Everyone has been feeling cruddy. No fevers, just aches and queasy feelings. I mentioned wanting tea with my dinner and that I wanted to go to bed early. Jason and Maddy sacked out at 6 pm, and the boys were playing Infinity for a while until their bedtime of 7 pm. But Jason had mentioned that there were towels still in the dryer, as well as ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

Okay, I wasn't really on vacation. I was at a conference in NYC, so it was nice to see family and former colleagues. It was almost like a reunion, and I was caught up on the gossip going on there for the past six and a half years. Half of the couples are divorced, the Old Guard of attendings and even the nursing staff are all gone now that there's ( Read more... )

I feel like I haven't updated on Real Life in forever. Work is in the busy season, and the kids are busy with all kinds of activities. School is going well for them, and Zach varies between loving on school and hating on reading. He loves being read to, though. He just doesn't want to read for himself. Nick had an episode of high temperature (not ( Read more... )

Oh my God, is it really time for Yuletide letters already?!?! Somehow I missed noms, so apparently there's no Coraline on the list. My kids randomly found it on TV last week, and adore the movie to death, even though Maddy is terrified of the "Laffy Taffy scene" when Coraline is looking for the souls. Zach says it's scary, but still gleefully ( Read more... )

How is it that my baby girl's eighth birthday party is tomorrow?? I mean, her actual birthday is next week, and Indy turns nine too. But she's my baby!

It also feels weird that Zach is four and three quarters now, and will turn five in January. Nick is a little over two and fits into 3T clothes. Holy cow, how time flies!

Oops. I haven't posted in forever. Some of that is that there isn't a whole lot of news. The kids continue growing like weeds and intermittently deciding it's a good day to ignore everything I say, or that they're going to be adorable dweebs that make being a parent worthwhile. There was about a week between Maddy's Y Break summer day care and the ( Read more... )

I let the kids play outside with the neighbors while I was cooking dinner. Maddy ran back in after about ten minutes complaining that I should occupy Nick. "If I watch him, I can't play and have fun!"

My reply?

"Welcome to motherhood!"

She didn't appreciate my sense of humor. ;)

I know it's been forever and a day since I last did a picspam, and the last personal thing I had written was pre-vacation bitching. So I'm long overdue for something happy, especially on my last day off of work from this vacation block. So how about pics from this month, including the vacation time? :)

( Just when I got my life together )

I can tell today is going to be A Day ( Read more... )