings or anything. The high today is 12 degrees. BATTLES!
I've become one of those people who orders spices online. It's just more economical when you go through cumin like we do.
RT @lucaswmuller: Today at @missiodeislc, @kylecostello wore a tie &amp; started his sermon by talking about football so now we all live ...
6yo has read 4 Boxcar Children books since she got home from school Friday afternoon.
Ice on the inside of our 100-year-old windows this morning. Low temp last night was 3 degrees F.
Got my hair cut today &amp; think we went a LEETLE too short with my bangs, from cute-retro territory into crazy looking. Oh well, they'll grow.
@Selkie1970 I think it was Rob; I believe he was letting her play with the phone so he could watch football. So funny...
Apparently my 4yo was playing with @DoctorMac's phone. http://t.co/VABOHGii
@Katiekrongard I have one of those necklaces! Rob gave it to me; my word is "subvert". :)
I love square format pictures.
I don't have to pack lunches tonight-- hooray!
@SKEdman That's amazing!
A very snowy boy http://t.co/9ZjQuoGp
RT @glassbeed: The White House reply to the petition demanding they "begin construction of a Death Star": http://t.co/RQveUZzY (this rocks)
I would like to extend my congratulations to this week: http://t.co/UeU1EXgP
Pool filling up with snow http://t.co/mXrpwQ8M
The snow is not messing around out there today.  http://t.co/zNCOQ1us
Oh my gosh, you guys, so many cars stuck in these piles of snow...
Just took me an hour to drive 4yo and neighbor boy to their preschool. Would have given up several times if I hadn't had neighbor.
non-closing they claim the roads are plowed. They're not really, and FB people are MAD. Oh, so mad.
We've gotten 1+ foot of snow in last ~12 hours but our schools did not cancel. I follow the school district on FB and on announcement of
@HaleyNBurke Aaaaaaaaah... So glad you made it home safely. Or, I guess, mostly safely.
RT @jonathandcole: Everyone in SLC right now (including me): http://t.co/paDlLThM
The snow started!
Writing a question today about equinoxes, solstices, &amp; seasons. Have typed "tilted" so many times that it looks super weird/wrong now.
@Michaelfriberg I just picked up prints at Costco &amp; there was a fat envelope for you under your MIL's name right next to mine.
On the plus side, we got a REALLY good parking spot.
Yet again I have forgotten that Costco doesn't open until 10am. (@ Costco) http://t.co/JLHctkLG
He is not very discriminating; I have found tiny bite marks on apples, pears, unpeeled oranges, whole avocados.
When my back is turned, toddler likes to run to refrigerator, open produce drawers, &amp; pull something out to try to take bites of it.
Picked 4yo up from 2nd day at new preschool. Going very, very well so far. *fingers crossed*
When will he sit and watch TV long enough for me to shower?! That's what I want to know.
Halfway through my shower he WALKS INTO BATHROOM, upset but unharmed. Guess we can get rid of jumper now.
Exercised at a gym for 1st time in forever this morning. Came home to shower &amp; put 16mo in the jumper thingie with Blues Clues on.
Waiting to get toddler's 2nd flu shot. These waiting rooms terrify me, especially this time of year. NO ONE BREATHE ON MY CHILDREN.
Lovely data visualization: Census Dotmap http://t.co/8EnqeE6Y
RT @HonestToddler: The Nap Window http://t.co/cf38Z1zY
@Selkie1970 She's really excited right now; I hope hope HOPE it turns out to be a good fit.
Tomorrow 4yo starts preschool at the Jewish Community Center where 6yo went. Back to packing kosher lunches &amp; celebrating Jewish holidays!
music history in gifs: http://t.co/8gSsNGOv
@MsKristySteffen Um, that was ALL of my babies.
@SKEdman Yes, but a high-quality one.
@HaleyNBurke ME TOO.
@SKEdman Sort of-- http://t.co/h0y8Gv9c
@Katiekrongard Dryer sheets are also notoriously terrible for skin. An alternative is those felted wool balls you put in dryer with clothes.
@Katiekrongard I don't know; that would be weird.
@Katiekrongard If it is the detergent, some better kinds to try could be Charlie's, Country Save, Soap Nuts, etc. Or try Whole Foods.
@Katiekrongard Tide is notoriously awful for people with eczema or sensitive skin, even the supposed "free &amp; clear" kind.
RT @DoctorMac: OK, maybe not quite the next honey badger and Randall, but still pretty funny (and interesting!). http://t.co/fDeigBlr
So far in 2013 I have lost 6 lbs! My secret? Stomach virus!
@MaryLUE I haven't. I don't see myself being in the mood for it soon. :)
Stomach bug thoughts: cholera would be a terrible way to die.
@Katiekrongard He was so good in Three Kings, though.
We have no Gatorade so @DoctorMac has made me homemade oral rehydration salts.
@SKEdman R also just said you don't want to brave the ER on New Years unless you really need to.
@karenebayne I am the last one to get it here, and naturally I am the most sick.
Stomach bug! Happy New Year to me! Started puking last night before we even opened bottle of champagne.
@SKEdman spot, no tears, etc. In meantime, feed him tiny amounts very frequently, pay attention.
@SKEdman I just asked R and he said all they could do is IV fluids in ER. You don't want to do that until he is not peeing, sunken soft
Sigh... I just ripped my dress. I feel like I am way harder on clothes than a 34-year-old woman should be.
Soon 2012 will be behind us: http://t.co/2AcDLizM
The snow today is ridiculous, like feathers, or cotton candy. http://t.co/VBPHSbfU
@MaryLUE A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty-- Southern women-centered family drama. So compelling!
January's book club pick is way too engrossing. I keep staying up much too late reading it.
A last hurrah for Christmas at Zoo Lights http://t.co/Wa8X2B2n
Zoo Lights http://t.co/pxgRFbGD
@SKEdman Is it on Netflix? How are you watching it?
I've never actually seen a movie with Ryan Gosling in it.
Decade-old vacuum has decided to stop functioning. Floor covered in pine needles.
@Selkie1970 I have this in the slow cooker today and it smells wonderful: http://t.co/a0PvKw22
@NishWeiseth Oh, I liked her a lot too! That whole practice is so great.
@NishWeiseth Which of the midwives ended up attending your birth? Sandae Bonare is who I had Lewis with.
Cuddling with my toddler while he falls asleep has been so sweet/wonderful/amazing lately.
RT @DoctorMac: If anyone wants to hear, in exhaustive detail, the oral history of the founding of Equestria, have I got the 7 year-old f ...
@NishWeiseth LOL-- hang in there! And so much worse the 2nd time... Enjoy these amazing, intense first hours with your gorgeous tiny one.
Pinterest is shifting from chocolate and holiday baking to New Years resolution food and fitness ideas.
"...over half of all gains in child survival are the product of increases in women’s education." http://t.co/ZkUnZUO1
15mo thinks sippy cups are for BABIES and insists on open cups. Sadly, he is terrible at using them.
This tree may not even make it to New Years.
This tree + toddler combination is driving me CRAZY post-Christmas. This tree is not going to make it to Twelfth Night.
Spent the morning at one of those indoor bounce house places. EXTREME JOY. And now extreme drowsiness.
@jonathandcole @howiesmith @doctormac I am SO SORRY if any of my children gave this to any of you. Walking Petri dishes...
@jonathandcole @howiesmith @doctormac Yeah, we've had high fevers, aches/chills/etc, no vomiting, 1-2 days.
@jonathandcole @howiesmith @doctormac Probably Grace won't get it, because she has an immune system of steel and never gets sick. Me? Maybe?
@jonathandcole @howiesmith @doctormac Yeah, right around that over here too. I think L &amp; V are mostly over it, just Rob now.
I am eating leftover carrot dip: http://t.co/CWz0Mdtx I've been making this dip since it was published in F&amp;W 8 years ago; it is so good.
4yo and 6yo are both watching Star Trek TNG with @DoctorMac. I'm a little surprised.
For some reason he is obsessed right now and just wants to mess with it and pull stuff and shake the branches to release showers of needles.
Our tree may get taken down VERY early this year. Toddler was really good about leaving it alone all December but NO MORE.
On the plus side, GORGEOUS HEAPS OF FLUFFY SNOW.
Now @DoctorMac appears to have fallen victim to whatever virus the toddler and the 4yo had in the past few days. Sigh...
RT @SKEdman: GAH, people! Some of us have not seen Downton yet! No spoilers!
In my 6yo's defense, she decided it couldn't include @DoctorMac because he helped her wrap it.
A Christmas message from my 6yo: "Dear family, except Dad," http://t.co/UxnyodVV
@Michaelfriberg That was so cool! And I don't think it's just the champagne talking.
Aftermath http://t.co/6IbMCSJ5
RT @DoctorMac: Yes, this is what our Christmas morning looks like. http://t.co/gx2ZUi3E
Merry Christmas, Twitter friends! http://t.co/s9uYh7GA
@SKEdman Yay yay yay yay!
A light shines in the darkness http://t.co/Q6D9D56j
The family! http://t.co/NNJR8w8J
Time for our Christmas Eve service @missiodeislc  http://t.co/AGZaRZlQ
White Christmas! http://t.co/EuuXYkXN
We've now had four years with sweet Violet: http://t.co/bLETe9Kd
I'd guess that makes the holiday photo card a Gen X phenomenon. I guess Millennials will just text us.
I'd estimate that 90% of the Christmas letters we get (you know, our family did blah blah blah) are from Baby Boomers.
My new theory: the Christmas letter is a Baby Boomer phenomenon.
Of course, I kind of want to buy it.
Whaaaaat? http://t.co/IWX9hxyi
I was very thankful to not have kids with me, but actually it wasn't that much worse than a busy weekend.
I MADE IT OUT ALIVE. (@ Costco) http://t.co/0EU2dXe4
I'm going to go to Costco today. So, you know, pray for me.
@chaseafterwind Happy birthday! Today is my sister's birthday too.
@HaleyNBurke I love Downton Abbey; if you normally like that type of thing (British period soap opera) then I'd stick with it for a while.
@beffiesmith She voluntarily took a nap today (she hasn't napped regularly in YEARS) and now she is an absolute wreck. Poor sweet thing...
My newly-minted 4yo appears to be getting sick. So glad we're not traveling or anything.
@HaleyNBurke Me tooooooooooo... It's a Christmas miracle!
We are all feeling the effects of such a party this morning, but it was totally worth it.
From last night's joint daddy-daughter birthday extravaganza:  http://t.co/x04lsOc4
Birthday girl http://t.co/5xmcTGwS
RT @kylecostello: Getting ready to celebrate the birthdays of the hippest Allergist (@DoctorMac) and one of the coolest 4 year olds I know.
@hollandsha gently roll the top of the cupcake in the sprinkles. It does use up a lot of sprinkles.
@hollandsha Yeah-- put on some frosting (it can look terrible), pour the sprinkles or sparkly colored sugar in a pie plate, then sort of
@hollandsha I did! I can't do real cake decorating so I tend to just roll cupcakes in decorating sugar or sprinkles or something. :)
Cupcakes! http://t.co/548kG9DP
Violet is 4! http://t.co/nqmTUPh5
Birthday dinner date @ Fresco Italian Cafe http://t.co/KUqCMBm9
Grace and I are here for The Nutcracker @ Capitol Theatre http://t.co/AcWelsXA
Just posted a photo @ Capitol Theatre http://t.co/3O7W8NL3
When Rob was a baby, his parents bought a case of this wine and drank a bottle every year on his birthday. T http://t.co/XrJc7hKk
Today is @DoctorMac's birthday!
RT @rachelheldevans: Trying to understand how people can think gay marriage has a more logical connection to gun violence than guns.
@BeckShorter I'm not sure how exactly they manage to make that so perfectly designed for a certain set. My 6yo loooooooooves it.
@Michaelfriberg I'm officially a contractor but they manage to pay me every month for the hours I work.
@Michaelfriberg How do these people get away with this? You all should RISE UP and REVOLT.
I try super hard to just roll with the unpredictable schedules of babies/toddlers but this stage is annoying me.
So I guess my toddler doesn't nap until almost 3pm now? Unless we take a car ride?
RT @EliTerry: The only way to protect ourselves from eagle attacks is of course MORE eagles. Fill our homes with these gentle, knife cla ...
RT @HonestToddler: Santa if you saw the video of that eagle trying to snatch a human baby please know I had nothing to do with that.
RT @rachelheldevans: Suddenly There's A Meadow In The Ocean With 'Flowers' Everywhere : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR http://t.co/AoDmzztk
RT @missiodeislc: In case you missed it - An incredible interpretation of The Way, the Truth, and the Life from our Missio crew. https:/ ...
Maybe the eagle-baby thing is fake? http://t.co/WtE40Fyi
@Selkie1970 Definitely could be.
WOW: Golden Eagle Snatches Kid: http://t.co/A62h0cXr
RT @phdinparenting: For each legal shot of a gun in home for protection there are 4 unintentional, 7 assault/homicide, 11 suicide/attemp ...
@Selkie1970 "propping her up" as is, which is of course what we're supposed to do, but hopefully right environment will help her mature.
@Selkie1970 Dr yesterday is thinking that moving her toward more structure and social interaction will be more helpful. We're doing a lot of
Thinking about preschool again for 3yo after our appointment yesterday. The break has been good, but where do we go from here?
"typical" taste for her age group. And then I get whiplash.
So sometimes on Pinterest, there is a bunch of stuff from @NashSLC and then a bunch of stuff from a 15-year-old girl with, shall we say,
I will say that the new Flickr iPhone app is very nice. And good timing on their part, right?
Granted, Texas A&amp;M was ridiculously affordable, even at the time, but STILL.
There are preschools in Salt Lake that cost more than @DoctorMac and I paid for our university education in the late 1990s.
Apparently have lost the ability to put toddler to sleep. Spent 1.5 hours last night putting him down, going on 1 hour today for his nap.
@SKEdman I've been a little out-of-pocket on Twitter lately so I apologize if you've already said this-- is he latching at all now?
@SKEdman Oh, that's so amazing! You have been such an amazing job pushing through a hard beginning!
RT @sarahbessey: "May we come to see the breast-feeding women in our midst not as sacrilegious temptresses but as living icons of God's  ...
@ironsoap UGH, Dobson. He has been part of my reality since childhood. He is unbearable, on everything from parenting to politics.
@Selkie1970 A few. This time was more an introduction, trying to see if there are issues worth pursuing.
@MsKristySteffen This place has behavioral therapists, social workers, &amp; psychologists-- more for behavioral, mental health issues.
I do, however, feel absolutely drained and exhausted.
Am sad to report, though, that he did not FIX EVERYTHING IN ONE APPOINTMENT. :)
Had first therapy appointment today for my sweet, lovely, challenging, beautiful 3yo. Went pretty well.
@karenebayne @BeckShorter @pnuts_mama My middle daughter was born on December 22 and her middle name really is Noelle. :)
@HaleyNBurke Do it. A day off is a good thing.
Airline tickets have been purchased for @DoctorMac to go to Haiti in February. Seems a little more real!
3yo: "An ANGEL told the SHEPHERDS!" Me: "What did he tell them?" 3yo: "About SHEEP."
My 6yo just walked off to her first grade classroom.
Cried. So. Much. This weekend.
@hollandsha @selkie1970 @karenebayne I also think the Wii is the way to go. Wii bowling is a HUGE hit with my 3-6yo girls. Very fun.
"Silent Night" by Johnny Cash = YES.
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by Pedro the Lion = YES.
@Jfpohl The Voyagers officially left the Solar System just this year.
@krisshaffer It is so pretty!
@Jfpohl Astronomy! Yay!
@MsKristySteffen This has just knocked me over. We ended up telling G simple version of what happened, partly because I just keep crying.
@sarahbessey I am feeling such grief over this.
@sarahbessey My oldest daughter is in 1st grade, like yours, and she shares a name with one of the little girls who was killed.
On the other hand, I know that the data on gun control actually changing anything is super weak: http://t.co/uOXvHSSj
This strikes me as so, so reasonable: Do We Have the Courage to Stop This? http://t.co/oCh93G8c
The children murdered yesterday were all in the same grade as my oldest, and one of them has her name.
RT @sarahbessey: A lament for Sandy Hook http://t.co/a0aExhsc
Snowing this morning but still decided to wear flip flops to Pilates. Cold toes!
Hmmmm, sob in bed or wrap some Christmas presents? I think I'll try for the latter.
@krisshaffer Best children's Bible ever.
RT @jasonboyett: A great Shadow. I want everything sad to come untrue. #adventpeace http://t.co/5qnQ28eX
@DoctorMac Did ESPN punk everyone with that URL? Funny.
Toddler has arrived at the age where if he is playing happily by himself, not clamoring for attention, he is 90% likely to have pooped.
I like this, on many levels: http://t.co/aqdGsouU
I keep thinking I am so over those Ryan Gosling tumblrs but then I see a new one and I laugh.
RT @d_l_mayfield: best prank of victoria's secret ever. love the models too: http://t.co/YCliyesE "saying no is now seen as a way of fli ...
@Selkie1970 It is one of my favorite TV shows ever, up there with The X-Files and Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica.
@Selkie1970 I haven't watched her new show but she was amazing/hilarious/awesome on Gilmore Girls.
How much do I not want to do these dishes? A LOT.
RT @rjallain: When students leave units off their answers, I add "Chickens per square meter" on the end for them.
@HaleyNBurke I do. I really do.
@bkhristen I don't really like eggplant much, but this is wonderful: http://t.co/dUVmt6Kp
Running errands in the morning = short car nap = no real nap = SIGH.
Amazing photography of last month's total solar eclipse: http://t.co/S9tfJ65e
@creamerdan What on EARTH would you do with that many peppermint Joe-Joes?!
ALSO also, I too saw someone literally filling her cart with peppermint Joe-Joes. @jonathandcole @creamerdan @wrightinthecity
Where did the last ~5 years go? Also, why didn't they have cashew macadamia nut butter?
Wow, going into that Trader Joe's was like some kind of intense sensory flashback to when my oldest was a toddler.
I'm about to enter a Trader Joe's for the first time since we moved away from Connecticut in 2008.
On a date! Sort of, at Rob's work Christmas party. http://t.co/HzyW3Fo6
Still snowing, still beautiful.
Just sent off 6yo to walk to school in quiet, softly-falling snow. So beautiful out there.
@MaryLUE Agreed. Turns out it was the only part I remembered at all accurately. Hadn't seen it in 10+ years.
RT @DoctorMac: Watched White Christmas thinking it was about Christmas. Was a malicious lie. So bored. Thinking of converting.
We just gave 2 stars to White Christmas.
Soooooo... the movie White Christmas is not as awesome as I remember it. Blasphemy?
@hollandsha That one is soooooooo good.
@NishWeiseth I hear you, mama.
I never think about a dog more longingly than when I'm cleaning the children's food off the floor.
@HaleyNBurke It was so good.
A Christmas PSA: White Christmas is on Netflix instant viewing.
@HaleyNBurke I'm going to nap/massage/restorative yoga today at 4pm, if you're in the mood for that. :)
I wonder how many times is too many to post pictures of your own Christmas tree? http://t.co/dpQLBgxa
Wow, CRAZY. No parking, too busy-- I'm not going to go in today. (@ Trader Joes w/ 5 others) http://t.co/PpYKtbdo
@MsKristySteffen Yeah, but then you wouldn't be holding a sleeping new baby. :)
This little one was up all night coughing. YAWN... http://t.co/dFZs6Ngk
@hollandsha Someone told me once about a time-traveling Viking Navy SEAL erotica series! I guess this is it!
@SKEdman Wow, that's fabulous!
@bkhristen That is a favorite at our house. I swear it is what finally taught Grace how to blend sounds into words.
At toddler's 15-month check-up. 4 vax, then blood draw to check how anemia is doing. Poor baby...
@chaseafterwind I would rather know. Surprises are not my love language. :)
6yo is reading the last Ramona book; she loooooooooves them. She literally cried when Picky-Picky died.
Salt Lake's 1st ever Trader Joe's opened a week ago; word on the street is that is has been CRAZY. Think it might be safe to go today?
Every Wednesday night that I make it to church is some kind of miracle. Weeknight, tired small children, etc-- ROUGH.
RT @DoctorMac: You can't tell the difference btwn cheap and expensive wine, but you CAN taste the difference btwn identical coffees. htt ...
RT @NishWeiseth: LOVE IT when Luke pulls out his soapbox! RT @lukeharms: On Modesty and Male Privilege http://t.co/OTfkinYQ
Also, he keeps trying to eat the girls' discarded banana peels.
1yo must have grown a bit because he keeps conking his head on the dining room table, where I think he used to just walk under it.
HE WILL LOVE IT.
I don't have anything for toddler's stocking yet. Think I will just fill it with the cherry pitter, the muddler, the tea infuser, etc.
Putting him to bed now, so probably now that I've gloated he will be awake in 1.5 hours. :)
Toddler slept in his own room until 6am last night-- a new lifetime record for him. He is doing so well transitioning out of our room!
@SKEdman Oh, heavens-- TRAUMA. Anyway, DM me your address; I'll send the diapers on one of my Christmas post office runs.
@SKEdman Oh gosh, hang in there-- what a rough path to be walking down. You are doing SO GREAT.
Do I know anybody who is cloth diapering a girl? I am clearing out some things &amp; will give you a very good deal. :)
@emthecoolest Yay! Ask her if she got our FB messages about Friday, moving to earlier time. :)
Poor toe...
GROSS &amp; TMI: I gave myself a periungual abscess on my run today. Since I'm married to a physician, I find out the names for these things.
I just used my last tiny bit of lard; our farmer is always out of stock &amp; I can never buy it. Hopefully my cast iron will not suffer.
Know what bothers me irrationally? Naked baby dolls. I dress them.
@karenebayne I love that idea so much. How do you do the frosting so it looks like you cut a cake in half?
On my run this afternoon. @ Sugarhouse Park http://t.co/o6oeM1mF
@Selkie1970 I think we'll go with breakfast for dinner.
I have no idea what to make for dinner. And it is 3pm already.
@NishWeiseth And I REALLY don't know how I would do it with smaller children around.
@NishWeiseth Ironically, she would probably be pretty great to homeschool but the conventional classroom is a good fit for her.
@NishWeiseth awesome teacher Mrs B, etc. She considered for a moment, then expressed agreement. :)
@NishWeiseth Something about how because of the kind of person she is, we think it is good for her to be in class with other kids, with her
My structure-loving, rule-following 6yo sounded a little disapproving of their unschooling ways. :)
Apparently we have some "unschooler" types at church because she said some of her church friends can do whatever they want for school.
A lot of families at our church homeschool, and this Monday morning over breakfast, our 1st grader asked why she wasn't homeschooled. :)
@Michaelfriberg Yeah, that would be super interesting and great. I don't know of any but big ones like Shabby Apple, DownEast Basics, etc.
@Michaelfriberg That is so awesome. I really hope you get to do this.
Cosmetic I do not understand: bronzer. Always looks muddy and orange on me.
@MaryLUE help her cope with life in her own way. We have an appointment with a professional type person in a few weeks for some perspective.
@MaryLUE It's good to hear that they can just grow out of some of it. I DO think it is just temperament; we just need to figure out how to
It's been a challenging weekend with our 3yo. Sigh... I so want her to be happy and well-adjusted.
This is my PhD advisor, hitting the big time on NPR-- Which Came First: The Galaxy Or The Black Hole? http://t.co/5SJLTM9c
We got our bulletin board project for the girls' new room finished! http://t.co/3WrV4aoZ
Christmas tea with some friends @ The Grand America Hotel http://t.co/McHZx5wh
I'm just listening to the She &amp; Him Christmas album over and over again.
This is the 10th Christmas tree Rob and I have decorated together. http://t.co/zB5TBKRQ
Ornaments are on tree. 3yo nearly apoplectic with excitement.
Lewis is 15 months old now: http://t.co/LmsCLNRn
We used to just put up the tree in one fell swoop but in recent years it has been a multi-day process.
Christmas tree is still just 1/2 decorated but I did manage to vacuum and put away some tools so house is slightly less disastrous.
Duct-taping board books back together. Toddlers, man-- super destructive.
On the plus side, tonight I ate a cupcake-- a CHOCOLATE RED WINE BRIE cupcake. Yeah.
We are about 1/3 done getting our Christmas tree up and the house is a disaster.
Buying a Christmas tree!
The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma: http://t.co/uVVozVAJ
Worth watching full screen: "Leonid and Zodiacal Light" on Vimeo http://t.co/5XSzlvT2 Thanks, @astropixie!
Running errands in the morning without the dreaded 10-minute car nap feels like I WON THE LOTTERY.
@SKEdman I hear you on this. Literally queasy, especially in those newborn weeks.
1yo just pointed at my face and laughed. Not sure how I should take that.
Also, have you googled "askew"?
When one eats breakfast at 5am, one is very, very hungry by 9am.
@HaleyNBurke Yes, she's currently kind of judge-y about unhealthy food. Until there is candy somehow available.
@HaleyNBurke get it anyway." Then she asked me if she had diabetes.
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- yesterday she said, "This week we're learning about the disease you get when you eat unhealthy food, except some people
@SKEdman I loooooooooooove him.
I need to knock out the rest of my Christmas gift planning/shopping/etc.
1yo is wearing plaid pants today, which is never not funny.
I'm still feeling thankful: http://t.co/VQygsle0
@Katiekrongard congregational worship, taking communion with people I love, showing up even when it's hard, etc are all important.
@Katiekrongard Very true. I was just remembering all the times I've wanted to say, "Screw it! It's too hard!" but then been convicted that
@Katiekrongard It's about, you know, the Church.
@Katiekrongard Of course there is grace for a hard day but in recent years I've been convicted that church isn't about me.
@Katiekrongard Occasionally things do have to give, but showing up to church isn't mostly about me, my needs, my life going smoothly, etc.
@Katiekrongard our community, that I value them, etc. It is such a challenging season, though.
@Katiekrongard but I've always been convicted that showing up is important. Maybe just for everybody else in the room to know I care about
@Katiekrongard I've struggled with this in different seasons. It's hard, sometimes your baby isn't well &amp; you have to meet her needs, etc
RT @rachelheldevans: The abortion rate just hit an all-time low. http://t.co/3gcpS8OQ
@bkhristen LOL-- I bet no one but you notices. :)
AAUGH, I have ruined the mayonnaise through overconfidence!
@bkhristen Also, I have that happen more with cheapie polish.
@bkhristen My theory on that is too-thick layers. Do more but thinner coats. If polish won't go thinner, then it's too old/gloppy.
RT @rachelheldevans: Interesting: We're living the dream; we just don't realize it http://t.co/X7RfQ662
On a date with my eldest. @ Green House Coffee http://t.co/na1ffb97
@jonathandcole That place is nice! I want to see that IMAX Hubble movie they have (had?) on.
@bkhristen We had such a fun time with you two at the zoo! You should have seen how much lunch my girls ate. :)
How many delicious things have I eaten/drunk today? ALL THE DELICIOUS THINGS.
@Selkie1970 Yes, would be good. Quicker = less dry = less scorching. So sorry to hear about your family's hard health news.
@Selkie1970 I think butterflying the turkey and roasting directly on oven rack over veggies could yield good results even with no brining.
@Selkie1970 We used to always do it like this: http://t.co/XEgSZwTZ Just overnight brining. Also delicious, but more effort while less time.
This year we did our turkey like this: http://t.co/q0Wt7QJ4 STAMP OF APPROVAL. Ratio of reward to effort is very high.
What a lovely Thanksgiving celebration... I'm so thankful for our community here. Thank you, @creamerdan, @HaleyNBurke, &amp; @SkyeGarn!
RT @DoctorMac: Aftermath http://t.co/fYTrJEmP
It's too bad you can't Instagram smells because my house smells AMAZING right now.
@kathykrey Oh no! Rob &amp; I were just reminiscing last night about the traffic up and down I-35 this weekend from college days.
Jaw-dropping beauty. Seriously.
You know what is a MIRACLE that, like, proves the existence of a loving God? Wee little sleeping boys with rosy cheeks, that's what.
Here he is, sleeping in his own room for the first time EVER. http://t.co/3gQZ6Cd6
YOU GUYS. My baby is asleep in his own room for the first time ever. EVER.
I guess I will make exception for beer and wine.
Sometimes I wonder why people bothered to come up with alcoholic beverages other than whiskey.
Making a game plan for tomorrow. http://t.co/TIU3fkC2
I'm thankful for this Meyer lemon whiskey sour. http://t.co/tzN6K9Cf
@SKEdman Yay, baby Jack!
I honestly can't remember if I saw the first Twilight movie or just all the trailers.
@HaleyNBurke I always forget exactly where you work. Next time we shall come interrupt your pastry work!
Me, RE: IKEA's magical forest of SMALAND: "We can't stay here forever." 3yo: "Yes, we caaaaaaaaaaan," channeling her inner Obama.
Am NOT a plant person.
RT @DoctorMac: @juliasilge Don't you try to come between Spidery and me. We all know I'm the only person in this house that cares if she ...
Am buying a pot for the spider plant 6yo brought home from pre-K. Guess this means I am committing to try to keep it alive.
Really busy here. But better than after Thanksgiving? (@ IKEA) http://t.co/3LiCpIm5
@Michaelfriberg There are half a dozen cars here waiting with me. 11am is just silly.
Waiting for the liquor store to open. Oh, Utah... (@ State Wine &amp; Liquor Store #41) http://t.co/DIvDuxI0
Dude. This toddler is trying to destroy our house.
And now 1yo has broken off some decorative bits of a bookshelf.
@MaryLUE I rue the day he learned how to unscrew things. He is shockingly dexterous.
1yo found my mascara while I was starting a load of laundry. Looks like he tried to apply it to insides of his nose and ear.
RT @HonestToddler: Toddler Tip: Parents love waking up to the sound of you cry screaming. They'll never admit it but it makes them feel  ...
1yo is starting to develop an interest in books other than as something to eat.
@reemeyer We're trying this this year: http://t.co/q0Wt7QJ4 Alton Brown has yet to lead me astray. :)
@SKEdman Dude, you are giving me postpartum flashbacks.
Time to spatchcock a turkey.
I took my temperature half a dozen times today and it was normal until ~6pm.
So this is the 3rd evening in a row I have had fever/dizziness/headache/etc, after feeling mostly OK during the day. So weird.
@SKEdman That is so great! You are doing such an amazing job; hang in there...
@HaleyNBurke, WHAT?! I seriously think that would make me throw up. At the very least, I wouldn't be able to hold my hands still.
@SKEdman Nooooooooo... Hang in there.
@ironsoap Um, are you criticizing Lyle Lovett? I believe that is not allowed.
@MsKristySteffen Oh, the SLEEP. No question for me.
@scottao11 They've been sharing a room since V was 18mo but it's great to have them upstairs now so L can move out of OUR room soon. :)
Girls slept in their new bunk beds in their new room last night. http://t.co/SWYCLFKS
RT @rachelheldevans: Wrote a post for CNN: "My Take: The danger of calling behavior ‘biblical’"   http://t.co/4xynxrAm
RT @Wolf_Mommy: The breast, the sling, the family bed: these are not symbols of female oppression. They are tools of female power.
Had a rough end-of-the-day parenting-wise. Now, of course, they are all sweetly sleeping angels.
1yo will eat ALL the breakfast sausage.
Building bunk beds again/still. Tiny allen wrenches!
My girls are tucked into their basement bedroom for probably the very last time. Almost time for the move to upstairs bunk beds!
@karenebayne One of my college rituals was to watch Clueless and Emma back to back with my roommates.
RT @Space_Kitty: Most hillarable thing I've ever read.  Warning:  gross.  BUT SO FUNNY http://t.co/gNi3ZGNE #OnlyBecauseItWasntMe
Putting together some bunk beds. OH YEAH.
@bkhristen I am such a weakling; past 2 cups I turn all shaky and nauseous.
1yo has camo sleeves on his hand-me-down shirt. My inner pacifist does not like this.
Am offering oatmeal to children for 1st time in about a year. 6yo actually eating it; 3yo still full of HORROR at such a substance.
Cold care tea, honey, cloves, bourbon. Still not feeling so great. http://t.co/KspywGlT
@Katiekrongard @bkhristen No, the flu shot does not protect against stomach viruses, just straight-up influenza.
@SKEdman He looks SO much like Jane to me in this picture!
Apparently ~10 years is all that our old can opener had in him. Him? I feel like a can opener would be a man.
CRAZY TIMES ON A THURSDAY AFTERNOON!!! I just bought: 'EZ-DUZ-IT Deluxe Can Opener with Black Grips' http://t.co/i5QBKPKZ
@MaryLUE That's true; I have never lived in So Cal, Hawaii, etc. I guess there are places with very constant weather.
Cold front pushing mass of warm mass ahead of it, etc etc.
Also, everywhere I have lived, people say, 'Don't like the weather here in ____? Just wait 5 minutes!' That is the WAY WEATHER WORKS.
Everywhere I have lived, people say, 'Oh, the drivers here are SO TERRIBLE." No, friends, they are not: http://t.co/3QMkGXQm
Hello, yellow. http://t.co/7482OP96
@emthecoolest I'm glad I got out too.
I have ordered my Christmas cards! And I am starting to feel a bit in the holiday spirit!
Do you know me in real life and want to send me your up-to-date mailing address? I sure would be happy if you did: http://t.co/fxt908lo
Also, within the past week, 1yo has learned how to climb to the tops of both the dining room table and our upright piano.
Only 1 out of my 3 children is wearing pants. Fortunately, it's the one at school who does have them on.
Painter is here busy painting what will become girls' new bedroom! One step closer to 1yo being in his own room! Tra la la!
RT @rachelheldevans: Interesting: Election 2012 Marks the End of Evangelical Dominance in Politics - Jonathan Merritt - The Atlantic htt ...
@SKEdman Hooray! That is so, so good to hear.
RT @DoctorMac: This part of this children's Bible has always cracked me up. http://t.co/xM1m0B7q
I just ordered size 7 shoes for my 14mo toddler. His 3yo sister is wearing size 8 right now.
@kathykrey It's like sugar is bad for you or something.
@SKEdman So it's a pedi dentist that diagnosed it, was willing to fix it? LC sent you to him?
@SKEdman Wow! I am really glad they identified it! And how much does it say that the ENT thought it was all fine?
@HaleyNBurke I'm a lot better now. This is because a) he is not a resident anymore and b) I have grown up some.
@HaleyNBurke I used to end up crying every time Rob and I would have a budget talk.
Melt melt melty melt melt.
A case of fish oil got spilled and it smells AWFUL here today. (@ Whole Foods Market) http://t.co/lEQBw3qd
So thankful that @DoctorMac is back home, before I started putting the children to bed in the 5 o'clock hour or something.
@Michaelfriberg Yes! We should all be there on Sunday.
Rolling http://t.co/z1PegIVl
I've never eaten raw butternut squash before.
I'm eating this for lunch: http://t.co/3HITfYaY Kind of a weird thing to eat when there's so much snow piled up outside, but good!
Saturn V rocket described using only 1000 most common English words: http://t.co/9doNlxDv
@Jfpohl :)
@Jfpohl make me twitchy, both on statistics/science level and personal level.
@Jfpohl I'm not an obesity apologist who's all, 'It's fine! Eat Twinkies! Doesn't matter!" It's just that headlines like that one earlier
@Jfpohl And of course, this is partly personal, as my BMI hasn't been "healthy" since my hyperthyroidism was controlled.
@Jfpohl with national narrative and rhetoric about BMI, obesity, etc.
@Jfpohl Don't get me wrong; I think standard American diet can kill you, body not meant to be sedentary, etc. I'm deeply uncomfortable
@Jfpohl Well, on committee for 1998 decision, 3 people were from pharma diet pill companies, 1 from Weight Watchers advisory board.
@Jfpohl I totally see that we have a food/exercise/health problem but I think language/rhetoric around obesity reeks of moral panic.
@Jfpohl Obesity standards were changed in 1998 (overweight/obese BMI ranges lowered); not usually taken into account in headlines like that.
@Selkie1970 Yeah, they've been doing pretty well with sleep. Tonight they were in bed by 6:45pm-- LOL.
Every night that @DoctorMac is gone, I put the children to bed earlier and earlier.
Wow, just learned there was a WWII Japanese internment camp in Utah: http://t.co/ubcRAh8u
@DrSilge Um, WHAT. Somebody is not trying very hard.
Also, we lost power for ~15 min again. Lines must be snapping or something.
I did dig the chickens out a bit and give them warm water, more food, straw, etc.
I just tried to shovel a bit, but it is SERIOUSLY still dumping buckets of snow. Sisyphus and all.
There are chickens underneath there. http://t.co/U4dOG6EC
It's been snowing for three days. http://t.co/91EXAJxd
@NishWeiseth Things have gone a lot smoother this weekend than I thought they might. The older they all get, the easier I am finding it.
@Selkie1970 They say whole continental US is more likely to lose a chicken to heat than to cold.
@Selkie1970 Buy cold-hardy breeds, &amp; then just give them plenty of straw and make sure their water isn't frozen. They're low-maintenance.
@HaleyNBurke I have no snow tires, Rob is not here... I just decided.
@Michaelfriberg That is gorgeous.
@HaleyNBurke Oooooooooh, really?! You may have just changed my mind about church.
@NishWeiseth It is not messing around out there.
I can't even imagine what it looks like up at the ski resorts.
OK, it is snowing AGAIN. There is a serious amount of snow out there. Snow banks up about 2/3 the height of our chicken coop.
Dinosaur time @ Natural History Museum of Utah http://t.co/k0jzJDgU
Yesterday for dinner I had several donuts. Today for lunch I had an entire bunch of kale. I eat really weird food when @DoctorMac is away.
Are the roads pretty OK, SLC people? I told the girls yesterday we were going to @NHMU today.
I love how bright it is with all this white snow outside. I love winter so much, you guys. Now that my power is back on, I mean.
Power! Hooray!
6yo keeps asking me what needs electricity to work-- the TV? the lights in this room? the refrigerator? the baby gates? (no, for once)
Can I even open my garage manually if I want to drive somewhere? Or am I stuck? Do I want to drive in this anyway?
@rogers_levi Oh man, I was about to walk down there to see you guys!
That tree is not a conifer, FYI, just really weighed down by snow.
Still no power. It might have something to do with this. http://t.co/qRxoCaih
@Katiekrongard Yep. Over an hour now.
Need to get in the shower ASAP before hot water disappears.
Hmmmmm, wonder how long our power will be off? Snowing again/still.
@Michaelfriberg Did your twitter get hacked?
@SKEdman Yeah, I feel like that got more intense with each birth.
@reemeyer Rob is reading Peter Enns' book on the OT and thinks it's really interesting/helpful. It's on my list.
RT @johndyer: Yikes: Infographic on what the 2012 election map would have looked like if women and minorities still couldn't vote: http: ...
@SKEdman That postpartum shower is one of the best things ever.
Really sugary things make me feel so sick. WHY DO I EAT THEM? Stupid Banbury Cross...
@jonathandcole I have literally seen a box of "miscellaneous items" be taken. Also, a box of doll heads. DOLL HEADS.
Disturbing http://t.co/SmanT0JS
I've pulled him off the table a dozen times today. http://t.co/KXPjFObg
@charmingbeard That is right by my house. I wonder how many free pour-overs you all will give me...
@ironsoap Also, a box of doll heads. DOLL HEADS.
@ironsoap I literally have seen people say they were offering boxes full of "miscellaneous items" and it got taken.
People will take *anything* you put on Freecycle. For reals.
@krisshaffer Rob and I were *just* talking about the food anthropomorphism yesterday. "Now we shall eat this sentient cheese!"
Just put a working computer monitor on Freecycle and had somebody say they want it within 60 seconds.
The snooooooooow! I love it soooooo much! Seriously, it makes me goofily happy.
@NishWeiseth The hardest for me is the solo bath/bed routine. All 3 still need so much help and they're all so exhausted by then.
I mean, *parenting* solo until Monday afternoon. Apparently you can also wish me better spelling.
Patenting solo until Monday afternoon. Wish me luck!
Dropping off @DoctorMac at the airport in quite a little snowstorm. I guess planes can take off in this?
@SKEdman Yay yay yay! Congratulations!
RT @DoctorMac: Way to go racist Utahns. At least we're not Alabama or Mississippi? http://t.co/Hcw9WfOD
@DoctorMac She wrote it, however.

I did not realize that was Weird Al. Weird Al + Sandra Boynton is a great combination.
Song I have stuck in my head: "I Need a Nap" by @SandyBoynton. Boy, do I.
Utah, I will forgive you if you come through on this promised snow tomorrow.
70 degrees in November? I expect this kind of crap from Texas, but not from you, Utah.
Windy!
@SKEdman I think that's OK.
Discovered this image of the Earth and the Moon while working yesterday, and it kind of blew my mind: http://t.co/ZOxffbyg
My 6yo, the only one who has someplace to be first-thing this morning, has now been sleeping 1+ hour longer than her 2 siblings.
There are Instagram web profiles now. I like it: http://t.co/9q3grabD
@wrightinthecity Flannery O'Connor is the best. I have a friend who loves her so much she named her daughter Flannery-- kind of awesome.
So sleepy, but house is SUCH a mess.
@krisshaffer I say that as basically a Calvinist.
@krisshaffer I have issues with that whole neo-Calvinist crowd-- gender issues, views on science, politics, etc.
Also as usual, sort of wishing I was Catholic like Flannery O'Connor, Stephen Colbert, etc.
Also, somewhat annoyed with Albert Mohler, as usual.
This makes me glad we support World Vision: After Election 2012 | Christianity Today http://t.co/tEPUa42K
@BeckShorter This is a problem I have as well.
Toddler asleep; time to sip some Earl Grey and write some astronomy questions.
@Michaelfriberg "Better for them not to have been BORRRRRRRRN..."
RT @DoctorMac: Hmmmm. To unfried, or just hide? That is the question.
@bkhristen LOL-- I JUST CAN'T EVEN with that kind of thinking.
Today's Facebook moment: someone saying she probably wouldn't have had children if she knew "this" was coming.
The rise of good statisticians in this election has made me inordinately happy-- xkcd: Math http://t.co/UrXbQSpu
RT @kathykrey: Data analysts won “experts” lost. Yea for data scientist nerds like me! http://t.co/y9FJBRlN
Tried to explain the slightly more complicated reality to her.
LOL-- just learned that 6yo's fellow 1st grader said he likes Obama because Romney would take money from poor people to give to rich people.
RT @jasonboyett: Hey, guys? It's going to be OK. The same voices predicting the collapse of America also predicted a Romney win. They're ...
@BeckShorter Well, it doesn't seem like a time to gloat, even if I am happy about how things turned out.
RT @sethmnookin: I'm sorry son, you need to go to sleep. Nate Silver projects your bedtime to be between 7:52 and 8:16 93.8% of the time.
RT @jonathandcole: But WHICH Biblical values should I vote for??
@ironsoap Especially when Obama is a professing Christian, as in has literally said he trusts Jesus Christ as his Savior. Things are weird.
@krisshaffer Seriously. SIGH...
@SKEdman LOL-- I think I like it better when you're not eating sugar. Your taste in food is a little *too* good. Temptress! :)
RT @jasonboyett: THIS. This is an amazing graphic: http://t.co/wRXGGQN0 #ElectionDay
@Katiekrongard Well, I grew up evangelical in the Bible Belt so, you know.
me to vote with my "biblical values". Yeah, no more money for you, ever.
Well, this is... A DAY, isn't it? Complete with graphic abortion videos on Facebook &amp; emails from charities I've supported reminding
I voted! Although not until after Violet pulled the plug on one of the voting machines. http://t.co/gMuI0SSa
But then I picture that moment where they're all, "He won the Electoral College by XX, but the popular vote was YY," &amp; then I don't.
Because I've never lived in a swing state, I always consider voting for 3rd party candidates.
I've never lived in a swing state. That would be exciting, but also probably somewhat miserable.
@chaseafterwind to delay motherhood until they are older, I am pretty much going to think that sounds like a good idea.
@chaseafterwind Very true. I am very practical; if you show me data indicating a certain policy reduces abortions, saves $$$, allows girls
@chaseafterwind than having an abortion. I'd rather vote for someone whose policies will reduce the number of abortions.
@chaseafterwind squishy uncertain ethics of how exactly it prevents pregnancy) but I would MUCH rather see women with IUDs or on Pill
@chaseafterwind who oppose abortion are pretty OK with contraception. I am not in love with hormonal BC for variety of issues (including
@chaseafterwind That line of thinking certainly would not appeal to people with RC view of contraception. My feeling is that most people
Here I am feeling all CRAZY and UNHINGED and POLITICAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero http://t.co/sVqfWb25
AAAAAAAAAH, I said something political-ish on Facebook-- WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!?!
@HaleyNBurke You are not the only one of my friends to say this, if that makes you feel better.
Oh Utah, you show-off. http://t.co/ewnAsHuM
It was bound to happen sooner or later. http://t.co/ennGCp1O
RT @bstiteler: http://t.co/deOVQFE0 (via @MotherJones)
RT @rachelheldevans: How we live every day says a lot more about our Christian values than how we vote every four years.
I've never heard Michael Bloomberg try to speak Spanish, but Twitter makes me wish I had.
So thankful for the time change this morning. A bit of sun! While getting these children up and moving!
@HaleyNBurke Apparently I need a Haley-housing-situation update. More drama?
This Sunday afternoon yoga class is my FAVORITE.
@BeckShorter I'm always trying to stuff TOO MANY THINGS into Sunday afternoon to get ready for the week, so mine feel sort of frantic.
@FryAdrian Shirley Jackson (who wrote "The Lottery") also wrote one of my fave parenting memoirs, titled "Life Among the Savages".
@Selkie1970 So crazy, right? Who could not like pasta with butter and cheese?
@chaseafterwind I am so ready for it. These dark mornings are killing us, especially on school mornings.
Made me mad because I am trying not to really eat much grains/carbs/etc.
On the other hand, tonight 3yo refused to eat PASTA with BUTTER and PARMESAN. What?!
I have many failures as a mother but my children do eat a lot of kale.
Explaining gerrymandering to 6yo.
@kathykrey Look at your pretty new picture! I love that necklace.
@allenlyeh Tell them to reconsider. I'm serious. Or at least have a career plan for when they don't get a faculty job.
@HaleyNBurke @katiekrongard @bkhristen Oh, you GUYS...
@HaleyNBurke @Katiekrongard That's true! I totally am!
@Katiekrongard LOL, who knows? Baby pooping is so variable; I had 2 who pooped all the time &amp; 1 always constipated, eating the same food.
@Katiekrongard You do NOT want to have an 18mo with an oral aversion who will only eat purée. Keep at it with the thicker foods.
@Katiekrongard Lewis was totally a gagger, like he would gag then throw up. Took him 2-3 months to go from gagging to happily eating.
@Katiekrongard More important for her to learn how to eat "real" food than to fill up on purée.
@Katiekrongard Keep offering thicker stuff &amp; don't worry about amount she's getting down. Nursing should still be majority of calories.
@Katiekrongard Some gagging is normal and nothing to freak out about. They have to learn how to swallow thicker stuff and it can be hard.
What I'm drinking, by the way: RT @charmingbeard: It's launch day… so pardon our tweets, we're just darn excited. http://t.co/0fYRWe8B
@Selkie1970 It's before 10:30am here, so I think I'll be OK on that front. It's more the balance of awake/perky vs. jittery/nauseous.
@charmingbeard LOL-- it is yours, actually.
Should I drink this entire French press of coffee? Or is that a terrible idea?
So. if I wanted confirmation that our normally particular eating habits are a good idea, this morning is probably it.
I think 3yo has a Red-40/HFCS hangover. She's kind of a mess.
@MsKristySteffen Congratulations! So sweet! And I just love the name.
Time for all the canning equipment to go back to the attic!
I canned 5 more quarts of applesauce tonight while trick-or-treaters came, and I think I am now declaring canning season OVER!
Wow, cleaned out of candy before 8:30pm. Think I will turn off the lights and hide now, rather than sacrifice children's candy.
Hmmmm, @DoctorMac is being super judge-y about me eating some of the kids' candy.
RT @DoctorMac: And now begins the process of making one's self sick with sugar. Yay! http://t.co/abBispNR
@angie_amos Awwwww, thank you! They are eating a lot of candy now.
@hollandsha Me too! Me too! I consider it one of my successes in life.
Bird + fairy http://t.co/WUQTiSto
@NishWeiseth That IS a fun idea.
@NishWeiseth Yeah, definitely. G got a dollhouse last year and V looooves to sit with the little family doing stuff. Dress-up, etc.
@Katiekrongard We got her a balance bike this summer. Thought about saving it for birthday in Dec but didn't want to miss good weather.
Parameters: I hate clutter, plastic crap from China, we have a lot of toys from big sister, she likes puzzles but we have too many, etc.
Pondering Christmas/birthday gift ideas for my middle one, who will be a brand-new 4 in late December. Ideas?
@jonathandcole At my Christian elementary school we celebrated Reformation Day instead of HW. Only allowed to dress up as Bible characters.
@Katiekrongard now because it is a way for us to be part of our neighborhood, love our neighbors, participate in life of our community, etc.
@Katiekrongard We never did Halloween either growing up! Two years ago was the first time I went trick-or-treating EVER. I'm glad we do it
@HaleyNBurke Awwwww, sending you hugs from down the street.
@SKEdman I'd forgotten about that pregnancy quirk. It really is miserable there at the end; hang in there...
@SKEdman Oh my gosh, GORGEOUS. I still wish I had gotten into wrapping because SO PRETTY but I'm more of a ring sling + SSC girl.
@Selkie1970 Rob keeps trying to watch that! It is just unbearable.
3yo is living out her Word World fantasies with our Scrabble game. "It's time to build a word!"
It boggles the mind a bit: The Six Million-Mile View of Earth and Moon  http://t.co/a1DAojJL
1yo is using a cherry pitter as a phone. "A-yo? A-yo?"
Radio is playing a harmonica version of Rhapsody in Blue. DO NOT LIKE.
I am wearing cute shoes at 8:30pm at a bar on a Monday night. This is Not Normal, to say the least.
I am working closeted in our office and I just heard some kind of huge screaming commotion break out with babysitter &amp; kids. LALALALALA...
@DoctorMac Yeah, it takes a little while to look at and take it all in. xkcd has been doing some pretty intense, rich work lately.
Super interesting: xkcd: Congress http://t.co/37dYSTmw
Just ordered mattresses for the bunk beds that girls will soon move to. Tra la la!
Last day for the farmers market. Sigh... I'll miss you, lovely farmers market.
@hollandsha We read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and I liked it pretty well, although not as much as Blue Like Jazz.
Getting ready for my book club to come over. Tra la la...
Our washer was broken and @DoctorMac used the power of Google to fix it. I'm pretty impressed.
At 6yo's school Halloween parade I saw a 2nd grader dressed as Katniss Everdeen. Seems... YOUNG. To me, at least.
A little birdie at her school Halloween parade. http://t.co/4MunBoKy
Is it really still a week until the time change? These dark mornings are killing us.
Am working this afternoon but my brain is soooooooo sluggish/tired. Synapses barely firing.
This morning's snow is melting and 3yo declares, "Now it's spring!"
For once, I've got my meal planning &amp; seasons aligned-- 1st snow of the season, chicken mole in the slow cooker. Smells sooooooooo good.
Apparently the Polish version of "not my problem" is "not my circus, not my monkeys": http://t.co/vltamXGT
Snow! If the darned sun would come up, maybe I could see it.
Her mask did arrive, thankfully. GAH! Halloween!
You would think I would like making these things. You really would.
Fairly certain that 6yo's bird costume is going to be awful/ridiculous/non-bird-like. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah...
