My to do list had 23 items on it that I was supposed to bring to the cub scout meeting this evening. I wrote it last night so that I wouldn't forget anything important. I unfortunately did forget to add "paperclips" and "Extension cord" to the list. I went separately from Jon so luckily I was able to call him and ask him to bring the paperclips ( Read more... )

Here's some photos. I'll have to add video later after some processing. Youtube isn't taking my native files.
--Beth


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Reading the reports, it appears I got really lucky yesterday at the Paul McCartney concert. I went with Jon and my parents.

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The phone rang at 4am today. It was a fax. I went back to sleep. It rang again at 5am, and I turned on the fax machine and tried to set it to receive mode. I failed, because when the phone rang at 6am it still didn't pick up properly. At 7am however, the fax came through. I have successfully canceled my merchant account with Elevon. Yes, ( Read more... )

Just in case someone missed the gamers_at_slimy@yahoogroups.com message, Jon's 40th birthday party is tomorrow night (Saturday the 20th.) Come at 7:45pm, cake & ice cream at 8:00 sharp so we can put the kids to bed at 8:30, then gaming for the rest of the evening. If you want to come for the gaming but don't know Jon that well, feel free to come ( Read more... )

Somehow it came to be November already. Mid-November even. Today is Jon's birthday, happy Birthday Jon ( Read more... )

We had an awesome Halloween. I didn't get any stills of the kids going trick-or-treating with 7 friends and everyone all decked out in glow bracelets, (I took some video, but it wasn't light enough to get good shots). I did get pictures of my kids before school in their costumes and of the cranberry pie I made entirely from scratch using only ( Read more... )

There's a saying that goes, "No one ever puts on their tombstone 'I wish I'd spent more time at work.'" implying that people who work too much while their kids grow up should come home more often ( Read more... )

This morning we went to Peter's pre-school's Holiday presentation and I got to have the experience for the first time of watching my son go up on stage to be a spinning dradle ( Read more... )

November 12: I'm grateful Peter slept through the night without waking anyone up. I'm grateful the Advil worked. And that the splitting headache I had in the morning behind my left cheekbone didn't turn out to be a sinus infection (I hope ( Read more... )