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Chris didn't get home from GoPets until 5am this morning...the whole server outage went over the estimates of 4 to 6 hours by a lot ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, at Maya's school, it's International Day. All the classes put on a show, sing some international songs and are asked to wear their home country's native clothes. Since Maya would have to wear either Native American clothes (which we do not have) or t-shirt and jeans (which she wears a lot anyway), she's representing the other half of ( Read more... )

Personally, I've been feeling very homesick the last two days, but a really awesome thing happened to me and Nadia on Wednesday of this week ( Read more... )

Went to Maya's class today to do a few art projects with the class. Next time, I need to do the projects BEFORE I go to the class to make sure they actually work! LOL I did an Origami butterfly first. Very simple instructions, listed as doable for kindergarteners. Here's the link: Origami Butterfly. It looks great on paper...but when we did ( Read more... )

Maya started crying while eating a lollipop today. She said that her tooth hurt. We checked and she has first loose tooth! Chris and I were way more excited than she was, but she is now excited. She said that she wants the tooth fairy to bring her lots of stickers. I figure the tooth fairy could handle that. :-) Now she can't stop talking ( Read more... )

The art school that Maya goes to just started toddler classes. We were invited to do a trial class, which was today. Nadia was excited to be going to "my aat tass" and, as I expected, she loved the whole thing ( Read more... )

January 25, 2005: The day I got my first tattoo.


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Remember when I talked about Maya's kite? Well, I finally got it back from the art school.

( Maya's gorgeous kite )

This sounds like it would be so much fun to go with Chris and the girls:


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