RT @HaleyNBurke: Oh ya know, just filling my boots with blocks. http://t.co/0ovjU1mN
My 6yo's owl mask has not arrived yet and her school Halloween party is in 2 days AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH... I find Halloween stressful.
Yay, astronomy jokes! xkcd: Objects In Mirror http://t.co/4poiBQYF
@SKEdman Eeeeeeeeeeeeee... Hoping you get good sleep tonight. OR A BABY.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 LOL-- oh, FASHION. You are so disconnected from my real life. And I really like clothes/design/fashion/etc.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I'm still wondering what Chick Tract pants would be... Do those types even let women wear pants?
@SKEdman I got it for a year waaaaaay back before kids and I did like it. Their beauty editor at the time was hilarious/awesome.
@chaseafterwind Well, MY particular spine/butt combination means no jeans whatsoever. :) One can't participate in all the trends, I suppose.
@SKEdman LOL, and... do you follow Lucky Magazine on Twitter? This will surprise me if so.
think of what it cost if we weren't doing public school.
They ask for donations at several times during the year for different things (art program, PTA, etc) but every time I write the check, I
This year 6yo's school has decided to straight-up ask for donations from us instead of making us sell crap. THANK THE HEAVENS.
Fellow Utah parents, do you know about this? http://t.co/04S8CcKV Sounds so amazing! Free! Pre-register all your children!
I do NOT need another way to brew coffee, I do NOT need another way to brew coffee: Chemex Glass Coffeemaker http://t.co/uOJbKQ4d
@hollandsha Hello, the Real You! :)
@SKEdman My most traumatic childhood food memory is of bean sprouts. I do remember the horror and the fear and all that pretty vividly.
@SKEdman UGGGGGGGGGGGGH. Fish is not my favorite either, although I've come to tolerate it.
@kathykrey Um, EXCITING. That sounds amazing!
New idea for deodorant commercial: a cute trendy-looking woman canning the season's produce. #hot #sweaty
RT @Jessica_Turon: Midcentury nurse-midwifery in the American South - beautiful, wrenching photo essay http://t.co/SWoCH1hV #callthemidw ...
Had two separate people ask me today if I was unwell/tired, DESPITE the fact that I was indeed wearing makeup. Been a tough month or so.
6yo to 3yo, somewhat sarcastically: "Sorry, princess." She sounded just like Han Solo.
@Selkie1970 OMG, so fun.
1yo has learned to remove the lint screen from the dryer. Messy.
@SKEdman Awwwwww, you two are so lovely!
Thought about riding! my bike! to yoga but then I realized I don't have anyway to transport my yoga mat on a bike.
OK, just one more... @ Liberty Park http://t.co/dZYxyykw
Park bench @ Liberty Park http://t.co/39LbH94T
RT @DoctorMac: Not a bad morning at all. http://t.co/y1iwzU8m
Saturday morning @ Liberty Park http://t.co/J0G4j5en
Going out to breakfast is my favorite.
@Selkie1970 No one picked up so I left a message. So I still have that conversation to look forward to. At least we've made a decision...
Went to the Murray farmers market today. http://t.co/U7s7d5Ov
About to make uncomfortable phone call to 3yo's preschool to withdraw her. UGH.
RT @DoctorMac: Watching Lewis learn how to work a doorknob is like watching the raptors in Jurassic Park do the same. Somewhat similarly ...
RT @kctipton: Nonsense paper accepted by mathematics journal http://t.co/GAr9HJA8
@veronimitch Research shows that this is true for GREAT many people. Police-interrogation-induced confessions apparently not very reliable.
@MurphyRory Yes, for us at home. I work from home now writing astronomy content, and just for our personal use.
@HaleyNBurke That is so terrible, Haley! Is there anything we can do from here? And I think a book store trip might be in order. :)
I rode my bike to the library and home and I did not fall down! The last time I rode a bike was in the year 2000!
@SKEdman It was not very practical in Dallas but it's doable for a lot of stuff here. I will have to look into kid-carting possibilities...
I just biked somewhere for the first time since college!
@MurphyRory We are working on a standing desk set-up! It's still in process.
That's the first time I've used that "share your purchase" thingie at Amazon.
Yet again my potholders have been set on fire, chewed by toddler, etc so I just bought: 'Potholder, Black, Set of 3' http://t.co/PdFqP0Q5
@chaseafterwind ME TOO. I just need mine to start carrying macadamia nuts again.
RT @HonestToddler: Just caught her taking a photo of me sleeping. I don't feel safe here.
Whole side of her face is still swollen but doctor said that may take some time, lymph nodes being what they are.
3yo is looking markedly better this morning. Willing to eat/drink, her color is so much better, ever-so-slightly cheerful. Yay!
@chaseafterwind I loved those books SO much!
I had Samantha: What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest of Your Life http://t.co/nswx06s2
@Selkie1970 Looks like just an infection, albeit a bad one. She's got a massively infected lymph node and is just a mess.
@Selkie1970 She is gray-ish and limp and wan. So, so sick. I am so grateful to live in the century we do, and in a developed country, etc.
@Selkie1970 I offered, and even offered the horror of Dora, but she just wants Pingu (which was her favorite when she was very small).
There are 4 episodes of Pingu on Netflix, and sick 3yo has been watching them over and over since we returned from doctor.
I made chia seed pudding. It's kind of weird, but 6yo and I like it. @DoctorMac would hate it.
Picking up some hardcore stuff for 3yo's apparent lymph node infection.
I think antibiotics are way over-prescribed but man, I am thankful for them when they are really needed.
You know, just holding a whimpering, trembling 3yo in a doctor's exam room. As one does.
@Jenidvm That is so lovely!
3yo is super sick-- fever, whole side of face weirdly swollen (lymph node?). Getting ready to go to doctor.
RT @sarahbessey: The Internet just paid for itself, right here. http://t.co/k59Mn4mQ
@bkhristen I think it might just be me and Cat splitting a bottle of wine. :)
@Katiekrongard If you're interested, I can DM you the Google group.
@Katiekrongard LOL-- it's a monthly book club of some women from Missio. Meets on a Friday night, rotates hosts, lots of different books.
@bkhristen Do you think you're coming to book club Friday? It's looking very small; trying to decide whether to make any changes.
@Selkie1970 6yo had ALREADY lost all screen time for week even before this. Last night R took away her library book privilege-- LOL.
@Selkie1970 to/from school. All came to light today but older girls have been putting up with it for a while. WHY?! SHE LOVES THOSE GIRLS!
@Selkie1970 Pretty decently, although she hasn't been to preschool in several weeks now. It turns out 6yo has been causing trouble on walk
I exaggerate somewhat but seriously, guys-- WHAT IN THE $*%&amp; AM I DOING?
Confluence of events over past month makes me wonder if raising these 3 children to anything approaching well-adjusted adulthood is likely.
RT @sarahbessey: Who's Afraid of @rachelheldevans? http://t.co/bCw3pUww Apparently quite a few powerful people.
@HaleyNBurke Those looked amazing.
RT @rjallain: I have trouble believing this MSNBC image is real.  It says Felix fell faster than the speed of light. http://t.co/KpFhii7G
I am a ruiner. Today I broke a glass and cracked our veggie crisper drawer. Aargh.
@jonathandcole I hear you on this.
Red! On my run this afternoon http://t.co/0bDfQ0SJ
@karenebayne Yes! My girls took swim lessons last winter and it was so steamy and warm in there.
Whoever writes @KimKierkegaard has been killing it lately.
Also, I have to be home for 6yo's arrival home from school ~3pm so I can only do very quick errands in the afternoon. MORE SIGHING.
If I go ANYWHERE in the car in the mornings, 1yo falls asleep for 5 minutes and then won't go down for his nap. SIGH.
@Katiekrongard LOL-- Katie, aren't you, like, 10 years younger than me?
RT @kathykrey: Overheard on campus today: "Have you heard of that TV show 'Friends'?" "No." "Well, it was on TV a long time ago..."
Interesting that the rise of quasi-legal online streaming of TV means one is unsafe from spoilers months BEFORE a show is broadcast.
Chocolate should probably be a lot more expensive than it is.
@sarahbessey @chaseafterwind Yeah, I'm pretty sure what you tweeted is what we call a spoiler. You lucky Canadians, getting it before us! :)
the inconvenient truth about your halloween chocolate http://t.co/a7BMHyTz
So virtuous tonight: herbal tea, book, classical music, remembered to pack 6yo's lunch.
Ella under our changing tree http://t.co/e440oQvq
Golden lit-up tree http://t.co/PhJr6MlZ
Weirdly, it was 6 days ago that I had stomach bug. Doesn't that seem too long to be the same virus?
Puking 1yo! Not spit-up, unmistakably real vomit. Guess I won't be going to church in the morning.
@Selkie1970 @veronimitch I did that recently! On your advice. Very delicious. Whiskey really is like dessert.
@Selkie1970 Accompanied. It was sooooo good, but sadly now the High West is gone.
@veronimitch Have you seen http://t.co/p8fNRJ9h? Also, http://t.co/oHyIdDsE comes to mind.
Amazing local pears + @HighWest whiskey = best pre-dinner snack ever.
Have made a decision about 6yo's Halloween costume. Think it will be cute, not too much work, etc. RELIEVED SIGH.
Naptime http://t.co/NaJP7zNX
@Katiekrongard LOL-- I'm 34, I have a PhD (astronomy), and R is a physician (allergy/immunology).
Someday I am going to watch all of The X-Files again. I love that show.
I don't label my jars when I can with what it is them, and this might be the year I come to regret that.
apple-pear butter http://t.co/kCGgICbv
@veronimitch You wear mostly skirts, right? I think these would be cute with long skirts &amp; tights, not so great with knee-length skirts.
@Selkie1970 She has a LOT in common with me (also firstborn), that's for sure. She is more empathetic and sensitive than I was, I think.
Truth is that she is the specific kind of awesome that excels at school, does well in groups, and is compliant.
Had parent/teacher conference for 6yo this afternoon. Turns out she's awesome. But of course we knew this already. :)
I changed my Twitter handle. Decided it made more sense for it to be my real name.
@HaleyNBurke I'm glad you like it! I forgot to tell you it's actually 1/3 pear, 2/3 apple.
Oh 6yo, rolling your eyes TO MY FACE is really, really not the way to go.
@Selkie1970 I love those things.
Nap fail. 1yo is going to be reeeeeeeeal pleasant for the rest of the day.
I don't often blog, but when I do, I use bullet points: http://t.co/rs9ewuEM
@karenebayne That is so lovely.
I'm making apple butter today and I just want to stand here stirring/smelling it.
Driving alllllllll the way to the west side of town for a screaming good deal on bunk beds. Another step toward 1yo moving to his own room.
@Katiekrongard One of the options on the table. She doesn't like it, she never wants to go, the teachers say they see her withdrawn, etc.
@Selkie1970 @BeckShorter how different they are but it's a challenge too.
@Selkie1970 @BeckShorter This is new territory for us because my oldest is super empathetic/social/etc and is a total rule follower. I love
@Selkie1970 @BeckShorter She's super bright but not very mature or savvy socially. And she is whatever the opposite of a people pleaser is.
I've decided to give 3yo a break from preschool today and go to library, run errands, etc. Still not sure what to do long-term.
RT @BBCWorld: Taliban say they carried out shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, campaigner for girls' education, in NW Pakistan htt ...
@Katiekrongard that's about it. We do fun family traditions post-church. (candles! on our tree!)
@Katiekrongard So there's always church Christmas Eve, and I know the Costellos do a big enchilada/sangria thing afterwards, but I think
Am super Paleo today-- am sick but sipping bone broth instead of Gatorade. (Mainly because I had broth in freezer and no Gatorade. STILL.)
Stomach bug! Noooooooooooo...
Applesauce! (unsweetened, but with cinnamon and vanilla bean) http://t.co/pB2MVSbD
RT @rachelheldevans: Yeah, this is a little embarrassing: Four years later, ‘Letter from 2012′ makes Focus on the Family look ridiculous ...
Putting 1yo in Missio Kids for the first time this morning. Maybe I'll actually get to concentrate on what @kylecostello is saying!
@astropixie I cook them down, then run them through a food mill that takes all the skins off, then can them. My house smells SO amazing! :)
RT @dellybean: Did you know? Marie Curie's notes from the 1890's were exposed to so much radiation, they still have to be stored in lead ...
Applesauce time http://t.co/uyP3yRkb
Going to Costco on a Saturday. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?
RT @matthew_tibbs: PBS laying down the smack: PBS Statement Regarding October 3 Presidential Debate : PBS: http://t.co/StCvjwO2 via @pbs
A commotion! http://t.co/d6MxtbmK
Apparently our one-year-old was here. http://t.co/wiFDGz9W
@Selkie1970 I haven't cracked open a jar but it was AMAZING still warm when just cooked. Smelled just tremendous.
pear + vanilla bean jam http://t.co/UgBGo3DV
About time to stop keeping the refrigerator stocked with white wine and cold-brewed coffee, I think. :)
Have been out of sorts lately, but I will admit this weather is cheering me up.
@reemeyer I KNOW, marketing, sheesh... I had mostly good interactions at hospitals, for which I'm grateful.
Very nice: What Not to Say to a New Mother -- Hospital Staff http://t.co/0l4gZVUV
Trying to convince 1yo to watch Netflix while I bathe 3yo and 6yo. He is having none of it.
RT @neiltyson: Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on you ...
Nice coincidence I just learned (re-learned? maybe?) while working today: you would weigh the same on Mars and Mercury.
Time to go all Skinner on my 3-year-old http://t.co/PzDwtQAF
@Selkie1970 I cannot bear those functions. I HATE them. I really wish women would not try to sell each other things.
I have a bunch of pears ripening in my dining room and they smell AMAZING. http://t.co/mVXztGBi
I am starting to have Halloween costume anxiety. Stupid Halloween and stupid craftiness...
Someday I hope to just sit and watch TV, without doing anything else at the same time. SOMEDAY.
@jonathandcole HILARIOUS.
@reemeyer It makes ME a little nervous but that's part of the fun. :) Only 6yo went because I can trust her not to freak out or be unsafe.
Going up a ski lift in the summer/autumn is my new favorite thing. I've done it two weekends in a row.
View on the way back down the ski lift  @ Snowbird Ski &amp; Summer Resort http://t.co/JN0mxJiR
Me and my 6-year-old   @ Snowbird Ski &amp; Summer Resort http://t.co/tSXIXUOO
At the top of the ski lift  @ Snowbird Ski &amp; Summer Resort http://t.co/HeTfzyca
On the way up the chair lift with Grace  @ Snowbird Ski &amp; Summer Resort http://t.co/se1ZAikt
I made @DoctorMac carry a big box of apples and his dad carry a big box of pears.
We took in-laws to farmers market today and we stayed so long that everyone was packing up. Was hot but got some good prices right at end.
"Why do you keep asking me questions with no answers? What are those called again?" -@DoctorMac, being all meta
It is so much easier to write a good numeric question than a good multiple-choice question.
Back from our lovely zoo where we had a picnic lunch. Now working for a bit while 6yo is at ballet, 1yo naps, and in-laws read to 3yo.
RT @rachelheldevans: When I first saw this TIME cover, I thought Bill Clinton was holding a gourd, like for fall. #pinterestoverload htt ...
Thanks, @astropixie-- A Toy Train in Space - YouTube http://t.co/26Ne75Pd
RT @sarahbessey: Somehow I doubt these two chaps are getting the message http://t.co/JYjlVlRH
Polar bear  @ Hogle Zoo http://t.co/8lrWMO96
@SKEdman Yay! :)
I don't remember the last either of my girls nursed: The Last Time http://t.co/1uaqhggO via @huffingtonpost
LOL-- I am writing a lot of multiple choice questions right now and thought this was funny: http://t.co/7eR0Odas
I really love the first grade writing. http://t.co/mMOBAfxB
@beffiesmith She walked home, I was cluelessly at the grocery store, my neighbor texted me, "Um, where are you?"
Aaaaaaand I forgot that 6yo had early release today. UGH. Thank goodness for neighbors.
RT @okkervilriver: Enough with the fanciful ukelele and the whimsical whistling, commercials! Life sucks and we all die alone!
Switching out our summer quilt for the fluffy duvet. Fall!
@Selkie1970 LOL-- hopefully will be a good weekend. I really do need to get the sheets on the guest bed.
@Katiekrongard LOL-- hopefully it will be good; I really need to get the sheets on the guest bed, though.
My in-laws arrive tomorrow and I am feeling WAY unprepared.
@Selkie1970 This is new territory for us, dealing with a child not enjoying activities/school we try out.
@Selkie1970 Nothing beyond "I don't like school". I infer that it's her independence, not wanting to join in? IDK-- we are processing.
@Selkie1970 Now she is actively telling me she doesn't like it, doesn't want to go, etc. Teachers are seeing her withdrawn.
@Selkie1970 Will turn 4 in Dec. She liked going last spring, although she never participated with group as a whole much. Was it the novelty?
@Selkie1970 Push through? Give her a break from the group setting? Montessori? I don't know.
@Selkie1970 She's been there since Jan. Has always been independent, not a joiner, etc but is worse now. Not sure what the right choice is.
@Selkie1970 I didn't mean that to be vague; she's not doing well or having fun at preschool right now, not doing well as part of the group.
Had a hard-to-hear conversation with 3yo's preschool teacher last week and am still processing. Not sure what to do.
Went to the park and 1yo ate a lunch's worth of mulch.
3yo about NPR: "Stop the talking people!"
This is blowing my mind a bit.
Have gotten out warmer clothes for 3yo from bins of hand-me-downs and they are same clothes my oldest wore our 1st winter in SLC.
@lucaswmuller I saw that too! Crazy beautiful.
Here I am, trying to explain infinity to 6yo again. SIGH...
RT @prodigalsam: GO TO SLEEP WHILE YOU CAN, BABIES
@aldousmom LOL-- I wasn't thinking hiking when I planned my outfit but it was fine. I don't wear street-wear pants (only workout, PJs).
@Katiekrongard How funny that we were just there... Maybe we passed each other on the freeway. :)
View from the gondola ride back down the mountain http://t.co/DtDGUd0f
I went hiking in a pencil skirt and nice-ish shoes, FYI.
RT @DoctorMac: Utah, you continue to be awfully pretty.   @ Canyons Resort http://t.co/8PrX4PMH
Hiking self-portrait (not pictured: Lewis, just off camera) http://t.co/QW96Fjx0
Tree http://t.co/AwnDZL72
Hiking in the mountains  @ Canyons Resort http://t.co/M0uszh4G
WHERE ARE THE NO GRAVITY TRAILS?!?!?  @ High Meadow Lift http://t.co/shPgVCll
BREAKING NEWS: Nice hotels are nice.
We are enjoying the mountain air, the fire pit, and s'mores.  @ Waldorf Astoria http://t.co/ZvhPloDJ
RT @HaleyNBurke: Violet pretty much ate bread and French fries.   @ mazza http://t.co/YtbSuJ7d
RT @HaleyNBurke: First Little Mermaid experience. I am SO excited right now!!! http://t.co/dDwKutrU
@veronimitch @BeckShorter I am really thankful for our community here &amp; for having people who we can ask to watch our (2 of 3) kids. Happy!
@veronimitch @BeckShorter Yeah, I think that's just life sometimes, depending on one's individual kids, support structure, etc.
We haven't gone away by ourselves since 6yo was born.
Crazy to think that in another year or so we could leave ALL the children with friends and go somewhere BY OURSELVES.
Getting ready to leave the girls with @HaleyNBurke overnight and head to a mountain getaway with the men in my life: @DoctorMac and 1yo.
@wrightinthecity We're going next weekend! You'll have to tell me what's good/fun.
@Katiekrongard Most antihistamines are OK but anything with Sudafed (epinephrine) is not-- kills supply. Ibuprofen OK.
A king-sized bed is big, but 5 people in it is still somewhat crowded.
RT @d_l_mayfield: i really ain't that political, but this tmblr just SLAYS me: mitt quotes+lucille bluth's face=gold http://t.co/LhgLAIt ...
Love my neighborhood. 15th and 15th is hopping this lovely evening.
If I walk to book club, I can drink all the margaritas I want. SOLD.
Was thinking of walking to my book club this evening. Google Maps says it will take 30 minutes, but it is pleasant out. Should I?
I have book club tonight at 7pm and I still have 10% of Peace Like a River to read. CAN I DO IT?
@SKEdman No. And I never really find them soggy or anything. Of course, all my quiche are crustless right now. :( #carbs
Places I am not sure there are antibiotics: inside of 1yo.
Places where there ARE antibiotics: my shirt, 1yo's shirt, 1yo's hair, pretty much all of 1yo's exposed skin, floor, highchair tray.
She mostly wears leggings and dresses, which I'm thankful for.
Time for me to get my sewing mojo back. Slim 6yo doesn't have any pants that fit; ones with adjustable waist I bought aren't cutting it.
Look here, RE: yesterday's xkcd: http://t.co/sjfqDClr @joninSLC @ironsoap
@kathykrey For me, food is a way to say "yes" to myself when I have to say "no" a lot, and that is a problem.
@kathykrey Not sure if I'm sensitive to grains/gluten like Paleo people say but cutting it out does help satiety a lot for same calories.
@kathykrey For me, feeling better means whole foods + no sugar + some exercise. Sooooo hard sometimes, though.
@N8V_TXN Indeed, very nice. My wedding weight would be x - 10. We'll see if I ever get back there.
@kathykrey The Whole30 book is really good: http://t.co/0Xo8JqiJ
@kathykrey I'm exercising (yoga, Pilates, kettlebell) but that does more for stress/fitness/health than fat loss, I think.
@kathykrey I'm eating 80% Paleo/Whole30. I know I'd be losing faster if I didn't "cheat" so much.
Well, if 1yo can absorb his antibiotics through his skin, then we're golden.
For the curious, pre-3rd-pregnancy weight is 15 lbs more than pre-1st-pregnancy weight and 15 lbs less than pre-2nd-pregnancy weight.
I am now just 10 lbs away from pre-3rd-pregnancy weight! Which is also my getting-nose-pierced weight! Hooray!
1yo seems so sick and miserable today, and I feel very uncertain how much medicine (antibiotics, ibuprofen) I am actually getting into him.
That's the first thing I've canned since the apricot extravaganza of July.
plum-blueberry-cardamom jam http://t.co/J2AgDWGR
@SkyeGarn We are all going to miss you so much!
@joninSLC Yeah. And maybe "wasted" isn't the right word. "Frittered away"?
@SKEdman Yay! That's so great. I think the back-up OB I met once while pregnant with L said exact same thing; it must be a good line. :)
I just wasted 15 minutes clicking and dragging on today's xkcd: http://t.co/soQ3JCIL
1yo was getting better but is now sicker. :( Ear infection, antibiotics, blech.
@SKEdman @selkie1970 LOL-- that's hilarious.
A Love Story In 22 Pictures http://t.co/7aImsw0C
RT @BestforBabes: The one page to share with every expecting mother. http://t.co/ZL6ZGHPi
@HaleyNBurke Now I'm contemplating how much it would cost to buy enough figs to make jam. $$$$$$
Pondering how fast 1yo can tear a room apart &amp; remembering when we had our house on the market while middle child was that age. FUN TIMES.
@Katiekrongard I am always so happy when I see positive, non-CIO info on baby sleep. Not that CIO is evil but it's not right for everybody.
@Katiekrongard I just listened to part of that and there was tons of good information. What a great resource!
RT @EpicBrewing: Support the alcohol ordinance being voted on TONIGHT by the Salt Lake City Council to allow pubs in... http://t.co/bwYh5DaG
@DoctorMac A pretty normal cart-- not the Trader Joe's tiny size. Maybe you're used to Costco carts now.
I've started putting Lewis in the cart instead of the Ergo. Because he is SO GROWN UP NOW. http://t.co/DcvvvqRp
A pox on both your houses? Patriot Game http://t.co/TFgHXwHk
@Selkie1970 I found this interesting for context, background, etc: http://t.co/oJSS9p8r And it is darn catchy. :)
RT @LettersOfNote: The heartbreaking Ken Kesey letter from yesterday (http://t.co/ZQEDTe6P) is already the 9th most popular on the site. ...
@Selkie1970 @Jenidvm but I just don't think the nuances would have been clear. And I was a mess. So sorry for you losing your sweet cat!
@Selkie1970 @Jenidvm We didn't exactly explain euthanasia to G (age 4) when our dog died either. I like to be totally honest about things
1yo is getting over a cold and has one of those crazy post-viral rashes. Poor rashy baby!
Every time I look at these I get overwhelmed by the beauty of human beings: Most Inspiring Photos Of Paralympics http://t.co/IAUIwQWp
RT @SandyBoynton: It's really not hard to get your child to sleep through the night. All it takes is redefining "night" as 11:27 PM to 2 ...
@HaleyNBurke Your hair did look super pretty today.
@Michaelfriberg This is hilarious to me!
The red on the mountains is trees! Autumn!  @ Midway Town Square http://t.co/2GYsBNke
AND I'm drinking horchata.
One zillion kinds of delicious salsa. I'm in heaven.  @ Tarahumara http://t.co/llzFLtnZ
Here for some Mexican food on the recommendation of my fellow Texan @slcfoodie (@ Tarahumara) http://t.co/yNxj4UtM
I wonder how long it would take our children to trash a hotel room rock-star-style, if left to their own devices. -@DoctorMac
Sleeping sisters  @ Zermatt Resort &amp; Spa http://t.co/bx3OxCi7
Three little people asleep in a hotel room.  @ Zermatt Resort &amp; Spa http://t.co/ayG1pK1K
I think 3yo is going through the five stages of grief as I try to put her to bed in this hotel room. We haven't gotten to acceptance yet.
Interesting: "Princess Scientists" Draw Young Girls Into Science, and Plenty of Controversy http://t.co/gUOgHtu5 @astropixie
Tucking all 3 children into bed in this hotel room while @DoctorMac is at meetings. Let's see how this goes...
A getaway with all three of our children, just to be clear. Still fun, though!
Up in the mountains for an overnight getaway. (@ Zermatt Resort &amp; Spa) http://t.co/WVc1FZWn
Alright, thyroid, let's see how you're doing these days. (@ Avenues Midwifery) http://t.co/ToSfHeRe
@kathykrey then do kinder at the elementary school when he is barely 6. We'll see... Still lots of time for us/him.
@kathykrey The preschool that V goes to right now does a kindergarten year, so I kind of think we might do kinder there when he is barely 5,
@kathykrey Yes, it won't make any difference in the long-term. Paying for another year of preschool is no small thing, and TWO with twins...
@kathykrey L will be absolute oldest or absolute youngest (Aug 31 birthday). Complicated question, I know.
@kathykrey Are you glad you started K when they were young and they'll get K experience twice? Do you wish you'd waited?
@kathykrey And what are you thinking? Just kidding, I think... :)
@kathykrey But aren't your boys in 1st this year?
Just found out our wedding photographer won the Pulitzer in 2004: http://t.co/bWlQSRob (We got married in 2002, for reference.)
1yo's pants are all muddy and wet so it's probably time to go home.
One thing about Utah is that it's hard to tell the nannies from the moms at the park. Both are usually very young and white.
At the park with my littlest  @ Wasatch Hollows Park http://t.co/s2FB2apZ
OK, it's happened. I am ready for 1yo to sleep in his own room. Time to buy some bunk beds.
@SKEdman Hang in there. You're doing a good job.
@SKEdman WHAT?! Oh, the horror. When V had cavities at 2 they sedated her, which was its own kind of horror (and $$$). Ugh, teeth.
RT @kylecostello: Lewis has his mind on dinner... http://t.co/QqTfHj3B
@Selkie1970 @veronimitch Yeah, I wouldn't stress about a chin scar. These things happen.
@Selkie1970 HAHAHAHAHAHA... One of the best typos ever.
1yo's goal for today: empty all the kitchen cabinets. He is making good progress.
This is where I'm going to be in a matter of months: http://t.co/P8h7kxN5 Can't quite wrap my head around it yet.
I'm writing a question about tides right now and I kind of want to put a joke about Bill O'Reilly in it.
@ironsoap I end up laughing way too often.
Taping The Cat in the Hat back together. Tiny kids are hard on books.
@Selkie1970 Oh, that is so wonderful to see a kindergartener happy and thriving and excited.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman Yes, I think that most all parents, mine included, are/were just trying to do the best they could.
Am chopping up the HUGEST MOST GIANT HEAD OF NAPA CABBAGE EVER. September is CSA bounty time.
@reemeyer Dear heavens. That wasn't happening for me the FIRST time around, not to mention after 3 pregnancies.
I'm just not a plant person.
6yo brought home a baby spider plant when she was in pre-K. It's still in its original plastic cup. Maybe I should buy a real pot?
@SKEdman Yeah, those were wonderful years for me socially/spiritually/etc, I met Rob there, lots of good, but some days is just too much.
She liked _Never Let Me Go_, @DoctorMac.
She would like to try some DIY cleaning recipes. This isn't getting me very far at this point.
Apparently she likes cake, holidays, and home decorating. She has a board just for 1st grade ideas.
Just googled 6yo's 1st grade teacher. Her Facebook is private but her Pinterest is not. Let's see what I can learn from her pins...
Oh no. College friends on FB are saying how today they are proud to be an American and AN AGGIE. WHAT. I just can't even...
Writing astronomy questions while 1yo plays with Legos by my feet. I am very, VERY thankful for this new job.
@Selkie1970 I hope I didn't sound judgey on FB re: Christian schools. I know we all have different values, goals, desires, etc &amp; that's OK.
I may have PTSD after that diaper I just changed. Decided to just give 1yo a bath.
Back from 1st MOPS meeting of the year. I was really apprehensive about MOPS here before I started, but it's been a really positive thing.
@DoctorMac LOL-- I am really glad to hear that.
Rain! I love rain. It doesn't rain here very much.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 I have strong feelings on this issue. Blue's Clues is very superior to Dora.
I gave 3yo three slices of watermelon for breakfast and now I can only find one rind. I really think she may have eaten the other two.
@Katiekrongard I do remember back to my pre-parenthood days when I would sleep 9 hours a night with much wistfulness. OH HOW THINGS CHANGE.
@Katiekrongard L has a cold right now so things are particularly bad. So much snot! And coughing! And sleeplessness!
@Katiekrongard I exaggerate somewhat.
@Katiekrongard To be quite honest, I don't think I've slept through the night in about 7 years, between pregnancies and babies and whatnot.
@Katiekrongard Oh, sleep... I've heard about that, and I hope one day to experience it again.
And why haven't we been eating more caprese salad? I need to obtain more tomatoes.
We grilled peaches and chicken thighs for delicious salads for dinner tonight. Why haven't we been doing this all summer?
Sunday night, packing lunches, getting ready for 1st MOPS meeting tomorrow, whiskey + mint + club soda.
America Is Safer Than Ever, So Why Are Parents So Scared? http://t.co/KjiC9Tum
Somebody fell asleep in @DoctorMac's arms during church today  @ Missio Dei Community http://t.co/z24rITvR
I admit it-- I don't get the ombré hair color thing. That's basically what my hair looks like when dye turns brassy on me.
@bkhristen LOL-- when I saw it on the list, I was all "?!?!?!?" I believe the last time I played something by them was circa 1990.
We are singing a song by Bill &amp; Gloria Gaither tomorrow at church. Just FYI.
Harvest season  @ Downtown Farmers Market http://t.co/NxFEivFt
RT @okkervilriver: They should really write a song about being in the club. It's a largely unexplored subject.
RT @astropixie: near a wireless network called 'PrettyFlyForAWiFi'
Inspection for refinancing house is now tomorrow morning! Clean, clean like the wind!
This is life with my one-year-old right now: Paper | The Honest Toddler http://t.co/m8zSshSd
I got out fall clothes this morning because apparently I am an optimist.
RT @lucaswmuller: All I'm saying is that no one has ever seen Obama and Mittens in the same room together. How can we be sure they aren' ...
I mean that last tweet totally unironically, FYI.
This day is a gift. http://t.co/4QkEpkP0
@Katiekrongard nursing strike. Or being sick could make supply dip a bit, like you thought. Be low-key and take care of yourself/her.
@Katiekrongard I'd offer again in a little bit, let her comfort-nurse, maybe try when she's sleepy, try side-lying, etc. Teething can cause
@Katiekrongard Anytime baby eats more than you are making, you are telling your supply to go down, but don't stress over 1 feeding.
@Katiekrongard If she took 2 oz, I would try to pump, just for supply/demand purposes, but don't stress over amount too much.
@Katiekrongard If your supply is a little low from being sick, rest, drink fluids, nurse a lot-- it will come back up when you get better.
I'm working this afternoon and after typing it a million times the word "telescope" has no meaning anymore.
@bkhristen If L ends up there, we should definitely talk. I just signed V up for "lunch bunch" on Thursdays so that will help.
Our Thursdays are a beat-down for me right now-- really feeling it today.
I want to put on Netflix and take a nap, but 1yo WON'T WATCH TV YET. Sigh... When do children start watching TV? I forget.
I hate having to wake up 1yo to go pick up 3yo from preschool, especially now that he's only taking 1 nap/day. Sigh...
At pediatrician for baby's 1-year check. Hoping he's not anemic anymore.
@veronimitch There are a couple really extensive ones by @amalah.
RT @rachelheldevans: Conventions: Painful but important reminders that no party or platform can capture the full spirit of Christ's Kingdom.
@Selkie1970 @veronimitch I think that is a very good list.
@Selkie1970 We did, albeit tardily. Oh, Wednesdays...
I'm supposed to leave for church RIGHT NOW and I have a blueberry smoothie disaster and 2 naked children.
@bkhristen The actual same top? Crazy...
@howiesmith We like our mortgage person a lot, if you're looking for somebody.
@howiesmith We bought in fall 2010 and our rate dropped about 0.85%; closing costs go into new mortgage, our monthly payment will drop, etc.
Signing a bazillion pages to refinance our house. Thankful, though-- a good deal for us.
I gave one of these to Rob for his birthday a few years ago, and it's still one of my best gift ideas ever: http://t.co/dCuKd4VB
Since I cut bangs, I've been wearing red lipstick a lot. My new favorite red: Sephora brand "It Girl".
Amazing how fast 1yo can trash a relatively neat room.
Realized today that 1yo has four more teeth than I thought, for total of 12. They're kinda far back there!
@bkhristen We will know in about 3 days if it is good or not. :) (You can do a fermentation of several weeks, but I'm trying this first.)
My mom doesn't drink tap water and she has left some of her fancy bottled water behind her here. Hmmmmm...
First attempt at homemade sauerkraut http://t.co/qtoHPaVF
@SKEdman That is my 6yo in red, between 3yo and my dad, yes. Ironically, people usually say she looks like me, but I can see R in her too.
@SKEdman I think so. A peaceful low-key weekend. I'm thankful.
My parents are off. Glad that we got to spend a weekend with them.
Sticker time with grandparents http://t.co/P3a58NDI
@HaleyNBurke Noooooooooooo...
RT @windofderange: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, at least up to a point, but eventually distraction sets in. Or death. #MoreSpeci ...
It's September now, which means it's time for me to obsessively check the weather forecast hoping for fall weather.
RT @muskrat_john: A bird in the hand is BITING ME! It's clawing and tearing my flesh! IT'S DISEASED! WHY DID I PUT A BIRD IN MY HAND ? # ...
Out to brunch with my parents  @ Faustina http://t.co/ViPuLMqi
@bkhristen I think you also have to be sexually pursuing younger men to be a cougar.
Something to be thankful for: there are no more 90s in the weather forecast.
@bkhristen Yes! And how much I dislike cleaning. Common objects of this phenomenon: refrigerator interior, blinds, stove crevices.
@Selkie1970 So lovely! Aside from wallpaper. Our house was built in 1917 and isn't really that much work.
@bkhristen LOL-- sometimes drinking makes me clean things too.
We may well be done with babies FOREVER.
Drinking wine, listening to bossa nova, contemplating the fact that, depending on your definitions, there are NO BABIES here.
@Selkie1970 Hopefully good. Thank you. Aaaaaaaaaaah...
Cupcake smash http://t.co/z68SN7QD
My parents are en route to SLC, and my mom will meet the birthday boy for her very first time tomorrow.
My baby has turned 1! http://t.co/t8znP9Fc
Living dangerously: letting baby play with markers. He can't take the lids off. YET.
Our previously-broody hen laid an egg! First one in weeks!
@bkhristen Working. He had a patient have a reaction and stayed late, after leaving really early to exercise before work. LOOOOOOOOONG.
Just slathered my feet in almond oil and put on socks because they are the worse for wear after a summer in this arid valley.
Am well into hour 14 of being on my own with all three children. LONG. DAY.
Guess that doesn't happen too often.
Eyebrows threaded! Tiny Muslim lady remembered me from last time when baby cried &amp; I ended up nursing him during actual threading process.
Cheerios on high chair tray? UNACCEPTABLE. Cheerios on floor? DELICIOUS.
@BeckShorter Aw, fun! It is so amazing to think he'll be 1 tomorrow.
This time last year I had been in labor for a couple of hours! I still had about 24 hours to go, unfortunately. :)
@slcfoodie Hey, we're going there in a few weeks! You have to tell me the inside scoop...
Apparently I only had the wherewithal for ONE healthy dinner in me today.
It is a great irony that on a day when I take a lovely dinner to a new mama, I feed my own children Chick-Fil-A.
@Katiekrongard Usually at beginning, I only do food right before I plan to give a bath. HUGE GIANT MESS.
@Katiekrongard I start out doing once a day on *most* days then gradually ramp up so 3 meals/day by birthday.
@Katiekrongard Don't stress! Until she's close to 1, feed her AFTER nursing session, concentrate on experience/texture/tastes (not amount).
Mystifying.
I'm working today, writing questions about the colors and temperatures of stars, and for some reason keep trying to spell it "colour".
@Katiekrongard FOOOOOOOOOOOD... She's getting so big and gorgeous and amazing!
RT @d_l_mayfield: most depressing tweet of the day: 7 worst international aid ideas http://t.co/S6ju78oi #soovertoms #butibought2pairs
RT @kathykrey: Think of cooking not as a choice but as a routine chore. http://t.co/0w7uK0FA
Having my 3rd child is what finally made me an everyday, habitual coffee-drinker.
RT @DoctorMac: College football is coming. To @dorothea78 this should be said in the most ominous Game of Thrones voice possible.
One option being "nothing", of course.
So many gray hairs. Still so undecided what to do about it.
@HaleyNBurke Oh man, now I am curious. Sigh... This is what happens when you have small children &amp; have to leave functions early.
Had so much fun at Cat &amp; Levi's wedding. I wish I had drunk more mead. @EvanLewski needs to make more so I can buy some.
Getting ready for a wedding that we're really happy about. :)
A baby learning to talk and walk is seriously some kind of mind-blowing miracle. I can't even express how amazing it is.
@Selkie1970 When they eat strawberry tops the eggs get little black bits (seeds?) in the shells.
Chickens loooooooove watermelon rind.
She got home safe and sound! It is lovely to see her becoming competent and confident.
6yo is walking herself home from school today for the first time, with neighbor girls, but still. She got out at 3pm. Now I'm sitting here.
@kathykrey Have you tried that Fresh 20 thing? I wish they had an example meal plan on their site...
@chaseafterwind Me too. Why do we think every child needs their own entire room? Americans...
@chaseafterwind They still share a room at 3.5 and 6. Has been fine. If one wakes up at night for something, the other hardly ever wakes.
@chaseafterwind 18mo would still nap in our bed, 4yo would have quiet time (no sleeping) in their room. I thought it was fine.
@chaseafterwind Very well. 18mo was in toddler bed, 4yo in twin. They liked being together, didn't wake each other up.
@chaseafterwind We had our 2nd start sharing a room with our 1st when they were 18 months and 4 years. Before that, we had baby in our room.
@SKEdman Although, to be more accurate, only about 1/3 to 1/2 of our kids' friends from school, neighborhood, etc are LDS.
@SKEdman Amen. I consider raising my children surrounded by Mormons to be a preferable option than having them grow up in Dallas.
For the graphic novel fans: Better Book Titles http://t.co/iqMU786o
@DoctorMac @katiekrongard On Starbucks' plus side, is practically on my way to walk Grace to school. :) And I'm not THAT big a coffee snob.
@Michaelfriberg @Katiekrongard @DoctorMac LOL-- it did totally taste burnt to me. I do prefer making coffee at home to Starbucks. :)
At a Starbucks because @DoctorMac took all the cold-brewed coffee this morning. Thinking of you, @Katiekrongard...
1st day of 1st grade http://t.co/E0TpYjHr
Why don't I have any fruit in the house?
Packing a lunch for the first time in over year for 6yo's 1st day of school tomorrow. This is going to take some getting used to again.
At Grace's elementary school meeting her teacher.
They have taken that good will and SQUANDERED it.
You know, as a pro-life person of faith who grew up in the Bible belt, I had A LOT of good will toward American conservatism.
I am still getting so mad every time I read about this legitimate rape thing. UGH.
@Katiekrongard Hmmmmm, that's not as good.
@Katiekrongard Not from her friend, the mayor's daughter?
Now he is awkwardly shuffling halfway across the room. GAH, the amazingness! It is too much!
11mo baby said "mama"! I think he is 75% sure that it might mean something in particular.
It's 7:30am and all my children are still asleep. This does not bode well for the first day of school tomorrow.
RT @HonestToddler: Thanks for lying on the floor near me with eyes closed while I play. I feel really engaged.
@prodigalsam You took down your Todd Akin tweet? I'm disappointed.
I want dessert so I am eating coconut butter and macadamia nuts. Not the same-- sigh... I miss sugar.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Do you cut the grapes, or leave whole? I'm totally doing this, FYI.
11mo baby is so adorably bad at walking. It simultaneously seems like an amazing miracle to see him upright.
11mo baby is wearing a polo shirt and khakis today. Business casual baby!
Portrait of @DoctorMac, by Grace http://t.co/4RDNtzGU
Bicycle helmet + me making dinner, taken by Grace http://t.co/1JIS7pUc
A self-portrait by Grace http://t.co/TLjsY8O1
This day is looking up.
Figs with goat cheese &amp; Slide Ridge Honey Wine Vinegar, and the AC is working, and we have cold beer, and I took a cool shower...
AC fixed! Thankful.
Violet is just full of mischief today. I guess we'll be painting that wall. http://t.co/KDS6gvfI
3yo broke an egg from our chickens today (an accident but she's not supposed to mess with them) and she claims, "It just hatched."
AC is broken. Temperature in here is 84 degrees and rising.
11mo baby is in an early-rising phase. At least I HOPE it's a phase; I do not enjoy rising before 6am.
Dark chocolate tart  @ Tulie Bakery http://t.co/jMOWdI5s
On a pedicure date with Grace  @ Nailed Boutique http://t.co/lpgeOZwS
@Katiekrongard Oh, that's rough. On you, as well as him, as well as Kinsey. Hang in there...
That thing I just tweeted is super funny but to be honest I've never had a stranger give me advice on baby care, other than "Enjoy her/him."
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hello Stranger On the Street, Could You Please Tell Me How to Take Care of My Baby?: http://t.co/3kosBrZF
@karenebayne WHY DID WE HAVE THREE CHILDREN?!
@karenebayne I am SO DREADING this when my children get older. I want them to do music and something physical, but HOW WILL I MANAGE IT?!
I just used my blender on my front porch to avoid waking up my baby.
11mo spends all day emptying drawers. So my house is pretty much a disaster.
@krisshaffer It's actually an astronomy job (in my field and everything!), writing content, assessments, etc for online education co.
@krisshaffer I'm networking up at the U to hopefully teach as an adjunct eventually and want to have a philosophy statement to put with CV.
@krisshaffer I just started a content development job (from home, etc) but it's a contract job and might not last longer than a year.
@krisshaffer Do you have a teaching philosophy statement based on how you're teaching your classes these days? Am looking for good examples.
I don't think 11mo baby believes that Cheerios are edible.
@ironsoap I feel you. Though to be fair, The Time Traveler's Wife was really good.
Morning at the park before it gets too hot  @ Liberty Park http://t.co/p9bWJkyF
I may be weird, but I'm not depressed: google autocomplete interactive map of states http://t.co/slpYuYgM
@Katiekrongard UGH, me too. Summer is the WORST.
11mo baby took steps this morning!!! Precarious, wobbly, amazing steps!
@veronimitch I totally agree. So, so scary and interesting.
@BeckShorter That is so amazing!
This is my last full week with my oldest before she starts 1st grade and will be gone ALL DAY. We shall enjoy it to the fullest.
Just pulled the trigger &amp; registered 6yo for ballet class for the fall. At Ballet West, @FryAdrian.
@Katiekrongard I thought I was sooooooooo creative 10 years ago.
@Katiekrongard LOL-- it's the Japanese kanji character for joy, sort of mid-back just below my bra line.
@Katiekrongard I already have one cliche tattoo so it would be nice for my next one to be more original.
Are bird tattoos overplayed? Or a classic motif?
11mo baby is 90% of the way to using "dada" appropriately. So amazing to see the wheels turning in his little mind.
@HaleyNBurke It does get easier as you get into the rhythm of it. By the time October rolls around I am ready to be DONE with it, though.
Just saw a woman walking a black lab wearing a white T-shirt (the dog, not the woman). It was knotted jauntily around his (her?) waist.
I wish I had naturally pink hair.
Gay love  @ Utah Book &amp; Magazine http://t.co/G9jY8NXm
Old books  @ Utah Book &amp; Magazine http://t.co/NNverKjX
Brunch date  @ Eva http://t.co/ZubP54Kb
3yo has been eating breakfast for going on 2 hours now-- still sitting dreamily at the table, taking tiny nibbles of food.
Made breakfast of scrambled backyard eggs, avocado, smoked salmon, iced coffee. Only down-side: 11mo baby now smells like smoked salmon.
@Katiekrongard Who needs to have lube ON THEIR PERSON? AT A FANCY RESTAURANT?!
@Katiekrongard WHAAAAAAAAAT?! That is too crazy.
Now he's singing "This Land Is Your Land", with all the verses, because apparently he is a pinko commie.
@Selkie1970 Two weeks in, I am thinking that it is going to work out. Will be even easier, I think, once school starts for G &amp; V.
@Selkie1970 Good! I'm working ~15 hours/week from home, remotely, etc. So far I'm doing 10 hrs/week of childcare and that seems good.
Love hearing @DoctorMac sing "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" to the girls as he puts them to bed. :)
@SKEdman How many weeks are you now? I always felt OK once I was pushing 3rd trimester.
I have been working at my new job for 2 weeks now! I have been thinking about astronomy! I will get paid the moneys!
@Katiekrongard I usually end up draping the baby in a towel and then strong-arming it as best I can-- it's pretty awful.
RT @DoctorMac: Violet is sitting in here singing/chanting "I'm pretty strong, I'm wearing party hats, I love to party."
@Katiekrongard Yes! And you can't really tell how much they've swallowed so you're afraid giving them more with OD them... It's tough.
@Katiekrongard Our babies all want to do that too, at least until the point when they change their minds &amp; decide it is delicious. Ugh.
@HaleyNBurke I... I have no idea what that means.
@veronimitch I know a lot of people dislike the dentist but I wonder how common actual crying/screaming/fit-throwing is.
At dentist this morning, the (adult) woman in next room was in clutches of fear/phobia/freakout about filling. Full-on crying. Poor her...
Not having a good hair day.
@veronimitch UGH, that is so gut-wrenchingly awful. The idea of not being able to feed my kids takes my breath away. So hard.
@NishWeiseth @katiekrongard I agree with all of the above. Iced pour-over at Nobrow is my favorite summer coffee.
@SKEdman @selkie1970 My personal Trivial Pursuit rule is to answer Babe Ruth for all sports questions.
RT @lucaswmuller: Fun fact: all the gold silver and copper for the Olympic medals this year come from salt lake county. Go Utah! #wtf #Slc
@lucaswmuller Is that true?! Where did you read that?
@SKEdman OMG, you are killing me with this.
@SKEdman YAY! All our AC drama last summer came down to mostly that, although we also have some air intake issues.
RT @HonestToddler: Hey sorry, guys. We're going to be late. For everything. From now on.
@angie_amos LOL-- yes, could be worse. :)
RT @BestforBabes: If you are worried about your milk supply, see an IBCLC first, not a pediatrician. Most peds not educated on lactation ...
Step 5 of making apricot liqueur http://t.co/DR3oHxdl
@HaleyNBurke Seriously.
@veronimitch I really love that series, and I thought the 4th was a return to wondrousness after slightly less awesome 3rd.
11mo baby only wants to eat fruit. This is not going to help his anemia.
I am just never ever going to be in the mood to read The Road.
Turns out the big fat graphic novel that @DoctorMac is reading is super depressing too. We need to go read Little Bear now.
Am almost halfway through 2nd Hunger Games book and things are REEEEEEEEEEAL depressing.
@veronimitch Thanks for linking that earlier; that had some nice options.
Roasting a whole chicken makes me feel like somebody who really knows her way around a kitchen.
@veronimitch @jenidvm @skedman Thanks, you guys! I'm going to check some of those out.
Step 4 of making apricot liqueur http://t.co/ucHA8MPD
CRAZY interesting: One Race, Every Medalist Ever http://t.co/UN1qv3bU
My 6yo is just getting into chapter books. Do you have book suggestions for me? @veronimitch? @SKEdman? Anybody else? http://t.co/ybvKKFAB
I haven't made her bed in weeks. (Related, I should start having her make her own bed.)
Ugh, it is so hot here. 6yo has taken to sleeping directly on top of her still-made bed with nothing on top of her.
RT @astropixie: photos of curiosity's shadow on mars.  #hipsterrover
xkcd: Curiosity http://t.co/x7EmOMjb (I didn't stay up, for the record, what with the kind of sleep my sick baby had last week.)
11mo baby has learned to clap and it is the GREATEST THING EVER.
RT @prodigalsam: Paula Deen has probably read 50 Shades of Grey and now I'll never be able to sleep again.
RT @BestforBabes: Wow. For every $1 spent on a milk bank, there is a $58 ROI (return on invstmnt) #breastfeeding  #donormilk #NCSBC @phd ...
RT @BestforBabes: Did u know:  cost of ONE case of NEC (necrotizing enterocolitis) is same as cost to establish a milk bank--which lower ...
Newsies is on Broadway. I seriously think we might need to swing a trip to NYC.
RT @DoctorMac: "Utah is wasted on the Mormons." -@dorothea78  pondering our dear LDS neighbors sitting out under their beautiful gazebo  ...
@lucaswmuller Just listened to that. Really good!
Greatest cover of all time? I vote for Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower. So good. Also makes me want to watch Battlestar Galactica.
@NishWeiseth Oh, you just brought me back to last summer. This time last year I was 36 weeks pregnant. Hang in there!
@Michaelfriberg That is rather hilarious.
@BeckShorter @MaryLUE LOL-- Ironically he doesn't seem delicate at all. 1st reaction was to egg, this one to coconut.
Welp, 11mo baby had second allergic reaction today, to coconuts this time. Guess it's time to get him tested.
RT @rachelheldevans: BBC News - Your Olympic athlete body match http://t.co/UdDwclxq
@Selkie1970 My 3yo is not at all afraid of the water but she wants to do what SHE wants to do; she does not want to listen.
RT @prodigalsam: I wish Shia LaBeouf and Scott Baio could merge into one unstoppable force known as LaBaiowulf.
6yo DID get moved up, and now 6yo and 3yo are in levels that do not have classes at the same time. THAT is not going to happen.
She does not have adequate head-putting-under skills.
Another session of swim lessons finished. I thought 3yo might finally get moved up from 1st level, but no.
@veronimitch I find the 538 blog non-incendiary. Pretty newsy, though-- less commentary.
@FryAdrian OK, thanks! We'll chat soon.
@FryAdrian I just saw that Ballet West does children's classes-- good? high pressure?
