My new site is sarahmball.com :-)

Okay, so in an effort to waste less/spend less (something I am continually failing at) I cleaned out the pantry last week to see if we could forego grocery shopping for a while and just use everything we've got first.  Unfortunately, we threw out an entire box of canned goods.  Including--I kid you not--two cans of tomato soup that expired in Jan. ( Read more... )

from Edward's perspective ( Read more... )

You really don't have to put on your box that your donuts have "0 grams of trans fat."  I know they are bad for me; everyone knows they are bad for you, and no amount of semantic conniving is going to convince me otherwise ( Read more... )

Crocs ARE as awesome as everyone says they are!

In fact, I am experiencing some kind of shoe-love now.  I have a pair of these sandals, and my mom got me a pair of these mary-janes type shoes, and they are both incredibly awesome.  They fulfill all of my shoe-needs, and are actually quite cute on:

1-no blisters for at least 2-3 miles of walking
2-can ( Read more... )

 (he pulled them all off of our bookshelves)

Dream of Red Chamber by Tsaoh Hsueh-Chin
Selected Poems of T.S. Elliot
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Plato's Symposium
Tickle the Pig by Edith Kunhardt
The Wild Palms/If I forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner
Japanese Gothic Tales
The U.S. Army Survival Manual
The Communist Manifesto
Jane Eyre by Bronte
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the cow says...

Edward:  "muuuuhhhh."

(I guess I am finally turning into one of those people.  Maybe it was only a matter of time.)

But seriously, this was an exciting moment for me.  And for the stuffed cow.

MOO !!

"Oh my God, Oh my GOD everywhere is sold out of the Starburst sour jelly beans.  What am I gonna do?  I HAVE to have them..."

"Do you want that bunny?  That bunny is hollow.  That one is crunchy in the middle.  That's an expensive bunny, over five dollars.  Do you really want to pay five dollars for a chocolate bunny?"

Walgreen's is my new favorite ( Read more... )

So I got a flower!  Yes, I know that is not exceptionally original or interesting.  But it's what I wanted, and fortunately for the rest of the world I'm the only one that has to have it on my back.

Anyway, it's actually a lotus flower, inspired very directly from a photo Stephen took on our first trip to China together!  We took it to Bruce at  ( Read more... )

First of all... Edward is napping!!  YES!!  What does one do when their baby naps?  It is an exciting prospect.

Anyways, as promised from the title of this post, here are some exciting (IMO) baby things.  First of all, Edward is learning words!  He's not speaking them, unless you count "nah nah nah" and "gu bluh" (still haven't figured out what ( Read more... )