True love

To prove that Kyle and I are crazy, let me tell you the story of Wednesday night. A community “Movies in the Park” event was showing Princess Bride, one of Kyle’s very favorite movies. Aha, we shall go to this, we say. Wait, Owen goes to bed at sundown, we lament. Well, we will take him in [...]

Happy birthday, Uncle Adam

Spelunking

Warning: Random and Very Boring Post Ahead I have many fears in life, one of which is caves. I really never have any desire to go exploring in a cave and stumble across the mutant humans who inevitably live at earth’s innermost core, all blind with rubbery skin and 12-inch incisors. If you’ve ever seen [...]

Fast-Forward

I’ve had really good intentions of posting. About two weeks ago, I sat at this computer for approximately two hours trying to upload photos, watching with fried nerves as it froze up again … and again … and again. Yet I diligently and, please note, patiently continued to restart the computer repeatedly, to no avail! [...]

Dear Owen,

Today I pulled out a ruler, just to help me visualize how very long you are. As I’m now 28 weeks pregnant, you’re almost 15 inches long, all squeezed into my body. What a miraculous gig you’ve got going on in there. Yesterday I emailed your dad, pointing out to him that in less than [...]

My, how things have changed

On March 28, 2006, life slowly ticked by whilst I was “Living Alone”: You can leave two half-full or half-empty glasses of water sitting on your wooden dinner tray. You don’t have enough money to buy a dining table, so you use wooden dinner trays, but you have to sit on pillows when you use [...]

Sock it to me

Kyle and I are ALWAYS in a hurry, mainly because his sense of time is like my sense of direction, except worse. I can find my way around if a map’s handy, but Kyle apparently never learned how to tell time. I credit this deficiency to two factors: 1. He used to simultaneously play and [...]