Last night Desley and I were babysitting H when a near disaster happened. Des was cooking and inadvertently let some oil get too hot in a pan and added water. A flame-up resulted and lasted until Des could turn the gas burner off. Harrison and I were at the other end of the kitchen. After [...]
We had a lovely, lovely turkey day with Finn’s family. Absolutely one of the best t-day meals I have ever had. Thank you to you all for letting us crash. There was football on upstairs and while we were waiting for dinner H and I crawled up to take a peek. We were maybe in [...]
Halloween started off harmless enough. I quick trip to Etsy to find some kind of costume – because there is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that I am ready to start MAKING HALLOWEEN COSTUMES like you crazy I mean, craftily-inclined people out there (and that includes you mom)! Charlie Brown t-shirt – check. Shorts – check. [...]
I knew that the love one feels from their grandparents is pretty great, but, I gotta say, Great-Grandpa-Love is unrivaled. We got to spend a few days around Christmas with Marc’s parents and Great-G-Pa Blase, who gushes over his great-grandson and looks at him with beautiful, warm, loving eyes and holds him with such sweet, [...]
Some photos from Christmas – finally! – including this one where he is practically tripping over his eyelashes: Listening: Surf City
We made it back from our “vacation” – 3 weeks with family in California. My plan was to take a day or two to relax and then leave the kid with any grandparent, aunt, uncle, or nice looking stranger I could find so that Marc and I could get out of the house, see some [...]
We took the kid to the mall (gasp!) on Christmas Eve (yikes!) in Bakersfield (ugh!) to get his photo taken with the jolly, red-suited, fat-guy. We luckily timed it perfectly – got there a short while before Santa arrived – the whole experience only took about 40 minutes. 40 minutes was, however, long enough for [...]
Nicole and Kara win the big prize! The boy was a monkey. Pretty mundane, but, super cute. The costume which was store-bought by his lazy-ass parents, worked out to cost about $3/minute. But, it was totally worth it. Listening: White Rabbits
Listening: Fleet Foxes (this is for you Shauna!)
Listening: Miles Kurosky