@FryAdrian Do you know anything about local ballet schools for kids? My 6yo wants to start this fall. SLC Ballet? Dance Company?
Step 3 of making apricot liqueur. http://t.co/QT9KrvwP
@SKEdman I'm going to puree the ones that are too mushy to eat after ~4 weeks in the vodka. I'm thinking boozy apricot milkshakes!
Guess who's eating boozy apricots? THIS GIRL.
Stage 2 of making apricot liqueur. http://t.co/Wxunkovo
@SKEdman Hey, me too! Blargh.
@Selkie1970 Roseola is so crazy-looking! No rash here yet but it seems sort of respiratory/misery/fever.
Sick baby is sick.
@MaryLUE LOL-- I almost always err on the side of not engaging.
@MaryLUE I think both right-wing &amp; left-wing are somewhat dismissive, negative descriptors but not offensive, derogatory, hateful, etc.
@MaryLUE Negative.
And of course, I have my 3-hour training for new job later today. Sigh... Think my childcare arrangement will still be OK.
10mo baby has caught virus from 3yo. Feverish miserable baby is sooooooo sad. :(
@NishWeiseth parents making the best decisions they can for their children, in their situation, etc.
@NishWeiseth I am pro-feeding too. I want to educate/empower women to meet their BFing goals but there should never be stigma/shame about
@NishWeiseth Oh, that does suck. :(
@NishWeiseth Was just thinking of you/R/baby; if it turns out R has some level of sensory issues, BFing problems were likely him, not you.
@NishWeiseth Take it out of the realm of guilt/shame/lifestyle/mommy-wars (BLECH) into realm of healthcare.
@NishWeiseth I know it would be a big change in the culture surrounding infant feeding, but I find the arguments for it pretty compelling.
@NishWeiseth I find the arguments for having formula be prescription compelling. Not that it will ever happen, with $$$ corporate interests.
RT @Wolf_Mommy: OMG. NO ONE IS "BANNING" FORMULA. It's about normalizing breastfeeding, leveling the playing field. You can still FF if  ...
@NishWeiseth I totally acknowledge that may not have been the spirit in which your friend made the comment, though.
@NishWeiseth Also, if a baby needed a specific medicine, there would be no shame/guilt with the mother saying, "Yes, let's use medicine."
@NishWeiseth I don't know-- when medically appropriate, morphine is good/helpful/useful but it can also be misused. Same is true of formula.
@BeckShorter LOL-- that is hilarious. I had not heard that story before.
@Selkie1970 Yes, I'm throwing it out. Fortunately I pumped it so long ago I don't really feel attached to it anymore.
That is exactly half of entire amount of breast milk I've pumped since 10mo baby was born. Not really big on the pumping around here.
Defrosting 4 oz of breast milk because I think it's been in freezer for too long (8 months?).
She can actually swim. It still sort of amazes me.  @ Fairmont Aquatic Center http://t.co/1t8965Gd
Friday we were SOOOOOO late to swimming lessons. Today we were SOOOOOO early. We have punctuality issues.
10mo baby just loves books. Loves to EAT THEM, I mean.
RT @Maggie: Ah. Kate is one of us. “@Kate8: My new tumblr about book covers that incidentally match bikinis. http://t.co/fo0lCoVF”
I like people's faces. http://t.co/8tCoCTiV
@SKEdman and she still had a fun time every week.
@SKEdman G did soccer this past spring &amp; it was lovely. She IS good in group settings but she is sensitive, not competitive, gentle, etc
I'm going to buy stock in Bota Box. I'm assuming they're a publicly traded company?
Am finally reading Hunger Games. Just finished 1st chapter and YOU GUYS it's so good.
I want pajama pants for myself made out of the fabric from the Aden &amp; Anais baby blankets.
@veronimitch I didn't really have to TRY to like it though, even in admitted terrible production value oddness of beginning of Ninth Doctor.
@veronimitch Oh, it really does get wonderful toward end of Christopher Eccleston's time, into David Tennant's.
I love this baby kale our Costco has started carrying. Now I just need to them to bring back the macadamia nuts.
The thing is, she actually did. 10mo baby locked himself in bathroom and we had 6yo crawl through window to extricate him.
6yo is running around house saying, "I saved the day!"
Home from church with slightly sick, probably contagious 3yo. We've been really lucky with the lack of viruses lately.
Me + maxi dresses = BFF. Sadly, @DoctorMac does not like me wearing them.
6yo has read 4 Magic Treehouse books in the last 24 hours.
So I think @DoctorMac &amp; I are going to make a Twitter account for our broody hen. Every 4 minutes, it's going to say "TOTES HAVING BABIES."
RT @SKEdman: 2yo got a doll from MIL. Doll's eyes open when upright, close lying down. "Look!" said 5yo, "She's dead! Alive. Dead! Alive ...
@Katiekrongard Thanks!
@ironsoap Nooooooooooo... Children's stomach bugs are the WORST.
@SKEdman OMG, I used to have a really similar nightmare! Except it was Dallas. So scary... Haven't thought about that dream in YEARS.
I posted something as part of @sarahbessey's synchroblog today: http://t.co/sYs1jL4s
These carrots from our CSA are so DIRTY. It's like they grew in the GROUND or something.
Time to jump  @ Fairmont Aquatic Center http://t.co/fJnsAIBS
Swim lessons  @ Fairmont Aquatic Center http://t.co/svY6YpgK
Had to wake up baby to bring girls to swim lessons. Hate that.
@Michaelfriberg @katiekrongard LOL-- I totally thought you were complaining about rental houses, like actual houses, too.
A day when I have dinner in the slow cooker before 8am feels like a day in which I will gets lots done.
Swimming lessons. 6yo is swimming back &amp; forth in her lane, 3yo is not listening to the teacher.
@angie_amos WHAT?! That is just too crazy. I picture you living kind of out in the country a bit too. Scary!
@SKEdman LOVE Pulp Fiction.
Oh my goodness, this is so beautiful, and so true: http://t.co/dIuR5C1O
I think this means I'm going to join the ranks of the working-remotely contractors and whatnot.
I just got offered an actual real job that pays actual real money, thanks to connections with a friend from grad school.
RT @BadAstronomer: Astronomer @AstroDyke has some thoughtful words about Sally Ride: http://t.co/63fSm7yh
@SKEdman We've sold two houses at a loss but have never been underwater. The housing market! UGH! Seriously, I still feel flummoxed by it.
Chiffonading beet greens. Fancy!
At Whole Foods by myself. It's so relaxing.
@HaleyNBurke Wait, what shape of sugar cookies do you need for Pioneer Day?
I changed everything about my blog: http://t.co/h8mNJTCO Also, I updated it for the 1st time in over a month.
@Katiekrongard @bkhristen OK, I think I'll meet you at the play/water area around 9:30am or so with my girls in swimsuits.
@SKEdman Discovering that my sewing machine could do buttons was a REVELATION. Mostly because I hate hand-sewing.
@Katiekrongard @bkhristen LOL- sure! I can probably handle it for a while in the morning. What part of Liberty? What time?
@Katiekrongard Sort of. Basically, yes.
We got carrots and beets in our CSA share this week, which means I can make one of our favorite salads: http://t.co/mw2gxWc8
Happy Pioneer Day, Utah. You're crazy, but I love you.
Breastfeeding is a real public health issue, not another round in the media-generated “mommy wars.” http://t.co/lNkP1iFT
Doing crow, head stands, and hand stands with @DoctorMac. #wine
Finally finished Bridesmaids. Felt like adorable Scottish policeman could have done much better.
Smelling summer rain through open window as I nurse 10mo baby to sleep.
6yo has lost 2 front top teeth in past 36 hours and now she is SO ADORABLE I CAN'T STAND IT.
@DoctorMac was just singing Bob Dylan to 10mo baby, complete with disturbingly accurate vocals.
@FryAdrian @HaleyNBurke It was sooooooo hot up on stage, &amp; was even worse at 8:30am than when church started. Don't know what was up today.
Just woke up from 2.5-hour nap. Whoa, I was tired.
@DoctorMac Hey! Those are my glasses!
What a fun time! I feel excited about doing more portraits.
Jeremy #MADEportrait http://t.co/jrElJ8Pq
Mike #MADEportrait http://t.co/5t2gdUPG
Molly #MADEportrait http://t.co/TWeefeqk
Nash #MADEportrait http://t.co/Zg5OLY3u
michaelfriberg's photo of Grace: http://t.co/dOrtMwYL
Sweet Grace #madeportrait http://t.co/YFaOxMtG
michaelfriberg's photo of Jeremy: http://t.co/wKSOmjsO
Grace &amp; Isabella http://t.co/Flv3xUsu
jeremywold's photo of me &amp; Grace: http://t.co/EkeRiKSb
mollyaperson's photo of me: http://t.co/3uXFnfrL
Grace &amp; I had fun at #MADEportrait today with @Michaelfriberg, talking about portrait photography. I'm about to tweet some of my favorites.
Getting ready for my book club friends to come over. We're discussing What Alice Forgot: http://t.co/c8xmTcX9
Last day of my 6-year-old's summer camp. I've been really impressed with the fun programming! http://t.co/209ZiRBS
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- she does like to say that.
@slcfoodie The guy we buy pork from has his pigs butchered so that piece of meat is in pork chops, like T-bone steak. So, no, I guess. :)
RT @evnglcalhipster: If the New Perspective on Paul is wrong, I don't want to be Wright.
Nice view   @ Natural History Museum of Utah http://t.co/JgJGD59K
So tired today. Thankful for a cool place for the little ones to explore while I stare vacantly. http://t.co/A4VwtXE4
@angie_amos My friend at company (know her from grad school; I would work with her) said she thinks they'll contact me soon, so we'll see!
Have woken up the past few mornings looking forward to being able to go to bed that night.
10mo baby is teething and 3yo is going through some kind of sleep regression, so things are rough around here. Sleeeeeeeeeep...
10mo baby is playing with our muddler.
I haven't bought any produce this year for preserving so far; it's all been from friends. Of course, also has all been apricots.
Apricots in honey syrup http://t.co/jHUbUjqq
@DoctorMac Statistically, every 5th woman who read that is a survivor of sexual abuse. UGH.
@DoctorMac @TGC Given what a large percentage of women have been victims of sexual violence, I really think they should.
RT @rachelheldevans: Join me and @scotmcknight as we urge @TGC to "Take It Down": http://t.co/vdywxLf1
Crap. I'm out of pectin.
So @DoctorMac just recorded video of 6yo throwing a huge tantrum. Am not sure if this is really good or really bad parenting.
The tonic we have right now is labeled "best served chilled". Thanks for that, or I might have drunk WARM TONIC. SHUDDER.
RT @HonestToddler: Pre-bedtime hysterics! Amiright? Going out in a blaze of cray cray!
@Katiekrongard doing the Whole30 plan: http://t.co/6ej1TPHp
@Katiekrongard I've been easing into the Paleo thing myself (Rob does Crossfit &amp; they are all wild for Paleo there). I'm thinking about
Wow, super interesting obituary: http://t.co/4qpAUxp2
@bkhristen I THOUGHT about it, but I haven't. I meant to borrow @beffiesmith's dehydrator and do a gigantic batch but I've just canned.
RT @jasonboyett: Oh, wow. These are some of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen. So wonderful. http://t.co/Gvh0Sy7y
A friend brought by another 40 lbs of apricots this morning. Utah apricot trees are going CRAZY this year.
RT @bs: Wow, I've always been against US measuring systems, but this kind of makes sense. Why °F is practical: http://t.co/ElqXfMcq
@Michaelfriberg What if said cyclist has training wheels? That makes it OK, right?
@Selkie1970 Now I wish you were closer so I could come over and we could ORGANIZE ALL THE THINGS. Seriously, I love that kind of thing.
@Selkie1970 with a label and 1 item in it.
@Selkie1970 be organized so you can find things in it. One tip I've heard is to be profligate with the folders; it's OK to have a folder
@Selkie1970 Then a filing cabinet for things I need to keep but don't need to do anything RIGHT NOW. Your filing cabinet really does need to
@Selkie1970 Then the spiral-y thing on my desk with bills + other papers I am unable to immediately deal with.
@Selkie1970 I have this on a wall with folders in it: http://t.co/aFjQvRzF 1 folder/child for school papers &amp; whatever else
@Selkie1970 it ALL just floating around, then I tend to lose the important things, forget deadlines, etc.
@Selkie1970 with, though. As you go through mail, papers from school, etc, you can immediately deal with a BIG percentage of it. If you keep
@Selkie1970 Well, I do keep out bills that I need to pay, in a little spiral-y thing on my desk. I bet a LOT of your piles could be dealt
@Selkie1970 That's, like, the opposite of what a filing system is supposed to do.
@veronimitch @selkie1970 If you seriously want to make over your productivity, How To Get Things Done has a lot of good ideas.
@veronimitch @selkie1970 Yeah, I am not pile-free but my little folder of stuff that I need to deal with feels manageable.
@Selkie1970 We can spend so much time shifting our piles around when making an immediate decision about an item is usually possible.
@Selkie1970 Have you tried instituting "one touch" policy? If you touch something, you must immediately file it, put it away, etc.
@HaleyNBurke Have you changed your password? I think your account is hacked.
RT @Selkie1970: These are great shots: Edwardian fashion in London and Paris before 1910. http://t.co/f2Z4HAMw
RT @karenebayne: This is so, so wrong.  Olympics struggle with policing femininity http://t.co/wGJZzUkY”
I just applied for a job. A job that I would be paid ACTUAL MONEY to do. We'll see...
@Michaelfriberg Finally got a chance to sit down and look at those CO/fracking photographs and they are SO great.
RT @DoctorMac: Turkish coffee, Turkish Delight, Bosnian restaurant.   @ Old Bridge Cafe http://t.co/zDrr7ZaW
Toilet paper wedding dresses at Cat's shower  @ Missio Dei Office http://t.co/aWh2QBvw
@BeckShorter @veronimitch I love cooking, I love food, I love entertaining, but  "tablescape"? NO.
I hate, HATE the word "tablescape".
@angie_amos Yay! Seriously, if you're ever this way, we have a guest room and everything.
RT @slcfoodie: @dorothea78 taught me how to make homemade yogurt today! http://t.co/rTtZstRQ
@veronimitch Oh, and fresh papaya. Papaya literally tastes/smells like vomit to me.
@Michaelfriberg LOL-- what?
@veronimitch PRO! PRO! PRO! Pretty much the only thing I am against is mushrooms.
@Katiekrongard It is kind of sad to see an exhausted baby wake herself up by some inexplicable instinct to crawl around. Sadness.
@Katiekrongard I will forewarn you that this happens again when they learn to sit up, crawl, stand, walk, etc. Poor babies...
Everything on NPR today makes me feel like crying-- worldwide violence against women, doctors trying to treat civilians in Syria... UGH.
RT @jasonboyett: Via @jasonagross, I love this twitter exchange: http://t.co/g6IQA4fl Well done, giant corporate social media robots.
@bkhristen Don't know about that. Still kind of shaky with panic. DEEP BREATH.
Just locked myself out of my house and then broke into it using a flathead screwdriver. UGH. Just GREAT on so many levels.
I ruined the baby's nap by running the blender. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
@Selkie1970 Yeah, why did I every buy Velcro diapers? They wear out faster, babies can take them off, etc...
Apricot season is winding down here.
Making BBQ sauce with the last of our apricots from @kylecostello and @joycostello's tree, loosely based on this: http://t.co/TD41bSG6
10mo baby can now remove Velcro diapers from his person. (Disposable diapers as well, of course.)
An mentally gearing up to go off sugar again. Think I need to if I want to lose last chunk of pregnancy weight.
I am so over these 100-degree days. My reverse seasonal affective disorder is about to kick in.
@NishWeiseth Yay! Always so amazing...
RT @HonestToddler: Can you imagine a real child being named Caillou? Born hated by millions. Random punches in the throat.
@SKEdman Miles! Like it very much.
RT @rachelheldevans: Texts From Jane Eyre | The Hairpin http://t.co/N215fb5C
Hmmm, did not think through how all this window-related banging was going to keep baby from napping.
Goodbye, 100-year-old windows http://t.co/usSB5yhH
@bkhristen Hooray!
@kathykrey Are your thyroid hormone levels still low? Mine have come up but not to normal yet. It does stink to wait 30 min to eat, etc.
@MsKristySteffen I can't believe you're not finding out! :) I so need to know.
This is the last night for 9 of our 100-year-old windows. Tomorrow they are TOAST. Am actually kind of sad for them, to be honest.
@HaleyNBurke a bit of wine? Or you could come over for dinner beforehand.
@HaleyNBurke No, just for 24 hours. What are you doing tomorrow around their bedtime? 7pm-ish? Would you be up for helping w/baths then
Of course, growing an entirely new creature inside of an existing one is pretty weird too.
So EGGS-- there's a weird idea.
@HaleyNBurke Hopefully you ARE getting to nap.
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- unfortunately, I DON'T get to nap because L slept in the car and R has to go to Tooele to be the doctor at asthma camp.
Just drove back from the great outdoors into the city. Utah, you sure are pretty. Also, can I have a nap now?
Singing outside  @ Rockport State Park http://t.co/IDDv2hUt
Breakfast with @missiodeislc  @ Rockport State Park http://t.co/Y22x2Sik
Think I've got everything packed &amp; ready for our drive tomorrow morning up into mountains for church/picnic/baptisms/etc. Yay! @missiodeislc
@veronimitch Yay! :) Hey, you do the Curly Girl thing, right? What gel do you use?
Oh man, I want to go to a Newsies sing-along: http://t.co/aTO6v7hF
@veronimitch That movie made me so nostalgic for Austin (where I went to grad school).
Aargh, sorry about the Foursquare tweets... Still trying to get the hang of it.
Bangs! (@ Image Studios) http://t.co/e113FdKv
@Selkie1970 I never get enough quantity from a CSA to make it worth canning. We just eat it. :)
@Selkie1970 Much less work than cherries, or those red currants I did last year. GAH, that was a lot of work.
@Selkie1970 These apricots could just be torn in half by hand and the pit just popped out. Pretty quick, actually.
I'll eventually make some non-apricot jam but the vast quantities from @joycostello's tree were too good to pass up.
apricot-rosemary jam http://t.co/WVL2rJIo
@Katiekrongard That makes me sound like an alcoholic.
@Katiekrongard YES. Of course, I'm seldom out that late. I feel more annoyed when they don't open until 11am.
@Katiekrongard There's hiking but it's not really a swimming lake per se. Not really pleasant to get in, apparently.
@Katiekrongard I think it's ~1 hour if you want to drive around to get to Antelope Island, less if you want to get to the closer side.
Step 1 of making apricot liqueur @dkylecostello  http://t.co/hu0VH3VZ
@Katiekrongard I... I can't tell if you're joking or not. The Great Salt Lake? West of the city?
@Katiekrongard It's probably the lake. The big shallow salty one.
My personal range for running outdoors is approx 30 - 80 degrees F. If that makes me a wimp, I don't really care.
Went running today for 1st time in a month (it's been too hot for my tastes). Oof.
The weather today is making me so happy. I love rain, and summer warm-ish rain is perhaps the best kind of rain.
Nice explanation of the Higgs boson: http://t.co/Ve6NHjuk (Video is from before the 5-sigma detection was announced.)
@SkyeGarn That is a GREAT red. What is that?
Present company excepted, of course, @DoctorMac.
"...not all pediatricians have the skills or attitude necessary to help you meet your breastfeeding goals." http://t.co/nbB8yyS0
When one lives this far north, mid-summer fireworks cannot start until VERY LATE. We all look a little rough around the edges this morning.
@lucaswmuller THEY FREAK ME OUT TOO. Shudder.
RT @prodigalsam: You have no idea how selfish you really are until you have kids.
RT @DoctorMac: .@dorothea78 In my defense, Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA is also in there.
Oh dear. @DoctorMac is threatening to play Rage Against the Machine at our July 4th party.
@SKEdman That is WONDERFUL.
@Michaelfriberg Seriously.
People are coming over in a few hours and my house is SO CLEAN. We should have parties more often.
@SKEdman but I was too squeamish to go to Parkland. My squeamishness about county hospitals cost us a few $k.
@SKEdman same hospital system) for $25. Would have been with a midwife, &amp; in hindsight that was a very easy birth and would have been fine,
@SKEdman I think we pay 20% of in-network hospitalizations. I had 3yo in Dallas and had the option of having her at Parkland (R worked for
@SKEdman So hard to feel hemmed in with no clearly wonderful choice. HUGS.
@SKEdman Ugh, that is still a lot. Although I think it is about what we paid OOP for hospital birth (no epidural) with decent insurance.
apricot-honey-amaretto jam http://t.co/Jdk7FhwR
@SKEdman HB can be pretty affordable so 30% might still be doable. If you want a HB, that is.
RT @DoctorMac: How I found Violet about 2am. Not sure what she was headed for, but she didn't make it.  http://t.co/BndlbkKz
@SKEdman Ugh. I've been lucky that I've always had that option (midwife + hospital) and it's been a good one for me. Hang in there...
I seriously, literally do not understand people who say summer is their favorite time of year. Have had my lifetime fill of summer.
@SKEdman I assume you've looked into all your home birth options?
@SKEdman Do I understand correctly that you could do a VBAC with a midwife in the hospital but don't want to?
@SKEdman Oh, that is SUCH a disappointment. Doctors! Am I right? :) But seriously, what a bummer.
Inspired by @slcfoodie's recent limoncello experiments, am thinking about trying apricot liqueur: http://t.co/ryYRJTUC @kylecostello
Letting the kids tear apart the house while I make another batch of apricot jam.
@HaleyNBurke WHAT?! Where? With Cesar and Christy?
@SKEdman BOY?! So fun! There is just nothing like a squishy adorable baby boy.
@howiesmith Yay Howie! That is great news!
RT @HonestToddler: Miss my placenta sometimes. We were as close as Tom Hanks and that volleyball in Cast Away. #memories
Now I have to figure out how to not have all my Foursquare check-ins post to Twitter. Sigh...
It seems fitting that my 1st check-in would be at Costco. (@ Costco w/ 2 others) http://t.co/xzawuSEn
10mo baby is at that age where I basically have to give him a bath every time he eats.
@karenebayne TEXTING and SLEEPING?! Good grief.
@veronimitch @selkie1970 That is SO fun. Lucky ladies, you two.
@SKEdman They really REALLY should be OK with that.
RT @HonestToddler: Dear Toddler Clothing Manufacturers, WE HAVE BIG HEADS.
I would leave but 10mo baby just fell asleep in Ergo for his afternoon nap. Hmmmmm...
Apparently there's a lot of crying at this place around 4pm.
And now 3yo is losing her crap from exhaustion/overstimulation.
Have spent my afternoon at one of those indoor bounce house places.  @ Jump Around Utah http://t.co/kCZCgQTM
Ugh, just found out my college friend had her twins at 25 weeks. Surgeries, ventilators, infections, etc. :(
@BeckShorter Very true. I feel like I knew people who used it as a few years to just mess around. It's an expensive way to just mess around.
@BeckShorter Not that college is right for everybody, of course. I think it's wrong-headed to assume all young people should go.
@BeckShorter @veronimitch The answer of course is to not allow your children to go to college. NOT EVEN KIDDING PEOPLE REALLY THINK THIS.
RT @DoctorMac: Would you say we have, a plethora?  http://t.co/Rn4dNbv1
@WasatchFood We are leaving the Costellos' with, like, a flat of apricots that we picked in 15 min. There are a TON.
@SKEdman Oh, I just love Betsy-Tacy! So sweet and wonderful.
Yesterday's jam: apricot-maple-vanilla http://t.co/uuQLU4Yz
"Pop pop pop," say my jam jars.
It's jam season! http://t.co/dNkTdoiR
@MaryLUE I don't think so. You could find me in Sherri's or Kimberly's list of friends.
@MaryLUE you see eating a sandwich, drinking in the bar, partnering with Allison. He's only said, like, 4 sentences. :)
@MaryLUE Not the main people. We go to church with the blond girl who is friends/roommates with Allison and the red-haired guy who
@MaryLUE If you're in a ballet mood you should watch Breaking Pointe-- set here in SLC and we know some of the dancers.
@MaryLUE It is VERY similar to Gilmore Girls. On the other hand, I love Gilmore Girls with a deep, passionate love.
@MaryLUE Yes! Two episodes in, I quite like it.
I &lt;3 Amy Sherman Palladino.
My husband is out playing poker with some guy friends. It's getting all clichéd up in here.
I try hard to just roll w/ baby sleep schedules, but the ONE GOOD THING about dropping naps is when they're out for the night at 7pm. Hmph.
Aargh. 10mo baby seems to be dropping down to 1 nap a day AND not going to bed at night until 9pm. NOT FAIR.
@HaleyNBurke Yes. I am familiar with that stage of moving.
@SKEdman It's a family name for me too (aunt+great-grandmother) and we seriously considered it for Violet. An excellent possibility.
@SKEdman I love the name Virginia.
@angie_amos Also, pedicures are my favorite. Also, apricots.
@kathykrey Yay! That stuff will kill you. :) I'm thinking about cutting out sugar again, except that it's harrrrrrrrrrd.
Yoga is my favorite.
@Katiekrongard @nishweiseth I did too! With number 3, I even had a mojito when I was in my 3rd trimester. :)
I shall eat this freshly-bathed baby up because he is so delicious.
Just pulled a coffee bean out of 9mo baby's mouth. LDS friends would not approve.
@angie_amos We're having a really hot summer (like in CO with the fires and all)-- highs in the upper 90s all week. Yuck!
@SKEdman My 3rd pregnancy was my 1st summer one and the pool was so, so wonderful. It helped EVERYTHING, even my heartburn, I think.
RT @sispurrier: OBAMACARE explained -- explain it like I'm five: http://t.co/69088Ajj
Fantasizing about winter.
Had to reschedule my haircut from this Saturday to next Saturday. HOW WILL I LIVE ANOTHER WHOLE WEEK WITHOUT BANGS?!?!?!?
@SKEdman It WAS a funny joke.
About that thing I just RT'd: one of my conservative Texas FB friends just said it too! Am 98% sure she wasn't trying to be funny!
RT @DoctorMac: I, I don't know what to say. Thought ACA was doomed for sure. I, for one, welcome our new socialist overlords.
RT @sternbergh: BREAKING: NO ONE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON. SUPREME COURT MANDATES PERMANENT USE OF ALL-CAP TWEETS. CATS SLEEPING WITH DOGS. ...
Also, 6yo just heard that "I just met you this is crazy" song for the 1st time and she's totally rocking out over her milkshake.
Am at a restaurant with all 3 children getting a quick dinner between 6yo's sports camp and church and it's going REALLY SMOOTHLY. ?!?!?
@Katiekrongard I say nap with her. :)
@Katiekrongard Well yeah, you want to keep her safe. It does suck to temporarily lose the naps as time to get stuff done.
@Katiekrongard Persevere, hang in there, cope as best you can. Seriously, you don't fix these things; you just wait them out. :)
@kathykrey Oh my gosh, what a loss.
@SKEdman Oh no, I am so sorry.
@kathykrey Oh Kathy, I am so sorry.
@bkhristen 5% weight loss in a year doesn't sound like a lot to me, given my +/- 60 pregnancy lbs. And heart concerns? Hmmmmm...
@bkhristen Oh no! Be kind to yourself. And the little one, I suppose. :)
@veronimitch I think Lucius Malfoy took that one off the table these days. You know, unless you WANT him to join Slytherin.
@SKEdman SO TRUE. And the food at the store, and gasoline, and clothes, and our computers and phones... PARALYSIS.
@SKEdman Sure makes me unhappy, though. Rob turned down working in a lab once bc whole project was based on fetal cell line.
@SKEdman I chalk it up to one of those messy moral issues in modern life that we have to muddle through as best we can.
@SKEdman isn't the worst vaccination to skip, obviously.
@SKEdman Well, it's not ALL the vaccines so maybe your pediatrician would  make an exception. I think it's only a couple and chicken pox
@MaryLUE ethical problems surrounding their origins though.
@MaryLUE I haven't yet but I want to. It does amaze me that these cell lines exist and are used the ways they are. There seem to be LOTS of
@MaryLUE There used to be 2 versions of MMR, I mean-- one based on cell line from fetal tissue, one not.
@MaryLUE @selkie1970 They made it from a cell line not originated with fetal tissue.
@Selkie1970 I bet it's an intellectual property issue or something.
@Selkie1970 Yeah, a LOT of the circumstances RE: big pharma seem cause for concern.
@MaryLUE @selkie1970 I would have to look it up to be sure.
@MaryLUE @selkie1970 I believe It's one of the vaccines that is made using a cell line developed from an aborted baby from the 1960s.
@Selkie1970 LOL! Would you really do it right before your trip? Did you opt out bc of pro-life concerns?
@Katiekrongard I run in pretty crunchy circles so yes, I have. :) Not the choice I would make, although not the worst vaccine to skip, obvs.
@SKEdman And poor mama! It's going to be a miserable couple weeks at their house, given how long it will take all their kids to get it.
And in case you're wondering: http://t.co/VWE6XEdB
Contemplating again how people make such different choices when presented with the same facts &amp; options. People! They are so different!
Well, one of my selective-vaccinating friends has had all her kids come down with the chicken pox.
RT @BackpackingDad: I think I owe Steve Jobs like eight thousand dollars in babysitting fees for the iPad.
I do not enjoy summer weather.
Also, have fed him tiny bites of ground beef 3 times so far today.
Baking anti-anemia cookies for baby (iron-fortified infant cereal, blackstrap molasses). Taste pretty good, actually.
Violet loooooooves to get her hair cut. http://t.co/bclxdyku
I think 9mo baby is going to fall asleep just in time for us to need to leave to take 6yo to sports camp.
So you can probably guess how today is going.
Yesterday went so smoothly w/ baby napping at convenient times &amp; me getting lots done. "I am SO GOOD at motherhood," I congratulated myself.
Cherry season! Got a lovely big bag of cherries in our CSA share yesterday. Mmmmmm...
@BeckShorter Oh, that is terrible. Although not as terrible as what's happening in your community. Hang in there.
@Katiekrongard @nishweiseth Now now, we natural-childbirth types are not inherently ridiculous. :)
@Selkie1970 Maybe I'll just offer him meat more frequently during day instead of trying to get him to eat more at one sitting.
@BeckShorter Hmmm, we'll have to keep an eye on it. He's already eating meat so I was looking for foods with higher concentration of iron.
@Selkie1970 Yes, definitely, although he's already eating meat &amp; I'm not sure how I could get him to eat more.
9mo baby is slightly anemic. Time to bust out the seaweed and blackstrap molasses.
@SKEdman Oh, I have BEEN THERE. The disorienting CRAZY of my mental/emotional life during pregnancy is, seriously, the worst aspect of it.
@bkhristen I might do it anyway because I really want a change. And I could pin the bangs back when I'm really hot?
@bkhristen Yes, but I have really been thinking about the summer/heat issue you raised. I am not all the time anyway, w/o hair on my face.
I have a hair appointment on Saturday &amp; am thinking about bangs. http://t.co/tgrWWmRU
Also, Bollywood. Also, midcentury musicals.
Oh film noir, I love you.
Bogie &amp; Bacall-- sigh... http://t.co/ccVZ66wJ
At @dkylecostello's house, picking his apricots http://t.co/sr1i8nff
Thinking about heavy bangs again.
RT @DoctorMac: How many scraps of paper can my kid eat before I'm no longer considered a good parent? Asking for a friend.
@SKEdman She says all the housewives she's ever met don't do anything around the house. WHAT. ON. EARTH.
@Selkie1970 basically someone HAS to be full-time parent and supporting at home. I think it's archaic &amp; not ultimately good for the system.
@Selkie1970 I totally am with EVERYTHING you say except this part-- I think it's a problem that so many careers are structured so that
@Selkie1970 LOL
@Selkie1970 would benefit from having more women involved, especially at higher ranks.
@Selkie1970 Hmmmm, I actually think keeping women from leaving WOULD be a good motivation for change. Think academia/govt/industry
@Selkie1970 packaged is tired ("having it all", baby + briefcase, etc). Did find actual article perceptive &amp; thoughtful, though.
@Selkie1970 I totally acknowledge that it was written from perspective of privilege. Also I agree with Salon article that the way it was
@Selkie1970 I thought her main thesis was that the workplace needs to adapt, &amp; that's why so many women opt out.
@Selkie1970 It's interesting that your reaction was so different than mine. I really did think her perspective was interesting.
RT @kathykrey: "We should immediately strike the phrase “have it all” from the feminist lexicon and never, ever use it again." http://t. ...
RT @kathykrey: Update on the Slaughter article that was in The Atlantic. Elite Women Put a New Spin on an Old Debate. http://t.co/nX6Td0Nm
@SKEdman Telling her is a great idea!
@SKEdman Saw our regular doc today and she was totally fine with his continued %tile drop. Yay! I like her.
At pediatrician for 9-month well visit. http://t.co/c9dBdEa1
@SKEdman of the advice about work-life balance you get as an educated woman. I've been told all those phrases she addressed.
@SKEdman Those RTs were great thoughts but the Atlantic article addressed a good bit of that. I thought it was an interesting examination
@MaryLUE Ewwwwwwwwwww...
@angie_amos LOL-- that one has sugar AND HFCS. :)
Other ideas? Slow cooker ideas especially welcome.
We get these big ham roasts (cured, not fresh) in our pork CSA and all the recipes I find seem to involve copious amounts of sugary things.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 I don't know; maybe that's the same thing really.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 work-life balance, whether society/workplaces are best-served by how things are now, etc.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 I think the article is rather misnamed-- less about "having it all" than about work culture among educated/elite,
@BeckShorter Like being with your children is not doing "something"!
@BeckShorter That makes me think of something else from that article-- how little our culture values nurturing and raising children. Ugh.
@BeckShorter In full disclosure, I am thinking about teaching part-time at the university again. I know I'm lucky to have those choices.
@BeckShorter that I'm unwilling to make those 'sacrifices' that baby boomer women seem to want. I will take my advanced degree and opt out.
@BeckShorter It was so interesting hearing her perspective from ~10 years ahead of where I am now. When I think about working, I realize
Long, but really interesting-- Why Women Still Can’t Have It All http://t.co/OkQgEP55
@SKEdman I haaaaaaaaate Anna Karenina in the book. HATE.
@bkhristen I have it too! Haven't gotten to the naughty bits yet.
Summer is for cold-brewed coffee. http://t.co/dSARWv6f
Fun conversation for the morning: trying to explain to 6yo why we spay/neuter dogs and cats.
@SKEdman Aaaaaaaah, the hopelessness! One of my girls only likes eggs scrambled, the other only will eat them fried or hard-boiled.
RT @Katiekrongard: 23 Things I Think New Parents Should Know http://t.co/8o8dpdfI via @HuffPostParents
@Jenidvm It really did help me too! I took Benadryl (same drug) but never had to get big-gun drugs from OB. Hang in there...
First week of our CSA share: lots of greens! http://t.co/R6cE5FEJ
Long story, but sweet middle-aged Muslim lady who does the threading was so awesome about it.
May have just achieved weirdest breastfeeding situation ever-- nursed 9mo while having eyebrows threaded.
Science You Can Use: Worried about toxins in your breastmilk? Get the facts. | Best for Babes http://t.co/YV8axIil
This whole column has been so good-- Assimilate Or Go Home: Dispatches from the Stateless Wanderers: Conversion. http://t.co/zof46tcW
@Selkie1970 Those are so pretty! Have a lovely birthday.
@SKEdman LOL!
You guys have got to check this Adele girl out.
@Katiekrongard There are videos online that can instruct you in the ways of spatchcocking. Felt a bit barbaric, but smells amazing now.
Gruesome? @doctormac grilling chicken in front of our chickens. http://t.co/f4DqC5CZ
@HaleyNBurke Oh right. You should tell me if I can help somehow, given the caveat that I bring 3 small humans everywhere with me.
@HaleyNBurke I... I don't know what that means.
@bkhristen @Michaelfriberg And we are grilling them (little "heritage" chickens we got from local guy-- hopefully yummy Fathers Day dinner).
@bkhristen @Michaelfriberg Indeed you are correct. Previous to tonight I was a spatchcocking virgin. I'll admit-- it felt a bit primeval.
Just spatchcocked a chicken.
9mo baby has started lifting his arms to be picked up. Aaaaaaah, the cuteness!
On our anniversary date: a chocolate tasting by @vintagemixer  http://t.co/HR33kcrj
Breakfast with the Birds (&amp; our next-door neighbor)  @ Tracy Aviary http://t.co/5rIbnLUN
Breakfast with the Birds  @ Tracy Aviary http://t.co/JQgXAs7i
RT @okkervilriver: I'd like an ottoman that's secretly a cajón. I could be sitting on it relaxing &amp; then amaze everyone by busting o ...
@Michaelfriberg Whereabouts were they in Home Depot? Do they have a magnet section or something?
@Michaelfriberg Where did you buy those little tiny magnets you have on your magnet board?
@SKEdman UGH, DANIEL SCHORR. I listen to NPR all the time but I cannot stand him.
On the plus side, he is in a killer good mood.
He'll just have to watch #breakingpointe with me. @FryAdrian
My 9mo baby took 4.5 hours worth of nap today so he is never going to bed tonight.
But seriously, this is the first time I've listened to it. And you may not have heard this, but it is super catchy!
Hey guys, guess what? This Adele album is really great! #2011
@Michaelfriberg Desert? Dessert? One of those would be more fun than the other.
@Selkie1970 Chard is one of my FAVORITE THINGS, usually like this: http://t.co/WxIbmdcc
@Selkie1970 Sautéed with garlic &amp; red pepper flakes, kale chips, green smoothies?
These are the burgers we made for my birthday Sunday-- still SO GOOD as leftovers: 
http://t.co/1zZUlNPY
@DoctorMac @jdcox1999 We got married on a Friday so we have several friends who share our anniversary minus one year. :)
As of today, I have been married for TEN YEARS. Madness! Wonderful, glorious madness! http://t.co/J8LQwGIq
I think I overscheduled us this week. Running in too many directions at once.
@BeckShorter I actually think Will is pretty good.
RT @jasonboyett: Wow. I'd not seen this before. Here's an uncropped photo of the Tiananmen "Tank Man" from the 1989 protests: http://t.c ...
@BeckShorter That IS basically what I wear every day. :)
RT @astropixie: star trails from the international space station - amazing photos!   http://t.co/RFAXhg9V
Best birthday present this year?  Maybe the way 9mo baby's head smells, maybe the fact that @DoctorMac made me amazing dinner...
RT @DoctorMac: @dorothea78 's birthday cake. Pretty sure Lewis is masking his heat signature from a cake predator.  http://t.co/J9lrhlSA
Birthday celebration numero dos http://t.co/Jxf9Ok6j
@bkhristen Thank you so much! I'm having a lovely birthday weekend.
RT @DoctorMac: Life is better when they get along.  http://t.co/HtwiovJj
@slcfoodie I think the caption I put on one photo in Instagram was ambiguous, but yes, it's my birthday. :) 3 more months til L turns one.
@BeckShorter I'm hoping not to wait 7 years to make it to a movie theater again. :)
@BeckShorter clean-cut/Boy-Scout-esque for my tastes; I like a little more darkness &amp; irony in dreamboat-types. What a fun movie, though!
@BeckShorter LOL-- I saw that last weekend &amp; it was the 1st movie I'd seen in a theater since 2005. Thor &amp; Captain America are a little
At Mazza tonight for my birthday dinner, 3yo ate ALL the aioli. First on French fries, then on pita, then on her finger.
RT @DoctorMac: Out for @dorothea78 's birthday. Had shwarma. Mmmm, shwarma. http://t.co/gSg2FLfr
Birthday celebration dinner numero uno  @ Mazza Middle Eastern Cuisine http://t.co/CmsRmvyi
Picking out my birthday cake  @ Gourmandise http://t.co/l2oYkflL
Massage time! Happy birthday to me! (one day early...)
@FlyingPhotog We do $1.
Two little girls reading books while we make breakfast:  http://t.co/gLTlkBQt
@bkhristen HAHAHAHAHAHA-- OMG, OMG, do it. That would be so fabulous.
I just went grocery shopping by myself. This is such a rarity that I am tweeting about it.
@SKEdman First Rob Bell, and now bars?! What kind of homeschooling convention have you stumbled into?
@SKEdman LOL-- how did Rob Bell even get in there?
OK, I'm willing to say it out loud. I'm thinking about going back to work.
RT @HonestToddler: Every toddler you see alive is a miracle. No other age group routinely falls off of couches, slides, runs into walls, ...
@bkhristen That would be bad news for me.
Following women 10 years younger than me on Pinterest is helping train my eye fashion-wise, I think. Still not going to wear shorts, though.
4:13pm-- too late for coffee? I'm going to risk it.
"Hmmmm, what's this? I think I'll put it in my mouth" = not my favorite baby stage.
@veronimitch I remember that!
RT @HonestToddler: Press Release http://t.co/l0Pv8nGj
@SKEdman I still am sad about Rich Mullins.
Kindergarten graduation!  http://t.co/sor23xlX
These cool June days make me so happy.
9mo baby is sporting some jorts today.
Boy, it's been YEARS since clouds have kept me from seeing some astronomical object that I wanted to see. Takes me back.
Whole lotta clouds rolling in. Maybe no Venus transit for us after all.
@SKEdman YES. Me: "Let's join a CSA, &amp; buy special ethically raised pork, &amp; keep hens for eggs, &amp; buy a WHOLE LOT of Costco pizza slices.
@SKEdman LOL-- Galadriel?! I believe that might be wise. But some of those others are lovely. Husbands...
We're going to see the transit of Venus @nhmu, if anybody wants to meet us there. Won't be another one for 100 years! http://t.co/At83OJJV
RT @HonestToddler: Toddler Tip: If you don't understand a question answer with a firm "NO."
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- you've been at work a lot longer than G has been at school so it might actually be a reasonable time to leave.
6yo's last week of kindergarten! She is in half-day K &amp; whole school district has early release this week, meaning I pick her up at 10:25am.
Just gave our chickens some watermelon rind and corn cobs. Happy hens.
Dreamy yoga class this afternoon. Like a nap combined with a massage.
@joninSLC I know, right?
Getting out the baby gates because 9mo baby has learned to climb stairs. Ugh, I haaaaaaaaaaate baby gates. HATE. DESPISE. AND SO FORTH.
@karenebayne That is SO beautiful.
@HaleyNBurke Yeah, I know. Babies, Netflix, we've always had a big TV, etc.
Related, I am very, very fond of Joss Whedon.
Just saw a movie in a theater for the first time since 2005.
How fast do I go through the giant container of laundry detergent from Costco? Really, really fast.
I made scrambled eggs this morning, which means we got to see this face:  http://t.co/UkBpgpjh
@slcfoodie I thought it was a really good perspective.
RT @rachelheldevans: Very nice post from @kristenhowerton "Why are so many celebrities adopting black babies?"  http://t.co/WmuKJ0vF
@beckfromfrogandtoad Caffeine? That sometimes helps me. Other than that, I just sleep them off, which becomes less doable at 17+  hours.
@SKEdman I sometimes think about something like this: http://t.co/I5taNM5x
@SKEdman Oh, I looooove the dramatic, transformative hair cut. I've never gone true pixie short, though-- don't see many curly pixie cuts.
@Selkie1970 I feel sore and roughed up this morning but my head feels better, so that's good.
@Selkie1970 New iPhone is coming out sometime fall-ish. I really don't think mine will make it that long. 1st world problem, right?
My phone is DYYYYYYing, we are planning on switching to iPhones, and this is a terrible time to buy an iPhone. Sigh...
RT @HonestToddler: Hm. Crayon color and flavor are unrelated.
@Selkie1970 I'm going to be fine, although I feel pretty beat up. Hopefully no concussion.
RT @slcfoodie: Watching #BreakingPointe. An #SLC reality tv show about Ballet West. If you're not tuning in, you should be!
@joninSLC I've got the TiVo set but I'm not sure if I'll get to watch it tonight.
Made it back home. Headache, a little dizzy, some road rash, ripped pants, but otherwise OK.
Just fell while running. Hit my head on concrete on the way down. OW. Am walking home, @HaleyNBurke. http://t.co/HLmf4lmO
RT @HonestToddler: I'm OK with her doing a workout DVD as long as she holds me the entire time.
9 months ago today I had a baby, &amp; 9 months before that he was a handful of cells.  http://t.co/EoDYqUIp
Dropped full glass jar of peaches on tile floor. The resulting mixture of glass shards, simple syrup, and fruit was not fun to clean up.
@bkhristen Happy birthday! Mine is a matter of days away.
This analogy (a couple weeks old now, but new to me) of what we mean by "privilege" is very nice, I think: http://t.co/XgeTzBKY
@SKEdman I realized after I sent that 1st tweet that I've actually never tried it straight so I shouldn't judge. :)
@SKEdman Well, that sounds much better. Isn't that a Vietnamese thing? Sweetened condensed milk in iced coffee?
@Jenidvm Probably not, right? He was probably contagious BEFORE he got sick + while he had the fever. Little kid rashes are the craziest.
I'm recording this tomorrow night: http://t.co/uGr46Hh3 Reality TV is not usually my scene but we go to church with a couple of the dancers.
@SKEdman Ewwwwwwwwwww... Just straight?
I took my sewing machine and serger to be serviced today and they will be gone for a week. I'll miss you, my preciouses...
@veronimitch Part of me would like to wear jeans but they never fit right and are SO uncomfortable.
@veronimitch I wear almost solely skirts too-- comfortable, fun/easy for me to sew, much easier to fit properly.
@veronimitch We still have 1.5 weeks. I grew up in TX where school went from mid August to Memorial Day so it seems unnatural to me too.
RT @prodigalsam: We have the most amazing babysitter. Her name is Netflix.
RT @HonestToddler: Yeah I DID want a banana, but now that you peeled it...I'll pass.
@NishWeiseth Doesn't much matter if you're planning an epidural, and I had a good experience all around anyway. I'd deliver there again.
@NishWeiseth Was somewhat less friendly to natural childbirth than where I delivered 6yo and 3yo but many hospitals are much worse.
@NishWeiseth I'm quasi-crunchy-natural type &amp; some hospital rules were annoying-- REQUIRED to have hep-lock even if no need for IV, etc.
@NishWeiseth Yes. Not super posh/fancy but totally fine. Loved my L&amp;D nurse, thought the postpartum nurses were fine/OK.
@NishWeiseth Congratulations! So that is why you were seeing my midwives? If you have any questions about delivering with them, just ask.
Dim sum for lunch after church, which I loooooooove. 6yo ate her weight in dumplings, I think.
@Michaelfriberg Well, we were thinking about life ~10 years ago so it was "All That You Can't Leave Behind". He was pretty into Africa then.
Listening to U2 and I LIKE IT. I don't care what you hipsters say.
They grew these grapes the year I got my masters' and we got married. #longtimeago
We are classing it up tonight: fancy local grass-fed T-bones + 10-year-old Cabernet that was Christmas 2010 gift from my in-laws. Yum.
@joninSLC #wine
@joninSLC *obviously. Obviously.
@joninSLC I am really liking New Girl! It's so good, right? And my love for ice cream and wine goes way back, obvious.
@MsKristySteffen If so, I think she does a GREAT job writing in a specifically male voice. So hilarious.
@Selkie1970 It might be my favorite thing on Twitter now.
Preventing malaria AND scurvy AND heart disease AND dementia with this very healthy beverage.  http://t.co/ImNar2KS
@Selkie1970 If so, I think she does a GREAT job writing with a specifically male voice.
Discussing with @DoctorMac whether we think @HonestToddler is written by a man or a woman. Also, how long before s/he gets a book deal.
@aldousmom Oh no! What a traumatic event...
@veronimitch Yay! Happy birthday! I think wine + PJs + movies sounds lovely.
The new hairs are all ~2" long right now.
First I had awesome pregnancy hair, then insane post-partum hair loss, and now crazy new growth sticking up everywhere.
@NishWeiseth Red Butte Garden, NHMU, drive to brunch at Silver Fork Lodge, coffee/tea/snack at Rose Est, the Seven Canyons area at Liberty?
@Jenidvm Yay! Honest-to-goodness sick children are so, so sad.
@MaryLUE Yeah, it's not what you would call a conservative church in some ways. :)
Look, it's a photoessay about my church @missiodeislc by @Michaelfriberg, with a few shots of my kids near the end: http://t.co/wPVz7crm
@bkhristen Have a great trip! We will miss you!
@Selkie1970 I think she thought it felt "interesting" at the time; I was downstairs nursing L. Sigh... I think 3 might be all I can handle.
@Selkie1970 I guess I *could* describe it in 140 characters.
@Selkie1970 She cut off circulation to bottom part of her face with cup, sort of suction-like. Swollen, 2 fat lips, broken capillaries, etc.
@HaleyNBurke Oh gosh, it's not your fault. She didn't do it while you were even here.
@HaleyNBurke half her face. Super swollen, 2 fat lips, broken capillaries, etc. CRAZY CHILD.
@HaleyNBurke Yes! Was she doing that when you were here?! I nursed L downstairs &amp; came up to find she'd basically cut off circulation to
Looks like 3yo's face might bruise from upper lip down.
3yo has given herself the weirdest injury on her face that I cannot even begin to describe or explain in 140 characters.
@DoctorMac Is that.... bad?
My eyes are incredibly bloodshot. I'm not sure what that means.
3yo's last day of preschool for the year! She has had such a lovely first preschool experience at this place; I'm thankful for it.
RT @HonestToddler: Why do we need formal meal times? I'd much prefer if you followed me around with a spoon and gave me a bite of food e ...
I'm so glad it got cool again. One the best things about Utah spring-- lovely bouts of coolness interspersed in trudge toward summer.
Been a loooooooong day. With an interrupted, unsuccessful nap attempt. And I think I've waited too late for caffeine.
@SKEdman WHAT ON EARTH?! No babies at art museums?! What is wrong with people?
The roses are in full bloom around here.  http://t.co/N2RnTaLn
RT @SKEdman: "If your congregation sings only Hillsong choruses, then their emotional repertoire will be limited to..." http://t.co/bpXS1FuF
@veronimitch Genre fiction! So much fun. Sometimes literary fiction is the opposite of fun.
@angie_amos Yeah, I've crashed now. :)
@howiesmith YES. He's sleeping more than yesterday so I'm hoping he's recovering &amp; getting back to his happy self.
I have been hampered slightly by the fussy, quasi-sick, clingy baby, but a) the Ergo to the rescue and b) sick baby = napping baby.
I am GETTING CRAP DONE. Thanks to the GIANT ICED COFFEE I made myself.
RT @prodigalsam: Can always tell when dad did the hair.
There's lots of stuff just sitting around in my kitchen-- coffee cold-brewing, wool diaper covers lanolizing, yogurt culturing.
@MaryLUE On plus side, she offered me free laser hair removal! Yay!
@MaryLUE We didn't tell her that the baby had puked twice today. Pretty sure that was terrible hosting on our part.
Did a LOT of laundry today, by the way.
Aaaaaaaaaah, getting into clean sheets. Since baby puked all over sheets a few times today and forced my hand.
RT @HonestToddler: One of my special skills includes waking up in pee-soaked pajamas and a bone dry diaper.
@aldousmom That's crazy! We still can't quite get our 6yo off training wheels.
We're having one of the MDs Rob works with over for dinner. She's a dermatologist &amp; suddenly I feel self-conscious about my skin.
@Selkie1970 Oh, that is lovely!
Baby has a fever http://t.co/oO5t7w98
@howiesmith Unfortunately, no. It just doesn't seem practical to drive the multiple hours south right now. It is SO CLOSE, though-- UGH.
RT @DoctorMac: Trying to explain to 8 month old that crayons aren't even a sometimes food.
