Top five advantages of being unemployed:
5. Staying caught up on household chores (yes, actually an advantage).
4. Going back to my natural clock: asleep at 1, awake at 9.
3. Time and energy to cook deliciously healthy meals.
2. More energy for lovin'.
1. Time with Ayla, an incredible being to spend all day with!

Because they inspired me to actually check this dang site ( Read more... )

Please let us find a great house to make our home. We are arriving in the general San Jose area in two weeks and it would be extraordinarily comforting if we had a place to live ( Read more... )

"You are pisting me off".
Not exactly the most pleasant words I want to hear my three year old repeat after me.
I truly need to work harder at handling my stress and reactions to it.

On Wednesday Ayla turned 3!!! She is so happy about it, and so proud of being a big girl. Jeff's parents were out for two weeks and we had a lot of fun. We had a bday party for her on Saturday and her little friends came and we did all the bday stuff, but it was particularly fun because she was aware of everything in a way she obviously was not the ( Read more... )

Have a child cuz tax refunds are amazing ( Read more... )

Jeff is heading down to San Jose this weekend to finally meet the investor of his new business. I tortured myself by checking the weather for him- around 65 all weekend! Here, it hasn't been as warm as 40 in days.........I am so ready for this move ( Read more... )

There is nothing quite like a pint of Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream to cure Irritable Weekend Syndrome.

I ( Read more... )

so on the potty train!!