Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Want to hear about my husband’s ambitious schedule during his last semester in MBA school? Seriously, if he pulls this off he should be awarded some kind of superman trophy. Look at this list of responsibilities he’s working on between now and mid-May:
Me, his lovely but not always low-maintenance wife
Three kids under 5
Elder’s Quorum secretary [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
I spent the morning piling the kids into the car, buckling them into their car seats, then unbuckling them and unloading them. Our kids’ car seats don’t really fit in our car. I’ve tried to fix that by replacing their seats and switching Degen to a booster now that he’s old enough (birthdays!), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2009
We went to the California Academy of Sciences museum yesterday on their monthly “Free Wednesday”, which was more of a life science museum than general science. It was so fun!
The planetarium wasn’t recommended for kids under six, so we skipped that. Maybe that was the “other sciences” part. But we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2009
Thank you to all the veterans, soldiers, airmen (and women), and sailors who have protected me, my family, and my freedoms.
Thank you for sleeping in sandy tents and for working in terribly uncomfortable weather. Thank you for facing things too frightening for most of us to think up on our own. Thank you to your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2009
Two months ago Colin’s cousin Mark contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome. Guillain-Barre is an autoimmune disorder triggered by an acute infection (like flu) that attacks your nervous system. It causes paralysis to the point of not being able to breathe without assistance and deep nerve pain. Once the worst is over, the patient is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2009
I’ve been making an effort to exercise more. It’s been a kinda half-hearted effort, and thus difficult to make myself get going. Yesterday I did it and enjoyed it so thoroughly it’s worth writing about.
I was typing away at a project on the computer after getting Maggie and Heidi down for naps. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2009
Heidi is a great crawler now, and crawls with her legs straight and her rear in the air like her big brother and her father before her. Because of this, we’ve had to put a gate at the top of the stairs when we’re in the kitchen so she could explore without taking a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
In researching Halloween costume ideas from the kind commenters on my earlier post, I was thinking about Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and all those wild hats and discovered (what many of you must already know) that there is really something called the Royal Ascot races! And they still hold them (since 1711). And [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
I’m singing the “I don’t know what to be for Halloween” blues right now. I’ve got the kids figured out, and Colin has been working on his very creative and unusual costume for months now. I, however, have no idea what to be.
Halloween used to be in my top three holidays (behind Christmas [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
This morning I’m having a broken filling replaced. I don’t remember ever being nervous about going to the dentist before, but I’m a little nervous this time. Something about “we’ll have to be really careful with this one” from my dentist on my last visit has stuck with me. So, wish me [...]