I'd like to try to sum up the past few days, but not sure how to do so without spending the rest of my awake time this evening doing so. We've spent most of the past week in Austin for our Rice friends' annual New Year's shindig. Essentially what happens is that events are scheduled (or not...some things happen last minute) and folks are notified ( Read more... )

We were supposed to be heading to Austin this afternoon after lunch to be there in time for dinner with my family this evening. BUT, Corwin is now on Day 8 of a cold and not sounding better (in fact, he sounds worse to me, though he isn't acting like he feels especially bad...aside from sleeping past 9 this morning). Normally I wouldn't worry ( Read more... )

I'm happy I got to stay in bed a little late this morning while Andrew got Corwin up and fed him breakfast, and apparently dealt with a strange poopy diaper while I was in the shower, so I didn't have to help. I'm happy we're back home in Houston, and that we didn't encounter any heavy traffic on the way here. And I'm happy that Corwin napped for ( Read more... )

We're home ( Read more... )

So Andrew and I are finishing up getting ready to leave for DragonCon tomorrow. We're spending the night tonight with Corwin at Andrew's parents' house (saves us from having to get up butt-early tomorrow to drive up there in time to drop Corwin off and get to the airport on time), and we'll leave from there in the morning to catch our flight. ( Read more... )

Corwin and I arrived safely in Austin this evening, after taking a 40 minute tour of Houston in the rain before we were able to get properly on the road (I forgot something important and didn't realize it until we were nearly to Katy, thus a 40 minute round trip ensued). Corwin tried really hard to stay awake for the entire drive, but finally ( Read more... )

We're back at home. We got here shortly before 4:00 I think ( Read more... )

I'm writing from our hotel in Lafayette, LA tonight. We left the beach house around 10:30 this morning and arrived here about 5:30 this evening. Corwin was fussy this morning (apprehensive about us packing up and getting ready to leave I guess) but has been fine all day once we got in the car and got on the road. Lunch was at a Barnhill's buffet ( Read more... )

We are at the beach. Our house is SUPPOSED to have internet access, but thus far it has been terribly spotty. We had it the day we arrived (Saturday), and for an hour or so around dinner time on Sunday and Monday. Unfortunately, we were over at the other house (which is also suffering with really spotty internet access) eating dinner during that ( Read more... )

Corwin and I made it back to Houston on Friday without too much trouble. He got a bit whiny about an hour and a half or so into the drive, but fell asleep around the two hour mark and I was able to get us the rest of the way home without incident. We were on Richmond when he woke up from his doze, so really close to home ( Read more... )