A new puppy at Maison Bean?

September 4, 2011

Tweet Lately, Jax can’t eat enough. He turns 5 next month, and he weighs 44 pounds—about the same thing he weighed last year. I think he’s about to have a growth spurt. He also wants a puppy. “We already have a dog,” I told him. “But Hyacinth is your dog, and Rooster is Papa’s dog,” […]

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Blogher: the highlights and the lowlights

August 31, 2011

Tweet Getting there A half-asleep Belle drove me to the airport at 4:30 a.m.  I was finally going to Blogher, the grand kahuna of blogging conferences, and I wanted to be in San Diego bright and early because I had a lot to learn.  But after the toddler attempted suicide the night before, I’d cracked […]

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Some things are not meant to be shared

August 27, 2011

Tweet This was first in my hurricane kit. Available at Total Wine.

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Blogher, pee-pee mishaps and dirty laundry

August 24, 2011

Tweet By Papa with insightful commentary from Jenny Jenny left for the airport to go to Blogher about 6 a.m.* At 6:02 I heard the unmistakable sound of little feet running through the house and little hands that were working the hell out of a squeaky ball. Squeaky balls are like crack for canines.  Both […]

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Baby Finn

August 21, 2011

Tweet Please keep Baby Finn in your thoughts and prayers.  The 3 1/2 month old chubby cherub has a cancerous tumor in his chest that is scheduled to be removed tomorrow morning.  Finn’s mom Shannon is a single mom by choice like me, and I’m sure she’d appreciate all of your prayers for Finn’s successful surgery […]

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Maison Bean under attack by mutant super virus

August 17, 2011

Tweet Moose eats a lot of fruit—strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, bananas and apples. Moose is regular. Last week, Moose was more than a little regular. The next day Jax was decidedly regular and then the next day Moose was exceedingly regular. I’m trying to be delicate. When Jax decided that the apple juice tasted funny, […]

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Larry’s life

August 15, 2011

Tweet That’s Larry hanging out on the meyer’s lemon tree right off the back stoop of Maison Bean during the rain Saturday night.

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Fruit salads and fruit loops

August 10, 2011

Tweet Note:  Hyacinth ate my post, so I’m resurrecting a post I wrote for Scary Mommy in April.  In the meantime, get ready for a BlogHer recap–it’s on the way!  XOXO, Jenny ACT I 9 p.m., Wednesday, Maison Bean, Jenny’s boudoir. A telephone is ringing. JB: Oui allô. Mimi: It’s me again. JB: I know. Mimi: I’ve got […]

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I didn’t get the memo

August 5, 2011

Tweet When Hyacinth ate a whole tub of brownies, the emergency vet advised me to induce vomiting. So when I discovered Moose crying on the counter with one of his water bottles in hand—a water bottle that was being disinfected with a bleach solution—I immediately stuck my fingers down his throat until he hurled the […]

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What I did this summer

August 3, 2011

Tweet by Jax Bean, age 4 ½ My mommy can’t write this week because she’s tired. She said we wore her slap out while we were at the beach. I think it’s because of Moose. He didn’t take a nap the whole time we were there and he cried real bad when he didn’t get […]

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