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How to peel garlic in 10 seconds???!!!
We just came across this amazing technique on NPR this evening on how to peel a whole head of garlic in under 10 seconds…
How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.
Somebody could have pointed out to me…
I guess I’m supposed to keep up with these things, but I just realized the About page hasn’t been updated since I started this blog 2 1/2 years ago. So now it has. Tempus fugit!
Clare Anah Baker
I will post photos as soon as I find my transfer cable, but Clare Anah was born this morning (early due to a 3am bleeding episode). Mom and Clare are doing well and resting. Thank you for your prayers!
Craig
UPDATE: Thanks to Justin’s IPhone for the first photo:
An Update from the Baker Hospital
This is attempt number three for this post. Craig’s computer has eaten it twice now. But we had a doctor’s appointment last Monday (most of the delay is actually due to my laziness, not his computer, sadly) and here is the jist of things.
The placenta is in between the baby and its way out, so unless it moves, I’ll have to have another C-section. The problem is that if the placenta detaches too soon, the baby loses oxygen, and if it gets damaged in the birthing process, there can be a lot of bleeding. So what needs to happen for me to stay out of surgery is for the placenta to move up a little less (or more would be great!) than two centimeters, according to the ultrasound.
The good news is, it only has to move a little to remove most of the danger. The other good news is that it’s not over the scar from my last C-section, so that eliminates a whole raft of other possible complications.
So on January 20 (which is roughly 36 weeks into the pregnancy) I’ll go back to Touro and have another ultrasound, and if it has moved, then we can pretend none of this ever happened and go on like any normal pregnancy, and if it hasn’t moved they’ll schedule a C-section for sometime that week.
So, clearly, what I need is for you to pray that the placenta moves up, and the more the better. It’s not impossible, but there isn’t a lot of time and space for it to happen, so it’s not super likely either.
In the meantime, I get to stay on bed rest, the nice part of which is that my mom is coming to stay with us to help out, and then when she has to go home for a while Taylor is coming to stay. So it’s not all bad.
But, maybe because someone thought I needed to be kept from getting too active, the girls and I all have head colds and pink eye right now. So that’s been fun. And Craig starts work again tomorrow. And that’s the update.
Prebirth Adventures in the Hospital
Let’s make an attempt to work out exactly what happened on our little excursion to the hospital. I’ve been processing it for a couple of days now, but I’d like to get some of the details down “on paper” before they start to get too fuzzy.
It was Wednesday morning, and I was taking a shower. When I went to turn off the water, I noticed blood (the bright red kind doctors and pregnancy books get really excited about) in the tub, and tried to call Craig. He thought I wanted him to get the biscuits out of the oven, so he didn’t come and I had to call again. We called the midwife, but she didn’t pick up, so we called the office of our back-up doctor, and they told us to come in to the labor and delivery floor.
My Little Lent
Well, for those of you who may not have gotten Craig’s updates, we are in need of prayers – big time.
Merry Christmas, by the way!
The good news is, our little Oscar is very healthy, and I am very healthy, except for one little thing. I had some bleeding in the shower on Wednesday morning, and we went on to the hospital to have it checked out. (Thank you Theresa, Justin, Craig’s mom, and my mom for taking care of the girls through all this!) What I had hoped would be a battery of tests and getting home in time for lunch turned into two days and one night in the hospital, mostly waiting.
September 29, 2010
Homeschooling journal:
Socialization practice today – we took the girls to youth group. Also learned that Red 40 may be a problem for Lucy. The Kool-aid at dinner made her nuts. But she is usually nuts at youth group, so I never can be sure.
Also watered the garden and picked a couple of bell peppers, and explained to Lucy why we let some of them stay on the plant and get bigger before we pick them.
The Trip, Part 1: Hospitality
I’m pretty sure this will take several days to explain, in part since my writing time is now divided by a number of thank-you notes which must be written with all haste.
Which seems like as good a place as any to start. We were very, very blessed by the generosity of friends and strangers on our trip to Fargo, ND, this past week. We were gone from Tuesday morning to the following Tuesday night, and only spent one of those nights away in a hotel. So pending the thank-you notes, here are the people to whom we owe our very awesome, very long trip.
