Annie's Romance

Welcome to Cheeky Clean!!!
So.
Sorry for the very looooonnnnggggg break I took from blogging.
Things have been crazy around here.  I have thought more than once of starting a different kind of blog entirely, but then I'd have to do it anonymously to protect unwilling subjects, and then I couldn't post it on facebook, and then no one would EVER know it existed.
So I'm sticking to this one.
As you can see though, I changed my name.  The old one Clean Eats for Tiny Tummies was too long and not very catchy.  As a musician, catchy is a necessity for me.  And also, I'm very unclear on the direction that this blog is taking.  I'm pretty sure it's not a food blog, strictly speaking, so the 'Clean Eats' seemed misleading.
Oh, did I tell you I'm a musician?
I am.  I play the violin.
I am currently playing in a Celtic band here in Utah called Annie's Romance.  This extracurricular activity has saved my sanity more than once this past spring and summer.  I love having something that is just my own.  Just for me.  Every mother needs what Virginia Woolf referred to as "A Room of One's Own".  She was a wise woman indeed.  My band is my very own room.  Where I get to go every Thursday night and remember who I was before I met my spectacular children.  Late Thursday nights I come home ready to be a more or less adequate mother to them.  Better than when I left.
I will be forever grateful to my talented bandmates Atta Girl Annie and Runaway Rob and Marvelous Marvin for their patience with a mom who never has time to practice, is the last to learn everything, and is ten minutes late for everything.
In other news, my kids' health has been hugely improved this summer over last.  Pickle (5 yrs) has strep right now, but it's been several months since his last bout so I'm not taking it too personally.  Mini (7 yrs) has sounded like she has strep all summer, but nope, it's just INSANELY swollen tonsils.  She says it doesn't hurt but it looks, well, like a medical emergency is living in the back of her throat.  I think we have two tonsillectomies in our future... Due to the stress of the summer's events which I am not free to discuss publicly, I have an awesome ear infection right now.  Because apparently I'm 4 yrs old.  Here's a reminder to all you old fuddy duddies like me:  EAR INFECTIONS HURT REALLY REALLY BAD.  Yummy (2 yrs) had a cold which required one breathing treatment in August, and I panicked and thought all was surely lost...  I fully expected to be up around the clock for a week doing breathing treatments, but nope!  After just one breathing treatment he recovered, and his cold cleared up pretty quickly.
If only the whining was also caused by a milk allergy...