The bitch likes chocolate

June 30, 2010

Tweet Note:  I’m interrupting the regularly scheduled Bean history to report on a recent Hyacinth event.  To read Hyacinth’s bio, go to Meet the Beans and scroll down. Hyacinth is the resident bitch at Maison Bean.  (Papa, if you are reading, keep the comments to yourself.)  Hyacinth is a 10-year-old, 22-pound Pekingnese with a bad […]

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A Bean in the oven

June 23, 2010

Tweet “Don’t you see that line?” I asked Mimi holding the peestick up in the sunlight.  It was almost eye-deceiving.  “I don’t see it,” she said. Mimi can be brutally honest, and her eyesight is deplorable. I decided to ask someone else. It was still early to be testing anyway. It had been a rough […]

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In the beginning: pursuing single motherhood

June 16, 2010

Tweet When I spotted the two storks with their spindly legs awkwardly plodding through the marsh grass at my friend Lillianna’s house the month before my IVF was to take place, I knew it was a good sign.  Lillianna and I met through a TTC (trying to conceive) listserv for single women, most of whom […]

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A single mother’s tale to begin… soon

June 1, 2010

Tweet The countdown has begun… except that I haven’t decided which day I’m counting down to.  There are just a few housekeeping details to be ironed out, but by the end of the month, JennyBeansBlog will be off to the races.  In the meantime, I’m posting a picture of spring at Maison Bean.

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