Or until 8, anyway ( Read more... )

13 years ago this Sunday, I showed up at the UU church in town and got married. It's pretty fantastic so far- plenty of rough spots, almost all external, and plenty of awesome bits, mostly internal. It feels like it's been maybe 4 or 5 years at the most, certainly not 13.

So this weekend, we're packing up, leaving the boy and the dog to fend ( Read more... )

Their Excellencies' party was fun - mellow and fairly low-key, with lots of small children around (three- in that tiny house, three unrelated small children is a LOT), plenty of yummy food and funky beers and fun people to talk to ( Read more... )

Last night, my mom came over to watch the boy watch a movie, and A. and I went out to have dinner. We decided we were going to go someplace we hadn't ever been before, so we wandered up and down Franklin St. looking at menus. We decided on a quirky and delicious Italian hole-in-the-wall run by a genuine Italian chef. It's next door to the ' ( Read more... )

Excellent date, excellent movie, excellent evening. A. and the dog are out for a quick walk, and Nate fell asleep on the couch instead of being put to bed by his Mimi, so I'm only online for a minute or two. If you haven't seen Coraline yet, do not wait any longer - go see it now, in 3D. It's totally fabulous.

My wonderful spouse and I are going to have dinner out and go to see Coraline in 3-D tonight. My mom is going to come over and hang out with the boy, and they will Wii together. It'll be great for everyone, and I'm really looking forward to it.

I hear Don Pardo in my head introducing Dennis Miller on Saturday Night Live...

The circus trip went well - N. had a blast, he had a crazy-good time with his cousins and now he wants to buy a pool table (his grandpa has a pool table), and kept talking about elephant poo.
We rented Zack and Miri Make a Porno on Friday night and got pizza from ( Read more... )

My wonderful and fabulous husband just drove here so that N. could give me a hug and kiss before going away to his grandpa's for most of the weekend. They brought me four really nifty flowers - they're carvings of flowers made from wood, and they're the most perfect rosebuds I've seen.

The reason I'm so twitchy about hurricanes is that the spousal unit is the Arborist for the town, and in the event of storm damage, he'll have to stay in town and work 12-hour days for the duration of the cleanup. This is a well-worn drill in our house, and it goes like this - he works, I do all of the housework and childcare and care-and-feeding ( Read more... )

No names show in this article, but my wonderful (and extremely tired) husband had something to do with every single tree on this list. He dictated that list to the supervisor who sent it to the Town Manager or Mayor or whomever, who sent it to the press.