It was recently brought to my attention that people still go to my Web page, looking for news of my family. Which is amazing, because I haven't written anything of substance in like ... when was Miles born ( Read more... )

I've been putting off writing this thing because ... well, let's be honest, I've been putting off writing in here for like a year (or three, if you want to remember far enough back to where I used to post two or three survey memes a day instead of working). But the other part of it is that now that 2010 is over, I'd kind of like to drive away ( Read more... )

It's kind of amazing. You have a new baby and the whole world seems to be changing in a whirlwind of growth and newness. And then you look at your pictures from the past week and a half and everybody's just kinda sitting around.


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One of the things you have to be careful of in the first couple weeks of your baby's life is the umbilical cord stump. They cut it short and clamp it off, but then you aren't supposed to cover it up or mess around with it until that last little black bit falls off by itself. So we couldn't put Miles in closed pajamas so that we wouldn't risk ( Read more... )

There's a van in my neighborhood with a bumper sticker that says "Government is like a car -- an (R) makes it go backward, a (D) makes it go forward ( Read more... )

Holy crap, how is my son six days old already? It seems like only yesterday I was freaking out about whether I'd be able to make it to the hospital on time ( Read more... )

I spent most of my morning designing cards. Not only is it that time of the year, but we've got birth announcements due as well. If you want one or both, better let me know your address. (I know, it's so 2006 to use the blog for this, but piling it on top of Facebook gives me better saturation.)

I need to write the birth story down before I forget. Don't you hate when that happens? Some huge important event and you can't remember the details? Like, on the phone with my mom tonight I learned that when I was nine I lost my favorite stuffed animal on an airplane for two weeks, and my grandmother basically kept Southwestern Bell in business ( Read more... )

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So there are these billboards for a local insurance company scattered around my town. They're all pictures of morose-looking kids strapped in car seats, with the giant caption, "Saving 15% could cost you everything ( Read more... )