Because this is all I do with my life now...


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I was contacted by a recruiter in Manchester earlier this week. He was looking for someone to fill a contract-to-hire position at a company in Portsmouth, NH. After talking with him on the phone, he said what I always dread, "I'd like us to meet up and talk about this face-to-face. Can you get to Manchester?" Yes. Yes, I can get to Manchester ( Read more... )

Melissa decided that this week, during her February break, she is going to potty train Katie. She bought little training pants for her, and we have a toilet seat that goes over the normal seat for her to sit on. The plan was to take her to the potty every hour in hopes that she pees in it. She has been surprising us though ( Read more... )

My parents drove down from New York on Wednesday to stay with us through Thanksgiving. My sister Julie came down that same night, leaving on Thursday while my parents left Friday morning. Melissa slaved away in the kitchen most of Thursday while we attempted to stay out of her way and occasionally helped with small tasks she required done. She ( Read more... )

Last night after her bath, Katie ran off before I could get a diaper on her and returned with two handfuls of plastic utensils. I had her lay down on the changing pad, and proceeded to get her ready for bed ( Read more... )

I haven't written in this in a while, I know. There's not a whole hell of a lot to talk about that I can think of. I'm still working. Melissa is still teaching. Katie is still growing and playing. She had a bad cold recently and is in the process of getting over it. Very unpleasant ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Katie came over to me and grabbed at my hand urgently. "What do you want?" I asked her. "I wan my baf" she said, quite clearly. I was quite awe struck. "Did you hear that?" I said to Melissa. "Hear what?" "Tell Mommy what you said," I said to Katie. Katie looked at Melissa. "I seh pweeeease"

***GASP***

I forgot to mention in my previous post: Katie has taken a fondness to something near and dear to me ( Read more... )

By Melissa's suggestion, we made a trip to the Stoneham Zoo on Saturday. It was bright out and it was hot out. Most of the animals we saw (by which I mean, they weren't hiding) were lying there, trying not to bake in the heat. There was a glass enclosure with a couple small black bears that were cooling by the side of a pool. They were a big ( Read more... )

As my mother pointed out, yesterday was Melissa's and my three year wedding anniversary. I got to stay home from work for the day, only because I had been given a job to drive out to a client's facility and test a machine that survived a tornado to make sure that the software we had installed on it was still functioning. Katie gave Melissa and me ( Read more... )