When Jack turned three, all friends and family independently bought him Play Doh. Three appears to the be Year of Play Doh. (Four, by the way, is the Year of Hot Wheels and Racecar Tracks.) Along these same lines, Two, it seems, is the Year of the Ocean. I say this by way of explanation…
Category: Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!
Peace
I have been granted by my generous family a full day in the house child-free, during which time I am attempting to catch up on bar bri. (Three days behind. Already. Cursed move.) I’ve listened to two lectures and taken lots of notes so far. It’s important that I use this time, but since the…
Happenings
So, this happened. But first, some family showed up in town to celebrate the two of us. (Although this was my graduation, The Professor didn’t walk in his August graduation, so we treated this as a celebration of both of our accomplishments.) My parents, his parents, and one of my sisters arrived on Friday evening,…
Christmas
We’re rewinding a bit to mid-December, when Jack and I made Christmas cookies. I’d like it recorded here, so I can get my Awesome Holiday Mom points. See, we have that book “The Sweet Smell of Christmas,” in which Mother Bear makes gingerbread boys to hang on the tree, and after reading it Jack decided…
Thanksgiving Trip
I am in the middle of exams, I have a wedding to update (I’ve written snippets here and there, but I need to link them all together into something coherent), I have various other side projects demanding my attention – life is BUSY, yo. But I still managed to squeeze in jotting off this description…