On a lovely afternoon date with @DoctorMac. First, record shopping. Now, coffee time.
Dollar Sale at Randy's Records http://t.co/jR6HRQMU
@veronimitch YES. As a child I hated the stuff, and I still am not overly fond of it. Have grown to like cream cheese frosting, ganache.
@SKEdman AAAAAAAAAAAH! Now I feel queasy.
RT @HonestToddler: Woke up from my nap happy and refreshed! Just kidding I hate everything and will need to be held until bedtime.
Please stop eating paper, baby. Also, crayons.
Why can other people cook eggs in their cast iron but I cannot? WHY?! What am I doing wrong?!
6yo likes to stare unblinkingly/longingly across the fence at our empty-nester neighbors as they work in their backyard.
My 3yo sings along with Blind Pilot.
@SKEdman That looks so nice!
6yo to me: "Want to watch the dance I made up? It is a mix of ballet and karate."
@HaleyNBurke I just hung diapers outside to dry. Sigh...
@HaleyNBurke LOL-- I KNOW, RIGHT?!
Maybe I'll resolve to stay at home all day with them more.
I keep making all these "plans" to do "fun" "things" with my children and then being absolutely knackered by 7pm.
@Michaelfriberg Whaaaaat?! Super adorable.
RT @HonestToddler: Oh, five o'clock. Time to lose my mind until bedtime.
I cannot take pictures when out with so many children, though. Sigh... Brought big camera but didn't even get it out of bag.
I have successfully returned from the zoo with the 4 children I took there (my three + 6yo's friend). I think this means I WIN TODAY!
@veronimitch Arrested Development? Doctor Who? How do you feel about sitcoms-- How I Met Your Mother?
@Jenidvm Oh, I am so sorry. That is so precious of her with your daughter.
Ice cream at the zoo  @ Hogle Zoo http://t.co/ERNgUYno
@HaleyNBurke Ooooooooooooh...
@HaleyNBurke It is was a really lovely time.
@krisshaffer And most of Dallas...
I drove around at 5pm today and I had to SLOW DOWN SLIGHTLY because of the 'traffic'. Oh Salt Lake, you're so cute.
@Michaelfriberg The people I knew were actors all squished in. I guess there is a lower limit to sq feet/person to live in comfy manner.
@Michaelfriberg Yeah, beds for half a dozen people spread out on the floor of a 2-room apartment, kitchen no one could cook in, etc.
@joninSLC I just love it.
I think @DoctorMac and I might do something like that when we're empty-nesters-- get rid of all our stuff &amp; live in tiny/awesome place.
Went to IKEA today, which always makes me want to live in one of their perfect tiny 500 sq ft model apartments.
RT @telestialstate: Mitt Romney believes you have the right to hunt, shoot, and protect your family. http://t.co/fB8J7XyV
@Selkie1970 Also, I wish I looked like the mom on the cover. :)
@Selkie1970 Yeah, 3+ years is definitely a long time to nurse. I went 26-27 mos with both girls.
RT @geometricsleep: ARE YOU DAD ENOUGH? #nooneanywhereever
I know not everyone wants to &amp; that is fine, but it's not crazy or weird or difficult to parent like this. For us, it just came naturally.
What I don't like about the @Time BFing cover: the idea that attachment parenting, extended BFing, etc is some feat of super motherhood.
There's just no reasoning with some people. Like tired, grouchy 3-year-olds.
Ugh, the aftermath of Wednesday night church... 3yo is such a disaster on Thursdays after being kept up so late.
Sigh... I'm looking forward to catching up on sleep someday. When my children are all school-age, I guess.
@Michaelfriberg I hope that's what it is, but it's always worth asking ourselves why, if we can make different choices, etc.
@Michaelfriberg We're sooooooooo white. Sigh...
RT @sarahbessey: In which I share 4 reasons why I am NOT against same-sex marriage http://t.co/poky5GKt via @sarahbessey // from the arc ...
Just ordered another copy of this fabulous book as a gift for a pregnant friend. Should start buying them in bulk. http://t.co/auI7FL8E
I am about to use my homemade mayonnaise to make homemade ranch dressing.
RT @rachelheldevans: New Post: "How to win a culture war and lose a generation" http://t.co/przx2FxN
RT @NishWeiseth: Our new @DeeperStory writer, @d_l_mayfield, just burned the house down with this McSweeney's piece. SO GOOD: http://t.c ...
@kathykrey I am a mean mommy &amp; don't let them have garish plastic toys. :) Well, not many, at least.
RT @Alex_Ogle: Pretty epic typo for Benedict Cumberbatch in Washington Post, third paragraph (via @sstummeafp) http://t.co/0VPNdv8I
@SKEdman Only when I was pregnant.
@NishWeiseth I had Lewis with them &amp; now they manage my hypothyroidism. I always like to work with midwives and I've been very happy w/them.
@NishWeiseth Are you looking for a new OB/GYN? I go to Avenues Midwifery (IHC) and love them.
Now that we have our own eggs that I feel comfortable-ish eating raw, I have just made mayonnaise! It took, seriously, 3 minutes.
@SKEdman Oh, totally. Gosh, I love those characters...
@SKEdman I do need to re-read it, though. So amazing. Of course, am only getting through 1-2 books/month right now.
@SKEdman I don't know; I felt pretty satisfied with how it ended.  I might rather see her write something else entirely.
@SKEdman I absolutely loved that book.
@DoctorMac Pipe organ!
Things that @DoctorMac and I must agree to disagree about: Michael Jackson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, which Arcade Fire album is best.
Grace plays Pac-Man for the first time.  http://t.co/3aXGAfwV
Are there still academics who study ancient Nordic language and whatnot? That sounds like fun.
Watched Thor tonight. It was OK but mainly it made me want to go all Tolkien and study a bunch of Norse mythology.
Dear husband @DoctorMac has just suggested we make our marriage more complementarian by me making him a Cinco De Mayo margarita.
@SKEdman Oh Canton... So much weird crap.
Season 2 of Sherlock starting on Sunday?! I am just learning this right now.
@LaBarbaCoffee OMG, just poured out some of the Ethiopian you gave us and it is my FAVORITE EVER. It smells like chocolate cake.
@HaleyNBurke DO IT.
@astropixie Very nice. :)
@aldousmom That is so lovely! I have not gotten into the vintage machine scene because of space issues but I definitely see the appeal.
Farewell, last summer's peaches. We'll miss you.  http://t.co/rcFEqTYh
@karenebayne I think that is really wise. I don't think you'll regret that decision.
@SKEdman I am about to commit to new windows for 1/3 of house. SOOOOOOOOO much money, but these 100-year-old windows just aren't cutting it.
6yo says that when she grows up she will be a farmer, a chef, a teacher, a scientist, and she will make shiny jewelry.
Sometimes I feel jealous of my 8mo baby's two peaceful naps each day.
OK, I JUST NOW learned about the racial aspects of the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas". And I lived most of my life in Texas.
@Selkie1970 Rob says yes. I told him your youngest was 3 &amp; he says that is OK.
Draw Something makes me feel really into pointilism.
I need to cut 8mo baby's fingernails. It's getting a little Edward Scissorhands over here.
Another loose tooth in the house! 6yo, who feels things, um, INTENSELY, is now full of dread at removal process.
@debdenbraber @bkhristen LOL
@astropixie I did all of it but the ginger ale in the blender so it's basically a boozy smoothie. :)
Baby says, "Food makes me ANGRY!!!" http://t.co/2Y5Jroq8
RT @SandyBoynton: (from The Collected Tweets of Wm Shakespeare) But soft! Who is't that's tweeting merrily? I amb! i amb! i amb! i amb!  ...
Blueberries, gin, lemon, mint, &amp; ginger ale  http://t.co/0hHIOBHW
@SKEdman My insane UTI was pregnancy-related but I was 39 weeks. A little different. :) Related, how many weeks are you now?
@SKEdman What wonderful news!
3yo: "What's that? me: "It's bacon fat." 3yo: "Can I eat the bacon fat?"
@beckfromfrogandtoad That is so awesome!
RT @prodigalsam: Don't have kids yet? SLEEP!!! SLEEP NOW!!!
Back from 'Art Night' fundraiser/festival thingie at kindergartener's school. It was nice but a MADHOUSE. Want to sit in perfect quiet now.
@Selkie1970 So. True.
@karenebayne Also, Shaolin Soccer. Also, Date Night.
@karenebayne Have you seen The Hangover yet? It's on the crass/raunchy side but QUITE funny. Also, Bridesmaids. Also, Anchorman.
Yay, rain!
@Michaelfriberg I LOVE these, Mike.
@SKEdman Ugh, those can be killer. I had a bad one when I was preggo with 3yo. I was super sick but felt better within a day on antibiotics.
@astropixie Nooooooooooooo...
Opened up last quarter of peaches I canned last harvest season. Cannot WAIT for CSA to start.
Such a nice afternoon for a run-- not too warm, not too cool, not too sunny, just the right amount of breeze...
Spring carpet http://t.co/hvJEPL0u
I love my slow cooker but it does feel strange to pull out the Madeira before 7am.
Very thankful for fancy phone.
New computer has arrived. Hopefully we'll be back to functioning normally soon.
@bkhristen Oh, I'm totally fine with them sliding by themselves. I'd never heard that about sliding on parent's lap being dangerous.
Huh, I have never heard this: A Surprising Risk for Toddlers on Playground Slides http://t.co/Fo4od5bn
I like the Yo Gabba Gabba CD we have to play in the car but the bass on it is X-TREME. Ouch.
I want to remember exactly what this is like forever.  http://t.co/vUcEjPI4
@MaryLUE Yes, exactly.
@MaryLUE Oh my gosh, WHAT?! I'm trying to picture the kind of woman who would do that. And failing.
Pulled out some pre-baby summer clothes today and some of them sort of fit. If you squint a bit. Progress!
High of 86 today, turning the AC on. Utah, I'm a little disappointed in you. Ugh, summer.
RT @lucaswmuller: The church is one generation from dying. Unless you believe in Jesus on any level, then we're good to go.
@NishWeiseth I seriously would help you organize and declutter if you wanted. I kind of love it.
I'm a bit in the mood for spring cleaning, organizing, decluttering, etc.
Look, it's my 3yo being a doctor! RT @MurphyRory The apple doesn't fall far from the tree @Missiodeislc kids http://t.co/5ZkyGauE
These smell RIDICULOUS.  http://t.co/7KQkoYXr
Computer was almost 5 years old at time of its demise-- that's a pretty good long life for a computer, right? RIP, computer.
Well, that computer purchase was not one I was expecting to make right now. Sigh...
Our computer is dyyyyyyyyying.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I just looked it up & yesterday the Dr. WAS using the 2000 CDC charts (all US babies), not the 2006 WHO charts (BFing)!
RT @sarahbessey: Shock! @SortaCrunchy writing about sexy time! // The Co-Sleeping Parent's Guide to Getting It On http://t.co/YcSnEZU9
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 HUGE and NOTHING BUT ROLLS. He is still chubby with big cheeks and fat baby thighs, but looks more typical now.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 I think part of it was that this was 1st time this doc had seen Lewis. He didn't see him at 2 mos & 4 mos when he was
@SKEdman Oh man, that is totally me.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman YES. And they have SO LITTLE EXPERIENCE with the normal course of BFing. They just don't see it.
@SKEdman So my 1st two dropped in %tile even on WHO charts, although less dramatically, obviously. I didn't ask which charts he had.
@SKEdman Probably should have been more educating, but GAH, I hate confrontation. I basically told him I thought it was fine/normal.
@Selkie1970 I told him I didn't think it was a PROBLEM: normal for my babies, I'm confident he isn't hungry, he's growing in height, etc.
@Selkie1970 typical pattern for EBFing. He said he thought it was moms' supplies dropping off in 2nd 6 months, which I think is crazy talk.
@Selkie1970 That he dropped so many %tiles so quickly. He said he's "seen this happen" with EBF babies before. Um, yeah! This is a pretty
Pediatrician (new to us, our normal one on maternity leave) suggested formula. What?! To try to keep him at 99th %tile?! Silly.
Had check-ups for 6yo and 7mo today. Baby's weight gain has slowed dramatically, down from 99th %tile to 75th.
@kathykrey I keep vacillating about whether I'm going to embrace mine or not.
3yo is all potty-trained but she insists on entirely disrobing from the waist down (including socks) every time she uses the toilet. Sigh...
I find myself wishing Costco opened earlier at least once a month.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman That makes a lot of sense too. I don't doubt that there are REAL biological issues for some women.
@SKEdman I do think you may well be right, @Selkie1970, about environmental factors now increasing this problem.
@SKEdman but I almost always see institutional/societal/information barriers, a la Best for Babes' Booby Traps.
@SKEdman I will say that I don't see very many women who have good information, good support, etc who AREN'T able to EBF. I know it exists,
I need to do menu-planning but I am totally lacking in inspiration/motivation. I want CSA season to start.
@SKEdman Yes! We lived in a condo with a HOA during med/grad school and it was super annoying. And monthly dues? Just to live there? Blech.
@lucaswmuller Did the Coxes kick you out?!
@Selkie1970 Nothing too earth-shattering: olive oil, salt, & pepper, 400 degrees for 15-20 min. Oh, and dry kale in salad spinner first.
3yo loooooooves kale chips. And why shouldn't she? I could eat the whole tray of them myself.
@slcfoodie Thank you! The girl who did the refinishing is local and she did a GREAT job.
@Selkie1970 Maybe I'm not as good at confrontation as I claimed. But I'm getting BETTER at it, so that's something.
@Selkie1970 Yes, actually, that was what I meant as well. I walked around for awhile not sleeping with my fight-or-flight reflex pumping.
@Selkie1970 Better? I think? At least I'm not feeling physically ill at this point.
Our new/old dresser! It looks a bit Christmas-y in our red study but we're going to paint & make it the girl http://t.co/U7BYy76r
Our new/old dresser! Just refinished & delivered to us today, eventually destined for the girls' new bedroom http://t.co/O6XCiQKA
I am so much better now, though. Growth! Maturity! Sadly I suspect some in my family do not interpret it this way.
Am a lot better at confrontation than I used to be. Used to be paralyzingly afraid of it because of some circumstances from my childhood.
Uggggggh, have hit the wall of exhaustion and have missed my window for a nap or coffee.
@NishWeiseth The last time that happened to me I got to carry TWO screaming, thrashing children out of a public place. :)
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman Am snapping diapers smaller than a month ago. Using home scale, he's 21-22-ish lbs at 7.5 mos.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman He was HUGE: 9 lbs at 2 weeks, 15 lbs at 2 mos, 20 lbs at 4 mos, same %tiles for height. He is getting all skinny now--
Turns out that is a pretty normal pattern for EBF babies, but one that can send MDs into alert mode if they're unfamiliar with it.
All three of my exclusively breastfed babies have ballooned up to giant chubbiness in the first 6-9 months, then slimmed WAY down.
In case anybody still doesn't know, there are different growth charts for breastfed and formula-fed babies: http://t.co/vNNEDydM
@DrSilge Also, thank you for flossing our children's teeth every night.
@LaBarbaCoffee Yes, we would love more coffee! We are TOTALLY enjoying it; we are relatively new to the lighter roasts but it's amazing.
@MaryLUE Our vet did that when our sweet dog died in 2010. I thought that was really nice.
@DrSilge Oh man, I need to start flossing.
@Michaelfriberg Yeah-- that's apparently what I should have thought about. Poor girl...
@Michaelfriberg Not sure. Probably somewhere around there. She's the person who's refinishing/upcycling some thrift store furniture for us.
I think I just woke someone up with a call at 8:30am. Oops! Feel a little bad. Is that too early to call someone on a Tuesday?
@MaryLUE Oh no! I am so sorry!  You all have had too much pet grief/death/loss lately. That is super sad.
RT @altonbrown: You can have your food plentiful, cheap, or good...pick any two.
@Selkie1970 It's no problem; these things happen. :)
Autocorrect wants to change Pilates to Pirates. That would be a different kind of class. Maybe more fun?
@HaleyNBurke I have a couple extra I'd be willing to share. :) You could come by, or get them Thursday, if it's not urgent.
@HaleyNBurke You're getting all Pinterest-y there. :) But seriously, sooooooo lovely.
@veronimitch Oh heavens. That is AWFUL when that happens. Hang in there...
@MaryLUE Do you mean "raucous"?
@karenebayne Wow. That is... big.
7mo baby is smooshing avocado into his hair.
Every time I bake an egg dish in my oven, it takes 15+ minutes more than the recipe says to set up. Annoying.
@kathykrey And THIS I thought was wonderful: http://t.co/BbaXVcba
@kathykrey I thought this was a nice take on that book's perspective (which admittedly I haven't read): http://t.co/xEAIPRf9
Things are really bad right now (worse than they've been in years) but there is so much good in my life. Like this: http://t.co/t0MfWUTh
I have exercised & taken a nap with the baby, both of which have helped with the cortisol. Thank you, encouraging Twitter friends.
@Michaelfriberg That made me actually LOL.
Continuing family drama is starting to make me physically ill. Feel my fight-or-flight reflex spinning out of control.
I just pre-ordered A Year of Biblical Womanhood for $6.59. Not bad at all; I'm looking forward to this one a LOT. http://t.co/ZBjmbJsu
Spring rain! I love when it rains.
I have discarded a lot of half-written complain-y tweets lately about crazy family situation. Sigh... Am sad/angry.
@SKEdman I really like the quote you have in your Twitter bio right now. LOVE her, of course. What is that from?
So should I eat my feelings or have some whiskey? #healthycopingmechanisms
@Selkie1970 Awwwww, that is so amazing. Still wonder if that will be us someday.
@kathykrey Community college here is at the top of my list for job prospects in another 1-2 years. Everybody I know there is super happy.
RT @NishWeiseth: #headdesk RT @JohnPiper: When Titanic sank 20% of the men and 74% of the women survived. That virtue was not nurtured b ...
@Michaelfriberg We'll tell you the story sometime of our dog's first day with us, before we got accustomed to all the crazy sounds she made.
@Michaelfriberg Awwwwwww... Our dog we got when we were newlyweds was a bulldog. She was such a good dog, and so hilarious.
@Selkie1970 Sent you a couple DMs.
@lucaswmuller LOL-- actually, you just made me laugh in an otherwise horrible evening so that's OK. :)
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Thank you. My mom just canceled her visit for this coming weekend. She hasn't even met Lewis yet. :(
I even cussed tonight, and I never cuss.
FAMILY DRAMA. Sigh... Thinking about how we all are just fragile broken people in need of grace, even the ones who make me SO ANGRY.
Spent time today with a friend (YOUNG friend, in her 20s) who just lost her mother, hoping to help carry the burden of her palpable grief.
@reemeyer Yay, Renee on Twitter!
So, so thankful for Netflix and for 6yo's ability to click "next" to start another episode of Blue's Clues.
I took a 2-hour nap this afternoon and I feel soooooo much better.
@HaleyNBurke I didn't see any last year until June, FYI. Probably will be earlier this year.
HAHAHAHAHAHA... RT @governorherbert: In Utah, we are constantly searching for ways to lessen the burden of government & get out of the way.
@karenebayne That is not bad at all! Super exciting.
@karenebayne Hooraaaaaaaaay! That is great news. And how wonderful to not have to take those classes.
Wow, Ashley Judd, very nice: http://t.co/fpQyzabn
Shall concentrate on things to be grateful for: weekend WAS lovely, my voice has returned, baby is not as sick as he was.
...all while still quasi-sick. I am really feeling it today. Ears feel terrible, my teeth ache, coughing.
Boy, I am feeling the effects of our busy weekend-- in-laws visiting, dedicated baby at church, Easter church extravaganza...
xkcd is GREAT today: http://t.co/zosO4Z1k
Kids' lesson at MOPS this morning was about Pentecost. "There was a FIRE!" says 3yo.
@SKEdman Yeah, me too. The skirt is actually white with bright blue flowers and I didn't want to fade the flowers. Sigh...
@SKEdman Maybe I'll get some of that. It is getting lighter with each iteration but UGH-- annoying.
Baby had yellow-mustard-poop blow-out the other day while I was wearing a white skirt & I am STILL trying to get it out.
@HaleyNBurke It's Adrian's Ballet West thing.
Just signed a release for a BBC reality TV show.
Time for rehearsal #missiodeislc http://t.co/dfXquvbs
RT @lucaswmuller: Dance dance resurrection. Dance dance resurrection indeed.
"Easter is a day to put everything upside down and inside out." - N.T. Wright
RT @missiodeislc: Baptisms, Baby Dedications, Community Worship, & Great Food. Tomorrow we celebrate Resurrection! Join us! http://t.co/ ...
@karenebayne LOL! I henna-ed my hair the other day and I think I made it too thick. It was like smooshing brown sludge into my hair.
@karenebayne Yes... But apparently I clicked "yahtzee". Stupid fat fingers.
@karenebayne And I was just all cutesy I'm-so-smart-and-good-at-math! Ugh. Serves me right.
@karenebayne but you!
@karenebayne Nooooooooo! I did it again where I picked the wrong word and didn't realize it until I sent it! I haven't done this to anyone
@karenebayne We are math/science people at our house. :)
@karenebayne 5^2 * 3
Violet plays ALL the chess @nobrowcoffee http://t.co/7C7Igb0Q
@krisshaffer Were they born yet when that came out?
GAH, I feel crappy. I don't care that it's barely 9pm; I'm going to bed.
@MaryLUE Wow, that is AMAZING.
I just backed this Kickstarter because this book sounds so lovely-- girls & math & science & lovely illustrations: http://t.co/7TiflkRI
Today I shall get better through the power of my will.
I am sick. BLARGH. No voice, cough, feel like crap. And my in-laws arrive day after tomorrow for super-busy weekend church-wise.
@Selkie1970 Yes! Overnight I remembered! I was going to give you a hint!
Now tangerines. ALL INSTAGRAM PRODUCE ALL THE TIME.  http://t.co/maubQTIG
Here's one for all of you. INSTAGRAM CELERY. You're welcome.  http://t.co/EELrKQn8
I'm texting pictures of celery to @joycostello.
@karenebayne It was the rose in her mouth. :)
@Selkie1970 I accidentally just nudged you on Draw Something. I think you're going to have to send me a screen grab for a hint.
@Selkie1970 Top hat-- is he a groom? Abraham Lincoln? A ship captain? Do the houses have pitched roofs? As you can tell, not ringing bells.
@Selkie1970 I'm having a hard time remembering... Could the drawing be a courtroom? Or maybe a certain wizard? What else is in pic?
Instagram! Instagram! Instagram!
@Michaelfriberg So storing photo prints (that I want to keep in good shape) in the attic of our garage would be bad, right?
RT @karenebayne: “@mental_floss: Babies laugh 300 times a day, while adults laugh only 20 times.”// the takeaway: babies are laughing at ...
I have a cold and have now lost my voice. Makes parenting small children interesting.
Went to fancy new mall, then Target, then IKEA. Now I never want to leave my house again.
Leaving City Creek Center. Fancy new mall is fancy.
@kathykrey I guess I am not going to magically get super skinny with no effort then. Sigh...
@kathykrey Have you noticed difference in energy or metabolism?
@kathykrey Yeah, I have hypothyroidism now, which is what specialist 10 years ago said would probably happen eventually.
@kathykrey In my early 20s I had hyperthyroidism but I've had normal levels off meds for a long time now. No longer, I suppose!
Had almost a decade of remission from thyroid issues, so that's something. This is what endocrinologist always said would probably happen.
Hello, daily prescription drugs.
Looks like I'm back on the thyroid problem train... Labs from check-up last week came back all hypothyroid and whatnot.
Someone on Freecycle today wants cloth diapers; specifically asked for fancy brands. Good luck with that. Those are worth $$$, even used.
RT @Prakky: I expected an IKEA ad and I found it. #aprilfools http://t.co/2mzFu9i9
RT @philiptallon: Today we celebrate Jesus saying April Fools to Israel's militaristic messianic conceptions. (Mt. 21)
One more... http://t.co/uNi36rxr
Finally got some prints made of our portraits by @Michaelfriberg from the fall: http://t.co/pxOs4MCb
Every time I make vinaigrette I say, "Why do people buy salad dressing?" and then Rob says, "You say that every time."
@MaryLUE Thank you! I often wish I dressed as cute (cutely?) as my girls.
Still needs a zipper. Off to Joann's I go...
I only feel motivated/compelled to sew Easter dresses every 2-3 years. This is one of those years, & oh the cuteness! http://t.co/TGI0nokZ
@karenebayne picture. I drew "Conan" but I had actually chosen "luggage". Up to you if you want to pass & start over game or not. Sorry!
@karenebayne Oh my goodness, I just did the stupidest thing on Draw Something. Picked wrong word and didn't realize it until after I sent
@CaputosMarket Yay! At 15th & 15th or only downtown?
@slcfoodie Do you know who sells that Slide Ridge vinegar here in town?
6yo got a little judgey this evening about how many shoes I have.
@howiesmith What!? Where is that?
@joninSLC SO TRUE. Oh my goodness, so many empty bottles of various kinds of alcohol...
@SKEdman Wow. I would not mind having that T-shirt. Not at all.
@HaleyNBurke Do it. Self-care, baby-- it's the way to go.
Many thanks to @HaleyNBurke who watches ALL my children so I can run. :)
GAH, Utah is lovely. On my run this afternoon: http://t.co/V8qweKVG
@Michaelfriberg I loooooooove that song. OMG.
@veronimitch Did you like Firefly? Also bleak in many ways but gosh, I loved it.
Put a bird on it: http://t.co/lV1CXUad
@SKEdman HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, you're in for a CRAZY TIME. But seriously it will probably be awesome in a lot of ways too.
@amyforestell He does claim to have successfully drawn "autobots", so I'll have to give him props for that.
@amyforestell You are now my most-turns game because Rob couldn't guess "manicure" today. It was a perfectly fine manicure picture, I say.
@SKEdman LOL-- really, don't check the trending topics. That way despair/madness lies. Although this was super funny.
I keep changing his shirt because a little spit-up is no big deal but the idea that it might be vomit GROSSES ME OUT. #splittinghairs
Baby is having weird massive spit-ups. VERY CONCERNING given recent state of 3yo's digestive system.
Huh, interesting-- The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men  http://t.co/hfpRXYaL
I'm sorry, Draw Something; I will never be able to draw autobots or Jay-Z.
Need to get that nose piercing.
Am wearing a white cami under a white T-shirt today with a knee-length skirt. Thinking I could totally pass for Mormon.
RT @DoctorMac: Love this. http://t.co/Nh2B2ZsG Do these law students, grad students, and undergrads look suspicious to you?
Ah yes, cooking dinner with a baby in the Ergo... I think this will be one of the things I remember most distinctly from this life stage.
@Selkie1970 I had great concerns about that one. :)
I need to stop trying to draw maps on Draw Something. I am very, very bad at it.
6mo baby has teeth numbers 5 &amp; 6 popping through. Lots o' teeth.
I had an ORIGINAL THOUGHT: spring is so lovely!
@ironsoap I would like to state that @DoctorMac hijacked our Draw Something game on this last turn. Get your own game, ROB.
Am laundering all the gloves, hats, scarves, etc so we'll probably have a blizzard this week.
@Selkie1970 I feel like that thing I just drew is so terrible that I should apologize.
@ironsoap Sorry about that.
@ironsoap I only just now learned that in Draw Something the other player sees when you scrap your drawing. I think I scrapped mine 3 times.
I've started to play Draw Something and it is fuuuuuuuun. Same username as here; come find me!
This means I am home from church AGAIN. Sigh...
So after 24 hours of apparent health, 3yo threw up in the middle of the night again last night. Very thankful for washing machine.
Am browsing Pinterest. Decoupage Easter eggs freak me out, man. It's WEIRD.
@Selkie1970 I will not admit this to general audiences but I love a certain kind of trashy novel.
@MaryLUE I just LOVE my middle name. Considered using it for 1st name for babies but ended up giving it as middle name for our oldest.
@MaryLUE Oh, I REALLY wanted to go by my middle name. For YEARS. It's Dorothea (ie Twitter name, almost every email I've ever had, etc).
I want bangs. But I really should not have bangs. It never goes well.
The New Pornographers are my faaaaaaaaaaavorite.
Roasted green chiles on our grill on this first warm night. Then peeled/deseeded chiles without gloves (AS USUAL) and now have burny hands.
@SKEdman @veronimitch LOL-- nooooooooo...
Been about 10 hours since 3yo last threw up and I'm letting her nap in our bed. LIVING DANGEROUSLY.
@Michaelfriberg When Grace 1st gave me the picture, I asked about Lewis &amp; she claims he is wrapped in a blanket.
6yo is full of love: http://t.co/xJwqtOt6
Of course, now fear that we will all come down with stomach bug. 3yo is contentedly eating scrambled eggs though, so that's something.
3yo was dramatically sick last night and @DoctorMac took care of everything so ably that I didn't know until this morning.
The Bullet Next Time: An Open Letter to My Unborn, Black Son http://t.co/gtDETf7K
required reading on the killing of trayvon martin | Rage Against the Minivan http://t.co/JyHmkYoi
@veronimitch 12yo me really loved to cross-stitch.
@MurphyRory This means you need to name your baby Melody, or perhaps River.
@MurphyRory The really crazy thing is that it took me, like, a year to realize you all had the same names.
The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth - The Atlantic http://t.co/IVeP4FoE
You haven't been time-traveling with a mysterious doctor lately, have you, @MurphyRory? (Also, this real Amy is pregnant with baby girl.)
Have just realized that I have actual real-life friends (married couple) named Rory &amp; Amy. What are the odds?!
I really like Zooey Deschanel's new sitcom.
@SKEdman That is hilarious. HILARIOUS.
@SKEdman I'd have to start from scratch because I've taken no life science classes at all.
@SKEdman I sometimes think that too, but if I'm going to work I probably should use the degrees I already have. #somanydegrees
Backyard picnic: http://t.co/Fo6IY2GD
I sort of want this car now: http://t.co/MRg70L0D
RT @astraughnomer: Supernova! see the new one in galaxy M95: http://t.co/oPYPNQEH YOU are made of stuff that was formed in a star that e ...
Anecdote was about almost drowning in a river, so it was exciting as well.
Have been married to @DoctorMac for 10 years and last night he told a childhood anecdote I'd NEVER HEARD BEFORE. I was surprised.
Beautiful brown-skinned boys and the black men they will grow into: Front Porch for Trayvon http://t.co/IHOzdtRf
Have had really relaxing quiet day. I need those here and there. AND NOW, to get all these children to church, hopefully with minimal drama.
Baby took a suuuuuuuper long nap and now is in a suuuuuuuuper good mood. Happiness all around.
@veronimitch That is WONDERFUL news!
I want to put away all the winter clothes but I know it's too early.
@Selkie1970 Yes indeed. We'll see what happens.
Husband says we can try eggs again later after he brings home "supplies" from office. (Most of you know already, but he's an allergist.)
WELL. Looks like baby most likely had an allergic reaction (hives), probably to the egg tonight. That's DIFFERENT.
Gave 6mo baby soft-cooked egg yolk &amp; sweet potato tonight. "He looks good in orange," says @DoctorMac. "Brings out the blue in his eyes."
Not that I'm going to start scrambling eggs in my cast iron or anything crazy like that.
Been cooking with pastured lard from our pork/beef/chicken guy for a while now and it is GREAT. My cast iron pans are finally non-stick.
@krisshaffer Rob has been keeping the Xbox in our freezer! It is dying.
Every time I go to the farm store I end up buying something different.
Chickens are almost a year old &amp; I still feel overwhelmed by all the different types of feed.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I am picking up half a pig on Saturday!
@SKEdman On the other hand, I think demographics (and problems) of suburbs ARE changing in ways she ignores, i.e. poverty in suburbs, etc.
@SKEdman I am sympathetic to her perspective because I feel like the vast majority of Christians I know ARE fearful of cities.
The chickens seem to really enjoy strawberry tops.
6yo went to soccer for 1st time ever today. Now she is wearing adorable cleats and running around backyard kicking ball.
RT @SKEdman: This is very good. RT @SarahNMoon: New post: Joseph Kony is famous. Trayvon Martin is not. http://t.co/T3QBKF2q
For once I did weekly cleaning of chicken coop BEFORE big rain/snow storm hits.
@Selkie1970 A friend's birthday celebration. I was just there for ~hour but it was fun. :)
@Selkie1970 Ugh, I don't know. I had made rice so they ate that and fruit.
I am going to a BAR without my BABY dressed up like an OLD LADY: http://t.co/Z8aWiYPY
Made this mole for dinner tonight and it was goooooooood: http://t.co/tqWdBJ8s Children wouldn't touch it, of course.
Running in short sleeves for 1st time this year! Feels good.
@SKEdman I think I might like it but a) I can't figure out childcare and b) it is pricey.
@SKEdman Rob likes the small-group supportive camaraderie, how it's different all the time &amp; not-boring-- motivating for him.
@SKEdman Paleo is not officially low-carb (whole foods only, no grains, no legumes, no dairy) but it effectively becomes low-carb + fruit.
@SKEdman and they think paleo diet is ANSWER TO EVERYTHING. I think I'm eating too many calories, though, to keep myself satisfied.
@SKEdman Yeah, I feel like I do better keeping total calories down when including oatmeal, starchy vegetables, etc. Rob is into Crossfit now
@SKEdman So you're shifting away from low-carb? You were hitting a plateau? We're trying the paleo thing but I don't think it's helping.
Trying to explain the phases of the moon to my oldest AGAIN. Beginning to doubt my science outreach skills. :)
@SKEdman @beckfromfrogandtoad I love wrap dresses in theory, but they never seem to stay where I put them. Am constantly adjusting.
The avocado encounter from earlier this evening:  http://t.co/ikkyfLbk
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: Baby appears to be actually enjoying smooshing around some avocado and mouthing it. 1st non-crying eating experience.
He is going to a mandatory seminar on "risk management", which I think means "how not to get sued by your patients".
Think I will serve dinner very early tonight, as @DoctorMac is not coming home until late and everyone is fractious.
Sibling snuggle: http://t.co/bBhIDPC3
@SKEdman Yeah, desperate times and desperate measures and all.
@SKEdman That is just ROUGH. Although I am impressed you fit 3 car seats in a Civic.
In October I spent $9 on 25 lbs of local onions that have been hanging in the garage ever since. Am down to my last 6 now; money well spent.
@joshrosenthal You go to http://t.co/IqqSYjla &amp; type in whatever you want, then click to get a little link. Kind of a jerk move, I admit. :)
@joshrosenthal A place to start: http://t.co/43Bjq4NR
Who needs to vacuum under the dining room table? THIS GIRL. Blech.
@DoctorMac Wow, that was REALLY interesting. Also, REALLY long.
RT @BarrelOfOranges: Today I saw a woman #breastfeeding her baby in public and I was like, OMG that is totally NORMAL and HEALTHY and GO ...
I put ginger in my green smoothie this afternoon because I had some lying around and it is SO GOOD. Wow.
Oh, Craigslist no-shows... You are VERY ANNOYING.
@SKEdman LOL-- I'm assuming this is a theology joke?
The Knot and the Wedding Channel have decided that I am a bride-to-be. HAHAHAHAHAHA... This summer will be 10 years married to @DoctorMac.
@beckfromfrogandtoad We are supposed to have snow this coming weekend, but that's spring here in the mountains-- warm, then snow, then warm.
Oh what a beautiful MORRRRRRRRRNING, oh what a beautiful daaaaaaaaay... We are ~month earlier with the 60-degree days compared to last year.
@veronimitch Oh my GOODNESS. I can't even imagine.
It's a good day when you get to use both the French press and the cocktail shaker.
@MaryLUE She's 11? Yeah, I could see that.
@Selkie1970 I too looooooved David Tennant. Chuck Taylors, funny suits, etc. Wonderful.
@Selkie1970 I quite like Matt Smith but it's just that the scarier Dr Who episodes are borderline too much for me.
@Selkie1970 Little girl in space suit, aliens you forget when you look away.
Oh my gosh, the first couple episodes of season 6 of Dr Who are giving me the HEEBIE JEEBIES.
@SKEdman I lean toward the darker frames of pair A. Looks good with your dark hair.
Haircut! Yay! Also discussed hair color options for near future with stylist. Still not sure what I want to do.
I got 3 work-outs in this week for the first time in quite a while. Yay!
WOW-- night sky! Orion, Pleiades, Jupiter, Venus. Crazy beautiful.
Yeah, it's gonna be a while before he's eating any significant amount of food.
Gave 6mo baby mashed sweet potatoes tonight. His reaction was totally, "Et tu, Brute?"
Babies are awesome. That is all.
Olive Garden Review For 'Grand Forks Herald' Goes Viral http://t.co/PzfQajU0 via @huffingtonpost
It is going to be a seriously beautiful weekend here in SLC. 50-something degrees! We should all, like, go outside or something.
Can I declare laundry bankruptcy?
I did Brussels sprouts like this tonight: http://t.co/PNHyYrWn and I really liked them! Charred outside, still slightly crunchy inside.
Somebody arrived at Costco in a limousine today.
It is home and I love it here though, probably partly BECAUSE I am the minority.
Thinking this morning about how culturally "other" the Salt Lake valley feels sometimes. Only big US city that rivals it: Honolulu, I think.
Our fruit crisper drawer is empty except for one already-zested lemon. I need to go to the store.
@SKEdman That's probably true.
@SKEdman No offense intended if you're fine with that.
@SKEdman FYI, do you realize how detailed the location tags on your tweets are? I could, like, drive to your house with that tag.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay: Sherlock - Friends Parody http://t.co/itJF3nK2 via @SKEdman
How do I get anything done all day with these delicious baby cheeks to kiss?
@SKEdman I most often have coffee/tea in the early afternoon doldrums. My personal cut-off is 3pm-4pm, or else I can't sleep.
@SKEdman So will it still wake you up in the morning? I don't drink caffeine every day but when I do, it PERKS ME RIGHT UP.
Golden fragrant home-canned peaches on a chilly March day, like the promise that summer will come again.
@SKEdman What time is it there?! Are you one of those people who can sleep even with caffeine?
Sad to report that 6yo has fallen victim to whatever it is we are passing around. I am now the only one to not have gotten it.
@HaleyNBurke @bkhristen JESUS COOKIES! LOL
So glad that @DoctorMac is wending his way home, even if he probably won't arrive until I am asleep. Related, Florida is far from here.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I'm going to try the Goodbyn one next year for my oldest-- no little pieces! Just one container!
@beckfromfrogandtoad We had one of the older styles of Laptop Lunch and it got all warped in the dishwasher after 2 years of use.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Two that I know of and like are the Laptop Lunch system and the Goodbyn lunchboxes.
@karenebayne CRAZY! I do love Francis Schaeffer in many ways.
@karenebayne dates to late 70s, maybe? Frank Schaeffer & others have interesting perspective in books on that era.
@karenebayne Depending on exactly how old you are, it was NOT this way in your youth. Alliance of American evangelicals & Republicans
I am happy to report that Season 6 of Dr Who is on Netflix. Am even happier to report that 3yo went to bed without a fight.
RT @TheParentDuJour: Formula created as a life-saving measure of last resort. How were entire gens of women persuaded to stop nursing? M ...
@karenebayne I hear you, although I think things are changing in the under-35 Christian demographic as far as political allegiance.
More March snow dusting down from the sky.
RT @NurturedChild: The poison isn't the formula, it's the formula marketing ~Louise Dumas #gno #sbformula
RT @Gizmodo: Lytro Light Field Camera Review: This Is What New Feels Like http://t.co/oiaBm8A5
I love that one of the links on that company's website is to their CEO's PhD thesis at Stanford.
WHAAAAT?! This camera is blowing my mind a little: https://t.co/jVFdup8m
@HaleyNBurke At this stage in my life, it's always sleep.
RT @jasonboyett: I love this story from Stephen Mansfield about the President's faith, and it ought to be told: http://t.co/rWWxjqE2
@NishWeiseth Thank goodness, no. Fell asleep 1/2 in, 1/2 out of her bed. Does seem like she's getting better health-wise, albeit slowly.
RT @parrygripp: What the heck is going on at Sears?!?!? http://t.co/qLvzFaIM
@NishWeiseth That's when Rob left. Sigh... Hopefully we'll all survive.
Now she's screaming that she's hungry. Sigh... This, our child who we normally tuck into bed with nary a peep.
Only 3 more bedtimes until @DoctorMac returns. Of course, given how hellish the past few have been, that's not much comfort.
Sooooooo... any ideas on how to get screaming 3yo to stay in her bed? Preferably ones I can implement while jiggling tired/fussy 6mo?
She has been subsisting on chocolate milk and a few crackers here and there. Stupid virus. She's even refusing cheese sticks.
3yo took one look at dinner and got up and ran away from table. This is, oh, 8th or 9th consecutive meal that she has refused to eat ANY of.
@krisshaffer Ha! I don't own any TOMS. YET. I may be assimilated still.
Mom uniform at this park in my neighborhood: skinny jeans, TOMS, T-shirt, cardigan.
Have chosen to be "good mom" & take kids to park on ridiculously warm day. (Instead staying home to sew like I wanted.)
Also, a parenthood first for me: 3yo decided to eat mud.
It is shockingly beautiful here today. Snowy mountains, warm sun, impossibly blue sky.
CONFESSION: That Chipotle ad almost makes me cry every time I watch it.
@MaryLUE @SKEdman The only uses of "discrete" I noticed were in other comments. Maybe my copyediting eye is not as sharp as I like to think.
@SKEdman Very nice. I'm also glad you can spell "discreet" correctly. :) I always ponder what exactly "discrete breastfeeding" would be.
@DrSilge Aaaaaaaaaah, I want to come toooooooooo!
@SKEdman It is! It really is.
About to take my dad back to the airport. He certainly did not see us at our best or most charming this time around but so good to see him.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I repinned it so I obviously approve. :)
Sooooooo happy & grateful that everyone slept last night. Still think I will keep my quasi-sick children home today though.
@Selkie1970 Organizing is the BEST. Almost as good as purging belongings.
Three more eggs today! We are regularly getting 2-3 a day now.
Unsurprisingly, I look like lukewarm death today.
Listed on freecycle this morning: a "small over-sized chair". Huh? (Also, have slept for few hours, now feel somewhat better.)
4am here. 3yo has been awake since 1am, crying, coughing, demanding chocolate milk, waking up croupy baby when I finally get him to sleep.
2 sick, wakeful children + only 1 parent = 1 of worst nights on record
Hello there, croup. So we meet again.
@HaleyNBurke EVERYONE needs enough sleep. Self-care 101. It really is worth it.
@lucaswmuller Yay, Lucas! So it's new job time?
Picking my dad up at the airport for a very welcome weekend visit while @DoctorMac is away.
Baby has caught 3yo's cold & has croupy, croupy cough. Always makes me think of Anne of Green Gables. Thankful for diphtheria vaccine.
Watching 2008 adaptation of Sense & Sensibility. I will always ALWAYS be annoyed by Marianne.
@Selkie1970 @Jenidvm I do too. Local milk, once a week, on my doorstep.
Beloved @DoctorMac has just left for a red-eye to Florida and thus my week of solo parenting begins.
RT @PeterRollins: U2 gave us Achtung Baby. They could spend the rest of their career doing covers of the Pussycat Dolls & they would sti ...
Drop off one, drop off other, back to one for star-of-week presentation, back to other for early release, finally back for last pick-up.
Spending morning driving back & forth between 3yo's and 6yo's schools.
It's a March 1 winter wonderland out here! Beautiful.
Aaaaaaaaaah, sad show about elephants on PBS! Change the channel! Quick!
Poor sick 3yo is saaaaaaaad. If she doesn't fall asleep here ASAP, there is no way she will make it through church tonight.
@MsKristySteffen Where did you buy your iPhone case?
I have re-instituted afternoon nap (for me). Have decided it is more important than avoiding everyday TV for 3yo and 6yo.
Poor sick 3yo just now got out of bed, at 9:30am. She looks a lot better; hopefully these rough nights she's been having are over.
1st tiny taste: baby made horrible face. 2nd tiny taste: gagging. 3rd tiny taste: crying in protest & distress.
Gave 6mo baby some apricots I pureed & froze last summer, although am not planning on really doing a lot of puree with him.
@SKEdman They just wake up earlier and earlier and earlier...
@SKEdman THIS is what happens whenever I follow the advice to get up before my children to get things done, time for myself, etc.
@slcfoodie That looks beautiful!
5mo baby's bouncy seat needs to be retired ASAP. He can just about flip it over, even while strapped in.
6yo has little friend from kindergarten over for playdate and they are playing farmers market. I'm so proud! Also, rather amused.
Making phone calls. Because I am AN ADULT. Gah, I hate the phone.
@MurphyRory I love it! So, so wonderful.
@MaryLUE There were some borderline things that I ate but I'm not going to stress about it. I really appreciate the prompt to mindfulness.
@MaryLUE The sugar has reminded me several times a day that we are preparing for Easter, etc. Interesting.
@MaryLUE I'm doing a daily Lenten devotional & I'm fasting from sugar. Did OK with both last week and had ice cream to break fast today. :)
Caught up on Downton Abbey. Wheeeeeeeeeee!
@fampracticeblog It's tough to pull the trigger and spend so much at once but having a freezer full of delicious meat is pretty awesome. :)
@fampracticeblog @slcfoodie Yes! We buy our beef from http://t.co/Cqc8Yof9 & have been VERY happy. Also, their pork is AMAZING.
No, we don't let her drink whiskey. When she has expressed interest, we have let her dip her finger in to try it.
Things my 3yo does not like: applesauce, homemade pizza, pancakes. Things my 3yo does like: balsamic vinegar, pickles, whiskey.
@howiesmith Hilarious.
@SKEdman I haaaaaate this about politics-- the ridiculous framing of one's opponent's position. A pox on both their houses.
@lucaswmuller Oh my gosh. Yes.
Grinding coffee always smells good, but grinding coffee that has been roasted a few days ago? AMAZING. @LaBarbaCoffee
Mmmmmm, kale chips... I could eat the whole pan.
About 1/4 of the time, I totally don't get xkcd.
@HaleyNBurke They really like you. :)
Roasted parsnips, stir-fried baby bok choy, local grass-fed sliders with harissa spread. Nom nom nom nom nom.
@MaryLUE Oh, I am so sorry. It is so hard to lose a little creature you love.
RT @mimismartypants: The audience for the GOP debates is the type of crowd that boos the word "Mexico." That kind of tells you everythin ...
Ugh, Wednesday night = most miserable night of all the week. Getting children to church, then in bed afterwards? UGH, I say!
Today I am reading Day 1 of Lent For Everyone: http://t.co/beELQXCn
Pancakes for dinner!
3yo is singing to herself, "No vegetables, no vegetables, no vegetables..."
RT @SandyBoynton: If someone begins: "Now don't take this the wrong way..." it's exciting to wonder what's next, from this person I mayb ...
@Selkie1970 they were all supposed to start laying before Christmas. We have been assuming she just lays brown. Perhaps she is late bloomer?
@Selkie1970 We are quite perplexed by the situation. Different breeds lay different colors; one of our chickens is SUPPOSED to lay green but
RT @LettersOfNote: Oh wow, this is hilarious. Japanese fart scrolls. Look at the cat. http://t.co/ASfuPZ66
We finally got a green egg from our chickens!  http://t.co/pByfGtEm
The Bible app I use has an NT Wright Lent reading plan-- nice!
@veronimitch LOL-- I've always thought it was a good sign.
@veronimitch My husband has a yen for her as well.
@slcfoodie Last year we did Zoe's Garden; this year I'm thinking Bell Organic or Borski Farms.
Browsing CSAs for this coming summer. Think I might change things up and go with a different one this year.
Meanwhile, I didn't send any candy with my girls' cards. When did Valentine's become such a candy holiday? I narrow my eyes in disapproval.
3yo insists that the Valentine's lollipops from preschool party will make her big & strong. Am SO MEAN to only let her have one.
Going on belated Valentine's date tonight! Finding date-worthy outfit in current temporary/stopgap wardrobe will be challenge.
I think @DoctorMac and I are going to have to agree to disagree about Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot notwithstanding.
@MaryLUE That sounds even more horrifying than the carrots + green jello which is an LDS cultural thing here in Utah.
@MaryLUE @SKEdman @Selkie1970 So how are you observing Lent this year?
I've spent my whole life within the Christian community but I've never observed Lent in any way. Kinda thinking about it this year.
Basement carpet was cleaned today (have hardwoods upstairs), which means I am officially not allowed to carry red wine downstairs anymore.
@HaleyNBurke The cake you made for Grace was so pretty! http://t.co/MHJhbNcb
@HaleyNBurke It was so fun to have you all over!
Getting ready for book club here at my house tonight. Yay! We are discussing Peg Bracken's 'The I Hate to Cook Book.'
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I should speak up more to doctors. I tend to make agreeable "Hmmmm" noises then go do what I want.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Ugh, that's terrible. Even the ones for the 3yo seem patronizing, albeit more consistent with what I actually do.
@Selkie1970 I guess a formula-fed sleep-trained baby may well be, but seriously, it is NOT NORMAL for many, many babies.
Maybe it's because it says my 5mo baby should be sleeping through the night (HAHAHAHHAHA) and I should talk to doctor if he isn't. Whatevs.
Today these info sheets from the doctor on how to take care of my children strike me as insufferably patronizing.
Have successfully taken 3yo and baby to check-ups. No shots for 3yo-- yay! Three shots + rotatec for baby-- boo!
Went to antigravity yoga again today. So fun. Also, I want to sleep in a hammock.
“What’s it like to be a baby? It’s like being in love in Paris for the first time after…” — Alison Gopnik http://t.co/mss5hLzL #TED
Why is Valentines such a punny holiday? So very many puns!
Peppermint tea on this beautiful snowy morning. Utah is so, so lovely.
The decision whether to cover my gray or embrace it is becoming more urgent.
@SKEdman You are dooooooooomed. There are no good options. And on Valentines... :)
Trying my hand at lacto-fermented salsa. I may have made it SUPER DUPER SPICY.
@SKEdman Oh wait, you don't mean OTC, just paying put of pocket. That makes more sense.
@SKEdman An always interesting issue-- why no male Pill, etc?
@SKEdman Ah, that would be a new development since I was on the Pill lo these many moons ago. I wasn't aware.
@SKEdman I am very sympathetic to Catholic/religious objections here but equating condoms w/ female birth control seems specious to me.
Have survived kindergarten Valentine's party, at which I volunteered to plan & supervise a CRAFT of all things.
@veronimitch @beckfromfrogandtoad LOL-- I have always seen them as self-mocking, poking fun at what I sort of think I want from a partner.
@veronimitch @beckfromfrogandtoad Then again, I sew a lot so the idea of my husband saying those things is particularly dissonant. :)
@veronimitch @beckfromfrogandtoad The women's studies one is definitely the funniest, but I admit the sewing/knitting ones make me chuckle.
Mothering a baby leaves me in awe some days. Being able to comfort another human being so completely is a gift, to me as much as him.
Teeth numbers 3 and 4 for 5mo baby.
Hmmmmm, should I order a yearbook for kindergartener? Probably.
Anachronisms in 'Downton Abbey': http://t.co/XrPkyJ8y
My oldest turns 6 today! Happy birthday, Grace!
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Can also wind balls by hand-- videos on web.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 thing would be to find 2 ball winders. Most yarn stores let you use theirs for small fee.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Ah, I see. You could definitely hold it doubled if you want. If you want to use it single, I think the easiest
Makes me for-real angry when I see Ina Garten's guacamole recipe w/ lemon instead of lime, Tabasco instead of jalapeno, & no cilantro. WHY?!
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Is there a gauge on a label, or are you just estimating? I'm almost positive you are not meant to split it.
