Man this blogging thing can be a serious pain in the gozotch, as my daddy would say. Every time I want to figure out how to do one simple thing that should be absolutely intuitive, I’m sent on a wild goose chase to figure out how to make it work. For instance, I want to […]
2010
I couldn’t resist the alliteration of the title for this post. But in all seriousness, I speak of Heli Expo, the annual gathering of the helicopter industry to share, drink, talk, eat, drink, buy, sell, drink, educate, research, hire, drink and network. And I have noticed that sometimes there is drinking. This year we head […]
So I’m sitting at work, working away like a good little Umpa Lumpa, when I get a call from the nanny. “I thought I should call you because I’ve never seen this before. (Sweetness) is shivering hard and has blue lips. We were out playing. I washed her hands in warm water and have bundled […]
With Sweetness sneaking up on 2 years and 5 months, we decided it was high time she started to get serious with this potty training business. Last spring we got her her own potty – a pink Baby Bjorn thing that was just the right size for her. She sat on it with her clothes […]
Ahh, a blessed day off. This is the first year in my five years at my current job that we’ve “had a dream.” It’s our first Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We celebrated here at home by recovering from a busy weekend and getting a few chores done. Truth be told, mommy reflected on the […]
Here’s a “well, duhhhh” for you. When you have kids, it’s like a whole new world is opened to you. I always planned to go to the zoo and aquarium more when I had kids to share them with. Yet, there are so many more things out there that I was somewhat aware of, but […]
The last couple of days I’ve been feeling that old familiar feeling. You know, the one where your middle section feels as if an immenent storm is about to pass through, and I’m not talking about that left over Chinese food. But while I was pretty sure I knew what it was, a part of […]
Shortly after Sweetness turned 10 months old I learned of a great co-op preschool program in Seattle offered through the community college. These schools ran out of buildings around town, typically churches, and required a great deal of parent participation, but were relatively inexpensive. Like $50 a month cheap. And were they ever popular. If […]
