Kate Stowell

I’ve never paid someone to clean my house nor would I ever have thought I would. However lately life has been so crazy and tiring that Todd and I are going to give it a try. The Cleaning Authority will come twice a month to do the house. It just seems that with how little [...]

Ethan turned two last month, and tonight when I was drying him off and putting on his pajamas he told me “Mama, cover me up, I’m chilly!”. That’s a pretty long sentence for a barely two year old :). He also helped me make gingerbread cookies and plant an amaryllis bulb this morning. And yes [...]

I haven’t wanted to post much this week because I’ve had some pretty heavy stuff hanging over my head. Last week I had a breast MRI (it was supposed to be baseline) and OF COURSE they found a lump. And OF COURSE it looked suspicious….sooo…it was back to the breast care center on Tuesday. I [...]

I know….it’s been a week since I last left a note. Life has just gotten in the way. However I do have a great link….please check out my cousin Tiffany’s new blog about getting through T-cell lymphoma. She had an appointment today up at Fred Hutchinson so I am hoping they had lots of great [...]

We had our first family outing together to a more formal restaurant than McDonald’s. After Ethan and Daniel were both up from their naps we went to Home Depot to buy some bulbs for the garden and a wire brush and paint to sand out and repair the rust on the porch furniture before we [...]

This week has absolutely done me in…and I’m not even hypothyroid! With Ethan having such a hard time (justifiably so- mommy had 2 surgeries this summer, grandma left with the dog and the truck…) and Todd being gone on a business trip + working 5 days this week all I want to do is go [...]

So right now Ethan is above me in his room SCREAMING. I think it is just starting to hit him that sometimes people leave and never come back. In the several months his best friend moved to California and his grandmother left. This week Todd and his primary teacher went away for a few days. [...]

…Because my interventions would be, “Stop being a flaky kook!”. Seriously. When you have a 2 month old preemie and are one week away from discharge, it only THEN occurs to you that they will not let you keep your baby in the dorm room at college??? Such a tiring week. Todd is in NYC [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve written but this week has been exhausting and honestly I’ve just been too sad. I’ve talked to Tiffany almost every day and the biopsy came back positive for T-cell lymphoma. She’s starting her first round of chemo as we speak. Tiffany lost her father (my uncle David) three years ago [...]

Phew! Another crazy day at work. This weekend we got our first total body cooling patient. We just bought two cooling blankets and this was the first chance we’ve had to use it. It’s kind of freaky when you touch the baby to feel how cold they are. The patient we were cooling this weekend [...]