[rambling thought]Hmm...that subject makes me think of sailing. I'm sad that my parents have not had their sailboat fixed, but not sad enough (motivated enough!) to fix it myself. Though it would be nice to raise Quinn with a stronger stomach than Eric has.... Though, I guess if Eric were more enthused about it then I'd have more motivation to ( Read more... )

Some disconnected thoughts...

• My sister got back from India on Monday. She went to go to a wedding. Hopefully this weekend I'll get to see pictures and hear about the exciting parts, because she admitted that on Monday I was mostly hearing the whiny parts! (Like her allergic reaction to the anti-malaria drugs, etc.) But it sounded like it was a ( Read more... )

...the vacation! Or the sort-of vacation, anyway. Eric is supposed to be working while we're visiting his parents, but between our plans and his mother's plans, he'll be lucky to fit in more than a couple hours a day, and only if he gets up early (and what are the chances of that, I wonder?). But we have fun things planned, like going downtown ( Read more... )

...unfortunately it never seems so at the time - only afterward when you have to work your butt off to make up for the fact that you were a total slacker for a month and a half. Oops! Summer just flew on by ( Read more... )

1. Buy Quinn some new shoes before he really can't wear the old ones anymore. Uh...perhaps this should have been done last week. Oops! Hopefully this one will be done today - some spiffy sandals from Preschoolians.
2. Figure out when to go to Boston to see sabriel_0405, fragileflower6, and my sister (I have more people to see in Boston, too, but these are the definite ( Read more... )

Yay!! We finally have a new pastor. It's been about two years, but the search committee (which my mom co-chairs) presented their candidate today and the congregation accepted. He ran the service and aside from being rather long winded in a couple spots, I think I do like him (not that I expected not to, since my mom does!). But he'll get ( Read more... )

( The parenting adventure - other people's! )

This morning the furniture people came to pick up the wedge from our sectional so that the defective zipper on one of the cushions can be replaced. I felt like Cindy Lou Who, whose Christmas tree had a light that was out on one side and the Grinch, who wanted to steal the whole tree, told her, "I'll take it back to my workshop, my dear. I'll fix ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about taking a day trip up to Freedom, NH next week. Why would I contemplate 6 hours of driving in one day? and with Quinn along? We don't have any weekends free this monthso Eric can't come with me, and I just don't know if I want to deal with an overnight trip just me and Quinn right now. Hmmmm. Oh, but why do I want to go up ( Read more... )

So the weather is grand here right now. Got up to 70 today, nice and sunny, just lovely. Since it is Patriots Day here in Massachusetts, my parents had the day off, so Quinn and I went to their house for lunch and ended up staying for dinner, too. I helped out a bit with the yard work (raking, raking, and more raking - they have a lot of yard!) ( Read more... )