I feel like I'm waking from a long, cold dream.  Finally, finally (!) there's sunshine and warm breezes and the ground is free from ice and snow!  The daffodils are blooming and it looks like most of our transplanted lilacs will leaf this year, if not flower. The sun is shining on our house for sufficient hours in the day to allow us to hang our ( Read more... )

It was a little strange to go to Thanksgiving at someone else's house this year, as we've become accustomed to hosting people out in Michigan. This year, though, our rental home is just too small to host the number of people who would attend, and we are still far enough away that visitors would want to stay the night. We don't quite have enough ( Read more... )

 I think I have just enough time before my undergraduate student comes in to write this up.

Something to Blog About, Post #15: Write a Letter
Chantelle writes: Write a letter to your younger self.  Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give yourself? Party harder? Be nicer? Stop and smell the roses? Be kind to your parents? Or just enjoy ( Read more... )

 Wow, this marks 1/4 of the way through my blogging challenge.  Can't believe it's really at that point.  I'm a little nervous for some upcoming posts, as they require me to, you know, TALK with other people and get a *gasp* GUEST BLOGGER!!!  These are things I'm not so good at.  I've got some ideas but I'm too paranoid to email people.  Good thing ( Read more... )

Post #2!
Chantelle writes: Take your readers on a tour. Grab your camera and explore. Share your favorite places, sights, food, people, haunts.

It's a good thing I looked at this post a little early!  I went through a few of my archived photos and here's what I put together.

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 Ben's rash is cured, I think.  Last night we didn't give him any antihistamine (we'd previously been stepping down the dosage from twice a day to once).  He hasn't had any new outbreaks of spots or welts, so we might be in the clear (FINALLY).  As a reward, both Jake and I caught the virus from Ben.  I was sick all weekend and Jake has been slowly ( Read more... )

Christmas morning.

Christmas afternoon.

The day after Christmas (Dec 26th): in Ilion and in Carthage

Julia's birthday (Dec 27th)

Iron Chef (Dec 30th)

My girls (Dec 31st)

 It's become a tradition to meet up with my best friends from high school every time I visit NY.  Andi is still working in Watertown and Amanda has moved back for the time being as her husband is working with Fort Drum.  Rose was living in Plattsburgh but her husband was transferred to a correctional facility (as a jailer, not an inmate) so she ( Read more... )

 I've resolved to start reaching out to people and making contacts, being the initiator.  I was sitting back, letting life grab hold of me and wring me around, barely keeping my head above water as I navigated the daily chores and responsibilities that come with parenting and school.  But I've noticed that I haven't really spoken to anyone besides ( Read more... )

I'm going to have to break up these images into several entries. Even after going through my camera card and deleting the blurry ones and duplicates there were still 100+ images left! I don't want to upload them all, but each one is important for one reason or another. So here are a few from July 24 and 25.

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