Baby Blase

Albert & Tari are coming to visit this weekend! Hooray!
While this is great news and means that we are in store for many, many fabulous meals, at least one night of live music, movies (an experiment in how guilty I can feel for leaving the kid with the nanny while NOT working), shopping and of [...]

So, the kid is a rocker as witnessed by his affinity for post-punk and its sleep-inducing capabilities. I wouldn’t have even claimed such a thing, had my parents not seen the results of blasting Blood On The Wall in the car over an over-tired baby’s screams. This summer after a housewarming party about an hour [...]

Apparently the deal is we get a weekend of angel-doll-baby who will enjoy live music, friends, beer and walking all over the city with us in exchange for bloody-murder-screaming, raiser-of-hell all day Monday. The kid is exhausted and won’t sleep for more than a half hour today. But, I must say - it was such [...]

We’re staying with my parents - a great chance for them to get to know the kid and for us to live rent-free within 2 hours of San Francisco and Tahoe. They live about 5 minutes from Highway 80, not that you would know it from the looks of some of their neighbors:

A fox family [...]

The unofficial littlehellraiser community meet-up was held in San Francisco on Sunday, at the home of the original. Our kid got a chance to hang with his new pals Owen and Tyler.

It’s always nice to discuss children with parents of similar aged kids, but, this was even more fun, because even though I knew of [...]

Jack doesn’t seem to be having any problem adjusting.
Listening: Midlake

I’m hippie-traveling-mom!

I wish I could say that the laid back hippie mentality stuck with me after the flight, but, I’m afraid that the moment the kid exploded - expressing his discomfort through other-worldly screeches in my parents car, I began to unravel.
I knew that traveling was going to mess with the kid’s schedule, but, I [...]

California - here we come. Marc via a two-day car ride with his brother, all of our Chinese-made plastic baby crap and the two cats. Me and the kid via a plane ride - just the two of us… uh… holy crap! We leave at 6pm - peak fussy-time. I’ll be checking a large suitcase [...]