@SKEdman I don't think you would separate them. Just use as one.
What a fun afternoon... The people at the museum did a GREAT job for the birthday party.
Little paleontologists at Natural History Museum of Utah for soon-to-be-6yo's birthday party: http://t.co/i6xJ8Wrm
It's birthday party day for my soon-to-be-6yo! Church this morning, then off to the natural history museum this afternoon.
RT @HaleyNBurke: Attempting not to lick the frosting off of the cakes I made for @DoctorMac & @dorothea78's daughter. http://t.co/UzqM7SVU
Batman's twin brother was a pirate.
This little guy (& his twin brother) spent the afternoon at our house while I helped @beffiesmith sew curtains. http://t.co/fvbOkjGj
@MsKristySteffen How was your healing process?
Am still thinking about a nose stud. Considering making it a motivational reward for losing certain amount of baby weight.
@MaryLUE I have done that too, with mild guilt. I just feel so unpleasant pre-shower sometimes, though.
@Selkie1970 Yes, they have template pages with just words. You don't have to use pictures.
@Selkie1970 You could do that on Blurb.
@MsKristySteffen That's Six Flags Over Texas! You're in Arlington? I've spent many a summer day there growing up.
@HaleyNBurke That is all GORGEOUS, Haley! And my legs are sore from my return to running. :)
Sigh... Got 5yo to kindergarten late (AGAIN) and 3yo threw a fit at preschool drop-off. Not a stellar start to the day.
3yo, upon taking off her pajama top & seeing her arms: "Wow, those sure are muscles!"
RT @jasonboyett: This is like Chapter 1 in one of those novels about how apocalyptic viruses get released into the world. http://t.co/vi ...
Opened up a bottle of beer before 7am. Don't worry-- it went in the slow cooker with the pot roast.
@Michaelfriberg But there I go! Thinking different technology will give me the results I want! Instead of using what I have now! :)
@Michaelfriberg I'm thinking about not buying wider lens for DSLR and saving up for 4/3 camera + two prime lenses (14mm & 20mm?) instead.
@Michaelfriberg Yes, I am really liking the 4/3 cameras. Really like the smaller size, etc. I am still thinking about it.
@Michaelfriberg But I am sad to give up more light getting through. I think this is partly my astronomy/telescope experience/bias.
@Michaelfriberg Still unsure if I want to spend $$$ for new lens for not-full-frame DSLR. Bothers me to throw away so much of focal plane.
@Selkie1970 Funny thing is we've been there 3 times since we moved here (so, ~18 months). It's like it's ENGINEERED for children to love it.
@DoctorMac @michaelfriberg should get for a bigger field of view
@DoctorMac @michaelfriberg The thing is we already have an older camera body with a prime lens. I'm still not totally convinced what we
@DoctorMac Harsh, man.
@DoctorMac Yeah, we're totally not doing pureed food with Lewis.
5yo's birthday is coming up next week so I asked her what she wants for her birthday dinner. She says Chick-Fil-A. Sigh...
That @DoctorMac... He likes to annoy me by calling it "Downtown Abbey".
@kathykrey That is a GREAT idea! I bet Grace would like that kind of thing too.
Pattern Poetry! Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Pattern - A Dress A Day http://t.co/LlmpDMxq
I'm going to start making sourdough again. Let's see how long it takes me to kill my starter this time.
@AnotherJulia They are so cute! My oldest is doing more skiing lessons this year but the other ones haven't started yet.
Has been the month for 5mo baby to get taller. He has not gained any weight but the 12-18 months pants are not at all long on him anymore.
When it is good to be married to a doctor: when 5yo wants to know how her body makes snot.
@astropixie What?! That is CRAZY!
@SKEdman Mine are about 1/2 new (things I want to buy & sewing info mostly), 1/2 repins. I don't do recipes there bc I do them on Delicious.
@veronimitch For your smartassery board? http://t.co/5Yc5w6Vc
Our chickens eat a lot of leftover bits of PB&J sandwiches.
5yo is stiiiiiiiiill talking about West Side Story.
@Selkie1970 I'm excited to experiment with it.
I bought lard today from our local pork/beef people. LARD! I've never cooked with lard ever.
This morning @DoctorMac put on West Side Story soundtrack. Now 5yo wants racism, gang warfare, suicide, etc explained to her.
Every night when we change baby into pajamas, he laughs uproariously, like it is the most hilarious thing ever.
@lucaswmuller I know, right?! We've been listening to them a lot since Rob got his turntable.
5mo baby can now sort of propel himself across the floor, although I'm not entirely sure how.
Latest culinary discovery: adding few Tbsp of cocoa powder to regular chili recipe. DELISH. Sort of mole flavor.
@beckfromfrogandtoad WHAT?! That is crazy!
I think 5mo baby is spitting up MORE than he was a month ago. That seems weird to me.
In my defense, I signed her up for 2nd two before I knew we were doing preschool right now.
Think preschool + swimming + gymnastics is too much for her.
3yo took 2-hour nap today & it's like I have a new child. (She hasn't napped regularly in ~year.)
@veronimitch And I will confess that I loooooooove that show. One of my top 5 TV shows ever.
RT @pledman: Every evangelical home should have a beautiful picture illustrating a Scripture text. Here is another of ours. http://t.co/ ...
RT @pledman: Our new kitchen art from Proverbs 31. http://t.co/UgoGoJQM
@beckfromfrogandtoad @Jenidvm LOL-- It says 35-44 for me, and I am still several years younger than that.
WORLD. CLASS. TANTRUM. from 3yo at end of swim lessons today. Picture me bodily carrying 50 lbs of offspring (3yo + baby) out of rec center.
More swimming lessons: http://t.co/1GyMdunD
Wow, it is light noticeably later already. The Earth has turned toward spring.
Seriously, GO READ that thing I just retweeted.
RT @jasonboyett: YES. So good: http://t.co/RRVEaAu3 "Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hi ...
@missiodeislc It is Tuesday and I am still singing about how I will jumbly proclaim. :)
@astropixie You have discovered my favorite Twitter bot OF ALL TIME.
@beffiesmith Yay! :)
Hope she does not have a wardrobe malfunction.
Back at swim lessons. 5yo is wearing a new swimsuit that I did not see actually on her until we got here. SO HUGE.
RT @beckfromfrogandtoad: My new favorite site: http://t.co/jXGrW7D7
And 3yo has now joined them.
Now 5yo and @DoctorMac are doing push-ups.
Just bet @DoctorMac a Bota Box on the release date of a Sixpence None the Richer album.
@karenebayne that he would eat a hamburger if she birthed without drugs. What the wha?!!!!
@karenebayne Thought of you today when I heard about another inappropriate FIL. Friend just gave birth. Vegetarian FIL told her beforehand
Why do I cook eggs in my cast iron? WHY?! I always end up having to totally re-season it.
@HaleyNBurke @howiesmith The chocolate is taking some adjustment on my part. Keep accidentally buying slavery-filled chocolate.
Kidding, FYI. Totally not my scene. Email was from actual real company, on plus side.
Got my 1st email from PR person wanting me to host giveaway on my blog. My blog that only people who know me IRL read. Time to monetize!
@karenebayne HAHAHAHAHAHA. No.
RT @BadAstronomer: How is Newt Gingrich's Moon base idea like the surface of the Moon itself? Both are vacuums. http://t.co/jBaJCTM1
Now 5yo is crying about the idea of infinity.
3yo did try to make a break for it during today's lesson. http://t.co/R0nHDsVV
It's kind of relaxing taking the girls to swimming lessons-- warm, humid, gentle splashy noises... http://t.co/d6UujyT2
@HaleyNBurke I'll just say that I really enjoy cooking AND I really enjoyed that book. :)
RT @finslippy: Ugh, I have to pick up my kid from school AGAIN? What is this, like, a daily thing?
@Selkie1970 I'm sure you'll be ready to pass them on (cough*sell them*cough) when the time is right. :)
@Selkie1970 No, THANK YOU. :)
4mo baby is wearing shoes for 1st time EVER today: http://t.co/1z8WGgY6
Got kindergartener to school late for 1st time this morning, despite the fact that I've been up since 5am.
Over the course of the day, 4mo baby has gone from novice to expert in rolling from front to back. He works sooooooo hard.
@HaleyNBurke I am doing snacks for our HC tonight but am just making brownies. Easy. :) Used coconut oil instead of butter & smells AMAZING.
Life with me has not been very kind to my phone. It needs some duct tape or something.
@MsKristySteffen I mostly am tired of babies refusing to eat my carefully prepared purees. :) Both girls insisted on doing it themselves.
I am totally doing this 3rd time around: http://t.co/u0XI72Rf Baby purees are for suckers.
I am glad we bought one of those fancy blenders.
It is so nice to not have a cold after one has had a cold.
It is sooooooo tempting to stay up and do the things I want to do now that children are asleep, but I really should go to sleep.
Aaaaaargh, our bumGenius diapers are repelling like you would not believe! Used to have such good luck with these.
Want to see a picture of @DoctorMac and me right after getting engaged 10 years ago? http://t.co/aBa6Xy95
Swim lessons while the snow falls outside. 5yo is doing the backstroke, 3yo is blowing bubbles.
@karenebayne Oh my gosh, that is my children! Although not about rice. 3yo won't eat applesauce, bananas, pancakes.
Unloading most of my Kwik Sew patterns on eBay (or at least trying to). I just don't sew with those anymore.
RT @DoctorMac: Awkward this is. RT @simplecap: Return of the Jedi HISHE is Live. http://t.co/ItaZRgd2
@joshrosenthal LOL-- thank you! I always enjoy playing.
The dawdling! Some mornings is it TOO MUCH!
Some interesting details I haven't read before-- the science of breastmilk: http://t.co/g857vAoP
Oh my gosh, I slept ALL AFTERNOON. I guess I needed it; hopefully will sleep OK tonight.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I have grayish green eyes & am often told plums, along with the shimmery pale neutrals that flatter most people.
@SKEdman Don't engage! Zen! Breathe in peace & calm, breathe out the need to be right!
RT @kylecostello: The chapel looks epic this morning! See you at 10:30 #SLC http://t.co/MrR2FeVh
Snowy Sunday morning: http://t.co/1Ijmad1x
@kathykrey Poor you... How much longer do you wear it?
RT @NishWeiseth: Newt Gingrich wins in a state that prides itself on conservative family values. That's rich. #scprimary
Did not get out to do weekly chicken coop care before all this snow started. Oops.
@mjkingsley longer, and it is OK to set boundaries (time, frequency, location) with him. :)
@mjkingsley Pep talk: You are doing a beautiful thing by meeting his needs in this way, this part of your relationship will not last much
@Selkie1970 That is so interesting! I'm not really into genealogy but that makes me want to be.
@DoctorMac This weekend is all full of "me" time. :)
@lucaswmuller Violet likes coffee too. We're dooooooooomed.
Mmmmmm, first bag of coffee from @LaBarbaCoffee. Levi is doing a very nice job.
Oh, steel-cut oatmeal, how I love you... I just wish my children felt the same.
Not the first wine tasting I've taken a baby to, actually.
RT @slcfoodie: I'm at wine and cheese school tonight with @beehivecheese and @missfox_fsw http://t.co/cu1Auqrk
Went with my baby & my husband to a wine tasting tonight. So fun!
It's amazing that a little run-of-the-mill cold virus can be so disruptive to my life. Have totally been white-knuckling this week.
@NishWeiseth I feel the same. I know struggle is real & parenting is challenging but I am tired of mommy snark/complaining.
RT @DoctorMac: @dorothea78 http://t.co/1qcxk9BR
3yo's first preschool drop-off: achievement unlocked! "Bye-bye, mommy!" she said with nary a look back.
@Selkie1970 I know! So weird, right?
@Selkie1970 Tough call. He might still be contagious. Did he run a fever last night?
@Selkie1970 If it comes back tonight, you can try taking him outside into cold air (or drive w/ windows open) or into hot steamy shower.
@Selkie1970 That is TOTALLY croup. Totally normal pattern of night-time misery and normal-ish day. They don't exactly know why.
@veronimitch My husband is making me a hot toddy too! Mine is cold-virus-related.
@Selkie1970 I LOVED that storyline! So good.
@veronimitch One of the Amazon reviews is from a 250-lb MAN saying they fit him. Just FYI. :)
@veronimitch @beckfromfrogandtoad I found fleece-lined tights on Amazon for $7! Totally trying them: http://t.co/Qw4n1ZpY
@beckfromfrogandtoad @veronimitch I don't wear a lot of medium-length skirts in the winter. Maybe I should give opaque tights another go.
@beckfromfrogandtoad @veronimitch My go-to is leggings + warm socks + tall boots, which is warm and looks good with long or short skirts.
@veronimitch So you are largely a skirt wearer like me, right? What is your preferred winter leg/shoe solution?
Only screaming fit at today's gymnastics class was at end upon leaving. Progress.
Another Wednesday, another gymnastics class for 3yo. Vast improvement, but still a good bit of unfocused wandering.
@DoctorMac Look: @AnotherJulia Look what I came across in town today! :-D http://t.co/nkzSHNqy
@AnotherJulia Look at that!
@Michaelfriberg I need help with that one. Share your secrets?
Had peanuts languishing in the pantry and made this with them: http://t.co/Buna1jXB Turned out very delicious.
Boy, after living here for 1.5 years, my LDS radar is still really bad.
@Selkie1970 Well, the lack of sleep is due to the cold. Normally we all sleep pretty well. Stupid virus...
It's hard to believe just a cold can be so disruptive to life. Babies do not make very good sick people.
An even WORSE night of sleep, believe it or not. Now I have baby's cold too.
@howiesmith @DoctorMac Yeah, the head-butting or whatever it's called, right? (I know so little about sports.)
Sick baby just sneezed INTO my Earl Grey.
Defrosting what I think is the very last of the food made for us when baby was born. We have been so well-loved by our community.
@DoctorMac Just say no to Lewis playing football: http://t.co/hRztkSWT
Hoping some Earl Grey will take the edge off this sick-baby, not-enough-sleep day.
5yo wants me to make a birthday cake for MLK today. Maybe I will.
On plus side, makes me thankful for his normal sleep habits. Also, it's SNOWING.
Oog. Baby is sick; I had terrrrrrrrrible night's sleep. Probably worst night since baby's 1st week here on outside.
I love reading blogs of British people-- how they would be daft not to do something or how they've been feeling pants.
Stupid printer with its stupid not working. I can report, however, that our new printer has apps. Yes, APPS.
@MaryLUE YES. I am so with you on that one.
@SKEdman I have that from our library right now! I haven't started reading it quite yet, though.
My 3yo is the only one who cries at the END of the church kids' program.
RT @millinerd: They just don't make hymns like they used to. http://t.co/QNphfVV2
@SKEdman That is super awesome how the two options are "hot" and "pretty". Male gaze, anyone?
@SKEdman Is that good? My girls really like anime.
Rewatching the 1st season of Downton Abbey. Definitely worth a second viewing.
For some reason I gave in to 3yo's request for Dora panties when we were at Target. I'm not sure what came over me.
Giving myself an ice cream headache with this whiskey milkshake.
The Civil Wars sound just like those people from the movie _Once_ to me.
Well, bummer. The LDS kids in 5yo's class have ward meeting on Sunday afternoons, which is when I have scheduled her birthday party.
I find that even my hippie attachment-parenting self likes a place to put the baby down occasionally.
Ah, giant plastic baby crap. I bought a jumperoo off KSL this morning, since giant baby is too big to physically fit in bouncy seat anymore.
@SKEdman I wish we all still wore hats.
@MaryLUE Would teach physics, astro, maybe chemistry.
@MaryLUE You teach at a community college? That is one kind of job I'm planning to look for in another 1-2 years.
I dropped my phone AGAIN last night. That thing is getting BEAT UP. Maybe I should buy a case...
5yo is now missing 2 teeth as @DoctorMac yanked out the loose one last night at house church. Everyone gave her a big cheer.
@FryAdrian YES. OMG, yes.
5yo is now throwing a fit because she doesn't want her (suuuuuuuuuper loose) tooth to come out.
5yo's loose tooth sooooooo needs to come out.
I neeeeeeeeeed it-- Pride & Prejudice: A BabyLit Board Book http://t.co/ulUaIMOH via @amazon
Gymnastics went better than last week, but WOW structured activities are a challenge for 3yo.
2nd day of gymnastics for 3yo & we have achieved sitting on the carpet square: http://t.co/N9eFRrPg
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 So sorry to hear about the hard stuff your church is going through...
New French press is "probably" the best: http://t.co/UYaYUKB6
@veronimitch LOL-- I think you win. :)
Yeah, figure that one out.
Forcing 3yo into pants because we're having people over for dinner: @DoctorMac's half-brother's half-sister and her fam, + half-brother.
I've been wanting some cowboy boots for a few months now. I never in a million years would have worn cowboy boots when I lived in Texas.
And now 5yo wants to know why anyone would want to kill MLK.
Visited a preschool for 3yo for next year & she loved it, perhaps a little too much. Lovely tantrum upon leaving.
RT @XIANITY: BUSINESS: On-line Christian retailer finally succeeds in recreating that ishy vibe you get in an actual Christian bookstore.
@Selkie1970 Three! That's so wonderful. Enjoy the birthday today!
@kathykrey Oh my gosh, SLEEPING BABY.
Used to be so good about having well-baby visits right on time. Baby won't have 4-month visit until almost 6 months old. Sorry, 3rd child.
RT @astropixie: the computer on the space shuttle was 0.005% as powerful as an Xbox 360. #aas219
All the cool kids are converting to the Orthodox church.
@Selkie1970 That IS so good. I love Tim Keller.
I hate being hard-nosed about girls' bedtime but WOW things turn sour quickly if I'm not, during the school week, at least.
@stephwalzer @TimWalzer When Grace was about 3, we would play Wii bowling almost every night before her bath. She was weirdly good at it.
@kathykrey Also, I admit that I wonder when I see a mom who really seems to struggle AND says she wants more. NONE of my business, I know.
@kathykrey I do think happiness & peace & contentment in our life roles (work, family, etc) is important and possible.
@kathykrey I know moms can struggle (some A LOT) & I don't want to dismiss that. And *everybody* has hard days.
Thanks to @DoctorMac pausing the DVR, I have now personally witnessed Tebowing.
@kylecostello It is so nice to be around people who think of nursing as a normal thing.
Another thought on the "carpe diem" idea: http://t.co/loo5pwoW I admit I didn't quite like the original Momastery post.
I think it actually *is* normalized in my social circles here. It is sooooooo nice. @kylecostello made a BFing joke from the pulpit today.
Know how breastfeeding support people talk about how BFing needs to be normalized?
4 months postpartum and I can finally wear both my wedding & engagement rings again. Slowly, gradually the weight comes off.
Wilting some spinach to put on pizza (dough almost done rising). The kids are not going to be happy about this.
Have spent most of day with a migraine-- 2nd one within a month. If this frequency keeps up, will have to do something. Drugs? Acupuncture?
5yo is going to her first swimming lesson on the morning of our first snow of 2012.
RT @SKEdman: This made me laugh like a donkey. : http://t.co/sq2I7T53
And the baby woke up, after I wrote one sentence of one thank-you note. Stay asleeeeeeeeeeep, baby! I've got crap to do!
I hereby resolve to write my thank-you notes this weekend.
@bkhristen I KNOW. Sigh...
Pomegranate molasses = yum.
Friend on FB was gushing about the new Legos for girls. Wavered on whether to say anything, but decided to speak up. Hopefully was gracious?
Today's protest from 3yo: "I don't want pants! I don't need pants! Throw pants awaaaaaaay!"
RT @DoctorMac: Did You Read? - Portlandia on IFC - YouTube http://t.co/MLa99CIb
This bag of clementines I bought at Costco this morning is sooooo good. I'm on my 3rd one.
The longer I breastfeed (going on 5 years total now), the weirder I feel about eating dairy foods.
@kylecostello Yes! It's all those crazy hormones.
I am so ready for my hair to stop falling out. Farewell, awesome pregnancy hair.
Just watched Bill Cunningham New York. Fashion, street photography, & NYC-- all things I love.
@howiesmith That's lovely!
@howiesmith I'd love to see-- did you mean to attach a picture?
RT @KUED: @dorothea78 They did make more! Season 2 Premieres Jan 8 @ 8pm on KUED! Watch first 10 mins here: https://t.co/0BMr8ujj
@MaryLUE @SKEdman @Selkie1970 What!? Harumph. I am totally not jealous. No, not at all.
This artist created an original design for each book of the Bible and they are quite cool: Jim LePage http://t.co/4XhBDC5i
Finally got piano tuned yesterday and the difference is HUGE. Very, very happy.
@NishWeiseth The concept of a carpet square to sit on was MOST AWFUL IDEA EVER.
@Selkie1970 OMG, it was so bad I am laughing. Refusal to sit on carpet square, wanting to wander off alone, etc.
I do have hopes (hopefully not unfounded) that she is going to do better next time.
Just took 3yo to gymnastics class, which was her 1st structured, class-type thing EVER. It was FULL OF FAIL, OMG.
@MaryLUE LOL, that is HILARIOUS. I haven't read those but have heard such good things.
Also, I think 3yo has gone somewhat feral since new baby was born.
It is so ridiculously warm here.
I think I've tweeted this before but I am SO grateful for neighbor girls who walk 5yo to kindergarten 3 days a week.
@MaryLUE Yay! BBC triplets!
@Selkie1970 That 3rd episode is so cliffhanger-y that I am DYING for them to make more.
@Selkie1970 If you are also addicted to Sherlock, then we can be BBC twinsies.
@howiesmith @beffiesmith Awwwww, yay, you guys!
I hereby resolve to go to bed at 9pm. Feeling a bit woozy.
@Selkie1970 Not sure what it takes to get in at that place.
@Selkie1970 Fingers crossed for you! We're trying for 3rd consecutive year to get into nice preschool down the street (walkable).
Filling out preschool applications for 3yo for next fall. Because that's what time of year it is, apparently.
I think 4mo baby is mad that I won't let him bite me with his tiny new razor-sharp teeth. Sorry, baby.
From 3yo: "No no no, I don't want to wear paaaaaants," while running away from me.
A sign of babywearing: crumbs on a baby who has not started any solid food yet.
Why have I stayed up this late? Whyyyyyyyyyy?! I have chosen poorly.
Did you know you can microwave regular popcorn kernels? @DoctorMac is quite good at it: olive oil, salt, brown paper bag.
Baby is having a hard time sleeping unless I am right.there.with.him. Had sort of forgotten about this stage.
Back to work & school tomorrow. Let's see if I remember how to get everyone fed and dressed and out the door on time.
@Michaelfriberg Oh man, we totally had carpet in the bathroom in our first apartment-- this totally 80s place with multiple wet bars.
A puzzling question: will the DI take and/or sell a coffeemaker?
@angie_amos Happy New Year to you too! I loved your goals on your blog today.
@Selkie1970 Yes! They are plain, from gray & black sweaters, but maybe I'll post pics when they're all ready.
I love putting up the Christmas tree, but then I love taking down the Christmas tree. It's a win-win.
Lanolizing wool diaper covers, because that's what a hardcore hippie I am now.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 I loooooooove Downton Abbey. They need to make more ASAP.
5yo just asked me why I was born "in olden times-- you know, before email and cell phones".
All ornaments are off tree. Now @DoctorMac just needs to do the lights, because apparently in my mind that is a MAN'S JOB. #egalitarian
This bag of baking soda from Costco says it contains 8,672 servings. I wonder if that it is the most of anything there.
Wow, we are in the throes of serious food phobia with 3yo. She refused cranberry orange pancakes this morning.
All of the sudden I really want a nose ring.
Our oldest 2 finally got in the IKEA play area (there was a waiting list) and we had an IKEA coffee date.
At IKEA. With the rest of the Salt Lake metro area, apparently.
My 3yo will eat Brussels sprouts but not applesauce.
@MaryLUE I think this is why MB has never been a super helpful tool for me; I don't feel like it gives me much insight into how I operate.
@MaryLUE So yes, according to the online test thingies, I am slightly more I than E and on the rest am nearly evenly split.
@MaryLUE In which case gender stereotypes would have helped me become a better person. :)
@MaryLUE I would totally believe that. I wonder if I am INTP but being female has developed my people skills and value for feelings.
@MaryLUE I wonder if underneath I am *something* but combination of social/family circumstances have caused me to function almost opposite.
@MaryLUE LOL! When I answer the questions, I think maybe I should be INTP, but that description doesn't sound like me AT ALL.
@MaryLUE I will say that you are the first person ever to not immediately say J for me. :)
@MaryLUE That's the part I am the most fuzzy over.
@MaryLUE @Selkie1970 Boy, this one is so hard for me. I guess N because I'm more abstract & idea-oriented, but it pains me to have to pick.
@MaryLUE Does it mean something that my first instinct is that the facts and principles will agree and lead to the same decision?
@MaryLUE I have a really hard time with that one. I think I am even on those, even as a child.
@MaryLUE Being alone. Upon further reflection, I'm pretty sure I am I. It's the S/N and T/F that really puzzle me.
@SKEdman If you said ISTJ, I'd be telling you what a warm and friendly person I am. :)
@SKEdman I can see that, although I have a great affinity for data and am a pretty logical-type person.
@MaryLUE @Selkie1970 motherhood has made me such a nurturer, like full-on attachment-parenting hippie mama nurturer. I have no idea.
@MaryLUE @Selkie1970 I am so confused by personality types. Can't decide if I am I or E, T or F. My background is in science but...
@Doughealey Oh, I'm so sorry, Doug.
@Doughealey I wouldn't begrudge you sleeping in either. You've gotta take hold of those opportunities while you can. :)
@Doughealey Ummm, it's almost 1pm. Not that I begrudge you your coffee, of course.
Our tree is totally not going to make it until Epiphany. Sorry, liturgical calendar!
@Selkie1970 Of course, weaning is wrapped up in 1st trimester misery for me (both times). Will be interesting to see how different it is.
@Selkie1970 That 1st nursing session was sooooo hard to drop with my oldest. For some reason, not so hard with V.
I did not help 5yo spell any of this: http://t.co/OIIMS6eU (And she cut the corner out of the paper, not me.)
I am very thankful for being able to renew library books online.
@NishWeiseth Aaaaah, me too! Utah winter combined with changing diapers, cooking constantly for tiny people, etc. My hands are a MESS.
RT @derekwebb: i'm lining up behind this clever little girl http://t.co/TLimhQI8 (thx @jordanbrooke9)
I love this quiet lazy week between Christmas and New Years Day. I LOVE IT.
Had so much fun having @NoahLocke and Katie over for dinner. Probably scared them talking about slings & cloth diapers & labor.
@HaleyNBurke Whaaaaat?! That is quite the idea. :)
A gift from @DoctorMac: http://t.co/UASi04oQ
@joshrosenthal Awww, thanks! I so enjoyed playing.
Christmas Eve service: http://t.co/aKlxqRW3
RT @bstiteler: @finslippy Use this link ONLY in case of a holiday emergency: http://t.co/pF0PCYGq
Headed to church for rehearsal. Will play at a service tonight for first time since baby was born.
@JodiAshford Thank you! You guys have a wonderful Christmas too!
@Michaelfriberg Mannheim Steamroller = childhood Christmas. Big time.
When I scramble the eggs from our chickens, it is such a brighter yellow than using ones from the store.
Now we just need one more turntable and a microphone.
Listening to Rob's birthday present (The Suburbs on vinyl) on Rob's other birthday present (turntable).
@amalah We have that EXACT ornament! It's my husband's, from his childhood and is on our tree RIGHT NOW. CRAZY. It's making me all CAPS-y.
Done wrapping! Which is good, because I'll be at church or entertaining most of tomorrow.
Just took me longer to find parking at this B&N than to find what I needed and check out. Realllllly wish I hadn't been sick this week.
RT @missiodeislc: I think we are at a  3 candles to every person ration for  for tomorrow nights Christmas Eve service. http://t.co/irUZ ...
@MaryLUE Boooooo... It's a really unfortunate time of year for sickness. Now I've got ONE day to get things done.
@MaryLUE Sooooooo much better. I was really sick for 1.5 days, just sort of sick for 1.5 days, and now almost back to normal.
At the dentist. Going to the dentist regularly feels like responsible adulthood to me.
It was a good party: http://t.co/tetydF0J
We've lived here for over a year now, for perspective. This will be our 2nd Christmas in this house.
So we get a lot of mail for our house's previous owners. A LOT. But now things have gotten to a new level-- a Christmas gift basket.
How I Met Your Mother is now on Netflix! I can finally watch the 1st couple of seasons.
My middle child turns 3 today. Happy birthday, Violet! http://t.co/fOl31Qtj
RT @jasonboyett: Sweet cowboy ninjas, the Rick Perry entrance at the end of this campaign video by his wife is HILARIOUS. http://t.co/IX ...
Oh, just realized that Bilbo Baggins is the same dude as Watson from the new BBC Sherlock!
Am going to do my best to get well fast for a) joint husband/daughter birthday party tomorrow and b) Christmas.
OK, body, have it your way. Am taking to my bed for the rest of the day.
Just saw a quote I am almost certain was Corrie Ten Boom's attributed to Mary Engelbreit on Pinterest. OH, THE HUMANITY.
I like how Kellymom (who I LOVE, of course) says the causes of plugged ducts include stress, fatigue, and being busy. HAHAHAHAHA...
Also, I think I have a plugged duct for the 1st time, like, EVER. TMI! TMI for everyone!
Took girls to lunch at a little diner-y place only 1 day into my recovery from stomach virus. Now feel that was unwise move. Urrrrrgh...
@kathykrey I can't believe it! The girls weren't this big until they were past a year!
@SKEdman He's gotta slow down soon. Otherwise no diaper in the world will fit him by the time he's 2.
Also, I did the whole stand-on-scale-with-baby thing and he weighs 20 lbs. TWENTY POUNDS!
I predict that baby will be in 12-18 month clothes by the time he is 4 months old.
Yesterday 5yo asked me if we celebrate winter solstice. On one hand, we are not druids; on other hand, given history of Christmas, sort of.
Happy winter solstice! And happy birthday to @DoctorMac!
@DoctorMac Happy birthday! No hot shower for you!
RT @LetterB: You know what's never not funny? That Colbert doesn't pronounce the "T" in "Report." What is it now? Six years? Still laugh ...
5yo can sing the "All Things Considered" theme song.
Now to get back to birthday/Christmas preparations.
Things are looking up: over 8 hours since any catastrophic stomach incidents, 5yo very excited about Tooth Fairy visit, baby is adorable.
I've been looking for something like this: How To Find Good Hip-Hop Songs for Your Kids To Listen To http://t.co/e763ePFh via @slate
So it turns out that piece of toast was a terrible idea. Sooooooo sick.
Ugh, stomach virus. This better be a quick virus because I do NOT want to be sick on Christmas.
@DrSilge Yes! I saw that! I meant to send that to you. Fortunately ye olde Internet did it for me.
5yo jut let me pull her tooth! She is now very traumatized. She may never let me do that again.
RT @Quadelle: RT @mlabriola: Lego is launching a product line for girls. Someone should tell them that they already have one; its called ...
@MurphyRory Congratulations! That is such amazing news!
@slcfoodie Is Amy pregnant?!
@MurphyRory Are you guys expecting?! Or maybe having a grandmother visit? I am confused. :)
At a fancy hotel for Christmas high tea with friends but WITHOUT baby. Only 2nd or 3rd time I've left him. http://t.co/YxZXu8jM
@MaryLUE Hello! I've often seen your name here on the Twitters.
@MaryLUE Just typing that out helped strengthen my resolve to not buy one in desperate fit of magical thinking.
@MaryLUE Baby wears it & body heat warms the amber, then absorbs analgesic/anti-inflammatory oils through skin.
I want to believe that those amber teething necklaces work but my scientist self is having a hard time buying into the idea.
@Doughealey Of course, Doctor Who doesn't really line up with that.
@Doughealey So @DoctorMac has theories that it is because they are more willing to end British TV shows when they are still good.
@Doughealey I. LOVE. THAT. SHOW. They really need to make more.
I think that wee tiny tooth poking through baby's gums may explain why napping is proving so difficult lately.
@Jenidvm I graduated ~week before Rob so we were "Mr. & Dr." for a few days. Got 1 card addressed that way in that week from funny friend.
Today's dental update: 5yo's tooth is verrrrrry wobbly. And baby has sprouted his first wee tooth! Not even 4 months old yet!
@SKEdman @Jenidvm @Selkie1970 LOL. I know; I should just get over it. :)
@Michaelfriberg I graduated before Rob so that's actually what we were for about a week.
@SKEdman Oh. My inner feminist did not know this. Of course, she probably isn't the biggest fan of all that patriarchal etiquette stuff.
If you're going to be all formal, can't you get it right? I need to let it go and get over it. But my inner feminist DOESN'T WANT TO.
I admit it-- it bothers me when people address formal things to "Dr. and Mrs. Our-Last-Name" when they know I have a PhD.
Mmmmmm, hot breakfast. Bacon & eggs & toast & French press coffee. I love weekends.
I am not doing any sewing or crafting for Christmas gifts this year. Sad. Next year, when I won't have a very little baby.
Hooray! @DoctorMac found our missing voucher for piano tuning! Soon we will be able to play the piano without so much tune-related pain!
Lots of birthdays to get ready for in next 10 days: @DoctorMac, our middle child, my sister, her husband, and OH YEAH Jesus. BUSY.
@amyforestell Yes! First one. You'd think this would freak children out more.
I think 3mo grew overnight. His clothes (size 6-12 mo) are suddenly tight.
5yo has for-real loose tooth, all sickeningly wobbly and so forth. (Same one with adult tooth growing up behind it.)
@HaleyNBurke Oh my gosh, that magic snow stuff made the HUGEST MESS, really sticky and hard to clean up. I'm totally disappearing the rest.
That is SO not going to work for the little people.
What?! I just got to the part of the dinner recipe where it says to bake 1 hour. Totally did not see that until just now. Rookie mistake.
@DoctorMac What? That doesn't make any sense.
2yo is singing a puzzle-building song to herself. Goes a little something like this: "Building puzzle, building puzzle, building puzzle..."
@MsKristySteffen Do you remember when Grace would fall asleep in your high chair at lunch back in New Haven? Too funny...
I find half-eaten cheese sticks strewn about our house more often than is strictly ideal.
I mean, teeth are just weird to start with.
One of 5yo's adult teeth has come in before the baby tooth has fallen out, behind it. WEIRD.
Today instead of a nap I had Earl Grey. Not a sustainable solution in the long term, but I certainly got more done than normal today.
Cake had issues exiting bundt pan. Cream cheese frosting covers a multitude of sins.
@N8V_TXN ACL audience does often look very goofy, however.
@N8V_TXN True. Also, have since decided that I don't want to miss out on fun things because of fear of looking silly.
I think maybe we should never go to Austin City Limits because they would film us clapping or dancing or otherwise looking ridiculous.
RT @SKEdman: Vader, did you know? OMG perfect. PERFECT. @Selkie1970 your hubs needs to see this. http://t.co/nBG0484q
Dangers of “Crying It Out” | Psychology Today http://t.co/0veCpRnJ
Look how adorable my baby is! It is too much! http://t.co/8qqZrrKK
@HaleyNBurke What?! That's only 1/3 of it? That is seriously out of control.
Walked 5yo to school with barest dusting of snow coming down.
@rogers_levi So how do we go about getting one of these coffee subscriptions you're pre-selling?
3mo baby has started putting his wee fingers in his mouth and it's pretty much the most adorable thing ever.
Wow, introvert side of my personality is asserting itself. Am in serious need of some down time.
Cutting 3mo baby's fingernails is one of the scariest things I do on a regular basis.
In all seriousness, I am grateful. Post office is madhouse and my arms are full of packages.
Last day of in-laws' visit. They are watching little 2 while I (wait for it...) TAKE CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO THE POST OFFICE!
@astropixie Wow, Amanda! That is one amazing year!
I know I've said this before, but what is up with toddlers pooping in the bath? I mean, REALLY?!
Mmmmmm, breakfast: http://t.co/YELye0qG
At the Utah Museum of Fine Arts with the in-laws: http://t.co/U8LBGwBs
Complained about book 5yo brought home from school library. (Was terrible, terrible Barbie book. ) Let's ban some books, baby!
I do not mean by that last tweet that they in any way have a drinking problem, FYI.
In-laws have arrived for 5-day visit. Have served them cocktails. Here we go.
Just went on a run NOT at the crack of dawn, thanks to @HaleyNBurke watching all 3 of my kids. :)
McSweeney’s: Excerpts From Steamy Romance Novels for Parents of Young Children: http://t.co/9TB08j5v via @Selkie1970
I made lime curd and I just want to eat it with a spoon.
@Selkie1970 We try just for 20 minutes.
2yo doesn't believe me when I tell her she'd be warmer if she wore pants.
@Selkie1970 I bought that Wensleydale with cranberries at Costco. What was it that you like to do with it? On toast, then run under broiler?
@Michaelfriberg BUT OBAMA HATES CHRISTMAS!!! Children are not allowed to celebrate it!
Stupid liquor laws. Bought beer at Costco this morning because... long story. Anyway, now have a LOT of 3.2% beverage.
Oh my gosh, Zulily has the most ridiculous-looking "nursing cover sun hats" today. HAHAHAHAHA... Oh, nursing covers, you make me laugh.
It is going to be the middle of the night before we get this Christmas tree up. Not decorated, mind you-- just UP.
I just ran the dishwasher and am uploading it, and realized I have no memory of putting soap in. Looks mostly clean? I think?
FACT: I am much better at cleaning up the playroom than my children.
3mo baby has dimpled knuckles.
@Selkie1970 She is my mini-me after all. :)
New picture of my new cropped hair. Very, very happy to have chopped it off.
Boy, I do a LOT of laundry.
Some postpartum hormonal switch has flipped and I am not hot all the time anymore. (In fact, I am now cold.) Biology is weird.
Stopping to re-adjust Christmas tree tied to car roof.
Just got a haircut! Chopped off about 5". Yay!
RT @NoahLocke: Utah Liquor Laws Explained http://t.co/Tvw0bm5C
On the other hand, it was on the tile floor, so that's not the worst place.
The pee accident that happens in the bathroom right next to the toilet is a frustrating thing.
@HaleyNBurke Nooooooo, it was my children, wasn't it? If/when you come over again, really, tell them not to climb on you.
RT @karenebayne: Every now and then I understand what tumblr is really about: http://t.co/GIIRcw63  #happychristmas
@DoctorMac LOL. Yes, we have power. Wind is still crazy, though.
@NishWeiseth I feel almost the same way about "Babywise".
Drove 5yo to school for 1st time this morning. Just couldn't see pushing double stroller for a mile in these crazy-like winds.
Wow, it looks VERY inhospitable out there. Crazy wind. First morning I don't really want to walk kindergartener to school.
I have had 3 cups of coffee today when normally I have 0, to fight off a migraine. Coffee is so tasty; why don't I make it more often?
@N8V_TXN @DoctorMac Indeed he has. But now he gets to KEEP being a doctor.
Yay yay yay! Congratulations to @DoctorMac who is now board-certified! It's like he's a real doctor and everything.
No heat. Brrrrrrrrr.
Oh no, 5yo picked out a *Barbie* book at her school's library today. She has led a Barbie-free existence heretofore.
@ironsoap Go you!
@lucaswmuller Oh, Cowboy Junkies. I really really like them.
@HaleyNBurke Seriously. Grace had fillings; Violet protested her way through a cleaning. No new cavities found, though. Hooray!
Have survived afternoon of pediatric dentist appointments.
@N8V_TXN That's a nice one. :)
Awwww, kindergartener's first report card. Now can begin her life of judging her self-worth by her achievements. (Projecting much?)
Almost-3-month-old baby just rolled over 3 times in a row! Fluke? Or obvious sign of superior baby-ness?
@Selkie1970 I think I am going to try the oven next time.
Making steel-cut oatmeal for hthe morning in the rice cooker. HUGE GIANT MESS. Do not recommend.
Sufjan Christmas album! Seriously, I look forward to this all year.
@slcfoodie Oh man, we totally missed pie breakfast! Rob and I had a communication problem about when it was. Sad. :( Next year...
@karenebayne Cute knitted hat, stacking rings, soft blocks, Vulli the giraffe?
I think I would be playing Christmas music right now except our computer won't turn on. Worrisome!
Gobble gobble http://t.co/6ZIJKqyY
@Michaelfriberg Yay!
Pie: cranberry pear with gingersnap crumbs http://t.co/p007Ra9g
Baby's head smells extra delicious this morning. It's what I shall have for Thanksgiving! Nom nom nom.
What was I think going to Costco today?! Rookie mistake. I didn't even need anything for Thanksgiving, just regular stuff.
I like how we don't own a pet anymore but we still need to stock pet odor/stain removal. Potty-training. IT IS THE WORST.
@HaleyNBurke This is the 1st time I've tried it so I don't know about flakiness yet, but definitely more pliable.
RT @jasonboyett: People are posting snarky Amazon customer reviews about the brand of pepper spray used at UCDavis: http://t.co/GI5sjRax ...
Making some pie crust, breaking out the vodka-- you know, Tuesday afternoon. http://t.co/N8Zr4LX4
@Selkie1970 No, although that looks great. The one I use is a simpler recipe and cooks up a pan of them, not individual cookies.
@Selkie1970 I'm not easily finding mine online, but I use Alice Medrich's from _Cookies and Brownies_.
@SKEdman Turns out it is just an EP. MOAR CHRISTMAS SONGS.
A Lyle Lovett Christmas album? Yes please.
@SKEdman Yes, that's EXACTLY it. I usually give them a snack ~3pm anyway so I am going to feed them here in a minute.
Both 2yo and 5yo refused what I made for lunch; both now hungry and in TERRIBLE moods. Send help.
@Selkie1970 Oh, so sweet. I miss my placid doggie.
@Selkie1970 Awwwww, he looks like such a sweet dog!
@HaleyNBurke Always hard to tell with those kinds of things. Funny, though! And kind of horrifying.
This is 2 years old; how have I not seen it before? The Thanksgiving Letter http://t.co/QaX1jXB7
Wow. A date night with REALLY good sushi tonight at Kyoto. Hooraaaaaaaay.
2yo: "Can I have another lunch?"
@kathykrey Yes! I wear knee-high boots with skirts a lot in winter, thus knee socks.
I want a hair cut. Choppity chop chop.
AWESOME: Cell Size and Scale http://t.co/YvUSG8pT
Thursday night: Elvis, lasagna, red wine.
@Michaelfriberg Recipe?
2yo is wearing oven mitts as slippers.
For reference, WHO had recommendation that optimal percentage was ~15%.
Good news about C-section rate, but still, look at that graph: http://t.co/It22NEWE
It seems that I wore holes in all my knee socks last winter.
Very, very nice: http://t.co/3P4C33Md Thanks, @Selkie1970.
@chaseafterwind On actual French TV: http://t.co/CLmQu9Py
@chaseafterwind I don't know; I can see it. Have you seen the footage of him giving interviews in French?
Not a real cookie, though. I am cutting way back on sugar.
I got up today before the sun came up to go running. And yes, I would like a metaphorical cookie for doing it.
Sometimes I just want to vacuum up all the Silly Bandz.
Here are more photos from our session by @Michaelfriberg this past weekend: http://t.co/jvWuyiq6
@HaleyNBurke I love cast iron! It is a relatively new discovery for me, but I am a total convert.
I think I am willing to declare 2yo 99% potty-trained as long as she is naked from the waist down. Sadly, winter is coming to Utah.
We finally fixed the line to our ice-maker over the weekend and now we have ICE! ALL THE ICE WE WANT!
Google Reader sharing friends? I am now going to post here: http://t.co/5sLqNdtK There is an RSS feed.
We had a great portrait session by @Michaelfriberg this weekend-- check out his Kickstarter project at http://t.co/ojwh9aHZ
A new profile pic, since I haven't had red hair in weeks.
@Michaelfriberg People are always hating on the gin.
@Michaelfriberg Yaaaaaaay! Gin over here.
You know what word makes me laugh? "Tablescape"
Very grateful that friends continue to be super gracious with me.
Ugh, you'd think using Google calendar and a smart phone that BEEPS WHEN I AM SUPPOSED TO BE PLACES would keep me from failing people. Ugh.
Now I am thinking maybe that was a joke. They *ironically* called it the wrong name. And now I want a Yoda hat for Lewis.
They have called this a "trekkie" hat. Um, no. Although maybe it would have been fun if Yoda was on Star Trek. http://t.co/iRdCfYgs
RT @BestforBabes: "According to neurologist Richard Restak, MD, 'Physical holding and carrying of the infant turns out to be the... http ...
@NishWeiseth @slcfoodie I keep trying to look in windows when I drive by to see if there is indoor playground thingie but I don't think so.
GAH, college football.
And RE: what I just RT'd-- not that I have confidence that students at my alma mater would react much better in a similar situation.
RT @jasonboyett: Good job, Penn State students. Now you can add "rioted in support of child rapist protectors" to your resumes.
Two more cavities for 5yo, bringing her up to six before she turns six years old. Sigh...
Nice: http://t.co/Oj2RoFna
Somebody tell me to stop browsing boots I don't need and go get crap done.
4pm is not an ideal time for a nap but sooooooo sleepy. Will... just... rest... my... eyes...
Not exactly what you'd call motivating for the exercise.
Thought I might go running for 1st time since baby's birth in the next few days, pulled out work-out wear. DOES NOT FIT. Sigh...
@javajackie82 Before 9pm for me. It's been a rough week and weekend.
Bought limes on last trip Costco. No scurvy for us!
2mo baby can go in my Boba! It's tall enough to support his head a little! His 15+ lbs was feeling verrrry heavy in my slings.
@karenebayne @beckfromfrogandtoad ALL the communion bread at our church is gluten-free. Very trendy to go off gluten around these parts.
Wow. Tired. Last day on my own before @DoctorMac returns.
@DrSilge That sounds more exciting than I was picturing your day.
Our friend here in SLC wrote this great piece: Tide turning against the killing of 'cursed' infants in Ethiopia? #cnn http://t.co/h1oWv2VE
@ironsoap Yes! That is the picture on the cups. Mystery solved!
@ironsoap Yeah, me too. Apparently I was totally wrong about the pictures on my little cups.
@ironsoap Wait, am still wrong. Tandem bike picture unrelated to Picasso at all; Picasso just prominent customer at Els 4 Gats.
@ironsoap Wait, that's wrong. The tandem bike picture was PAINTED by Picasso. Other dudes riding it.
@ironsoap LOL-- they are demitasse cups purchased at El Quatre Gats. Have picture of Picasso riding tandem bike with his friend on them.
Gave girls hot chocolate in my Els Quatre Gats demitasse cups.
Chickens first snow: http://t.co/i8pT2f9H
SNOW SNOW SNOW! Sooooo pretty.
Happy that @HaleyNBurke is coming over to help me put these crazy children to bed.
@HaleyNBurke I KNOW. Grace is starting to emerge from pickiness finally & Violet has only recently gotten really bad, so it is just a stage.
"Not applesauce?!" wails 2yo in dismay. Homemade applesauce with vanilla and cinnamon, no less. Sigh.
@DoctorMac I drank the last Epic beer. And shockingly, it has made your absence much less sad!
@DoctorMac Cashew macadamia butter! Two-buck Chuck! All the fair-trade chocolate you can carry!
Have mitigated this sad fact by convincing younger, childless girlfriend to come help with baths and bedtime.
No @DoctorMac to come home at the end of the day as he has flown away to Boston for a conference.
Halloween problems: 2yo now demands M&Ms at every meal and wails in dismay when we won't comply.
RT @missiodeislc: Pretty rad article written by @rogers_levi about @missiodeislc on the Gospel Movements website - http://t.co/0KrXcqXb #slc
@angie_amos Yes, definitely. Pretty much back to normal, I think. I didn't remember the first shots being so rough!
@angie_amos I know, right?! Actually my 2nd year to trick or treat, EVER, last year being 1st. Some from my childhood would be horrified.
According 5yo, U2 "kind of sounds like rock and roll."
@SKEdman HI-larious, oh my gosh.
@SKEdman Me too.
Baby's 1st vaccinations yesterday (when he maybe had a cold) have precipitated fever, misery, & nursing strike. Not good times over here.
Baking the pumpkins we had on our porch. Makes me sad when I see them smashed. That's food, people!
Some wet slushy snow has started at our house.
2yo: "I want to get a lollipop." It's 8am.
Wow. 5yo loooooooooved trick-or-treating.
OK, oven has responded to my pleas and started working for no apparent reason, although I am now filled with distrust towards it.
@HaleyNBurke Yes! Good idea!
Seriously, oven-- why you gotta be like this?
The Venn Piagram http://t.co/dySmmCIm
Oven controls are dead and unresponsive, although oven light still comes on. Bad timing as dinner is imminent and all.
@Selkie1970 For me, it helps significantly for 1st year, helps a little bit for next 6 months, then I pretty much can't tell a difference.
In same time period, I've lost ~10 lbs, so that's good. Nursing = liposuction.
Good heavens! Had baby's 2-month check-up today and he weighs 15.5 lbs. He gained over 6 lbs in 6 weeks.
@Selkie1970 Yeah, you definitely have. Ugh. Fortunately not our norm. Baby has caught his first cold from 2yo.
Baby going down for 1st nap at 6:30am. Yeah, not a good night, followed by very early rising.
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs: http://t.co/94ucWdA3
@Michaelfriberg @DoctorMac Yay! Us too!
@Selkie1970 For me, cracker crumbs in bed = pregnancy because I would eat them 1st thing in morning.
Parenthood = finding Legos in your bed.
The fact that we bought our current refrigerator ourselves makes me much more likely to clean it.
Drove up into the mountains today. Looks like winter up there: no leaves, frozen lake, a little snow.
@SKEdman I'll admit I started using product in my girls' hair when they were 2 to fight the frizzies. (Both have curly hair, though.)
@SKEdman If you don't want her to have bangs long-term, I say just push through awkward phase. Teeny bit of hair product?
Also, @DoctorMac and I are arguing about Michael Jackson. AGAIN.
Champagne and popcorn!
Apparently there was an exciting sporting event involving my home state last night. My Twitter/FB streams are all awash in angst & emotion.
Hmmm, 2yo has very runny nose. Ominous.
Tapioca pudding from slow cooker not a screaming success. Gluey.
RT @astropixie: royal society opens archive, kills productivity :)  http://t.co/YYho4kaf
Holding a baby while he falls asleep = one of the most wonderful things EVER.
Making tapioca pudding in the slow cooker, despite the fact that @DoctorMac finds it abhorrent.
@kathykrey It would look weird with boots + cardigan, right? I may have to wait until spring... Or cardigan + tights + what kind of shoe?
It's this one: http://t.co/2hvGPt76 Button-front (i.e. nursing friendly), does not require a belt, cut-on cap sleeve. Hope I like it!
Think I've finally found this specific vintage pattern that I've been after forEVER. Have had an eBay search running for 3+ years.
Think I am going to have to move 8-week-old baby to 6-12 month clothes, like, tomorrow. What on earth?! This is a new experience for me.
I've decided I have to stop buying mainstream chocolate: Ideas for an Ethical Halloween http://t.co/mPt1g9S1
It's "dress like a nerd" day at kindergarten so we dressed 5yo like Steve Jobs: http://t.co/TccYvWLt
Upside to children refusing to eat what we had for dinner: very little mess to clean up.
Little man http://t.co/18PihILt
Have been home from picking up kindergartener for &lt;2 hours, have changed baby's diaper 5 times. PLEASE TO STOP WITH THE POOPING.
@Michaelfriberg That was a great interview.
Email inbox empty! I win!
Autumn: http://t.co/FOlh2J29
Other things Netflix needs to get more of: Downton Abbey, Sherlock. My anglophilia is showing.
