I just had to preen that I successfully removed a brown bat from our house today without (1) screaming, (2) just closing the door and opening windows, or (3) pretending I couldn't find it until I was safely on a plane to LA later on today ( Read more... )

Dislikes:

Anything pureed
Boiled carrots
Avocado
Rice cereal

Likes:

Palak paneer
Chicken
Peas
Black beans
Scrambled eggs w/cheese
Cheerios

Except for the cheerios, I think Cy's going to skip baby-type food entirely.

This is aroraborealis posting for razil with the big news!

At 2:26 this morning, razil gave birth to her and blivious's son, Samuel or Cyrus Reed Blake. He was 8lbs, 4 oz, 21 inches long, and has sandy blonde hair like his dad.

Mom, Dad and Baby are all doing well. blivious sounded very happy and not-too-exhausted when I spoke with him!

Hooray!

I hate fruit in this country. Why can you never find anything that is locally grown and has flavor? I guess it will soon be blueberry season, so we'll have a few weeks of those - and then apples... But, still. It has probably been years since I have had a peach, nectarine, or plum with any real flavor. (Not to mention mangoes, papaya, and other ( Read more... )

We had an absolutely fabulous time in Nova Scotia, with brief stops in St. John and Fredricton, New Brunswick on the way there and back. Photo highlights of our trip are here, which make it seem like we did nothing but visit parks and look at the water during the two weeks. This is, actually, a fairly close to accurate description of our trip. ( Read more... )

Not the same kind of digits that mr_privacy got last night, but ten little fingers and ten little toes! Very cool to see the images, and we have the obligatory Skeletor face shots to freak out our parents. The little heart is *beat-beat-beating* away, which was awfully fun to watch. Now, we just have to wait for another five months to see what those toes ( Read more... )

So, those of you who know blivious know that he's been a slighly more regular poster than I have. You will also know, then, that we are expecting. We are super excited, and just a little wide-eyed (even though we've had a while to get used to the idea, it's still a pretty major brain shift). (That, by the way, is an understatement.) We're motoring into ( Read more... )

I am fortunate that five of my best friends stumbled into my life my freshman year of college. We have had our ups and downs, as individuals and as a group, but overall these friendships are among the most important in my life. Across oceans and time zones, new and dissolving relationships, marriages and babies, new jobs and professional ( Read more... )

I had a lovely small town moment today, after winding my way through side alleys and parking lots with some creative navigation. I arrived at the office just in time for the Saco/Biddeford Veterans' Day parade, complete with 4 marching bands (each playing the same piece over and over), a smattering of boy scouts, cub scouts and brownies, some ( Read more... )

OK. Apparently with less than 4 weeks to the elections, I'm getting a little riled up. I noticed this funny looking lump on Bush's back at the debates last week, but didn't really think much more into it. Then I hear this ( Read more... )