Luke is at that age where he babbles constantly and it's possible to have a conversation with him as long as you don't mind that nothing he says makes any sense. What he lacks in clarity he makes up for with enthusiasm, and it's totally adorable. You can tell by his expression whether he's talking about fun times, or telling Daddy about all the ( Read more... )

1. My sister Kate turned 15 on Friday and my other sister Kim turned 14 the week before, so I took them both out to lunch to celebrate the fact that they are now almost as old as I am. They forced me to pick the restaurant and then both ordered the exact same meal that I did, so I can only assume that my mom gave them a talk about how I am poor and ( Read more... )

Now that the Easter madness is over, let's review March goals. They were admittedly pretty wimpy ( Read more... )

On Sunday morning, the Easter bunny came!


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On Saturday I woke Luke up early and we ran some drills. First, I threw all our plastic eggs on the living room floor and timed him while he tossed them all in his Easter basket. When he had the basic mechanics down, I took him out to the yard and we repeated the exercise in the grass while the neighbor kids and their dog ran wild all around him, ( Read more... )

When we were shopping for Luke's Easter suit last weekend, I suddenly remembered promising my mother that I would take Luke to get some professional pictures done. Actually the conversation went more like this: after begging me for months to get his pictures taken, I still hadn't so she finally gave up and told me that SHE would take him, and I ( Read more... )

Luke and I both survived his first Easter egg hunt ( Read more... )

I'm a nervous driver, so one of the greatest things about working from home is that I made it through five winters without being forced to drive in the snow. So OF COURSE on my first day of training at the library, during the first week of spring, I woke up to this:


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1. I bought some new work clothes. That's right--starting today I have a job where I CANNOT wear Hello Kitty pajamas to work. I'm going to be working part-time at the library, and I am ridiculously excited about it. Between all the book-reading and book-writing that I do, you probably could have guessed that I LOVE the library. Since I haven't ( Read more... )

1. I checked out the new thrift store with Brian on Friday night. I tried to check it out with Luke on Friday afternoon and we literally could not find a parking spot. And it's in the space where the Giant Supermarket used to be, so it's a BIG parking lot. We got there about twenty minutes before they closed so I didn't get to look around the whole ( Read more... )