Netflix needs to get more Doctor Who now. All caught up through Season 5.
Items I just retrieved from girls' playroom: silicone basting brush, trivet, lemon reamer.
Last week our church meets in the afternoon. Going out to breakfast to enjoy our last relaxed Sunday morning.
RT @karenebayne: How to Deliver a Baby Without Pain Meds If You're Not a Spiritual Person But Are Really Geeky | The Hairpin http://t.co ...
Back from last day at the farmers market. Butternut squash, apples, pumpkins, sweet peppers.
Today is the last downtown farmers market here in SLC! The last day to stock up on the bounty of the harvest season...
@kathykrey Makes really lovely green smoothies and whatnot. An actual juicer would take out lots of fiber and pulp.
@kathykrey You don't mean an actual juicer, do you? But a Vitamix or Blendtec? We have the Blendtec & it does make a difference.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Cuuuuuuuuute.
Really, really excellent-- The Wall: A Map Of Adoption Ethics According to Me (Part One) http://t.co/iufii5ZR
RT @DoctorMac: Want to pour one out for our slain backyard hen, but all I have is this @epicbrewing beer. Maybe I&#39;ll drink to her ho ...
RT @slcfoodie: A canning success and lovely afternoon with @dorothea78 http://t.co/t5bNAVma
Noooooo! Some kind of animal got into our backyard and one of our chickens is dead!
Feel squeamish eating factory-farmed chicken now that we have some.
Striking out at the mall where they do not have anything I came to get. Leaving only having bought Chick-Fil-A lunch.
Am at a mall. That never happens. When we walked in, 2yo exclaimed, "A beautiful room!" Nooooooooooooo...
Baby just slept for 2+ hours so he is going to do nothing but nurse at small group, probably. Be forewarned, church friends.
2yo is going to our small group tonight wearing a bit more dinner than I typically like.
Apparently it is Dr. Who day for me on Twitter today. Seen in Costco parking lot: http://t.co/NeUVn2KJ
2yo's head is now staple-free. They offered that I could keep the staples.
How did I end up potty-training while I have a newborn? Seriously, 2 months in either direction would have been great.
RT @astropixie: every (cheeky) girl's dream!  ;)  http://t.co/7uTi4eyg
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 So sorry to hear about the death of your friend.
Well, no nap for me today. Instead, I shall have a 4pm beer.
You are very adorable, baby, but pleeeeeeease go to sleep. Mama needs a nap.
@kathykrey A Dr. Pepper blended float from Sonic is my favorite thing on their menu, I think.
Am feeling very ambitious. Defrosting meat to actually cook dinner tonight.
@astropixie Oh, I think they're hopeless, at least right now. :) Did honey, cinnamon, & dried cherries this morning.
@SKEdman I use some, but maybe I should try more. *I* like it as is, but maybe a bit more would help for small people.
First breakfast of steel-cut oats for the season. Yum. Also, children's first rejection of oatmeal of the season. Sigh.
@Selkie1970 He doesn't love it, but if I stay moving, he does OK. He definitely prefers BWing to being in stroller.
@Selkie1970 ...KILLING me on that longer walk. Think I could do it when he can be in Ergo, but my newborn BWing options were not cutting it.
@Selkie1970 5yo walking, 2yo and baby in stroller. I babywear around the house, shopping, at church, etc but for whatever reason it was...
Have been walking to and fro 5yo's school with the new double stroller for about a week now and am soooooo happy with it.
Just did 8 more quarts of peaches. Peaches are definitely past their prime now here in Utah; will stick to apples from here on out.
RT @DoctorMac: God: Human Body Not Designed To Play Football | The Onion Sports Network http://t.co/I8TFvfpF
I'll just say this-- it's a good thing urine is sterile.
A baby is no less stunning and heart-achingly beautiful the third time around. (Yes, he's asleep.)
@Selkie1970 Oh man, the overwhelming volume of artwork...
@Selkie1970 No, no-- 5yo did all of it. She made them for all of us, including baby. Multiples of them.
Seriously, there are over a dozen of these around our house: http://t.co/8VloPMeJ This one "belongs" to 2yo.
@HaleyNBurke Are you coming this morning? If so, will bring apples and buy your coffee.
There are drawings of rainbows labeled "ROYGBIV" strewn about our house.
"Pop pop pop" go the applesauce jars. I love that sound.
Applesauce time: http://t.co/HbJ2liOn
Nooooooooo, the scary angel statues are back on Doctor Who!
@HaleyNBurke It's at 10am. Get Beth or Laura to add you to the Google group they made.
@HaleyNBurke Maybe I'll bring you some on Sunday! Are you coming to morning thing at Rose Estab? I'm also hoping to do applesauce.
I admit it; I love Anthropologie, despite the ridiculousness: http://t.co/MS27norJ
It's really good, FYI.
Eating my first local apple of the season.
Watching Project Runway. All their talk of the "Final Five" just makes me think of Cylons.
@Michaelfriberg If you really find one, get me $30 worth. Would also take blackberries. This is for jam, so it can be overripe/mushy.
@Michaelfriberg 10 lbs of raspberries from a berry farm
@kathykrey And here is some general help on getting info on specific meds during BFing (which can be hard): http://t.co/O0NeTn0o
@kathykrey Jerk. Steroids are not all verboten during BFing: http://t.co/c3exwiby
OK, no judgment, honestly, I am just trying to understand-- what is with all these married women with wedding boards on Pinterest?
Ah, potty-training... 2yo to me, just now: "I'm so proud of you too, Mommy."
RT @jasonboyett: First, the kids and I are going to eat 1,000 popsicles. Then we're going to try this: http://t.co/8E0arYkg
I think one of our hens has gone broody.
@kathykrey @DoctorMac Oh, Kathy... that's AWFUL.
@Selkie1970 This was exact same casserole twice, with rice & Ritz crackers & creamy sauce. Maybe it's a THING like green jello & carrots?
Is poppyseed chicken casserole another funny Utah food thing? Two separate people have brought this to us as a new-baby meal.
Oh, and baby is 6 weeks old today! Hooray!
i should, like, read a book. I haven't done that in the last 6 weeks.
2yo seems none the worse for wear today. I suspect she may have dreads on the back of her head by the time the staples come out, though.
First ER visit for our family. 2yo now has staples in back of her head.
After all, a mere 6 weeks ago, I looked like this:  http://t.co/WBPUbD8I
Feeling kind of "blech" about how I look right now. Trying to keep perspective and be reasonable about post-baby body.
Being hit hard by the postpartum nothing-to-wear this morning.
@Doughealey I'm really enjoying it! Am bit of an Anglophile & scifi fan, so no big surprise there. Am almost finished w/David Tennant's run.
@HaleyNBurke I would read your blog. :)
Or instead, 2yo will take advantage of @DoctorMac being gone to refuse to stay in bed. Ah, boundary testing...
Well, @DoctorMac may be at @HighWest Distillery with some of our favorite people, but I have a Scotch and Doctor Who. #notthesame
RT @lucaswmuller: ...my heart held the love of God like a plastic cup trying to carry the sea. (R. McKinley)
@veronimitch  My feet went back pretty quickly with babes 1 & 2. They were already size 10. Sigh...
@veronimitch This may have happened to me! Am 6 weeks postpartum and my shoes are still really tight.
In the process of potty-training, 2yo has become obsessed with washing her hands. OCD toddler!
@Michaelfriberg Wait, I did the math/timeline wrong/backwards. Oops. I HAZ A PHD.
@Michaelfriberg Given that I was 15 when it came out, I find that hard to believe. 1994.
@Michaelfriberg We were in fact listening to Pinkerton. But I am willing to fight with you over the blue album also being awesome.
You know who is awesome? Weezer, that's who.
@MsKristySteffen I got  this one: http://t.co/WfUn0Qm4 With the second seat, obviously. Hopefully I will like it!
@Selkie1970 Actually, he's sleeping in it right now! It's been so warm that I've used ring sling more often, but it is so nice to have.
I wish they made baby clothes longer and slimmer. All 3 of my babies grew out of clothes when I could no longer do the crotch snaps.
Pulled the trigger on the double stroller purchase. Also, putting away 0-3 month clothes because 5-week-old baby is a GROWING BOY.
@karenebayne That is a cute idea!
@N8V_TXN Have ~5 David Tennant episodes left. Was specifically thinking about angel statue episode & shadow swarm library episode.
This weather (drizzly, cool, autumnal) makes me so happeeeeeeeeeee.
My morning routine is going surprisingly smoothly today. So nice when doing the normal stuff doesn't feel like a struggle.
@SKEdman And gosh, people love criticizing books that haven't been published yet, don't they?
@SKEdman Sigh... I really think she approaches things in a thoughtful, nuanced way and I don't get why people don't see that.
@SKEdman @beckfromfrogandtoad I have done it, many times. Have never injured a microwave.
There seem to be a lot of large-ish brown spiders in my house this morning. I plan to vacuum them.
1mo baby is toying with the idea of smiling.
Sometimes Dr. Who is borderline too spooky for me.
I keep excitedly checking the weather because it's supposed to get a lot cooler in the next couple days.
Still obsessing about double strollers, in case you were wondering.
Last CSA pick-up of the season: tomatoes and melon and cucumbers and pears and squash and broccoli and plums and collards and peaches and...
@Selkie1970 Well, it's super-cute as is.
@Selkie1970 So pretty! But yeah, it is hard to go bright. Has to be bleached to pretty light blond underneath.
2yo had her first haircut today: http://t.co/BrqF40xu
5yo is star of the week next week at school. Would it be bad to recycle her poster from when she was star of the week at preschool in April?
RT @astropixie: not sure if they could have found weirder pictures of the winning trio....  http://t.co/56htvm70
@Selkie1970 Yeah, me too.
@amyforestell The data are what "chores" she has done. She was motivated by an episode of "Sid the Science Kid" about charts, data, etc.
@DoctorMac She made a chore chart after watching "Sid the Science Kid".
5yo: "I love making charts with data!" Me too, kid. Me too.
@HaleyNBurke Somebody is bringing us dinner but we'd love it for lunch tomorrow! We'll be home anytime after 3pm.
@astropixie I KNOW. There are more of them than us.
2/3 of my children peed on the floor out of a diaper before 8:30am. Glamorous!
I am putting away my sandals because a) it is October 2 and b) what I told myself was my last pedicure looks terrible.
5yo is helping empty the dishwasher. I knew these children would be helpful eventually!
Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 6am http://t.co/8JoGTLDq
Double strollers are so expensive. It stresses me out that I'm going to pick the "wrong" one.
Hmmm, $100 off a phil&ted's is still a lot of money. I do need a double stroller, though.
One of our chickens laid a double-yolked egg.
@kathykrey 5 times! Wow. You may have noticed that I said I don't 
"often" sew to save money; sometimes it is worth it.
2yo declares she cannot go pee-pee in her diaper and she cannot go pee-pee in the potty. I tremble in fear at her other options.
RT @jasonboyett: Wow. So THIS is what @RealRobBell is up to: a TV drama with @carltoncuse (of Lost). http://t.co/MwMsY9WW Who's surprise ...
@kathykrey I don't often sew to save money but to make something unique or that I couldn't buy (i.e. pants that will stay up on Grace).
@Selkie1970 Well, it's only 2pm here. 3pm is my self-imposed limit for bedtime issues.
Ugh, my afternoon nap was foiled. Now, drink coffee or hope for another nap opportunity in an hour or so?
Every children's puzzle we own is out right now and put together. Living room is quite a sight.
This is kind of a goofy episode of Doctor Who.
Wow. Tired. Feeling a bit fragile/woozy tonight.
@HaleyNBurke Oh goodness, it's lovely! :)
Not sure what this says about me, but I now automatically assume all quotes on Pinterest, FB, etc are misattributed or made up.
2yo calls clothespins "nose-pins". That sounds... uncomfortable.
Have realized that baby's name is in trochaic trimeter. Nice. :)
@DoctorMac Hey, that guy added me too! You think you're related?
I can see my neighbor's roses through the window above my sink.
Ah, curdled breastmilk, so nice to see you coming back up this morning.
I can't wait for boot weather. Will probably take some adjusting for my feet as I haven't worn enclosed shoes for MONTHS.
Made this (well, @DoctorMac did) for dinner with local peaches and arugula and it was WONDERFUL: http://t.co/t06mMeKh
And @Michaelfriberg and @danistocking, we gobbled up your taco soup and it was great.
I am so behind on thank-you notes for new-baby meals. Can this count as your thank-you note, @HaleyNBurke? Your stir-fry was REALLY good.
@HaleyNBurke Get the color you want. I don't think any straight man is going to care.
And I should say that our friends and community here have been SO generous and helpful so I have no room to complain.
Sounds pretty awesome right about now, although I would miss the internet and Tivo. And clean water. http://t.co/aSYr53vy
@Michaelfriberg We are accepting ALL help at this point. :)
Wow, @zulily shipping is amazingly slow. Think I have been spoiled by Amazon.
He is looooong skinny baby.
Somehow 3wo baby is managing to simultaneously grow out of some 0-3 month clothes and still have smallest cloth diapers be too big on him.
@amyjackson Crazy! :) Hope all is well with you.
@JodiAshford Wow, blast from the past! How did you find me? Hope you are well.
@Michaelfriberg My least punk rock phase may have been my 12-year-old Russian novel & classical music stage.
@Selkie1970 The really bright red just took too much upkeep for life right now. Less intense reds last a little longer but they do all fade.
Well, the deed is done. No more red hair.
Am cutting up a cucumber bigger than my forearm-- no exaggerating.
Was canning this afternoon and had a jar break in the water bath for the first time. Messy.
RT @jasonboyett: 10% of all the photos ever taken EVER have been taken in the past 12 months. http://t.co/VD8vg021 That's stunning.
@HaleyNBurke I need it to be colder so I don't need a shower after walking Grace home from school.
2-week-old baby curled up asleep tucked under my chin. Intoxicating.
2yo is wearing a down puffer vest and underwear.
Could this baby poop any more frequently? I submit to you that he could not.
Sand is my nemesis.
Spent a lovely morning at the playground. A playground entirely surfaced in SAND. Why do they do that?
@howiesmith I think your answer is in here somewhere: http://t.co/2quIvFF5
Some of @DoctorMac's journal articles have a "plain language summary". I think this is cheating.
@lucaswmuller Maybe we should have you give us your tour. We've been here over a year and have yet to go down there.
Checked out the Murray Park Farmers Market this morning. More manageable than downtown one, although not quite as awesome.
I am having a hard time maintaining my red hair with a newborn. I might have to go back to all brown.
Well, yesterday went pretty well on my own. Today I think I am going to attempt Costco while 5yo is at school.
For the non-squeamish, Lewis' birth story: http://t.co/cnmARMxm
It's @DoctorMac's first day back at work and my first on my own with THREE children. Wish me luck!
Raspberries from our CSA and vanilla ice cream. Yum.
Whoa, my smallest cloth diapers are HUUUUUUUGE on him.
Yay, no more umbilical cord! Real bath and cloth diapers!
@Selkie1970 No. Sigh... Only our pediatrician in CT ever had that very excellent idea.
Now the mom behind me just said to her daughter, "I hope you don't have strep." GERRRRRRRRMS!
Nobody breathe on my child.
At pediatrician for 2wo's first appointment where there are literally children vomiting and covered in snot in waiting room. Aaaaaaaaaaah...
I believe this baby grew overnight.
I sleep SO HARD during these post-partum afternoon naps. Wake up feeling very weird and disoriented. Rested, though.
Still thinking about the super-cliffhanger-y last episode of the new Sherlock series that I watched last night. Netflix needs to get more.
Multitasking-- paying bills and nursing 1-week-old baby.
Lewis' birth video: http://t.co/RhNNxtK
I just told @DoctorMac that no, he was not allowed to have a drama-free zone, given our current life circumstances.
I was just peed on during a diaper change for the first time. I think this means I am officially a boy-mom.
Left the house for the first time with new baby-- walked to elementary school to pick up 5yo.
Weigh 20+ lbs less than I did a week ago. Still look about 4 months pregnant, of course.
@DixieGirl That is super cute and fun-looking!
Can't wait for baby's umbilical cord to fall off so we can a) use our cloth diapers and b) have a real bath.
Epic poo-splosion! Up the back! Disposable diapers kind of suck.
@HaleyNBurke Aw, transitions like that are tough.
Just found 3 eggs from our chickens! Not sure how long they've been sitting there so we're not going to eat these, but yay! Eggs!
RT @ESO_Observatory: ESO laser hits lightning! Once in a lifetime photo #EPoW #unbelievablephoto http://t.co/CVAtRnJ
@Selkie1970 Yes, I'm going to work on it soon. I can't resist a birth story. :)
@SKEdman Noooooo... I have great sympathy after our recent dental issues with both girls.
Lots of pictures of Lewis' birth and first days (as well as Grace's 1st day of kindergarten)  http://t.co/dFzMvFy
THIS JUST IN: sometimes newborn babies don't sleep that well.
You know what's awesome? A BRAND NEW BABY. You know what else is awesome? NOT BEING PREGNANT ANYMORE.
@angie_amos Yes, thank goodness. Later this morning.
Oh man, I am so over the hospital. Let me outta here.
@Selkie1970 She's on some waiting lists but she didn't get a spot yet at the close/convenient/good ones. We'll see... Either way is OK.
Have remembered that when we say newborns nurse ALL THE TIME, there is very very little hyperbole in that statement.
RT @DoctorMac: These nurses are very interested in my kid's pooping. Next one asks me if he's pooped yet today I'm going to ask her if s ...
@Selkie1970 Better. Twas a rougher birth than my second and I'm a bit beaten up, but I am already feeling better. Home tomorrow!
There is NOTHING like the head of a brand-new baby. Om nom nom nom nom.
5yo and 2yo came up to the hospital this afternoon to meet new baby. Chaos! Craziness! Also, 2yo now seems impossibly huge & sturdy.
One day old: http://t.co/WFtcNuD
Yep. Newborn baby has days and nights switched. Glad I slept as much as I did yesterday.
Today was the longest day in the history of EVER. A good day, but wow.q
Mmmmmmmm, @DoctorMac just brought me sushi for dinner. That hit the no-longer-pregnant spot.
@kathykrey YES. I could not believe it as I was going into labor last night. What are the odds?
Why do I feel compelled to keep the little hat on a baby in the hospital? I never keep hats on my babies once we go home.
I'm pretty amazed that we got 5yo to her first day of kindergarten today 3 hours after baby Lewis was born. (By "we" I mean @DoctorMac.)
I wonder how many times I will call this baby "she" or "her".
There is so much TMI to tweet right now. Sometimes it's hard to remember normal standards of interaction in aftermath of childbirth.
Baby Lewis is here! Born today at 5am, 8 lbs 6 oz, 20 in http://t.co/wqV7mM2
I broke about a zillion capillaries in my face/neck/chest during labor. I am quite a sight.
Oh my gosh, if these hospital people don't stop COMING IN HERE and WAKING ME AND THE BABY UP, my sleep-deprived self is going to lose it.
Hey, internet, I had a baby! He is adorable! Also! I haven't slept much in the past 28 hours!
xkcd: I'm Sorry http://t.co/bHxstSK
@karenebayne @Selkie1970 Thank you! I think I am going to try to nap now. Fingers crossed for tomorrow...
@Selkie1970 Can't decide whether to rest and conserve energy or try to walk and stimulate more contractions.
@Selkie1970 Hospital. Contractions haven't ever really been "off" but this is just too infrequent for me to go get checked.
Am now 12 hours into these ~10-minute-apart but fairly intense contractions.
Finally broke down & called my midwife; not sure what I expected her to tell me over the phone.
@lucaswmuller Wow, the word "early" looks very weird to me now.
@lucaswmuller This coming Sunday. By "early labor" I didn't mean early for the baby's age but early in labor, like early vs. active labor.
@Selkie1970 Ugh. I will be in rough shape if this kind of thing lasts for the next 2 weeks.
@Selkie1970 We'll see; contractions have calmed down some since I ate breakfast and had a lot of water and been up and about out of bed.
@Selkie1970 My due date is this coming Sunday. Water broke 7 days after due date with #1 then no labor, when I was 10cm dilated with #2.
Have been up since 4am with what MIGHT be early labor. Or my uterus faking me out.
Baby has the hiccups, I have the end-of-the-day contractions. There's a lot going on in my abdomen.
Dropped and broke a glass. Is it the swelling that makes me so clumsy, or the hormones, or what?
The weather forecast is really getting my hopes up with these highs of 81 at the end of the week.
Did I make a special trip out to buy more ice from Sonic? Yeah, pretty much.
Just slept off another late-pregnancy migraine thanks to Ponyo. Thankful that these are very rare for me under normal circumstances.
@SKEdman Still gestating. Head down, healthy, active, doing well, for all of which I am grateful. As of Friday, I was dilated 1cm.
Hooray! Via @nprmusic: First Listen: Blind Pilot, 'We Are The Tide' | http://t.co/mJTCoap
@kathykrey Well, yoga pants out of the house has been my personal line in the sand of schlump for a while. No judgment from me, though.
I am THISCLOSE to giving up on looking presentable when I leave the house. I went on errands in yoga pants yesterday.
Opened up our lacto-fermented pickles and they are good! @DoctorMac  says overly salty but definitely tasty and crunchy.
39 weeks pregnant today. No longer sure I am having actual baby, suspect I will just be hugely uncomfortable FOR ALL TIME.
I have no attention span anymore. I'm all scattered and can't finish anything and flit from activity to activity.
Putting Food Network Hosts Under the Hogwarts Sorting Hat | The Tangential http://t.co/h0G20iN
Weekly midwife appointment. I am getting SO GOOD at peeing in a cup.
Downloaded a contraction timer app for my phone. AKA wishful thinking.
FB has told me that one year ago today I posted we bought our house! I wonder if I meant we closed or if we signed our contract or what...
Man, it's like the Onion is FUNNY or something: http://t.co/16hOLvX
Ah, there we go-- summer rain storm.
Wow, a lot of thunder out there this afternoon. It's all talk so far, though.
Trying my hand at lacto-fermentation. Thanks, @joycostello, for the grape leaves! http://t.co/DYdo8Be
@SKEdman She's so DRAMATIC about everything. We're probably headed for some kind of boy-who-cried-wolf situation.
5yo is rather liberal in her use of the word 'emergency'.
@howiesmith I use one of those with my mandoline; maybe I should extend it to knives.
My last cut had just healed up, too. Sigh...
Ugh, I cut myself with the chef's knife AGAIN. I never do this when I'm not pregnant.
Well, huh! Turns out my kitchen floor is way, way cleaner post-mopping. I probably deserve a nap after such strenuous activity.
RT @finslippy: Oh, god, you guys: http://t.co/HBk22Rh
@Selkie1970 No, they're not physical fighters, aside from grabbing things from each other. Just lots o' screaming on bad days.
Wow, my girls were really having a hard time with each other today. So much screaming...
Noooooooo.... I just ripped a hole in the dress that is one of my ~3 remaining presentable outfits.
Wow, I would really like to this do this...  xkcd: Depth Perception http://t.co/eN3jYfe
OK, Google tells me the next bunch of episodes starts on British TV next month. Wonder how long til it comes here...
Just finished last episode of Downton Abbey on Netflix. There's.... there's MORE, right?!
Here's our painting:  http://t.co/elupAEM
I gave one of these paintings to Rob for his birthday last year and we are really happy with it: http://t.co/3PmaDAh
My dad worked for Motorola for a couple decades doing research & now Google is going to own all his patents. http://t.co/ii5SBgH
A local food kind of day. Picked up 30 lbs of Berkshire pork from farmer, now at farmers market. Where it is HOT.
Weekly midwife appointment. Time to pee in a cup, make sure I don't have preeclampsia, etc.
We find out 5yo's K teacher & everything at 4pm when the info is "posted", i.e. physically posted on paper at the school. How.... quaint.
@howiesmith Whole Foods is being super nice about it, though.
@howiesmith LOL-- good luck with that. It does sound like the original mom was maybe not the most reasonable customer ever.
Watching Downton Abbey and sewing the binding on a quilt for the baby.
@kathykrey SLC has had its own incident of a nursing mom being asked to leave a business. A Whole Foods, of all places.
Looking for an analogy? Right one is bottle-feeding. If it is OK in a certain social situation to bottle-feed a baby, it is OK to nurse.
I am tired of comparisons between breastfeeding in public and urinating in public. That is a specious analogy.
Oh, I think this is my favorite HISHE yet: How Harry Potter Should Have Ended http://t.co/EKmHeGi
@kathykrey Grace starts one week after your boys. I don't feel emotional yet; we'll see...
Two iced coffees may have been overkill.
We have been eating a LOT of zucchini/squash (the CSA!) and this bread turned out so good: http://t.co/NWSunjX
@DoctorMac You know I like to give you trouble about your anti-TV stance, given how you often DO spend your down-time.
@ironsoap @DoctorMac I want to see the same study done about video games. I maintain that replacing TV with video games is a lateral move.
Had my first going-into-labor dream, which involved an off-road vehicle & telling a dozen people to get out of my hospital room.
Ron Paul: He Who Shall Not Be Named -- Daily Show: Indecision 2012 http://t.co/fb01cmo
@kathykrey Yes, but oh dear, home disasters are AWFUL.
37 weeks pregnant at the pool = very, very nice http://t.co/7HsVTnl
@SKEdman I usually switch to regular after that and just push down.
@SKEdman What nursing bras do you use? I always feel like I'm looking for the perfect one in that 1st year of BFing.
I think anything is better if you wrap it in a tortilla with cheese. Weird cabbage stir-fry I made the other night? Pretty good burrito.
@veronimitch Well, I hope it is super fun for you like for me-- more tactile & hands-on & visual than most of the other stuff in my life.
Also, probably should find I everyone I interacted with late yesterday to apologize to them.
Feel like I'm finally coming out of my migraine haze from yesterday; doing soooooo much better.
@veronimitch Ooooooooo, fun. A) I love organizing and B) I love having a dedicated sewing space.
How to get my children to eat breakfast: 1) Stop trying to make them homemade food. 2) Buy bagels from Costco.
Post-migraine dinner, cool shower, and ridiculous amount of water have calmed contractions down, thank goodness.
Migraine, nauseated, a LOT of contractions. Would prefer not to go into labor in this state.
Oh my gosh, I'm so grumpy. I need to talk to NO human beings.
Oh look, I've come to a store in search of a specific item ($3 baby bath sponge thing to support him in sink) and they don't have it.
@DoctorMac Look, booger suckers now come in pink and blue. Gender identification TO THE XTREME. http://t.co/ls0Ry4e
Upon driving past some refineries on the north side of SLC, 5yo has observed, "OK, those do not look good for the Earth."
Had an errand to run in Bountiful so we stopped for frozen custard at Nielsen's. Yum!
Oh, bacon, words fail me...
Making dinner ahead of time for once-- cooking onion with local bacon from our pork CSA, causing the HEAVENS TO SING.
@joshrosenthal Woody Guthrie!
Wow, it is only 9:30am and I am already crazily swollen and puffy.
@SKEdman I am less an introvert than you, I think, but also more averse to confrontation.
@SKEdman Tact is hard. I do think your willingness to engage is an admirable instinct, one I don't often have.
3) The resulting getting-crap-done does not result in my lower back hurting so badly that I weep.
2) I somehow discover a new cache of nesting energy that allows me to get all my projects finished and work done.
Here is my wishlist for this week, the 37th of my pregnancy: 1) The temperature to drop 10-20 degrees.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Or you could get COUNSELING. For sharing ACCURATE INFORMATION.
@DoctorMac WHAAAAAAA? Where are you?! Did we get a dog?
How much past 8pm will I stay awake? That is tonight's exciting question.
Whoooooooooa boy, just had post-baby-shower CRASH. I had so so so much fun with my friends but now can barely stay awake.
Baby shower time! For meeeeeeeee!
@Selkie1970 LOL-- yes. They both seem more interested in them now than they were as babies, although 2yo did use them for a while.
Sterilizing pacifiers for the new baby to reject.
I have developed quite the Sonic ice habit lately.
Re-reading this book as a refresher and remembering just how excellent and helpful it is. Breastfeeding Made Simple http://t.co/gTWMwtJ
You know what's good? The songs Aimee Mann did for the Magnolia soundtrack, that's what. That was an intense movie.
Oh my goodness, soooooo good! An iced pour-over at Nobrow thanks to the deal from @slcfoodie http://t.co/vAinNmb
At the hair place getting these ridiculous roots taken care of.
I did it! I VACUUMED. And only 5 days after I got out the vacuum and plugged it in.
@kathykrey Nooooooooo... I thought by moving away from Texas I wouldn't have to hear about him anymore!
@stephlamont LOL-- I will grant you that they are super adorable. I just think I'd rather have a slice of really good cake.
@kathykrey Yes. So don't join a gang just to avoid office politics.
I'm not sure where I stand on the cake pop trend.
This time it was filters for the air conditioning in the right size.
Amazon once again thanks me for buying something from them because WE CAN'T FIND WHAT WE NEED IN AN IRL STORE.
@ironsoap It's a lovely picture, but what on earth? Who is telling you this? Somebody local, or online printing?
@DoctorMac broken link?
CSA raspberries for breakfast. And AC magically started working again, which is nice for now, of course, but also frustrating.
Nooooooooooooo, AC is broken again. Apparently they did not fix actual problem yesterday. Feeling really hot and discouraged.
Shall take us all to the pool to redeem myself.
Well, I managed to shower before @DoctorMac left this morning but then I went a took a nap so children watched TV anyway. Sigh...
2yo demands the WHOLE CARROT. She will not put up with this carrot stick nonsense.
AC is fixed! For not too much money! Now I just have to decide if it's too hot here to cook dinner.
HVAC man says it is 125 degrees in our attic where the broken bit is. Yikes.
HVAC man, we meet again. Please to be fixing my air conditioning.
@SKEdman Ugh, poor sick babies are so sad. I hate that.
I don't want the AC to be broken when I am 36 weeks pregnant.
Ugh ugh ugh, AC is broken again...
@Selkie1970 Well, that is gratifying and I guess means I don't give in to temptation too often. :)
@Selkie1970 That is a common temptation for me.
Very late pregnancy is a perfectly reasonable time to take up a daily iced coffee habit, right?
@Michaelfriberg Didn't seem like someone I'd be likely to re-read, which is my guideline for buying vs. library.
@Michaelfriberg No, sorry, we've always gotten them from the library.
@Michaelfriberg Juanita Brooks' famous book too?
@Michaelfriberg No Man Knows My History
Now I know to be more afraid of hippos than sharks: Things That Kill More People Than Sharks http://t.co/wESS2xA
Just muddled through Beethoven sonata I haven't played since high school. Made me so happy I almost cried.
Utah is pretty: http://t.co/TCE6O1k
I'm back out in nature again today.
RT @DoctorMac: We have acquired a used piano from the Salt Lake school district. Anyone who can't define cacophony is welcome to come over.
Yaaaaaaaaaaay! http://t.co/q07Rz94
@howiesmith Yes. About 1/2 off retail for 1-year-old pianos in quite good shape. 40% of what you pay is tax-deductible.
Hmmmmm, found a very good deal on a piano I like but is still a lot of money.
So @DoctorMac is playing music from the late 90s that is reminding me of this guy who I was engaged to in college. Weird!
@Michaelfriberg Also, the farm that runs our veggie CSA also raises lamb and beef: Zoe's Garden.
@Michaelfriberg I know what that it! That's what was wrong with Hubble Space Telescope when 1st launched-- colors don't focus at same point.
@Michaelfriberg @slcfoodie Christiansen Family Farms is where we buy our meat now.
@Selkie1970 Four more weeks. I will be surprised if I go early, but I feel better having things ready.
Hospital bag packed! Well, except for all the electronics and chargers that will need to be added at the last minute.
We let the chickens out of their coop for a little free-range time this morning. They are soooooo funny.
Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle - The Atlantic http://t.co/OpmXNDG
RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: When asked why there was only one set of foot prints Jesus replied, "The Sand people ride single file to hide their ...
Got rained out at the pool after a nice little bit of swimming.
@DoctorMac What I think knows no bounds is our culture's persistent message to women that our bodies are not OK & MUST BE FIXED.
I need a new wallet. Does anyone have one they really like? I've kind of disliked every single one I've ever had.
Well, it's taken me through both Boxer and High Violet to get the kitchen/general mess cleaned up this morning. Moving sloooooooow.
@Selkie1970 Wait, wait-- you don't like TOMATOES?! Real, actually good tomatoes?
Hey, @missiodeislc folks, here a handful of pictures from our baptism/camping trip:  http://flic.kr/p/a9Kv7d
@kathykrey Ugh, such a tough decision that seems so momentous. Probably either way would end up fine, I bet.
@kathykrey And baby boy will have a birthday right at August/Sept break point so he'll be almost 6 (or maybe actually 6) when he starts.
@kathykrey Sooooo tough-- when did they turn 5? We're lucky that both girls have winter birthdays, making it a non-issue.
Baby has the hiccups.
2yo loves iced coffee & is refusing lemonade in favor of it. No surprise, really-- add it to the list of age-inappropriate drinks she likes.
Dropping my mom off at the airport-- a fun visit and now slightly sad granddaughters.
HAHAHAHAHAHA-- via @TheOnion - Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory http://t.co/ljvDv3z
It is August, the month in which our baby might be born.
Back from all the nature! It was lovely, although there were more bugs than I have grown accustomed to here in Utah.
Heading out into nature to spend the day with @missiodeislc folks.
Made my gluten-free mom a less-than-successful pavlova tonight for dessert. Oh well, it still tasted good.
Just picked up my mom from the airport and took her to lunch at the Park Cafe. Yum.
@Selkie1970 I may be exaggerating slightly for comedic effect, but it is VERY nice.
About to take delivery of the refrigerator OF MY DREAMS.
via @TheOnion - Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington http://t.co/vGgCPIR
Dinner ended up kinda late because of a knife/finger encounter. I *think* I kept the blood out of dinner.
RT @finslippy: I can't stop watching this. RT @kleinmatic Your life is slightly less delightful if you haven't seen this video: http://t ...
2yo just yelled something, out of the blue, that sounded like "FRAULEIN!"
Apparently I am now sleeping so badly that it is disrupting @DoctorMac's sleep as well. Sigh...
@slcfoodie You're right by our house!
Took girls to get frozen yogurt for a snack this afternoon and 5yo wanted ALL the toppings. Oh, children's palates...
@amyforestell Yesterday I took a nap at 8:30am.
Made it until 10am before taking a nap. This is an improvement over the past few days.
Wow, the dinner dishes seem very overwhelming tonight. Perhaps I shall hide from them in here with the social media.
I have set up the baby's bed and this has helped me feel better about the state of my life in general.
Oh, inspirational quotes on Pinterest... @veronimitch: Finally caved. My new pinboard. bit.ly/rceNK5
About to watch the last 2 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Started watching when I was on maternity leave with now-5yo.
A regular-sized meal now feels like Thanksgiving dinner. Abdomen getting very crowded.
2yo is eating Dijon mustard straight.
At an ironic Pioneer Day party with Jello shots, Bloody Marys, etc. It started at 8:30am.
@HaleyNBurke Thank you! I haven't been super consistent in the past few months, but eh, whatever.
We've picked a name: http://silgeland.blogspot.com/2011/07/name-for-new-person.html
Ugh, another bad night-- hot, uncomfortable, restless legs, classic anxiety dreams. Six weeks until my due date.
@slcfoodie  Both @beffiesmith and I bought stuff from Jacob's Cove this morning and got $1 off. :)
Putting a giant beef roast that we got in our meat CSA in the oven. Slightly nervous because I have never attempted such a thing before.
Bought a bag of ice at Sonic. Mmmmmm, soooooo wonderful.
Shirts are starting to get perilously short.
John Hodgman is on Battlestar Galactica? What the what?!
@Michaelfriberg LOL-- OK, deal.
@Michaelfriberg And in all seriousness, it's not that big a deal to me. They're just words.
@Michaelfriberg Perhaps, but he has more practice in not swearing around them. I think one of you people is more likely to slip up.
I'm pretty sure our children are going to learn swear words from somebody we go to church with.
@SKEdman LOL-- so pretty...
@ironsoap Have you seen this? http://tumblinfeminist.tumblr.com/post/5532695085/fool-proof-sexual-assault-prevention-tips
So people are still sagging their pants, huh? I didn't know; I've been spending my time around people who wear skinny jeans lately.
@Selkie1970 I like Vimeo for our videos; it's pretty easy to make the video private, if that's what you're going for.
It's not like modernism or Enlightenment thinking are super biblical or in line with Christ's teaching or whatever.
Sigh... why does Christian culture like to bash postmodernism so much?
I have such a weakness for cosmetic products that claim to be "mattifying". You would think I would learn that they never do much.
I took a nap today at 11am. I kinda feel like I could take another one.
Oh, Beastie Boys, I love you-- Sesame Street breaks it down http://t.co/faG1VsD
Ah, the Jewish Community Center. Where I can park our hybrid Highlander between two other hybrid Highlanders.
Ordered a bread box on Amazon, after yesterday ordering a robe from them. Then I shall slice my nicely-stored bread while wearing my robe.
Just watched from the pool as a thunderstorm rolled up the valley toward the U. Few things smell as good as a summer thunderstorm.
Off to the pool, where I hope to reduce my swelling.
Things that were running when power went out: washer, dryer, bread machine, television that was allowing me to start a nap. Sigh...
Power out AGAIN. Lots of trucks from power company outside on our street, so I assume they know what they're doing.
WHOSE FEET ARE THESE AND WHERE DID MINE GO?!
Have obviously been utterly spoiled by Internet shopping.
I don't know why I go to IRL stores anymore. They never have what I am looking for.
RT @DoctorMac: Slightly sick 2 year old insists the nasal spray I am squirting up her nose is, in fact, glitter glue.
To heck with it. I'm pregnant. I'm making brownies.
I really wish we had some chocolate somewhere in this house.
2yo is almost? maybe? too sick to go to church this afternoon. Those borderline cases are always such a conundrum.
I didn't see this around Mother's Day, but oh, it is wonderful -- A Biologist's Mother's Day Song http://t.co/byzHCmi
Also I made creme fraiche overnight. I should totally make crepes or something to eat with all this stuff.
My next jam-making experiment will be using some of the huge pile of apricots bought yesterday to do this: http://trunc.it/hj2an
The jam is still a leeeeeetle soupy, but much better than before I dumped it all into a pot yesterday and "fixed" it.
Red currant jam: http://t.co/CwMGiuc
@Selkie1970 There is one for Android which is quite nice. You have an iPhone?
"Pop pop pop," go the lids of my jam jars.
Fixed my jam!
This morning's farmers market haul: apricots, cherries, chard, tarragon, goat milk mozzarella.
Ugh, I'm afraid my jam is not setting.
Back from Utah County with almost 10 lbs of red currants:  http://spo.gs/k3g5
Trying to research local berry farms that will sell me already-picked produce. Pick-your-own just isn't happening this year this pregnant.
@veronimitch I always think that having no water is worse than having no electricity.
Hearing about those Republicans who want to vote against raising debt ceiling but still have it get raised makes me want to shake somebody.
@astropixie @angie_amos See? Totally a Cylon battery charger. http://t.co/dAZfjg6
I always find the giant container of Red Vines at Costco very, very tempting.
Just got carded at the wine store. Whaaaaat?
Really need to put more red in my hair but lack the energy. Taking my faded coral-y hair to bed.
Have a working rented refrigerator humming in kitchen as a stopgap, and feeling very grateful for it.
Turns out there are scrap metal recycling people who will come and take your old broken refrigerator FOR FREE.
My children watched WAY too much TV this morning while I dealt with refrigerator stuff. On plus side, old broken one is now gone.
@DoctorMac Hey, call me at home-- did you see my text?
@N8V_TXN Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah...
@MsKristySteffen Yay! What an exciting day...
@howiesmith We were bidding against somebody to get our house so we took the home warranty out. Sigh...
RIP, refrigerator. Now, how does one go about buying a new one?
RT @astropixie: father and son at the launch of STS-1 and STS-135!  this is great!  http://flic.kr/p/a2iAQV
The charger for some new batteries @DoctorMac bought looks just like a Cylon. We may never sleep again.
One of these days I should officially keep track of the HUGE AMOUNT of water I am drinking. It boggles the mind. Am so thirsty.
Eating pho is very, very messy when one is very pregnant and cannot quite lean close enough to the bowl.
If this refrigerator really does die on us, it will be the 4th one we've gone through since we moved to SLC last summer.
Power is back on-- yay! Refrigerator started working on its own again-- sort of yay! Repairman thinks compressor is going out-- not yay!
@HaleyNBurke @beffiesmith It supposedly only takes 30 minutes. I haven't tried it yet, just soft cheeses like fromage blanc.
@beffiesmith I started out doing things like this: http://t.co/Bkt2Ir0 Now I have moved on to buying official cheese cultures online-- fun!
Our power is off, and I have no idea why. Oh well, not like our refrigerator was working anyway.
Not being able to preserve food through the wonder of refrigeration is inconvenient.
Refrigerator/freezer totally not working. Trying to salvage what comestibles I can. And thankful for chest freezer in garage.
Summer rain! I love it.
Just got an IM from my dad in Bangkok. Sometimes I still get all amazed by technology.
Hmmmm, freezer appears to not be freezing. This, after months of our REFRIGERATOR freezing stuff. Am concerned.
I made cheese! From milk! We ate it at dinner.
@SKEdman That's always a good thing in high school boyfriends. :)
@SKEdman Just to be clear, I love how you look in that picture. Can't decide if your BF looks cool or skeevy.
@SKEdman Oh my gosh, I LOVE that picture. My high school pictures mostly make me think about how badly I needed professional eyebrow help.
@HaleyNBurke "Harry Pottery"-- that's a nice typo I did there.
@HaleyNBurke Cute! For Aviana's party? We are going tomorrow, although Grace doesn't know about Harry Pottery yet so I may enjoy theme more.
Hey, this is our church! Missio Dei’s Salt Lake City house churches build faith and relationships | Salt Lake Tribune http://t.co/BCs7UrR
Watching the space shuttle launch just made me cry. I need a nap. Or my normal hormone levels back.
Oh, SLC, you crack me up. Just heard a traffic report and they said everything's fine, no problems. So funny.
Baaaaad night. Starting to be tired of this whole being-pregnant thing.
But... but... I bought these for the new baby. http://t.co/yoz9UPT
Mmmmm, cilantro. I don't understand you cilantro-hating types.
Heading to IKEA for rearranging-for-new-baby things.
So much easier to be a good mom when my children are peaceful and cooperative. They should bear that in mind, I think.
RT @DoctorMac: Meeting its cold, unblinking eyes early in the morning is alarming. http://post.ly/2Lviy
Once a year or so I get obsessed for about a day with super-conservative modesty blogs.
5yo had 1st day of summer camp (looooong day, so tired) and now is emotional wreck. Wonder if I can get her together in &lt;1 hour for church.
@allenlyeh And now you are visiting where I got my PhD. :) All my old stomping grounds... Gosh, I miss Austin.
Love isn't enough when it comes to kids and race - http://t.co/2z040Uy
@allenlyeh Awww, my alma mater! That's where Rob and I did our undergrads.
Costco carries a huge bucket of something called "heavy duty mayonnaise". Ew.
Awwww, 2yo quite sad about seeing my dad off at the airport. "I need my Granddaddy! I lost him!"
Getting ready to take my dad to the airport. So fun to have him here...
So @DoctorMac has put @derekwebb's Mockingbird on, because that's the kind of mood 4th of July puts him in.
@MsKristySteffen We are lamely skipping fireworks as well. It doesn't start until 10pm here!
It would be too utterly awful.
Feeling kinda lame because we're not going to take girls to fireworks tonight. But! We live so far north that they don't start until 10pm.
Took my dad to dinner on the patio at Ruth's. Warm, breezy.  http://spo.gs/pI4i
Showing my dad all the sights-- at Tracy Aviary after breakfast at the Park Cafe. HOT. http://t.co/sDnUo5f
Sometimes emails from Goodreads make me wish I could ignore my responsibilities and just read and read and read all day. Stupid laundry.
Hulling most fragrant strawberries EVER for dessert tonight (sugar, balsamic, ice cream). VERY nice pickings at the farmers market today.
@amyforestell That was Rob's dad, who is doing well these days. We're about to take my dad to the farmers market!
Making breakfast for my dad who is visiting from Chicago. Hooray!
RT @libertywell: Utah's newest online news site launches July 1. Follow the news from the heart of Salt Lake City. http://t.co/wg5xQie
@lucaswmuller Did you get an email from Google+ at your Gmail account?
@Selkie1970 Thank you so much! I may well take you up on that offer; I don't have a Moby of my own and I did use one a bit with 2yo.
@Selkie1970 Maybe so. Are you looking to sell? What color is it?
AHA! I found our Ergo! I will now be able to function as a mother.
I think I have successfully managed to invite people to Google+, if anybody else wants in.
Wow. Thanks to generous hand-me-downs from several friends, I now have a truly astonishing amount of baby boy clothes.
@DoctorMac I can't figure out how to invite people.
So if I order 2yo more diapers, that will cause her to immediately potty-train, right?
Don't know where my Ergo is. Not really a problem NOW, but I need to find it before this baby a) is born and then b) achieves head control.
Thunderstorm! Chickens looking very puzzled by rain. (Are under shelter, though.)
AC back on! Now to wait and see what happens to our ceiling...
So the HVAC guy says it is a toss-up as to whether our ceiling will fall in or not in the next few days.
Watching Steve Martin play bluegrass on an ACL from last year. Love him.
RT @DoctorMac: No AC on 90+ degree day sucks, but backyard picnics are pretty awesome. http://ow.ly/i/dCAm
Today's pool observation: that rooster-feather-in-the-hair thing is a big trend among affluent tweens.
OK, we are going to stay here until it gets too hot, then pool, then maybe a movie? What is out right now other than Cars 2?
Second HVAC guy I just talked to told me not to run AC until repaired because ceiling might fall in. Aack. 95 degrees today.
Ooooooo, HVAC people can't come til Thursday. Bummer.
@veronimitch @Selkie1970 @SKEdman Oh, I watched Eureka! My husband looks a LOT like him since he grew his beard. Look-&gt; @DrSilge
Hmmmm, leak coming from attic, where the business bits of our air conditioner live. Not an *encouraging* sign, certainly.
@SKEdman I seriously look at those and cannot even imagine wanting them. I don't generally have a problem knowing where my progeny are.
Inexplicable: shoes for toddlers with squeakers in them.
I think I cry more when I am pregnant than the entire rest of my life put together.
@SKEdman YES. This past week there was a particularly large amount of "nature" in our CSA stuff.
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Getting ready for @joninSLC and Jessica to come over for brunch!
Listening to Lyle Lovett. Flyswatter/Ice Water may be my favorite rhyme pair in all of lyric-dom.
30 weeks pregnant today! I should probably start getting ready for this new baby or something.
Would not mind if it were 10-15 degrees cooler. SWOLLEN. Of course, would be much worse off if we still lived in Texas.
@Michaelfriberg Didn't you just write somewhere that your advice was to buy film instead of lots of gear?
@ironsoap LOL-- sounds like a rough couple of days.
@kathykrey I am right there with you.
@Selkie1970 The whole sexy-little-girl thing. And also because I am a judgmental killjoy, apparently.
Ugh, teenage girls at pool with ring pops. I disapprove.
Last day of this session of swim lessons. Children looking worn but oh, what a lovely day to be at the pool...
@N8V_TXN These particular neighbors are a real conundrum to us.
Definitely feels like summer here today. Considering turning on the air conditioning.
Well, it's happened. 2yo has started demanding to go off diving board. Was only a matter of time.
Amazing day to be at the pool. Sunshine, chlorine, reclining chairs.
RT @jasonboyett: Every month, 618 million people search Google for "Google." http://t.co/ebzPuvs This is why the alien overlords leave u ...
@beffiesmith Or SOMEBODY else, right? These neighbors are a conundrum.
Our LDS neighbors already have their Obama 2012 sign out.
Just finished Romola Garai miniseries version of Emma. Really, really liked it. Kind of sad it's over.
CSA pick-up! One of my favorite events of the week.
2yo is playing with a pile of 10-year-old Uzbek currency.
WSJ.com - The War Against Girls http://t.co/5bFK5kM
@SKEdman A regular tank or are these ones with some kind of bra inside? For regular tanks, I like the ones at Target-- pretty darn long.
Amazon accidentally sent us $40 worth of gummi bears and since they can't take them back, told me to keep them. Gummi bears for everyone!
It's time to get ready to go to the pool for swim lessons and it is 62 degrees out. Brrrrrr...
I don't know if she's getting sick or what, but 2yo is having a BANNER DAY for horribleness.
Warm day = sausage fingers.
Good heavens, farmers market was hopping today. Got English peas, rhubarb, jam, fresh pasta.
@SKEdman  'Twas on FB, so we'll see. Hopefully was appropriate to context of our relationship.
@SKEdman I did end up asking if she'd considered using a sling or Moby Wrap to help with particular situations.
@SKEdman This particular incident was whole set of practical/logistical problems that I swear would DISAPPEAR with the use of a ring sling.
GAH, the instinct to give unsolicited advice to new mothers is so overwhelming! Be strong, be strong, keep your mouth shut unless asked...
Have been listening to Cotton Jones and like them so much. Thanks, @lucaswmuller!
@astropixie Maybe I should try. I wanted fancy UV-blocking quick-dry fabric for at the pool (which would be hard to find) but it would fit.
Well, sun hat attempt #1 arrived from Amazon and it is too small. Seriously, my head is GIGANTIC.
@SKEdman Those rescue organization applications are out of control! S/he is super cute. Nothing like a little spontaneity. :)
Someone has distributed crazy-type anti-Mormon pro-Christian tracts on all the cars on the Whole Foods parking lot. Huh.
@SKEdman Did you actually get a cat?
@veronimitch Oh no. That is so hard and stressful...
Eating a packet of Pocky.
@Selkie1970 We were listening to that last night. :) Samuel L. Jackson!
Dalai Lama fails to understand Dalai Lama joke, but is a good sport about it - Boing Boing http://t.co/iAYEO7I
@Selkie1970 I don't even have a good pool bag. Or a sun hat. I am so unprepared for summer.
OK, 5yo very sad when I broached the idea of skipping swim lesson today. Another day of packing/unpacking/sunscreen/baths.
@Selkie1970 This would be day 4 for us, 4 more next week in this session. I am seriously considering not going today.
@Selkie1970 Is it just me, or is the packing/unpacking/aftermath from the pool super exhausting?
The forecast says thunderstorms and I keep looking hopefully at the sky. You've got until 11am, thunder/lightning.
I soooooo want to bail on swimming lessons today. We need a day to recover from the sun exposure. And the exhaustion.
IMPORTANT CHICKEN UPDATE: All four of our chickens went upstairs to their roost of their own volition tonight! Woot woot!
@Michaelfriberg I like that! Are the edges sharp, i.e. dangerous-to-toddlers?
Also, I've GOT to find a sunhat that will fit my giant noggin.
Day 2 of swimming lessons and beginning to suspect this sunscreen I'm using doesn't do crap. 5yo is growing more golden brown by the day.
I have had NO heartburn today and have eaten ZERO Tums. A banner day.
@Selkie1970 My 2yo is having eczema flare-ups from swimming too. Can't decide if it's the chlorine or sunscreen.
I don't know what to make us for dinner tonight; we went through our CSA share really fast this week.
@howiesmith Ours smells pretty good too but that's because we grilled for dinner. :)
@spencerb I would guess that refusal to really engage you has more to do with universalism + long history of persecution by Christians.
@spencerb Of course if you made ME pick between Enlightenment thinking and post-modernism, I think I would go with the latter, with caveats.
@spencerb Although Mormons are far from monolithic. Some are certainly more questioning of modernist confidence.
@spencerb Dominant Mormon culture seems very concerned with achievement, prosperity, education, tradition-- more Enlightenment values.
@spencerb I will say that living here, Mormon culture doesn't seem very post-modern.
I think I have reached the all-flip-flops-all-the-time stage of pregnancy.
5yo has decided it's a good day to crab-walk everywhere she goes.
Women Atop Their Field Dissect the Scientific Life http://t.co/NkgQg3Z
Just picked out my birthday cake at Gourmandise-- pear almond tart. Mmmmmmmm... (Normal blood sugar at midwife's earlier, thankfully.)
Ugh, holy glucose headache.
Next on birthday agenda: downing glucose drink and having gestational diabetes test. Low point of day, almost certainly.
Just got out of prenatal massage (because it's my birthday-- yay!) and now I totally want to get one of those special tables to sleep on.
@Michaelfriberg Did you look it up? Not so much.
@Michaelfriberg The weirdest thing put on ours was "John 4:18". I wasn't sure how to take that.
I never really cared for pork until we started doing this meat CSA with fancy Berkshire pork. IT. IS. DELICIOUS.
REM singing "Furry Happy Monsters" this afternoon on Sesame Street. Yay!
When grace is just a doctrine  http://t.co/54JET8q via @rachelheldevans
At the downtown library (one of my favorite places in SLC) for storytime: http://t.co/llOFAAi
Was just looking at a fashion website. They declared a 3-inch-heel sequined sandal the "ultimate everyday shoe". HAHAHAHAHAHA.
I am so much more aware of sports since the advent of social media. I think I can even identify what sport is being played right now!
Ultimate space portrait unveiled http://t.co/yzbuQvL
2yo says she does not want to ride her tricycle because she needs a pogo stick.
I wish we had an ice-cream maker. Or maybe that would be a terrible idea...
Borderline not warm enough for swimming. Blue-lipped, shivery children.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 LOL-- well, you know I'm a sewing/crafty type person, right?
I have no tooth fairy pillow! Do I need one of those? How does this work?
I think 5yo might have a loose tooth!
Getting ready for 1st trip to the pool this summer-- yay! Also, breaking out the maternity swimsuit-- sarcastic yay!
Also, I just found a Marcona almond that went through the washer and dryer.
Well, THAT was a busy/fun/exhausting weekend. I am going to bed as close to 9pm as possible.
I am officially in my 3rd trimester as of today! Hooray! Or "OH NOES"? A little of both.
@HaleyNBurke OK!
@HaleyNBurke Or we can leave the garage open.
@HaleyNBurke Yes! We are leaving at 9:45am and then will be back at noon for a birthday party. Can you come before/after?
@HaleyNBurke I am having such crazy sugar cravings recently that that doesn't sound like too bad a trade. My soul for frosting? Sure...
Seeing what the temperature is back in Texas makes me feel like I've won the weather lottery.
Am thinking about trying no-knead bread again: http://www.simplebites.net/simplifying-the-no-knead-bread-recipe/
My plans for our busy evening did not quite work out. Exhibit A: just fed my children "dinner" from vending machines.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman literally "whip out" her boobs and flailing them around in a way that was inappropriate. Is this really a problem?!
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I also thought that was good, although the modesty thing? I just don't know. And I have never EVER seen a mom
@veronimitch @Selkie1970 I love LOVE Firefly. I need to watch all those again...
Am starting to feel hard, pokey bits of the baby from the outside. Arms? Knees? Feet? Seem too small for the head at this stage.
I bought a bale of straw today for the chickens' coop (almost done!) and now I am googling how to store it. This strikes me as funny.
RT @slcfoodie: My friend's documentary airs on the @OprahWinfreyNet tomorrow (June 2) at 7pm. Stories of leaving polygamy. Trailer http: ...
Standing in my living room wondering where we could put a piano. I really want to have one again.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I actually really love that song.
Oh, eyebrow threading, I am so thankful for you. You are so much better than all the other options.
@kathykrey I can't wait to read that. She is my FAVORITE.
@veronimitch For a while, Netflix thought we were black.
@slcfoodie That sounds great!
2yo has discovered markers and crayons will no longer satisfy her.
Oooooooooh, Inception was goooooood.
@lucaswmuller @DoctorMac Yeah, I'm 32. The blue album came out when I was 16. Gosh, I love that album.
About to finally watch Inception. Will be disappointed if my mind isn't blown.
@DoctorMac Is Lucas old enough to know who Weezer is?
RT @DoctorMac: Saw Budweiser ad in Provo today: "This is beer." A) I think that's a half-truth B) I think it was a PSA for those that ha ...
@SKEdman I'm all about generational parallels today, aren't it?
@SKEdman Wow, that takes me back. Such a distinctive style... Our kids will probably feel the same about Chris Tomlin in 30+ years.
@SKEdman Gaithers, as in 70s worship music?
Editing some pictures and wow, do I ever look like one of my aunts.
@Selkie1970 We got a LOT of snow this year & they are worried about flooding. I bet you could still ski but most resorts are closed already.
Still got out into nature and did a little hike, though.
Well, central-Utah day trip somewhat abbreviated. Most of Nebo Loop scenic drive still closed from winter season. Boo.
First stop of day trip: brunch at Communal in Provo http://t.co/snB3Nms
Time for our central-Utah day trip! Uinta National Forest, here we come!
@SKEdman I have had that same thought, but then I realize I will damage them in some entirely new way. Depressing!
Want to shovel sugar of some kind into my mouth. GAH-- pregnancy cravings. (Don't really have any sweets here.)
Purple puffy flowers: http://t.co/RgvSfxl
There is a baby doll in the oven of our play kitchen. Should I be concerned?
@astropixie LOL. Oh goodness...
Finally really listening to Lyle Lovett's last album (from 2009) and gosh, it's good.
@Selkie1970 True, but I was just thinking that I want to wear more long flowy skirts.
I own tie-dyed cloth diapers. Am a cliche of a hippie.
Trying to decide if I want to go to the trouble of rolling up enchiladas for dinner, or just make big stacked casserole.
Maybe my favorite thing about doing CSA? Cooking with things you could never buy in a store: onion scapes, young garlic, amaranth greens...
@Michaelfriberg @joycostello @joshrosenthal And Lupe Fiasco! I looooooove him...
Metallic gladiator sandals FOR BABIES-- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
@SKEdman Ugh, that's bad. Ours will cover it, we think. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Home now with awake but groggy 2yo. Pingu on TV, juice, cuddling.
Sitting with 2yo (still unconscious) in recovery now. All went well, although I still declare this all quasi-awful.
Sitting at pediatric dentist where my sweet 2yo is sedated and having cavities filled. Ugggggggh, this suuuuuuucks.
@veronimitch Oh man. Hang in there.
There's no way I'm going to peel all these Jerusalem artichokes.
@ironsoap Rice in general-- so problematic with small children.
@astropixie I do crack them on the flat counter, which is totally better-- you're right. Now if only I was coordinated in the morning...
I am so bad at cracking eggs first thing in the morning.
@MsKristySteffen When we lived in TX, we tried for 78. I will admit to often moving it down to 75.
@SKEdman HealthSelect-- it's the employee ins co for big nonprofit healthcare org DH works for, which is called Intermountain Healthcare.
Am very proud of my health insurance company. Got big packet of pregnancy/newborn info from them & not a single piece of formula marketing.
In related news, I am super-impressed with @DoctorMac's work on the coop: http://t.co/MCIEU4w
Sigh, chickens knocked over their water AGAIN. Turns out chickens = not very smart.
@DoctorMac Don't be a jerk about spelling.
Putting a 2004 episode of Sesame Street on so I can take a nap. Having my mind blown because that was 7 years ago.
5yo is singing a made-up song about polenta. Which she won't really eat, by the way.
2yo ate her scrambled eggs this morning. VICTOREEEEEEEEE...
Which means tonight is also the night we discover if we are among the group of humans who cannot digest them. (Are very high in inulin.)
Roasting sunchokes (AKA Jerusalem artichokes) for dinner tonight.
5yo is full of, ahem, big feelings after trip to her school for this fall.
At kindergarten open house for next year. They all look so tiny.
RT @StephenAtHome: And, as in uffish thought he stood, Newt Gingriwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and  ...
@N8V_TXN I am TOTALLY getting raptured whenever that happens, unless it turns out that Jesus is not a pre-trib pre-mil dispensationalist.
@N8V_TXN Are you saying you doubt my eternal security or something?
@howiesmith I am not too fond of play-doh but what I really hate is sand. Horrible, horrible SAND.
Am making tofu stir-fry for dinner, doing the tofu like this: http://trunc.it/gm3s2 This REVOLUTIONIZED tofu for me.
@SKEdman Like on a shelf? On the floor in the pantry? It is a VERY large bag. (I am eyeing the Cal-Rose rice because it is my favorite.)
Does anybody buy the really gigantic bags of rice at Costco? How/where do you store it?
Have discovered most lovely springy/orange-y red lipstick. Yay! Too bad it is nasty-chemical-filled Revlon. Boo.
@HaleyNBurke I ended up finding random prenatal yoga on Youtube, but I definitely should look on Netflix. Good idea!
I only have to pack 5 more lunches and then will be done for summer break! Woohoo!
@veronimitch Oh, I really like that book! I don't think I've seen the movie, though.
Just took a really long nap and then ate a bunch of M&Ms from 2yo's potty-training stash. Sigh... Have self-discipline issues.
@Selkie1970 I go to salon for bleaching & initial color, then touch up color at home every 2-3 weeks.
@Selkie1970 Oh yes. They carry basic colors at Sally Beauty Supply. You'll need to bleach beforehand though-- doesn't show up on brunettes.
Hair is bright red, shirt is bright pink, toenails are bright orange. Am a little clashy today. Nude lipgloss definitely the way to go.
Anybody know of good prenatal yoga online anywhere? Not necessarily free.
Just tried to do yoga (regular old kind) for 1st time in a WHILE and wow, does not work anymore. Belly totally in the way.
RT @mimismartypants: Did you know about Nancy Wake, the bike-riding, Nazi-killing, WWII bad-ass? Maybe you should. http://bit.ly/hauCxg
@SKEdman At our house I think we were equally attached to her, but I was the first one to come to believe it was time to let her go.
@SKEdman Oh, poor sad dog. Last summer was when our dog got so sick & died so canine suffering is all still very fresh for me.
Dinner made a truly intimidating mess tonight. Now procrastinating.
First CSA pick-up of the season! http://t.co/PFOaC0C
I am making a new sartorial rule for myself: No puffed sleeves. Ever. Puffed sleeve on a garment = automatic disqualification.
@DoctorMac Friend from A&M. I don't think you knew her. Osama/Usama spelling conspiracy. Sigh...
@Selkie1970 Osama/Usama spelling issues. Apparently these individuals cannot understand about the existence of other alphabets.
I'm having a "someone on the internet is wrong!" moment: http://xkcd.com/386/ Oh, the conspiracy theories! Amongst people I actually know!
SNOW is falling from the sky in wet slushy marble-sized blobs.
@amyforestell None taken. Although I will venture to share that that is FAR from the grossest thing about pregnancy.
Weekly pregnancy calendar tells me that my uterus is now the size of a soccer ball. A soccer ball!
Just opened a Pinterest account but am too tired to fully grasp the mechanics. Sleeeeeeepy.
Just ate an omelette outside at Ruth's on this amazing breezy warm morning.
@kylecostello Tonight we are having Noam-Chomsky-loving, NT-Wright-reading LDS friends over for dinner. I love it when people surprise you.
@kylecostello So there was a coffee flavor but also an "original" flavor? I am trying to imagine what that could even be like.
I just cleaned my kitchen sink like I am some kind of Fly Lady person or something.
These LDS neighbors also have an Obama sticker on their car. They are confusing Mormons.
Lovely open-window weather allowed me to see that our LDS neighbors have coffee cups in front of them at breakfast. WHAT IS IN THOSE CUPS?
Two days ago my wedding/engagement rings fit just fine. Now, not so much. SWELLING.
@Selkie1970 After 5+ years of 80-hour work weeks, hubs now works 4 days a week. More yaaaaaaaay. Think he's even washing cloth diapers now.
Just got pedicure, now drinking giant sugary coffee drink by myself outside on perfect gorgeous afternoon. Yaaaaaaaaay.
@N8V_TXN I thought that about Black Hawk Down in that article too. :)
Stayed up toooooo late last night. You would think I would know better at age 32.
Back from dentist where 5yo had 3 fillings. Now emotionally drained.
LOL, one more: http://betterbooktitles.com/post/3639249191/atonement
I like this one: http://betterbooktitles.com/post/5136605592/clickclack
Oh man oh man oh man: http://betterbooktitles.com/tagged/readertop10/chrono
@veronimitch Mohler has been not very nice about Christians who are not young-Earth-creationists as well.
Looking at my turtlenecked Twitter avatar is making me feel overly warm. I need to take a new one.
Our windows don't have screens and there is kind of a lot of pollen from a neighbor's tree floating through our house.
RT @jasonboyett: My apocalyptic guest post for @onfaith about why it's hard for me to love Harold Camping: http://wapo.st/jYRO8K
I never ever have heartburn except when pregnant. During my 1st pregnancy, I thought, "Huh. So this is what those commercials are about."
Oh my heart! And the burning therein! I need to go find some Tums...
Do you think a pickle counts as a vegetable? 2yo still gobbling them up.
There is no such thing as a too-long maternity shirt.
Have watched _Before Sunrise_ and _Before Sunset_ over past 2 evenings. So good! If you like movies comprised entirely of talking, that is.
@ironsoap Although it is VERY DIFFICULT to tell some characters apart in the books, which for obvious reasons is no problem in the movie.
@ironsoap Very similar in feel; the graphic novels are more detailed and more in-depth about things. I enjoyed reading them.
@ironsoap Books? Movie? Of course, I really liked both...
Just saw 3 kids go by on unicycles. Is this a thing?
The chicks do not listen to me when I sternly tell them to stop pooping in their water.
Oh my gosh, gestating is EXHAUSTING. Hit a wall about an hour ago and can now barely function.
5yo's Jewish preschool is celebrating Israeli Independence Day this week. She's now confusing 20th century Zionism with Exodus/Passover.
RT @DoctorMac: OK, so TECHNICALLY chocolate fountain-dipped-bacon wasn't on the buffet, but they did put them with 5 feet of each other.
Yum. Mother's Day brunch. Chocolate fountain + applewood-smoked bacon.
@kathykrey Do it. Seriously.
OK, I'll stop now.
The God Particle: A Fake Quotation is not damaging unborn baby's hearing. — http://thatcan.be/my/next/tweet
Not my wall without any guilt, if I'm starting to go. No, I were BREAKING THE RULES. OH NOES. — http://thatcan.be/my/next/tweet
Making ham local! and walkability won out, and I are SO INTO genealogy. — http://thatcan.be/my/next/tweet
At Sugarhouse Park with 2yo on amazing sunny day. Remembered sun hat but not sunscreen-- doh!
Wow, now the word "labor" looks impossibly weird and wrong to me.
Looking at calendar for next several months. My due date is right before Labor Day; what if I was in labor on Labor Day?
Making ham (local!) and asparagus crepes for dinner. Yum. #cincodemayofail
There was a DOG on the mission that killed Osama bin Laden? I did not know that: http://t.co/1bQ7IBZ
First 70 degree day! Makes 2yo's refusal to wear pants or socks much easier to deal with.
Tulips, tulips everywhere.
@MsKristySteffen The first Betsy-Tacy book (starts with a 5th birthday party), Angelina Ballerina books, art supplies.
Made tricolor pasta for dinner (you know-- regular, green, reddish) & 2yo picked out green pieces and refused to eat them. Sigh...
My new diaper bag came today! Yay for no more broken straps!
@MsKristySteffen And your new picture is SUPER cute. :)
@MsKristySteffen That is so crazy! They're more in a suburb of Houston, right? Not where you live? Small world...
@MsKristySteffen How do you know the Barfuss family? We went to college at A&M with Spencer (same church, etc).
I just realized that I am due to have a baby four months from today. FOUR MONTHS! FROM TODAY!
Dentist appointments this afternoon and BOTH girls have cavities. Ugh.
@Selkie1970 Oh no! on your ankle.
@Selkie1970 I think it's mostly about baptism for the dead & getting your whole family in the same level of heaven as you.
Gelatin cubes dropped onto solid surface High Speed Video 6200 fps http://t.co/6QJXnh9 via @youtube
@Selkie1970 Dude, LDS people are SO INTO genealogy.
Ron Paul on NPR. I kind of love him. Am uncertain that he's right but the man is consistent.
@SKEdman LOL. Oh man, I needed that this morning.
Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born - The Atlantic http://t.co/IKxO3II
@DoctorMac Well, we all know what Driscoll's opinions on women in the church/society/family are.
@DoctorMac Come on, those ideas aren't all bad. Those book recommendations, on the other hand...
I wonder how many pickles my 2yo would eat if I just kept giving them to her.
@amyforestell I picked up everything I could & they cleaned around the big furniture I left.
WOW. Our carpets look really good now. Why haven't I done this earlier?
Having our carpets cleaned, which makes me feel all responsible and grown-up.
My cookbook shelf is being taken over by Mark Bittman. Not that that's a bad thing.
RT @Jeff_Overstreet: Proverbs 24:17 "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he is overthrown."
@HaleyNBurke You a vegetarian? It was yummy, but I really wish we'd gotten to the grilled cheese place.
RT @DoctorMac: Caught up to korilla after chasing them from Liberty Park to Trolley Square. They're out of beef and kimchi. #greatfoodtr ...
@Michaelfriberg I'm trying to imagine what kind of waiting room you could be in at 10pm on a Saturday.
My email inbox is EMPTY! Hooray! It hasn't been that way for, oh, several years, I'd say.
@SKEdman Didn't the internet end boredom? I don't remember the last time I was bored.
Yay, bridal shower time! http://t.co/fbe770k
Getting ready to host a bridal shower this afternoon. Yay! I love throwing parties; I really do. Bonus: it makes you clean your house.
5yo is supposed to dress in "western wear" at preschool tomorrow. I don't think we have anything that even slightly resembles that.
I've bought a few boy outfits, and I look at them, and I still don't quite believe we're having one. A BOY?!
Very, very nice: @phdcomics Dark Matter explained: http://bit.ly/jvHbbI
@howiesmith They did say they were working on all the assignments so everybody should hear soon.
@howiesmith We declined a spot and they wanted to make sure we knew Grace's test scores before we did that. Still declining, I think.
Just got off phone with ELP magnet school lady. Thought we MADE this decision already, AARGH.
Told ELP office yesterday that we decided to send 5yo to neighborhood school. Just got a message that they want to TALK TO ME about this.
@kikiriri Red, yellow, bright green, hot pink, orange...
I have the Dinosaur Train theme song stuck in my head.
Smells like Manic Panic in our bedroom/bathroom right now. Not a noxious or offensive odor, thank goodness.
Swinging girls: http://t.co/6aBtG6f
Baby chicks are visibly bigger than they were on Saturday. Crazy.
@N8V_TXN Did you see this about the Higgs boson you asked about? via @nprnews: The God Particle: A Disclaimer | http://t.co/uLMMZDR
@N8V_TXN We got off lucky with the plumbers this time around; it was a quick fix and not too much $$$.
This morning 5yo declared scrambled eggs with cheese "too spicy". Aaaaaargh...
@amyforestell And my children refuse to touch it. Sigh...
I do a lot of things like this: http://content.markbittman.com/recipes/sweet-potato-and-quinoa-salad w/ different veggies, maybe beans, etc.
After I finish this big bag of quinoa from Costco, I am not buying any for a long time. It is anathema to my children.
@DoctorMac They looked so cold! They're still babies!
Decided the chicks looked really huddled and cold on this chilly spring day so went and bought them a 2nd heat lamp.
Man, plumbers are like MAGIC. They come to your house and FIX STUFF, just like that.
It is snowing, totally for-real snowing. At the end of April! Blows my mind.
Aw, sad-- the City of Dallas wants me to renew my registration for my sweet dog who died last summer. :(
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman But they were BREAKING THE RULES. OH NOES. :)
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman I grew up without brothers so I'm not sure about "rules" on white pants for boys/men.
@Selkie1970 @SKEdman My Midwestern grandmothers always said white shoes only between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
@chaseafterwind Cuuuuuuuute.
Also, chicks look healthy and perky this morning after first night at our house! Yay!
Feeling so celebratory about Easter this year! Looking forward to celebrating resurrection with @missiodeislc folks all day today.
Either the chick webcam has frozen or they are going to sleep.
OK, I'm not sure how long this will work, but here are our chickens on a webcam: http://98.202.88.97:9999/?src=1&mode=2
Fluffy round butts:  http://flic.kr/p/9B67zN
A dilemma when cooking: leave out spicy things in hopes children will eat it? or just make it the way I want it because they probably won't?
Hanging 2yo's cloth diapers outside to dry because it is sunny and warm-ish and Earth Day and all.
Also, not exactly sure how appropriate this all is to Good Friday.
Now everyone is crying.
2yo insists on playing with bathtub faucets when my back is turned AGAIN? BE WET! NO NEW SHIRT!
I am throwing down the natural consequences today. 5yo refuses to eat breakfast I made AGAIN? BE HUNGRY! NO SNACKS!
These homemade rolls on the other hand... Mmmmmmm.
Wow, this soup that I made? With the beans I quasi-ruined earlier? Not my strongest work.
I really wish I could tell @howiesmith's twin boys apart, especially considering that they're playing at my house right now. Sigh...
Hmmm, this was not my most successful batch of beans ever. All fallen to pieces.
RT @joshrosenthal: Easter celebration @missiodeislc style http://t.co/KaEC5nG
Well, 2yo has both peed and pooped in the toilet today. Yay! I guess this means we're potty-training. Booooooooo...
I went on 5 errands in a row with both of my children and no one cried.
@SKEdman I have the most adorable pair of green ones for 2yo to wear this summer that I got on super clearance REI. ADORABLE.
I am pretending it's spring and taking the flannel sheets off the bed.
It's Passover break for my 5yo at her Jewish preschool. Yay for no alarms & no lunch to pack!
@ironsoap @DixieGirl AAAAAAAAAAAAH! I am so JEALOUSSSSSSS!
20 weeks pregnant today! Halfway done! Woot woot!
2yo's hatred of pants grows stronger with every passing day.
@beckfromfrogandtoad We just found out baby #3 is a BOY so I am cleaning out the baby girl clothes and passing them on. There is... A LOT.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Hey, I'm going to start sorting through outgrown girl clothes today too!
@DixieGirl Grace has been saying she wants a baby brother so she is full of glee. :)
I found a cheesestick in my diaper bag today and I have NO idea how old it is. Concerning.
We are having a boy! http://silgeland.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-boy.html
@kathykrey Wow, you and I are so alike. :) Of course, I DON'T love the constant cleaning of having your house on the market.
@andy_kahn We think that's what we're going to do.
@Michaelfriberg We ended up deciding on a hybrid Highlander. My vanity is soothed.
@SKEdman @Selkie1970 Lovely. :)
At a car dealership buying our new-to-us 3-car-seat vehicle.
@SKEdman Quiche or souffle? Shred them up for N-cheese pizza? Alton Brown has a cheese soup, I think, where he mixed up old cheeses.
@Selkie1970 Oh, Kimberly, that is so sweet of you! I do feel excited to find out.
This time tomorrow, I will know if I'm having a boy or a girl, assuming s/he cooperates!
Snow! It looks EXACTLY like we live in a snow globe outside-- fluttery, giant flakes.
I'm starting to get that thick awesome pregnancy hair.
Had a nice embarrassing moment tonight at small group for church-- blanked on someone's name WHILE PRAYING for him.
@SKEdman Oh, I miss H&M kids' clothes. Their girls' tights are WONDERFUL; I stocked up in the next 2 sizes when we were in CA.
I really have the itch to pack away our cold-weather clothes but considering the high tomorrow will be in the 40s, probably not a good idea.
Ugh, explaining meat-eating to 5yo is so hard, especially as I am quasi-conflicted about it myself.
@Selkie1970 We do not own our building, FYI, and rent every week from the university.
@Selkie1970 LOL. I worked in our nursery this past Sunday and this toddler literally was drawing on the wall with crayon.
If 2yo is off playing by herself, happy and content, chances are she is pooping.
@kathykrey Good luck! Are you guys looking for more space or different neighborhood or something?
Thinking we may have found our family-of-5 car!
@SKEdman I would hide my wall without any guilt, if I were you.
The nap I just took was brought to me today by the letters S-E-S-A-M-E-S-T-R-E-E-T.
Wow, rough day in the parenting trenches. Exacerbated, I'm sure, by me being TIRED from late night.
I really like living in Salt Lake City but it could use some more left-turn signals. Strangely lacking.
@kathykrey Very nice. :)
Ooooh, that was so wonderful. Tomorrow morning is going to be rough, though. Late!
Blurry concert photo! http://t.co/2nU7HVU
Hopefully am not damaging unborn baby's hearing. The BASS! It is LOUD!
@DixieGirl @ironsoap http://www.ezzo.info/Articles/ezzo-babywise-controversy-101.htm
@DixieGirl Not that any if it is really the way I want to go.
@DixieGirl No, I think you're thinking of one of the more gentle, gradual CIO books. Babywise is really hardcore.
Today's dilemma: what should a 32-year-old pregnant woman wear to an Arcade Fire concert?
@ironsoap More extreme version than most CIO. Also, very strict scheduling for feeds for newborns. Also, corporal punishment for BABIES.
At MOPS where speaker, as part of her testimony, is extolling the virtues of Babywise. Sigh...
@SKEdman And just think what wonderful angsty indie rock your children can write. :)
@SKEdman Yeah, that is a really useful idea.
@SKEdman Too many "that" words-- sorry.
@SKEdman Yeah, I think part of his argument is that that should change that somehow. And DC is totally awful in that respect. $$$$$$
Funny that I read that article the day before hearing the Arcade Fire, who like to sing about how the suburbs are BAD and FULL OF DESPAIR.
Ah, the miserable suburbs: http://t.co/oMSvjbd
@Selkie1970 I liked the Kiera Knightley P&P; I'll stick up for you in the face of teasing. :) That was the last movie I saw in a theater.
RT @XIANITY: ETC: Sunday morning, in an alternate universe, giant flannel people will use tiny humans to illustrate Bible stories.
Impossibly huge fluffy snowflakes, blowing my Texas-bred mind a bit.
Remembering why I don't normally go to Costco on Saturdays.
@joninSLC Except for everybody who went up to the canyons this morning for the fresh powder. :)
@jdcox1999 Yay-- go Emily!
Getting a pedicure while it snows outside. Making this appointment made a lot more sense last week when it was 60 degrees.
Why did I buy these stupid take-6-a-day prenatal vitamins?
New Beastie Boys? Yes, please.
Oh man, the nesting has hit me HARD. Must. organize. all. the. things.
@veronimitch Doctor Who? Shaolin Soccer? Strictly Ballroom? Drumline?
@veronimitch Bollywood? Something with dancing and beautiful people and quasi-ridiculous plots? May I recommend Dhoom 2?
@veronimitch @Selkie1970 I will admit that I found that movie hilarious.
RT @astropixie: think about it first, then click... RT @now4thescience: What happens to a helium balloon when it’s on a bus? http://bit. ...
Why was IKEA insanely busy today? On a Thursday afternoon?
2yo's hair has XTREME CRAZINESS today.
Scratch that. BROKE my special flexible for-pregnant-ladies navel ring this morning. Hmmmm...
Had to put my special flexible for-pregnant-ladies navel ring in today. Definitely getting bigger.
@DixieGirl Hey, I worked out yesterday too! I took it pretty gentle, though, because it was my 1st time since getting over 1st trimester.
5yo had her annual check-up today. I wish MY BMI was in the 9th percentile. Sigh...
Today at preschool 5yo was inexplicably gripped with desire to smear a friend's goopy lotion all over HAIR, face, body. Greasy!
@veronimitch What I really wish I could find is a racially diverse CHURCH. Sigh...
Went to the gym this morning for the 1st time since before I found out I was pregnant. It's been a rough couple of months.
@kathykrey Oh, that's not ideal or fun or anything like that. But yay for you for dealing with the hassle & hard work of pumping!
Am grading an out-of-print pattern up a few sizes: http://trunc.it/f5ey3 MATH!
I think it's time to break out the duct tape for some of our board books. They are looking the worse for wear after 2 children.
@N8V_TXN See? Culturally insane. *sad sigh*
@Selkie1970 Just to be clear, my hatred of pants is not at all ideological and is purely comfort-based.
@Selkie1970 Or I could sew that dress and walk around like I am an extra in a costume drama. :) I haaaaaaate pants, especially when preggo.
"It looks so comfy," I say with a touch of longing and sadness.
After hiking up these stupid maternity pants all day, I really wish it weren't culturally insane to dress like this: http://trunc.it/f50a5
You know what I am grateful for this morning? My neighbor, who drives my 5yo to preschool every single morning with her son.
@Selkie1970 I wonder how you could somehow shift WHEN they are.
@Selkie1970 That is so tough. Kids' sleep patterns are so inscrutable. Like I said, his total sleep hours don't sound that crazy--
@Selkie1970 At the end of her napping, we couldn't get her to fall asleep before 9pm or 10pm. MISERABLE. If she does ever nap, that happens.
@Selkie1970 Yeah, that would be so rough. She dropped her nap in the month or so after her 2nd birthday. Bedtime = 7:30pm or 8pm.
@Selkie1970 That doesn't sound that abnormal to me. My 2yo sleeps 11-12 hours at night, no nap.
I'd forgotten this from my last pregnancy: WATER now gives me heartburn.
@Selkie1970 Yeah, a toddler going for the face like that seems pretty unusual to me, but apparently it is a known issue with this child.
2yo's face got all scratched & bloody tonight at church while refusing to give up a toy she was playing with. Nursery violence! Poor baby...
April showers... OF SNOW.
I really want a pair of the paisley pajamas that Steve McQueen wears in _Bullitt_. They're terrific!
Weekly pregnancy calendar tells me my baby is the size of a baked potato. That seems big!
Am considering packing away my tall boots. I'm sure it will snow some more, but it feels silly to wear tall boots in April.
RT @DoctorMac: http://yfrog.com/h0z0tlyj I do so hate living here.
2yo keeps exclaiming, "I see a rainbow!" for no apparent reason. I wonder what she thinks that word means.
You know what's gross? Mayonnaise. Ugh.
@SKEdman Related, funny, and also DISTURBING: http://tinyurl.com/awsfp
@SKEdman Because they are kind of stupid, but also endearing? Teeeeeeeny little brains. Turns out their brain stems do most everything.
Walked to @CaputosMarket on 15th for dinner tonight; what AMAZING weather...
Tried on my ski pants today and they are a NO GO. I think I am done with skiing this season/pregnancy.
Midwife also said she thought she saw boy bits! April Fool's joke? Big ultrasound is 2 weeks from today.
Blue skies, daffodils, saw baby wiggling on ultrasound at midwife appt this morning.
Went to farm supply store to check out chicken coops and chicks and now 5yo is INSANE with anticipation and excitement.
It's totally pedicure weather out there.
@DoctorMac Don't know if I agree with that. I think I can have loving conversation w/ someone I disagree with about something I am sure of.
@Selkie1970 Although, to be honest, I think those sex differences are pretty exaggerated by societal norms.
@Selkie1970 I'm not saying there are no innate sex differences, but that there is such ugliness in our world's expectations of both genders.
GAH! I pretty much hate extremely gendered toys-- Word Clouds: Gender and the Vocabulary of Advertisements for Toys http://j.mp/gbtZ1G
Wow, GORGEOUS day to be at the playground with two little girls.
@veronimitch We don't, but I know some people do. (Also, don't tell anyone, but I use disposable wipes.)
It's not even 9am and I'm hungry again. Second trimester, man.
@astropixie Blech, and well it should.
@kathykrey Our neighborhood school.  Half-day schedule and walkability won out, and really, it appears to be a lovely, charming school.
Working on kindergarten registration paperwork. My 5yo is supposed to start kindergarten 4 days before my due date.
@kikiriri Poor you... :) & poor Sage... I am still so new to kid haircuts; Grace is getting one tomorrow that's just her 3rd ever, I think.
@kikiriri Shorter in the front? As in a mullet?
@kathykrey By the way, I went with your option for the potluck tonight. Rainy today, slightly grumpy children = avoiding errands.
I seriously cannot listen to this song loud enough:  New Pornographers Tap Comedy Elite for 'Moves' Video http://t.co/pwFRSBM
a) make cookies with ingredients here at house or b) run to Costco for veggie tray?
So we have a potluck at small group tonight that I just found out about yesterday, after all my shopping/meal-planning. Would you...
@Selkie1970 @veronimitch I too now want a spaetzle maker. It looks so good!
@slcfoodie And thank you so much!
@slcfoodie A couple were my phone, but most were our Nikon D50 with a 50mm 1.8 lens. I really love that lens, especially for travel (light).
In the description for this photo, I use the word "bokeh": Flowers in Crissy Field http://flic.kr/p/9urpGF
If you visit San Francisco, you need to visit this place: Bi-Rite Creamery http://flic.kr/p/9uuo9Y
I love this one! (@DoctorMac took it): Reflection http://flic.kr/p/9uurLd
Working on our San Francisco pictures-- I love big cities for these kinds of things:  http://flic.kr/p/9uuo6L
Editing photos from San Francisco instead of doing the dinner dishes.
@kathykrey I AM WITH YOU. Of course, I draw a pretty hard line on these issues; I'm not even in favor of bows until they actually have hair.
I have been having much better hair days since getting back to SLC. All that humid rainy weather in San Francisco...
Oh my gosh, YES. I love this quote; I need to read this book | When I Became a Christian... http://t.co/NTVtz2w via @rachelheldevans
Unpacking my fancy new blender. Yippee! Green smoothies for everyone!
@Selkie1970 It's just 8:45pm for us MST folks.
@Selkie1970 Aren't you on EST? :) Just giving you trouble...
@Selkie1970 I think the Joovy one could handle low-key walks in the neighborhood, to the park, etc, but def wouldn't work for running.
@Selkie1970 I haven't even thought about a jogging one for running or long walks. Soooooo pricey.
@Selkie1970 I'm leaning toward the really lightweight Joovy one. But seriously, this is not what I need to buy right now.
@Selkie1970 Grace pretty much walks everywhere, so this would be for Violet and new baby.
I'm definitely a babywearing type of mother, but the BEAUTIFUL SHINY THINGS. I WANT TO BUY THEM.
Researching double strollers & reminding myself that Violet didn't ride in a stroller EVER until she was, I don't know, 6 months old.
My own bed, my own shower, my own music-- it's hard to overstate how wonderful it is to be home.
Am home! Dear sweet wonderful home! Now to face the horrified dismay I feel in the face of this pile of laundry.
Well, hello, airport. OAK to SLC today.
It's going to take me a while to edit all these photos we took while here in CA. Loooooots of pictures.
Off to dinner right now, then one more night in our hotel: http://t.co/q9LR1EP
Beautiful sunny day at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park: http://t.co/uAVGxL2
I am so thankful to not be a) sick or b) in the 1st trimester anymore. I feel so ALIVE.
Last full day in San Francisco. Time for more delicious brunch.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I'm totally going to be doing that in a few years with now-5yo. I can already tell she has my exact (HEAVY) eyebrows.
Second-to-last night in hotel in San Francisco. Starting to feel deep longing for my own bed, reasonably priced food, & ability to launder.
Bought all our favorite treats at Trader Joe's. Oh, how I've missed you, Trader Joe's...
Bad timing (i.e. out of town) but I definitely think I've gotten my money's worth from it.
Well, the diaper bag I've been using for 3+ years is finally giving up the ghost. Broken straps galore!
Chinatown: http://t.co/1uIIWIP
Dim sum in Chinatown.
Oh yeah, baby: http://t.co/C9ub3oQ
Palace of Fine Arts: http://t.co/ANAGwU3
OK, I declare my children too young for the Exploratorium. We're out of here.
I love efficient public transportation. I really do.
You know, if I'd brought a reading light, I could read some of these books I brought in this dark hotel room after my children go to sleep.
@amyforestell It is harder than being at home, but it feels vacation-y and it is easier than the last time I traveled with them.
@amyforestell Well, I'm just alone while Rob is at his conference during the day.
Mission District: http://t.co/vYFPea9
Also, my 5yo is going to revolt if I make her walk much more.
Burritos and watermelon agua fresca in the Mission District for lunch. Blue sky, sun, chilly breeze, lots of Spanish, hipsters.
Moving very slowly this morning; still in hotel room. By this time yesterday, both girls were splashing in fishy puddles at wharf.
@finslippy Oh my goodness, I love that book too! The scene with the cat swinging on the chandelier literally makes me LOL.
I think I just felt the baby move.
Carousel time at the children's museum: http://t.co/1tCYqUa
At Fisherman's Wharf on a drizzly Sunday morning: http://t.co/SvE4LmK
Also, slightly jealous of @DoctorMac who is out playing games with @ironsoap, but so tired that bed does not seem a terrible alternative.
Wow, seriously TIRED tonight after walking all over San Francisco.
At dinner, where I accidentally ordered a whole bunch of creatures with their heads and eyes intact.
Have finally made it to our charming old hotel in San Francisco with its wee tiny rooms. A bed-- aaaaaaaaaaah...
Wow. 2yo could not have been a better travel companion or more well-behaved on our flight. Am sooooooo grateful.
Leaving on a jet plane, SLC to OAK. It has taken vast quantities of Gatorade to keep me functional today.
Problem: 2 big suitcases are almost entirely full and @DoctorMac has not started packing his stuff yet.
@FlyingPhotog I'm a little sad that I am pregnant and thus not really able to partake of the free beer tomorrow.
Packing packing packing because TOMORROW we get on an AIRPLANE. Aaaack.
@Selkie1970 Yes! 2yos are so adorable and fun! I don't get why they have a reputation for being terrible.
@ironsoap AAAAAAAAAAAAH, I am so super jealous.
Having pregnancy-induced moment when something tastes UNBELIEVABLY DELICIOUS. The object: very old Kalamata olives from back of fridge.
Toying with the idea of eating meat again because of the awesome pork/beef CSA I found. Would need a deep freeze, I think.
If you slice a bagel, 2yo will be very sad and mournfully declare it "broken".
Talked to my MOPS group this morning about local food. Yay! Can't wait for the growing season to start up.
Am on day 10 of being sick and am utterly OVER feeling so rotten. Am now ready to try some kind of voodoo medicine or magic or something.
Whoa: earthquake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis - http://bit.ly/hWctnK
@astropixie We have found a really REALLY wonderful Indian restaurant here. I always get this vegetarian combo that is so delicious.
Mmmmmmm, saag paneer. It is the MOST delicious.
@angie_amos Those are amazing.
Windows open, balmy breeze, I can hear the snow melting.
Yay! CSA I've been wanting to do finally opened up spots for this coming season!
I hate it when I decide one specific out-of-print sewing pattern is exactly what I want.
We were really fortunate for the bulk of cold/flu season but the past month has been full of illness. My voice is coming back, though-- yay!
BREAKING NEWS: someone at my house is sick! It's the 5yo this time, with some kind of insane rash and fever and runny nose.
Awesome typo I just read: "high incarnation rate" instead of "high incarceration rate".
There is a GIANT CAVE on the MOON: http://t.co/1HSYOU7
Aaargh, autocorrect. I meant "sublimate".
Crazy. I think I'm seeing water vapor subliminate off the roads.
Got a LOT of snow last night. Tree in front yard has so much wet snow on it that I fear for its structural integrity.
Voice still entirely gone. Another day of whispering to everyone. Do feel a little better, though.
Wow, EVERYTHING tastes like cardboard, even these Tagalongs that neighbor girl brought over today. Should save them until I can taste again.
@Selkie1970 Well, I guess he can be forgiven for not liking soup then. :)
Of course, no one will eat this soup but me and I can't taste anything right now. Hmmm, now feeling a touch of hopelessness/despair.
Making soup on this chilly, rainy March afternoon.
Awww, our upcoming trip to San Francisco will cause 5yo to miss Purim party at her preschool, with its Esther play & costumes & whatnot.
@SKEdman Totally, on the enlightenment assumptions. TOTALLY.
@SKEdman Anyways, not disagreeing with your point AT ALL, just thinking about intersection of parenting & personal feelings about science.
@SKEdman see the most CIO/Babywise/etc are my mainstream TX evangelical friends, who also tend to sort of mistrust science.
@SKEdman secular humanist/agnostic types & the evolutionary arguments for those nurturing behaviors are pretty strong. The circles where I
@SKEdman Actually, most professional scientist friends I have who became parents went the nurturing/BFing/cosleeping route. Most of them are
Do I feel well enough to take 2yo to long-scheduled playdate at inflatable bounce house/slide/etc place? Do I?
I think I feel WORSE than yesterday. Booooo... Fever is back, voice totally gone. Really wish I had a back-up me on days like this.
@kathykrey Darned curly hair...
@kathykrey Yeah, but I'm playing piano at church today, making it a little more problematic. Sometimes I wish I could brush my hair...
That nap was necessary (still under the weather a bit) but now my hair is going to look weird for the rest of the day.
2yo thinks all her fingers are called "thumbs".
These quasi-healthy cookies I made yesterday are a little too *healthy* tasting.
I want Taco Cabana. Or maybe pho. Or maybe ice cream. Or maybe all of them, in one insane meal.
Have been sick for the past day or so. Better today, but still in bed and have lost my voice, which always makes parenting interesting.
@DoctorMac This may mean I try to learn snowboarding next season. Oh, those ski boots!
Back from midwife appointment. Peed in a cup, saw baby flailing about on ultrasound. Also, 4 heart chambers-- crazy.
In this case, about $80.
Aaaaargh, I think I've totally messed up this money order by endorsing the back. I hate it when you can assign a dollar value to a mistake.
Boy, 2-year-olds sure don't like to be thwarted.
I am almost 14 weeks pregnant and I feel SO MUCH better. I may even start meal-planning and cooking again.
RT @SKEdman: May be the most apt phrase I've seen in weeks: "mean doctrinarians who treat grace as a dogma and not a practice." http://b ...
Got my kitchen knives back today and they are so wonderful and sharrrrrrrrrp. I've got to do that more often.
A steel-cut oatmeal haiku: Warm, creamy spoonfuls / From the slow cooker all night / Now, instant breakfast
and b) our house is really dirty. Yay, pregnancy. I am going to bed to avoid crying about one or both of these things.
I'm feeling very emotional tonight because a) the crisper drawer in the fridge FROZE an entire package of baby carrots (ON PURPOSE, I bet)
I turned miserable, mealy plum tomatoes from our mediocre produce co-op into something actually resembling good food! Thanks, oven!
@ironsoap @DixieGirl I'll send you an email with dates and Rob's conference schedule and such so we can figure out what would work. Yay!
@ironsoap You guys want to come in to the city to see us? We're car-free so I don't think we could head your way.
What I really should be doing: a) the lunch dishes, b) laundry, c) cleaning the house.
Quasi-wasting my day researching places to eat and things to do for upcoming trip to San Francisco in a few weeks.
@Michaelfriberg LOL. I only sing when asked.
@Selkie1970 The really funny thing is how much it mentally helps ME.
I find setting a timer for 5 minutes really effective for cleaning up the trashed playroom. The kids respond to it well too.
Sick day today home with both girls. My goal is to not have them watch TV all day.
One more Rob Bell link: Rob Hell http://bit.ly/hsQJVq (I'm not really a universalist, BTW.)
@DoctorMac She's pretty much a miserable mess at this point, was very obviously sick at doctor. I accidentally let her ibuprofen lapse.
Positive for strep. Antibiotics acquired.
In pediatrician's waiting room because we suspect 5yo may have strep, where I'm sure 2yo is catching something.
from @jasonboyett: Thoughts About Rob Bell, John Piper, and Justin Taylor http://t.co/SW5UPSH
5yo's earlier reflections on viruses seem somewhat prescient as she now has fever and sore throat. Poor girl...
It is very clean-looking now.
Just realized that I washed and dried @DoctorMac's old iPhone, which was inexplicably in a pocket of his ski pants. Um, sorry?
@Selkie1970 She said someone sneezed it out. Maybe? I guess? Obviously still not clear on the concept.
5yo claims she understands where the first virus came from. OH REALLY?
2yo has forgotten how to go to sleep. This is a problem. We had a baaaaaaad night.
@SKEdman LOL. Gross.
@lucaswmuller I bet that would make both of them really mad.
@lucaswmuller The funny thing to me is that @DoctorMac used to get Mark Driscoll and Rob Bell mixed up because of the Mars Hill thing.
Making risotto. Stir, stir, stir.
Talked about N. T. Wright with a Mormon tonight. Did not see that one coming.
Leaving a coffeeshop where I sat with other grown-ups knitting and drinking hot cider. Thank you, @DoctorMac!
Opening up the last quart of applesauce I canned last fall with apples from the farmers market. When does stuff start growing here again?
It's been a good 6 months, but I am still so happy about this king-size bed we bought.
@kikiriri We have had a Dyson for about 7 years and it is pretty awesome.
@amyforestell She could write that, especially with guidance. She's getting to the age I need to have her do her own thank-you notes anyway.
You know, I don't write in cursive very much. I think thank-you notes might be pretty much it, actually.
Am finally writing thank-you notes for 5yo's birthday. Ugh, am so behind on EVERYTHING.
5yo finds bubble tea highly entertaining and also delicious. Yay!
@lucaswmuller Yes, that's the place I'm going to try.
Oooooo, maybe not. Looks like some of the coffee shops here in the city might have it.
I really want some bubble tea. Yelp tells me I may have to drive to West Valley City to get it.
Of course, now if I want to chop an onion, I guess I have to use a steak knife.
Just dropped knives off to be sharpened, which I've been needing to do for well over a year. Hooray!
@lucaswmuller These are some of the best ones I've seen. She & 4him-- HA!
@SKEdman What?! That's not allowed. That is my second favorite hymn.
Spaghetti squash is like magic.
Am wearing maternity pants, but they don't want to stay up.
Suspect that 2yo's head may have grown because suddenly is very difficult to get her shirts on.
I am feeling very nostalgic for the fashion of the 90s for some reason. I want to wear long skirts and Doc Martens.
I love, seriously, EVERY song on Weezer's blue album.
Cutting up a cantaloupe, and wow, it is but a pale echo of what we would get from the farmers' market last summer. Looking forward to that.
5yo is singing in pretend Spanish.
I know there is a sippy cup of milk somewhere in this house but it is eluding me.
I love it when snow is piled up on each bare tree branch, even the teeny tiny ones.
I dreamed I was a bartender; it was very stressful. Last night, I dreamed about having the new baby and disagreeing with Rob about names.
Our front doormat keeps blowing away in this insane wind.
Ridiculously, wonderfully warm today. Hanging the diapers outside to dry, taking the girls to the park.
2yo does not like to wear socks. Or pants, for that matter.
RT @howiesmith: hipsters everywhere are crying tonight because they can't like arcade fire anymore #itstoughtobeacynic
Wait, what?! I wake up and find out a band I really like won one of the big Grammys? The world seems all upside down and backwards.
I ran into a wall half-asleep in the middle of the night last night, then tumbled down a few stairs. Now my shoulder hurts. Ow.
My biggest baby turns 5 years old today. Happy birthday, beautiful, goofy, sensitive, vivid Grace!
Valentine's date night tonight. High heels! Eyeliner! Gorgonzola gnocchi!
Cupcakes! http://t.co/RDIwdLs
@SKEdman I sew A LOT and I find shirring with elastic thread to be very challenging. Fiddly, takes a lot of practice to get right.
@SKEdman The elastic thread does HAVE to go in the bobbin. Supposed to be hand-wound onto bobbin very loosely, not at all stretched.
Two hours until house is overrun by small celebrating people.
Whoa, a flurry of last-minute RSVPs for 4yo's birthday party in the morning. Pretty sure I don't have enough party hats now.
In other music news, 4yo declared of the Wrens, "This almost sounds like rock & roll." Not sure how they would feel abut that.
Is anyone as awesome as Lyle Lovett?
2yo insists that the horse says "moooooo" and will not be convinced otherwise.
1st trimester misery came roaring back at 5pm but I actually felt OK most of today. Maybe am starting to come out of it. *fingers crossed*
RT @bittman: How big is Africa, really? Cool map: http://ht.ly/3Tv1a. Be sure to read the part about schoolkids estimating the size of t ...
Oh, and I sewed myself a terribly unflattering maternity skirt today. (The one I did yesterday turned out much better, fortunately.)
I'm not allowed to send homemade treats to 4yo's preschool for her birthday celebration, just store-bought, because of a STATE LAW. LAME.
Am feeling quite a bit better today & am full of gratitude about it. Can breathe through my nose! Headache is gone! Water tastes delicious!
RT @jasonboyett: Today in inexplicably mesmerizing videos: Slo-mo kitten! http://bit.ly/h4L4qm (via @shueytexas)
This has cheered me up: "STARBUCKS IN STARBUCKS" http://t.co/OUVlYmk
@Michaelfriberg It's too bad I'm with child because what this cold really calls for is a hot toddy.
Is it wrong that I purposefully take Benadryl instead of a non-drowsy antihistamine, just to kind of take the edge off?
Benadryl + Sudafed + Afrin = a much happier me.  Also, probably a three-headed baby, but you can't have it all, right?
Mmmmmm, Sidral Mundet.
Have realized I am in a sour grumpy mood, thanks to this cold and general 1st trimester misery. Shall snap out of it, or at least shut up.
Am buying Betsy-Tacy for 4yo's birthday & version currently in print has a non-Lois-Lenski cover illustration. What is WRONG with people?!
@Selkie1970 Aw, thanks. I really like how the color turned out and it is lasting longer than some others I have tried.
@Selkie1970 I suppose, although I am due RIGHT when the school year starts, September 3.
@Selkie1970 She starts KINDERGARTEN this year.
@Selkie1970 About to be, yes.
Just spent some time pricing cupcakes for 4yo's birthday party this coming weekend. Highway robbery! Guess I will be baking them after all.
@Selkie1970 The applesauce thing really bothered me. It's APPLESAUCE! You are a TODDLER! You should LIKE IT!
Think I have convinced 4yo to like cream cheese and 2yo to like applesauce. Am making headway! Maybe soon they will eat like normal people!
@CSLewisDaily Can you cite what chapter/book that is from? Because I believe it is not Lewis at all: http://bit.ly/gjMv4e
Nooooooooo, not again! Misattributed gnostic quote! @CSLewisDaily: You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body-CSLewis
About to volunteer in 4yo's preschool class for a while. Be kind to me, small children.
Can't decide if it's awesome or pathetic that I'm going to bed before 8:30pm for the 2nd night in a row. #pregnant #alsohaveacold
RT @DoctorMac: It's like libertarians vs. socialists with the bathtub toys tonight. "Mine! Mine!" "No, it belongs to everyone!"
@Selkie1970 Well, we're on mountain time, so when I wrote that we hadn't even had dinner yet.  I'm totally going to bed ASAP though.
Skiing was so fun today (I did so much better!) but it has wiped me out. Totally seriously, I could go to bed right now.
@kikiriri The way I currently ski, the only thing at risk of injury is my pride. Verrrrrrry beginner.
Putting on the oh-so-flattering ski pants for another go at this skiing thing. Yay!
Seriously, it's the size of a salad plate.
So 4yo went out on errands with @DoctorMac today and ever since she's been walking around with a HUGE @EpicBrewing sticker on her dress.
@Selkie1970 I would DEFINITELY go for the house cleaner, but I pretty much hate cleaning and I really like my kids so it's a no-brainer.
Dropping my dad at the airport after a quick visit; hoping he makes it back to Chicago easily despite the masses of snow.
@krisshaffer That's in Logan, right? If you need a place to stay in SLC or anything, let us know.
Fighting through the 2nd migraine of gestating this baby. Sigh... Early pregnancy and I are not friends.
@Selkie1970 Cheese toast sounds really good. I am at that stage where all food sounds disgusting until suddenly something sounds wonderful.
It's 6 degrees F right now, with a good bit of wind.  Brrrrrrr...
@beckfromfrogandtoad That weird displaced shoulder pain is so crazy; I remember that. Rest up!
@beckfromfrogandtoad Yay, no gallbladder! Take it nice and easy.
I finally mopped my floors and I feel much better about things in general now.
I don't think I can handle these bangs. I think I am growing them out IMMEDIATELY.
Corduroy pants + flannel sheets = a challenging nap.
One convenient thing about being pregnant is that I can blame anything on that.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I felt soooooo much better afterwards.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I had mine out in my early 20s and yes, the nausea coming out of anesthesia was the worst part for me too.
Just saved bacon grease to cook with later for the 1st time in my life.
This just in: weekends are awesome.
@Selkie1970 She was "cleaning" the window. Sigh...
Aaaaand 4yo just broke one of our windows.
So now I can live-tweet my nausea and misery right? I'm sure you all would looooove that.
Well, internet, I'M PREGNANT. FOR REALS. http://silgeland.blogspot.com/2011/01/whaaaaaaaat.html
@Michaelfriberg: @DoctorMac wants desperately to make one.
@Selkie1970 We've had glass tile on kitchen backsplash and bathroom vanity backsplash and they've been totally fine.
@kathykrey Got your birth announcement today. Sooooooo sweet.
I didn't realize it was supposed to snow this much today. It's really piling up out there.
S = k log W, just like on Boltzmann's headstone.
It just takes so much ENERGY to fight entropy around this place.
@SKEdman Hubs (pediatrician) says probably not. Have him drink lots of liquids. Theoretical risk would be to kidneys but should be OK.
I forgot my list when I went to Costco today but I remembered everything I needed anyway-- I WIN GROCERY SHOPPING!
@SKEdman Some of the reviews from normal news outlets of that movie when it came out were HYSTERICAL.
My 4yo is like the girl in "The Princess & the Pea" but for pepper.
Yay! Red hair! I had a fun trip to the salon yesterday. http://flic.kr/p/9cncSw
Oh, dim sum, how I love you. Carts swooping around with puffy buns and steamed dumplings...
Our dishwasher is HEALED! Plumber came yesterday and worked his magic. Feeling full of gratitude about it.
I put my kids to bed before 7pm last night. And I do not regret it one bit.
@kathykrey I'm not saying quit your job this week. :) But I think mountaintop life experiences can show us what we value/want/need.
@kathykrey Oh, and I always know I should stop and be thankful that THAT is my postpartum response, not PPD.
@kathykrey It IS mostly hormones, but I think it can give you clarity on what you want or what's important or whatever.
@kathykrey I was thinking some more about you just now and remembering that insane postpartum oxytocin high that you're on right now.
@kathykrey Eh, having an edge is overrated.
Apparently today is obsess-over-my-hair day. Am considering bangs.
@N8V_TXN I don't know that I can afford to change it that often. I wish hair coloring wasn't so a) expensive & b) time-consuming.
Finally watched Scott Pilgrim last night and now I reeeeeeeeeeeally want to dye my hair.
Wow, the instinct to give advice to pregnant women on Facebook is almost irresistible! Do. Not. Type.
Oh dishwasher, why will you not CLEAN the DISHES? It is your job.
Is it weird that this upper-40s day makes me want to open all our windows?
@kathykrey I could not in any way be considered good at skiing at this point.
I suspect the chair lift may be the best part.
Skiing was very fun. I only fell down like a dozen times.
I am going skiing! SKIING! For the first time in my whole entire life.
@Selkie1970 Our 1953 house in Dallas had a peachy-pink bathroom! Not awesome. Also, a weird cabinet ABOVE the shower.
I love Weezer thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much. I cannot believe the blue album came out in 1994.
I wish our bed wasn't so COLD when I first get in it.
Trying to convince @Doctormac that really, in his deepest heart of hearts, he wants to come to the gym with me today.
Making choux pastry reminds me of nothing so much of making homemade playdough.
@astropixie Whaaaat? That is crazy. I'm not entirely surprised that they wouldn't let you move food internationally but keeping the bottles?
I don't know what Utah has done to me, but today's upper 30s weather feels downright balmy. Am not wearing a coat.
@Selkie1970 Pretty sure this was a pure "I want it MY way" moment.
She insists wearing it forwards looks like mud & feels like rocks.
Have insisted that 4yo not wear her shirt backwards, much to her dismay. Am regretting this stand a bit-- picking your battles & all.
Today's xkcd (http://t.co/05dRbic) reminds me of my most favorite mashup EVER (http://t.co/A4HRcug). HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
I have a hard time believing there are actual people who actually like pudding skin.
@Selkie1970 That sounds WONDERFUL.
@DoctorMac I... I have no idea what you're talking about.
A girl in 4yo's pre-K class wore a Justin Bieber shirt today. Noooooooooo...
@SKEdman Seriously. Pediatricians are just NOT well-trained when it comes to BFing.
Although, come to think of it, I've had issues with foreign language things on instant viewing, subtitles, etc. Have they fixed that?
Netflix needs to put all of Cowboy Bebop on instant viewing.
Heard this guy on NPR earlier & thought this was really good: The Cloudy Logic of 'Political' Shootings - The Atlantic http://t.co/kA1HcYJ
Also, ski pants are not exactly slimming.
Think I have now collected entire skiing ensemble and can now take advantage of beautiful snow/mountains/etc.
@Selkie1970 She's starting to ask to sit on the potty. Sigh...
Who would like to come and potty train my 2yo? I will pay you one zillion dollars.
RT @XIANITY: SURVEY: 3 out of 5 children from Christian homes have received Larry the Cucumber as their Lord and Savior.
What?! Do slow cookers really have lead in them? Has anyone else heard about this?
2yo's milk cups should be equipped with a tracking device.
@howiesmith It really is beautiful today.
Huuuuuuge drifting slow snowflakes this morning.
Learned tonight that Salt Lake City doesn't do curbside recycling for glass. This is very lame.
AH HA! RT @krisshaffer: It's *not* CS Lewis, as everyone thinks. It's from a character by Walter Miller. http://bit.ly/gjMv4e
Have not done my homework if that quote is correctly ascribed, of course, and am generally huge fan of Lewis BUT! TOTALLY GNOSTIC!
I call gnosticism! I call Platonic dualism! RT @coachdanhuff: You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. - C. S. Lewis
Packing a lunch, getting ready for carpool-- back to normal life tomorrow.
Just finished a little skirt for 4yo on newly-serviced sewing machine.  It is humming along in a very satisfying manner now.
Happy New Year! We are a family foursome again.
@angie_amos Cuuuuuuuute.
My 4yo on the moon: http://twitpic.com/3lok0i
@amyforestell We get some sun, I guess, but I think I'm not that attached to it. What really depresses me is weeks & weeks of hot weather.
I don't want to leeeeeeeeave the pretty coffee shoooooooop. #whiny #timetoputonbiggirlpanties
Really beautiful snow coming down. You know what I love about Utah? Four real seasons.
Day 8 of 10 of in-laws' visit: sitting in a coffee shop by myself for a moment before returning to the family togetherness.
@Michaelfriberg I think that's 5 minutes from where we lived. Crazy.
@Michaelfriberg Where in Dallas do your grandparents live? That looks JUST like our old neighborhood close to White Rock Lake.
We have @howiesmith's sweet boys here to play this morning: http://twitpic.com/3kkore
Googling "what to wear on TV" because @DoctorMac is going to be on local morning show tomorrow.
@joninSLC Whaaaaaaat?! You two are game players? You must come over for dinner and games! My in-laws are in town right now, but soon...
Just returned a copy of Zombie Fluxx at B&N. @DoctorMac and I both gave each other one in our stockings. Hah!
Have decided the Love & Logic parenting philosophy is based on the wisdom of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
@Selkie1970 Well, one of mine doesn't really eat breakfast to start with. The other one I gave some fruit before we went.
Day 4 of 10 of in-laws' visit: breakfast at the Park Cafe and then lots of birds at the Tracy Aviary.
4yo is riding her new bike up and down driveway. Being a parent at Christmas is awesome.
@Michaelfriberg Hey, buddy, watch it. I was a Linux user when I got engaged/married.
Here we come a-wassailing.  No, really, I made wassail. It's good. It contains a 6-pack of ale and a whole bottle of madeira.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Yay! That is happy news!
@astropixie Oh. Wow.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Oh, sad... :( I'm so sorry.
You'd think by this point I'd have mastered bringing DIAPERS with me when I leave the house. Sheesh.
RT @DoctorMac: Just told TiVo to record the Progressive Gator Bowl. Man, I can't tell you how much those Neocon gators bug the crap out  ...
Clean clean clean vacuum laundry clean clean.
My in-laws are coming here for their long visit, my parents are going to see my grandfather who just had a stroke.
Lots of travel for my family today. Feeling pretty glad to be staying put.
I would like to state for the record that when I moved to Utah, I was promised a 95% chance of white Christmases.
Our snow is all melting away. :(
@DoctorMac I don't see myself ever wearing a watch again.  So... don't ever buy me one or anything.
@ironsoap http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/elizabeths-eggnog-cheesecake-bars
Have been a cooking MACHINE today, getting ready for 10-day visit from in-laws. Granola, eggnog cheesecake, marinara sauce, potato salad.
She is unmoved by explanations of her birthday coming up in February, or Christmas coming IN THREE DAYS.  Sheesh.
4yo is having hard time with 2yo getting shiny new things for her birthday today.
Two years ago today, this happened? http://vimeo.com/2641710
Just celebrated @DoctorMac's birthday with yummy dinner, red wine, and flourless chocolate cake.
Did one zillion errands today. People, it is crazy out there.
RT @DoctorMac: Just say no to PhDs kids.  Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist http://goo.gl/aDZZ6
My children are playing together. As in, actually with each other.  This is a new thing in our house.
And in definitely not good news, my grandfather had a stroke over the weekend and is in the hospital. :(
I love when school is on holiday. No lunches to pack, no children to hurry, no schedules to be met.
Also tomorrow, my sewing machine goes to be serviced because it is making some very concerning noises.
I declare my Christmas sewing/crafting to be FINISHED! Will try for pictures tomorrow, because OMG these little mermaid dolls are adorable.
@astropixie Thanks! Am making vegetarian shepherd pie for Rob's birthday this week & I found a recipe that looks good, if I can decode it.
Ah, gas marks and everything in grams...  And what is "swede"? I think it's a vegetable.
It cracks me up when I read recipes from the UK and I have no idea what they're talking about.
Sad costume drama and sewing little dolls on a rainy Sunday morning.
Happy that @Michaelfriberg and Dani are coming over for dinner in a little bit.
Spent tonight embroidering wee tiny faces on dolls I'm sewing for girls. So cute it makes me go "Squeeeeeeeee!"
What are all these crazy women doing wearing ballet flats and no socks when it's 20 degrees out?!
Stephen Colbert, like Flannery O'Connor, kind of makes me wish I were Catholic.
RT @jasonboyett: Nobody preaches like Stephen Colbert. "Jesus is a liberal Democrat." http://bit.ly/hwMyB0
@joninSLC We're still in disbelief. This kind of thing never happens to us. :)
@Selkie1970 This kind of thing never happens to us. :)
@Selkie1970 Just filled out the beta tester application online. They didn't tell him it was coming; it just showed up in a box!
Is tweeting from the fancy new Google Chrome laptop while @DoctorMac gives the girls their baths.  It's so preeeeeeeetty...
Soooooo, Google just sent @DoctorMac a laptop. FOR REALS. It's like Christmas morning all up in here.
OK, I have all my recipe collections in Delicious. Any suggestions on what to move them to, if this shutdown does in fact happen?
@Michaelfriberg The nerve!
@ironsoap What do you mean by data policy? Privacy or the like?
Have discovered mint.com and am now inexplicably excited about budgeting and finances.
Sometimes 23yo eats dinner as if she's a destitute villager in "Seven Samurai"-- just a few grains of rice.
@kathykrey Oh, that is just TOO WARM. Also, I love pretty much everything at Anthropologie.
Snowy: http://twitpic.com/3g686k
Freshly fallen snow. Yippeeeeeeeee...
Sometimes I am surprised that I even remember how to write in cursive anymore.
@MikeSalz We had an appetizer once there when we showed up at The Red Door 20 minutes before they opened. :) Appetizer was pretty good.
Finishing up that project has reduced my Christmas DIY stress. Just one more project to finish sewing.
Operation doll bed is complete! http://flic.kr/p/91VSti
@astropixie Yes, we had it as a main with cucumbers and red wine. It would be good with pumpkin!
Footie pajamas + kitten heels http://twitpic.com/3fqpf5
Had this for dinner and it was gooooood: http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/10/spicy-squash-salad-with-lentils-and-goat-cheese/
Drove my parents up to Big Cottonwood Canyon yesterday for brunch. It is so, so pretty here:  http://flic.kr/p/91Kyh1
AH HA! Have found eyebrow threading! Sadly, it is in Sandy. I'm totally going anyway.
Think I may need to up my seratonin levels via some carbs, chocolate, and a nap.
Am a zombie-fied version of myself today. BLEARRRRRRGH.
*I* am the woozy, off-kilter one, just for clarity.
Last night = reign of terror by 23mo. Up for hours, not apparently sick, just inscrutably upset and sleepless. Now feel woozy & off-kilter.
Getting music ready to play this evening at church. I love Christmas carols... "Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus" & "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly"
Having a good visit with my parents this weekend-- so far the library, Red Iguana, Wii bowling, and pavlova for my dad's birthday.
Live-tweeting the short ribs: now safely ensconced in the oven for the next 3 hours.
OK, the very alcoholic braise for my short ribs just TOTALLY CAUGHT ON FIRE. Like, seriously, FLAMES.
@Michaelfriberg HAHAHAHAHAHA
Between the entire bottle of wine, half a bottle of port, and local grass-fed beef, this may be the most expensive meal I've ever cooked.
Cooking meat (@smittenkitchen's short ribs) in anticipation of my parents arriving here tomorrow.
My eyebrows need professional help. Gotta find a place that does threading here in SLC.
Pile of Christmas gifts in various stages of completeness is starting to worry me a little. Am seeing myself sewing frantically on the 24th.
Have the overwhelming sleepies this afternoon.  When is bedtime again? (Not the kids', MINE.)
@kathykrey That was so good, and SO TRUE. Maybe less so in the sciences, but STILL.
The mail is so fuuuuuuun this time of year.
Oh, Etsy, wrapping my Christmas presents is making me think about how much I love you. I could give you ALL my dollars, Etsy.
It's nice that 23mo is still little enough for me to wrap her presents in front of her as she remains oblivious.
Paying bills and catching up on email. PARTAY!
@Selkie1970 Lentils don't need to be soaked before cooking. Are you tasting them pre-cooking?
Had what may have been the best coffee of my whole life at @roseunfolding this afternoon. Pour over = yum.
Heading to Locavore market at @CaputosMarket to buy meat because my mother is coming in town this week. Ah, carnivorous family...
My credit card was only charged once, thank goodness, but I don't think I know that many people.
Got my Christmas card order today. And then got a DUPLICATE of my Christmas card order.
Was quite amused when 4yo told new pediatrician today that her favorite food was broccoli. OH REALLY?
Probably shouldn't have told 4yo we're going to doctor appointments 2 hours ahead of time. She is now full of woe and dread.
Indulged in a little Bollywood tonight. Oh, the dancing and singing and slow-motion walking...
@Selkie1970 Whaaaaaat?! Why is the VS show even on that list at all?
"Oh dreidel dreidel dreidel," sings 4yo. Ah, Jewish preschool...
Loooooooved this: A Feast Fit for the King | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction http://t.co/vnjnrfN
Doing the last of my Christmas shopping at World Vision: www.WorldVision.org/GiftCatalog
RT @amalah: Yes, iTunes. You have The Beatles now and that's awesome. But why didn't you advertise that I can finally buy the Newsies so ...
@amalah Oh my gosh, I looooooove Newsies.  Takes me back to being a 12-year-old dork.
Man, we are just burning through those peaches I canned in early autumn. Also, the syrup from the jars makes an excellent mixer. Mmmm...
Finally watched The September Issue and feel underdressed. Also, love me some Grace Coddington.
Back to packing lunches and setting alarm clocks tonight. Sigh... I love holidays.
Christmas cards ordered! Have stayed up way too late! Now go to bed, Julia!
@Selkie1970 LOL-- Tomorrow's too busy to do the tree for us and we didn't want to wait til next weekend.
On plus side, 4yo says it is very beautiful and she wishes she could dance with it and hug it.
Well, tree is done. Not exactly joyful-looking, but they can't all be winners, right?
Christmas tree is looking a little Charlie Brown at this point.
In the middle of nowhere, Utah, cutting our Christmas tree.
@joshrosenthal Road to Ensenada is maybe my favorite album of all time.
I'm thankful for post-turkey, post-wine naps.
Always, without fail, Lyle Lovett makes me nostalgic for my home state.
And oh, hot cocoa spiked with amaretto that I plan to make later when my children are asleep, how I love you as well...
Oh, saag paneer, how I love you... And oh, Neko Case, how I love you too...
I like homemade cranberry sauce so much; why do I only make it once a year?
My 4yo has started saying, "Oh my heck!" So, thanks for that, Utah.
@angie_amos Happy birthday, fabulous you!
Using cheesecloth to make actual cheese. (Saag paneer for dinner tonight!)
Have acquired a giant turkey and am just vegetarian enough to feel uncomfortable about it.
@beckfromfrogandtoad My day just started with a huge 4yo tantrum! She flipped out about the carpool for some reason today.
When will my children start eating breakfast? They are usually totally uninterested.
@CaputosMarket Do you do the Locavore Market at 15th & 15th ever, or just Saturdays downtown?
And now I've burned myself on a cast iron skillet. Can I have a do-over?
OK, just REALLY cut 2 of my fingers chopping things for dinner. Ow. Blood. Clumsy.
This morning's breakfast yogurt explosion finally motivated me to really thoroughly clean the booster seat that 23mo uses. Yech.
Woke up to beautiful blanket of snowy whiteness. 23mo declares snow to be "not pretty" but instead "messy". Silly, silly girl!
This is not ideal because today is HOME STUDY DAY. Social worker will be here after lunch. Clean clean clean clean clean.
Moving sloooooooowly this morning, thanks to 22mo's night coughing.
Someday, SOMEDAY, I will learn how to make really good scrambled eggs.
My inbox is getting out of control.
22mo has entered hysterical-mispronunciation-of-"fork" stage of speech.
Aargh, am out of tahini! I hate it when I do that. Will substitute peanut butter, I guess. Sigh...
@slcfoodie Isn't it so beautiful today?!
@DoctorMac NPR dreams, nice.
4yo says she wants to be an astronaut ballet teacher on the Moon when she grows up.
Getting my laundry on.
It's kind of cold here. Maybe I should buy a coat.
Heading to the airport to pick up @DoctorMac. Hooray!
Via @jasonboyett: Why are Christian movies so bad? http://bit.ly/d8gduP
Just realized I forgot to brush children's teeth before they went to bed. Obviously time for @DoctorMac to come home.
Scaring my children with a little Holst. Mars! War! Scary!
This dry climate is making me need some of those overnight moisturizing gloves. #sexy
@Selkie1970 That sounds nice. Lovely Sunday...
Trying to decide if 22mo is well enough to go to church later today. The quantity/quality of snot is making me lean toward "no".
I like how I vacuumed under the dining room table & then gave my children rice for dinner. #sisypheantasks
Bribing 4yo to help me pick this disastrous house up with promises of braiding her hair.
Finally pulled the trigger and placed the order for our about-our-family birthmother profile photobooks.
Making yogurt in the slow cooker. In other words, purposefully making milk go bad.
RT @finslippy: Some people have too much time on their hands, and thank god for that. Reviews of Tuscan Milk: http://amzn.to/OWDs (via @ ...
It's a new day and I feel SO much better. Maybe I'll even be able to eat normal food, and bring order out of the chaos of this house.
@Selkie1970 Just me and the toddler, albeit with different ailments apparently. 4yo went to preschool and everything today.
Where are my children, you ask? Why, watching an unholy amount of television, of course. Very sad about @Doctormac being in another state.
I want more people to tweet and blog for my between-dozing entertainment while I huddle in bed under many blankets. So get on that.
Have now determined that I am actually sick with stomach bug, not just queasy from lack of sleep last night. Day is going downhilllllll...
My goal for today is survival-- nobody goes hungry, nobody gets seriously injured, and that's about it.
Have been up since before 2am and have that queasy, blurry, no-sleep feeling.
22mo up half the night with cold. Blargh.
Am determined to go to bed early, what with @DoctorMac out of town and solo parenthood and all. So... here I go, I guess.
@SKEdman I love Flannery O'Connor. She always makes me wish I were Catholic. And, you know, a really good writer.
Looking at bikes for Christmas for 4yo. So! Much! Horrifying! Branding! My daughter will have a Bratz bike over my dead body.
@SKEdman Didn't Flannery O'Connor write a story about somebody stealing someone's leg?
RT @alindsey3: Wisdom: "Twitter makes me like people I don't know.  Facebook makes me dislike people I do know. " I'm finding this to be ...
@Selkie1970 I just might take you up on your offer of expertise. :)
@Selkie1970 I am really hoping it works out, & I'm definitely planning on trying. I haven't quite decided what drug-type stuff I'm open to.
@SKEdman 22mo is still nursing now so it partly depends on how long this all takes.
@SKEdman I'm trying to think through how far I want to go with the drugs, etc when we adopt.
@astropixie What do you want to know? I went from no cell phone at all to a Droid this past summer and I really like it.
They were like PICTURES of snowflakes. I've never seen anything like that before.
Snowing here and when I went outside, snowflakes landed on me that were, like, PERFECT. Six-sided symmetry and everything.
Should be doing laundry but working on adoption paperwork instead. Because it is more motivating.
SNOW SNOW SNOW! I wonder how much snow it will take for me not to feel giddy and gleeful.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Just prayed for peace for you and wisdom for the doctors.
Go to sleeeeeeeeep, toddler girl, for pity's sake. Have had a rough couple of bedtimes lately.
Oh my gosh, loving this whole site: http://damnyouautocorrect.com/417/cogs-cogs/
@Michaelfriberg Awwwwww...Congratulations!
@MikeSalz It's Heart to Heart Adoptions in Sandy. We feel pretty good about them.
Oh, Arcade Fire, you're the angst-iest.
Heading to an orientation at our new adoption agency.
@Selkie1970 Oh, those rough nights are the worst. Take care of yourself today.
So it turns out that going to the dentist for 1st time in 2.5 years is not the most fun experience ever. Let this be a lesson to us all.
@Selkie1970 *DEBUNKED, of course. Gah, my brain sometimes.
@Selkie1970 Of course, now I'm not even sure that's a word at all after pondering it for a few minutes.
@Selkie1970 *rebunked
@Selkie1970 I thought that $200 million figure was being rebuked right and left?
@Selkie1970 Roasted them tonight, but also good braised with balsamic vinegar.
Brussels sprouts may be the most adorable vegetable ever. Also, delicious.
Getting ready for a playdate at our house. Having people over is always a good idea because it forces you to clean.
Last might my 22mo (trumpet fanfare) SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT.
She's been pretty regularly sleeping 8 hours without waking, but last night she went 11+ hours.
At the park. Should have brought a towel because everything is wet (and thus cold).
@DoctorMac Don't you go and get the rest of us sick.
Autumn! http://twitpic.com/33l3jz
@lucaswmuller Lucky.
I cannot wait for the time change. It is so darned DARK when I am trying to get children up, fed, dressed.
Well, that backfired horribly. Took 22mo to toddler music class and she HATED it. Now she is in terrible mood.
Specifically, she hated the instruments being taken away from her over and over again. She looooooooved the instruments.
Just voted; my "I voted" sticker has an image of a fingerprint in place of the "o". I have no idea what that means.
What does it mean? http://twitpic.com/33agix
Science Cheerleaders! No, really: http://t.co/H7ZzXXU via @youtube
@astropixie I feel conflicted about this.
@astropixie @amyforestell And I'm sure you both are super surprised that it's not the girliness that bothers me but the T&A. :)
Just got a free cookie (coconut chocolate-- yum) from @MyDoughGirl for coming in with my weird, fingerprint-y voting sticker.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Surgery is always a big deal, but really, the gallbladder thing isn't too terrible. The anesthesia was the worst of it.
Back from really fun, kind of crazy neighborhood Halloween party. Gosh, I love our new neighborhood.
Elections tend to bring up conflict between my inner libertarian and my inner socialist. Most of the time they live harmoniously together.
@N8V_TXN Now I really want one but we have no lemons. Sad...
@SKEdman That link is super reasonable, but on one level it makes me despair of ANYBODY ever fixing ANYTHING once they get into power.
@SKEdman Not that I am rooting for Tea Party types, just for the record.
Confused IKEA man could use a drink: http://twitpic.com/32gan8
So could frustrated IKEA man: http://twitpic.com/32gbo6
Such a good yoga class this morning. If/when our church starts meeting Sunday mornings I'm really going to miss it.
Saw some lush, dreamy portraits by @Michaelfriberg tonight in Park City.
Not setting an alarm-- yay yay yay!
I love the smell of IKEA in the morning.
IKEA Saturday morning: http://twitpic.com/32aj4p
Oh, 22mo... Had my rings on dresser while cleaning. Just found engagement ring halfway up staircase, wedding ring MIA. Aarrrrrgh.
Found it, found it, found it! That was a desperate 10 minutes.
@beckfromfrogandtoad I had my gallbladder out too, when I was in grad school. It wasn't too bad; the anesthesia was the worst part.
@beckfromfrogandtoad Also, I love your kids' costumes.  So fun! Hang in there today...
@beckfromfrogandtoad Oh wait, you're not doing that til Tuesday. Well, have a good day anyway. :)
Hey, @missiodeislc folks, we are going to Park City to eat dinner and check out Mike's art this evening, if anybody wants to meet up.
Burnt some sugar trying to make tarte tatin while wrangling children. I was a much better cook before I had children.
Operation Fairy Costume completed.
22mo declared a Brussels sprout to be a "BALL!" tonight and threw it across the room.
@DoctorMac It is actually Brussels sprout. They are named after Brussels.
Up too late working on 4yo's fairy costume. Fighting the polyester glitter organza.
Just drove through a snow flurry. SNOW. My mind is being blown.
It is so beautiful here.

That is all.
Awww, 4yo has her 1st cavity, poor baby. Also, the toy she picked out from dentist is a Silly Bandz of no identifiable shape.
22mo still not quite heathy. Cries & cries whenever I try to put her in chair to eat. Am obviously very mean mom, trying to FEED HER.
Red leaves! Yellow leaves! Orange leaves! I love fall!
Heard Hendrix's "All Around the Watchtower" on NPR. Have got to finish watching Battlestar Galactica.
Made popcorn on the stove and now watching _Finding Nemo_ with 4yo for 1st time. She's finding it a bit, um, intense.
Pondering if I will ever understand the appeal of professional sports. It's like this whole fundamental human impulse that is opaque to me.
I do like baseball MOVIES, though. That must count for something, right?
Oh man, 21mo is sicker than she was several hours ago. Just found her curled up halfway up the stairs where she gave up on her ascent.
21mo hasn't eaten anything all day and is currently laying on floor mournfully holding stuffed puppy. Viruses! I shake my fist at you!
@slcfoodie That is BEAUTIFUL. And I want them all now.
So @Doctormac fixed my phone by finding the BATTERY that had come out during its fall. Turns out phones need electricity.
I am from Texas and there is a LOT of baseball talk on Facebook these days. Almost as bad as the beginning of college football season.
At the downtown library for storytime. I think this is one of my favorite places in this city.
Have songs from Yo Gabba Gabba stuck in my head. I miss that show; maybe we should get cable again.
It's time to DANCE! Are you ready? Let's do it! Break it DOWN.
@lucaswmuller But also kind of complicated: http://rachelheldevans.com/martin-luther-hated-jews
@lucaswmuller Very true-- plenty of dark ugliness in my own heart.
@lucaswmuller  I will admit that half the time the hymns make me think of the crazy aging/ailing violent anti-Semitism, though.
New David Crowder song: Lite-Brite! http://v.vevo.com/iyI Both the song and the video are lovely.
Oooooooooh, just dropped phone and now it won't turn on! This is why I can't have nice things!
@Selkie1970 I did the applesauce on the stove (cored, unpeeled) with some cinnamon sticks, then ran it through the food mill.
Went to lovely yoga class this morning. Mark Driscoll would be so disappointed in me.
4yo just wished me happy Shabbat. Ah, Jewish preschool...
Sewing and watching BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. So, you know, the most awesome Friday night EVER. #notironicatall #notevenalittle
Last day at the farmers market for the year. Sad. Also, let's buy EVERYTHING.
Cooking vast quantities of applesauce. You should be so lucky to smell my house right now.
@astropixie Oh man, I remember that feeling. Hang in there!
Fruit flies! Gah!
@kikiriri Fancy, no long skirts. Could probably get away with pants, if fancy & paired with fancy top. Shiny, lace, metallic, etc-- all OK.
Look what we're having as part of dinner: kiwi berries! I didn't even know such things existed. http://twitpic.com/2xeaki
Canned 10 quarts of local peaches from farmers market tonight after girls went to bed. Feeling domestic. And tired.
Unpacking my sewing machines after our long separation. I've missed you, my pretties.
This just in: children love carbs.
Fishing a fruit fly out of my glass of red wine with a spoon and drinking the wine anyway.
Drove out into Big Cottonwood Canyon today and walked around Silver Lake:  http://flic.kr/p/8J4BEY
It was really pretty there:  http://flic.kr/p/8J1vfe
Taking my dad to the airport.  So fun to have him visiting; he is pretty much the ideal houseguest.
Awww, 21mo very sad about saying goodbye to my dad at the airport. Granddads are pretty awesome, after all.
@Selkie1970 Oh, take a pump, just for for your own comfort. I was away from 1st daughter when she was ~2 and she was nursing 2x/day
@Selkie1970 for about 48 hrs & wished I had brought one. Didn't think I had much milk at that point but ended up hand-expressing in shower.
Wow, these sweet potatoes from the farmers market sure are dirty. It's like they came from the ground or something.
RT @krisshaffer: Is Your Wife as Hot as Solomon’s? http://t.co/WVazNXY
Back from farmers market with lovely haul. Only one more time this year...
Getting ready for my dad to get here from Chicago.  First visitor to our new house!
@AnotherJulia We moved to Salt Lake City a few months ago-- the lovely American Rocky Mountains.
Chilly morning with tea and steel-oatmeal.  Yay yay yay! I love fall.
@Selkie1970 4yo has JUST decided she likes it, which is a welcome development. 21mo enjoys smearing it all over table and self.
Hmmmmmm. Got hair colored. Request for bright, bright red was interpreted as vaguely auburn-y. Not bad, but not quite what I had in mind.
NEWSFLASH: Small children make it difficult to get stuff accomplished.
You may take that last tweet to mean that there are now 5-6 different kinds of food easily detectable under my dining table.
Watching 4yo at gymnastics: http://twitpic.com/2v8i5y
Am canning two whole quarts of peaches as I type this.  It's like SCIENCE!
Am once again contemplating whether to cover my gray or embrace it. Or maybe go pink again:  http://flic.kr/p/5gKtX7
Our front door is back! Will be very nice not to have front of house boarded up with plywood.
Bought some grapes at the farmers market yesterday that are, seriously, a revelation. Have never had non-grocery-store grapes before.
Sterilizing some jars to get my canning on.
I am going out! To hear a band! At a club! I am not carrying a diaper bag! I am wearing eyeliner! And cute shoes! #idontgetoutmuch
I think there is cobbler in our future: http://twitpic.com/2u30zi
Saturday morning family cuddle much less cramped in new bed.
Think I over-bought at farmers market today. There are only 2 more this year, which makes me want to buy it ALL.
You know you are still in the new-house honeymoon period when mopping the hardwood floors makes you smile lovingly.
I cooked actual dinner tonight with actual ingredients. Normal-ish life, hooray!
New mattress is being delivered. Hooray!
Wow, king-size mattresses are BIG.
RT @jasonboyett: Love what Stephen Colbert has done with his testimony before Congress. Craig Detweiler sums it up nicely: http://bit.ly ...
@kathykrey We ended up getting the all-natural latex one from Costco. Feels awfully nice so far!
Now have Utah license plates, thanks to @DoctorMac spending the afternoon at the DMV. We really live here, don't we? Yay!
Utah, I would like you to know that I moved here partly on the promise of 4 real seasons. I disapprove of these record high temperatures.
@N8V_TXN No, seriously, I couldn't.  100-year-old houses, man, they'll get you.
I really want to wear socks and shoes with skirts/dresses (i.e. http://t.co/cq8Lb0o) but I am AFRAID TO.
Oooooo, new soft fluffy white towels. I bought new ones to replace the 8-year-old towels we got at wedding.  Niiiiiiice.
Just had traumatic episode of 20mo getting herself stuck alone inside bathroom. Aack! Waiting for my heart rate to come back down.
OK, I think the universe is telling me to hire a professional electrician. Every outlet I am trying to replace is falling apart.
Ate dinner at our own table with our own newly-unpacked dishes tonight. It's the little things...
New Sufjan Stevens' album-- yay yay yay! Listen to the whole thing at @nprmusic:  http://t.co/pMYa0cD
Just hung a picture. This means we are well on our way to being unpacked, I think.
I think I've at least opened up and looked in every box. #movingkindofsucks
@Selkie1970 Oh, Kimberly, I'm so sorry for your family's loss.
Given that house was nearly empty this morning, it is looking not half bad tonight. By any other standard, is disaster.
Walked to little restaurant in our new neighborhood and now eating hummus and pita with girls outside on patio. Pretty much awesome.
Hello, air mattress. We meet again.
Boxes boxes boxes boxes boxes. And more boxes.
Packing up all our electronics for the move tomorrow.  See you on the other side, desktop computer. Thank goodness for fancy phones.
RT @DoctorMac: Moving carload after carload from old house to the new one 4 blocks away makes me think I must still be in college.
House is full of movers packing up all our stuff. Hard to express the deep joy this brings me. Yay, professional movers!
Boy, these dollies that the movers have are like magic. Also, their immense strength.
Goodbye, giant truck holding most of my belongings. See you in the morning!
Smell you later, rental house. Don't let the door hit... me? on my way... Wait.
Where is this day disappearing to?  So much still to do and the MOVERS GET HERE IN THE MORNING.
Both my daughters have forehead bruises right now.
I always scoff at the idea of wearing gloves while roasting chiles. And then I always have burny, burny hands.
I keep watching this video, and I keep laughing: http://t.co/osp6ZBB via @youtube
Rough morning. Is it wrong to flirt with idea of homeschooling because I am constitutionally ill-equipped to get us out the door on time?
HAHAHAHA-- someone just offered a box of doll heads on Freecycle. Nightmares!
Wow, two spam-y scam-like responses to my Craigslist ad in one day.
It's the time of year when I obsessively check the weather forecast, hoping to see honest-to-goodness fall weather.
Realized that I bought way too much produce at farmers market on Saturday, given that movers will be here packing the DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
Now in a flurry of pesto-making, boiling, shocking, roasting, freezing.
My 20mo using chopsticks, for reals though: http://twitpic.com/2q58vk
Finally getting my Utah car inspection; hopefully they won't be mad at me for being so tardy with this.
Roasting poblanos to make chile rellenos.
Great, both my children are asleep and it is 5pm. That does not bode well for bedtime. WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
Ah, giant night-time cloth-diapered booty on sleepy toddler... Gets me every time.
Just bought my Vibram Five Fingers! Yay, can't wait to try them out.
@astropixie Start out very slow, with the shoes or barefoot-- like 1/8 mile. It uses VERY different muscles in ankles, calves, feet.
@astropixie I've just been running barefoot on a running track so far. That's why I want the Vibrams-- for running on streets, etc.
Am reading Mark Bittman's new cookbook; he says you can cook any popcorn in the microwave. My mind is being blown a bit-- must try this!
Today instead of settling down to nap, 20mo is obsessing about her own and my teeth.
@astropixie Rob has a pair and likes them a lot. I am planning on getting a pair but have been running barefoot for now.
20mo is trying to make out with me instead of settling down to nap. She is a sloppy, open-mouthed kisser.
Driving giant truck out to IKEA to acquire some things for new house. Suburbs, ahoy!
Made the most delicious black beans in the world for dinner tonight: http://trunc.it/b89ax Seriously, so good.
RT @DoctorMac: 4yo: tells incomprehensible joke- Wife: I don't get it- 4yo:I'll tell it again, this time you laugh when I'm done.
My toddler will not go to sleep. Gooooooooo toooooooo sleeeeeeeeep.
RT @jasonboyett: Sunday marks the anniversary of Rich Mullins' 1997 death. Amazed how this post about him keeps getting traffic: http:// ...
Know what I am tired of? All my mental/emotional energy being sucked up by moving/house stuff. Ugh. Am feeling drained.
A dude just took the front door off our new house and put some plywood in its place. Hoping it's all kinds of pretty when it comes back.
Researching what KING MATTRESS we are going to buy.  Wheeeeeeeeeee... (IKEA latex vs. Costco latex, in case you're wondering.)
After 4.5 years of cosleeping with various babies, we are finally moving to a bigger bed.
Ten days until we get to move into our new house (Well, new to us. Is actually almost 100 years old.)
Where did autumn go? I want it back; it's so warm today. Pout. (Which is never very attractive, I admit.)
@lucaswmuller The Decemberists' lead singer, dude-- In theory I like them but I can't handle his nasal-y voice for very long.
@slcfoodie Oh my gosh, THAT HAT! I love it so much!
@slcfoodie I totally get it. I wear skirts/dresses pretty much always because I like them better but it can be tiring to be different.
Resolution for today: I will get 4yo to preschool on time.
First day of MOPS. Time to face a roomful of Christian stay-at-home moms. Oh wait, THAT'S WHAT I AM.
@Selkie1970 No minivan for us yet, but MOPS was pretty good anyway. :)
Time for some culling of the Facebook friends.  Hide! Unfriend! Hide!
@N8V_TXN I can't imagine a world in which I would unfriend you guys. Was just people from elementary/high school I didn't really know.
You know dinner is going to be good when you set the smoke detector off.
Have an ominous sore throat.
Good thing about living in non-humid climate: easy to vacuum dried-up rice mere hours after toddler rice fest.
@kikiriri You have my utmost sympathies. I have been where you are in mid-September for many, many years and it is no fun.
Am switching out clothes (cool weather-- yay!) and have realized we have WAY more 2T clothes than we need. Why did I buy all these?
Drinking red wine and using our label-maker: FRIDAY NIGHT!
Went to my 1st social gathering made of mostly Mormon people tonight. (Was a work thing for @DoctorMac.) Upside: all the more wine for me.
Well, 20mo is sick. Been a long while, so I guess we were due. Doesn't make being up with her coughing for half the night any more fun.
Wonder what my odds are of not catching 20mo's cold? Pretty darn low, I'd guess.
Turns out am supposed to pack 4yo kosher lunches. No shrimp for her, I suppose.
First day of school for 4yo! Can't believe she will be in kindergarten a year from now!
Stopped by new house to peak in on floor refinishing and they are looking BEAUTIFUL.
Had pretty much idyllic Labor Day-- naps, hike with girls up in Big Cottonwood Canyon, dinner at bakery with AMAZING things for dessert.
20mo greatly enjoys identifying bananas ("ANANA!") but refuses to actually eat them.
Meet-the-teacher at 4yo's new preschool!
Man, they took away the link that I used to post my Flickr pictures to my Facebook wall. LAME.
Oh my gosh, am seriously FAILING in my Flickr/Facebook connection efforts.
Have somehow convinced @DoctorMac to watch Bollywood movie with me. Singing! Dancing! No kissing!
Am standing in our new house. Yaaaaaaaay! I can't wait to actually live here.
It's raining walnuts.
Trying to explain to 4yo why karate is OK but fighting generally is not.
OK, am declaring my @ergobaby officially lost and am having hard time coping without it. Time for some shopping!
Children are very wary of eggs I made for breakfast. Has been waaaaaaaay too long since I have cooked hot breakfast, apparently.
Wish I could find some warmer sheets, but alas, my haphazard poking into boxes in our basement has not revealed their whereabouts.
20mo mispronounces "peach" in such a crazy way that I cannot even begin to phonetically spell it.
@Selkie1970 I laughed about "frog" on your blog because for us with now-4yo, it was her asking for "fork and spoon".
Oh no, the Pillow Pet commercial has come on after Sesame Street! Run to remote! Off off off!
Tea, toast, and Imogen Heap-- a nice morning.
Just saw @dooce at my gym! It is my brush with internet fame.
What I made for dinner tonight did not turn out very good AT ALL. And now we have a LOT of leftovers.
This gorgeous cool snap is making me so excited for fall. Can't get here soon enough, if you ask me.
I love it when my German sewing magazine suggests that fashionistas should team a certain jacket with bright parsley pants. HAHAHAHAHA...
Oh man, I meant "paisley" pants. Although parsley pants would be pretty weird too.
Time for a haircut for 4yo; she looks so little! http://twitpic.com/2jzt40
I can't find the Ergo today and MAN, I am missing it. Where did that thing go?
Rainy cool morning--  I love this kind of weather.
Wore jeans today and 4yo asked me why I was wearing Daddy's pants. Yeah, I don't wear jeans much.
Am hungry but I don't want to eat anything we have here.  Oh noes! 1st world problem!
Soundtrack to today's visit to farmers market: bagpipes and tribal drumming, at the same time.
I see why you can't buy heirloom tomatoes at the regular grocery store; I can barely get them home from the farmers market intact.
But just LOOK how delicious:  http://flic.kr/p/8w8x5k
Spent evening at the pool. Fun, but now girls are EXHAUSTED. Emotional-trainwreck level exhaustion.
May have been our last entirely summery evening as the forecast is all 70s and 80s from here on out.
Have opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate real estate transaction. Yay bubbles!
Oh, how I love taking girls to storytime at library. Am huge library-loving dork.
@astropixie Even *I* know about that movie. And if a Christian girl from Texas who never went to public school knows about a movie,
@astropixie I'd say pretty much everybody does. :)
@astropixie I think my favorites so far are ALMAgeddon and The Naked Gunn-Peterson Trough.
4yo is serenading me with a song of her own composition, entitled "May I Watch TV Forever?"
20mo is so upset about baby gate today. She believes I live to thwart her.
Well, it's finally happened.  Skinny jeans now look cute and stylish to me, instead of utterly ridiculous.
Now I want some.
Just delivered to our house: the 3rd refrigerator we've had since moving into this rental in mid-July. GET. ME. OUT. OF. HERE.
Walnut tree outside our open window is dropping its fruits onto concrete driveway. Sounds like someone is pelting us with baseballs.
Just bought a house and feel sooooo excited about it.
I have about twice as many things on my schedule today as I am really comfortable with. Am really more of a slow-living, homebody type.
20mo will not go down for nap and we must leave again in 1 hour. Am now taking bets on exactly how close to departure time she falls asleep.
20mo is fragile like a hormonal pregnant lady. Note to self: avoid truncating her nap in future.
One of my mothers' friends who is my Facebook friend just called her husband her "lover" in a status.  AWKWARD. :)
Caprese salad for dinner with AMAZING tomatoes from the farmers market. Few things are as transcendent as late summer heirloom tomatoes.
Also, 4yo calls it "crazy salad".
Noooooo! Freezer is making very concerning noises and stuff is defrosting. AGAIN. We've got to get out of this place.
Oh my gosh, feeling sooo frustrated about the refrigerator. AGAIN! All the organic stuff from the farmers market, the big Costco runs...
Thankfully, @DoctorMac is taking most of it to some friends' so at least it won't get thrown away this time.
Not sure what WE are going to eat for the next few days, though. Refrigerators are supposed to keep food COLD. It's, like, THEIR JOB.
Here's irony for you: the latest of my friends to have a baby and decide vaccinations cause autism is a drug rep. A DRUG REP.
@Selkie1970 We vaccinate on the normal CDC schedule and feel very comfortable with that. I think it might hurt my crunchy mom cred, though.
Just finished the most recent Harry Potter movie and feel so excited for the next one. Might even see it in the THEATER. SHOCKING.
Sunday dim sum after church. Had been so long since I'd had dim sum that I overdid it a bit in my enthusiasm. So full, but so good.
Am driving to Whole Foods in Prius listening to NPR, then off to Pilates. Am some kind of stuff-white-people-like cliche.
Really, REALLY wishing there was some chocolate in our house right now. Have found glaring problem with my virtuous shopping efforts.
Saturday evening trip to Costco. We know how to party.
Am sometimes struck by how lovely it is to not be pregnant.
Tonight's open window observation: bagpipes! Seriously! Fortunately, they are rather distant and not disturbing to 19mo.
This morning I burned the (organic) poptarts. I think my cooking skills might benefit from a return to bed or coffee or something.
Thundery torrential summer rainstorm-- I love it.  I just love rainy weather.
I will give the no-air-conditioning lifestyle this: our utility bill is, like, nothing.
4yo is almost humorously exhausted when I pick her up from swim camp. Am not used to seeing her energetic self like that.
@kathykrey A girl! That is so exciting! How fun for her to have two big brothers!
Another downside to no A/C: open windows at 19mo's bedtime + loud people outside. It's as if they're not using their inside voices!
I hereby resolve to actually make dinner today, despite the fact that it is hot hot hot.
19mo is so enamored of socks. She will be super happy when autumn comes and she can wear them for real.
Have eaten a lot of garlic scapes in the past 24 hours. Feeling a bit pungent.
Got REALLY hot at the park this afternoon. There is no way I am cooking anything for dinner so.... yogurt? ice cream? cheese sticks?
How much do I love Battlestar Galactica? A LOT.
TMI tweet: Went to an indoor cycle this morning for 1st time in years and am SORE. Unfortunately, not my muscles. If you know what I mean.
@astropixie Duplos, play kitchen/food stuff, books (picture books w/medium amount of words per page), dress-up stuff.
@astropixie That list skews a little girly, I know, depending on parental attitudes about what boys should play with.
@astropixie In general, 3yo's like pretend play that mimics what they see adults around them doing.
Dinner is almost entirely from farmers market this past weekend: cold sesame noodles (fresh!) with cucumber, garlic scapes, & green beans.
4yo says that Sunday is the day of naps.
Wondering if it is time to get 4yo another haircut; she is looking a bit uneven and straggly.
The one thing I am really bummed about in Salt Lake City is that the Targets are all SO far away.
4yo hula-hooping at downtown farmers market: http://twitpic.com/2eqbtz
@amyforestell We toured a bourbon distillery last weekend! Funny.
Knitting at the DPS waiting to get my Utah drivers license.
Wow, Utah made me take a test to get my license. Haven't taken one of those since I was 16.
Just had the most delicious meal at The Wild Grape Bistro here in SLC. Yummmmmmm...
Doing a double-blind taste test to see if we can tell the difference between nice red wine leftover from restaurant and red wine from a box.
Here's the WHOLE amazing set of those Library of Congress color photographs from the 30s-40s that's been going around: http://trunc.it/a9wow
Why does 19mo hate breakfast so?
Off to the pool yet again!
Seem to have chosen a windy, not-quite-hot day for swimming. Girls are shivery cold, especially skinny 4yo.
I'm tired of summer. I'm ready for fall now.
Oh my gosh, cannot keep 19mo from climbing up on top of kitchen table, over and over and over again!
My 4yo gives my 19mo a biiiiiiiig hug:  http://flic.kr/p/8r8Zxz
Much cooler today, so I may, just MAY, be able to bring myself to turn on stove.
Boy, Costco full of VERY chatty and friendly people today. Also, they have Vitamixes again. Want want want.
Am considering joining a MOPS group here in SLC, although have felt rather allergic to it in the past. Thoughts? Or experiences?
Unforeseen downside of working out regularly: even MORE laundry than my usual small-children/cloth-diapering routine.
Am at our house inspection. I think I could really love this house.
19mo did fabulous job inking herself up this morning. All pens must be put waaaaay up high now.
Between DIY tattoo, love of climbing on tables, & propensity to grab wine glasses, I should maybe start worrying about 19mo's teenage years.
@Selkie1970 Should I become your Facebook friend?
@Selkie1970 Oh my GOODNESS.  That is AWFUL.
Visiting a fancy distillery and tasting fancy whiskey in Park City. Yummmmmmmm...
Shuffling through paint color sample cards and daydreaming about our new house. Oh, how I LOVE picking paint colors...
Not feeling at all sad about leaving academia right now: http://www.chemistry-blog.com/tag/carreira-letter/
RT @DoctorMac: Great color pics from 1940s. The color makes it all seem somehow more real and less history. http://bit.ly/doOqtc
@slcfoodie BACON! We are quasi-vegetarian but we have a bacon exception at our house. Also, a prosciutto exception.
Browsing the most adorable French sewing patterns (http://citronille.fr/boutique.php)but not buying because the SHIPPING! is INSANE!
Oh, and we made another offer on a different house yesterday, and we got this one!  Will close at the end of the month.
I am going to (drumroll and trumpet fanfare) THE GYM TO WORK OUT. Believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen.
Just made an offer on another house, and then had perhaps the most delicious Indian food ever. Yum.
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19mo likes to eat guacamole with a spoon.
19mo made HUUUUGE mess at dinner. Procrastinating cleaning the floor. I shake my fist at you, rice!
Organizing hand-me-downs, sizes newborn through 4T. Wishing I knew if another girl baby will ever join our family, because OH THE CLOTHES.
THE HUGE PILES OF CLOTHES.
Remember how I was saying it wasn't so bad here w/o AC? I take it all back. Hot. Uncomfortable. Unpleasant. Send ice cubes.
Aw, looking like we won't get that house we offered on yesterday.  Bummer.  Lots of other good options out there, though.
Happy about the new refrigerator humming along in kitchen this morning, sad about organic milk and greens and whatnot I am throwing away.
Just made an offer on a house!
@kikiriri Aren't you dilated 3-4 cm? I think maybe you need to pack.
Storytime at library-- beautiful, beautiful downtown library.
@slcfoodie Is Star of India good? I wad thinking about buying that Groupon.
@astropixie I love libraries SO MUCH.  We got a bunch of graphic novels last time. I should do cookbooks there too; I never think of that.
Unpleasantness greeted me upon opening the only-quasi-working refrigerator this morning. Regretting big grocery purchases a few days ago.
Missing the food-preserving power of the miracle of refrigeration.
Turns out refrigerator here in rental house is not so much with the cold-keeping. Frozen food is not really frozen, milk goes bad.
Found out the New Pornographers are playing here in SLC in TWO DAYS. Can I find a babysitter in a new city in TWO DAYS?!
Heading to pool at Jewish Community Center for 1st time. Hoping I got schedule & everything right or may have revolt on my hands.
The kitchen cabinets in our rental smell funny.
Anybody have a good source for raw recipes? This house isn't air-conditioned and yet somehow I must still provide some kind of dinner.
19mo asleep in toddler bed for 1st time (super adorable). Also, both girls asleep in same room for 1st time (seems to be going well).
Church-shopping.
@kathykrey So fun! Have a great time celebrating both wonderful things.
It's Friday, right? Then I shall tell you that I finally followed @feministhulk today because oh, how funny...