Books
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Step Climbing
Just a quickie to show you a video from this afternoon. Phoebe, Dave, and I were at Barnes & Noble in the kids’ section. Phoebe was able to climb up a step! It…
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Mishaps and Adventures
This week has been gray and rainy. One afternoon I realized that if I’d been at work, I’d be wishing that I were home reading a book. And I’m home! So I got…
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A Visit from Grammie
We haven’t had much chance to write this week. Dave’s mom is visiting and she’s been hanging out with Phoebe while I get a few things accomplished…none of which have been the blog!…
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NaNoWriMo
November is the National Novel Writing Month, and I thought I’d give it a try this year. In truth, I’d never heard of it prior to this year, but with our busy schedule,…
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Snow Day! (plus catch-up)
So Dave tells me that you guys don’t want to read long messages about much of anything, especially Twilight. (Except Emily. Thanks, Emily! I know you’re asking yourself why I’m blogging and not…
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Reading Twilight
Well, it’s bedtime, but I don’t feel like going to bed. Dave’s doing the taxes and I’ve been reading Breaking Dawn, the last book in the Twilight series. My friend Emily started this…
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Six-Word Challenge
I’m coming late to the party, but I just read about Smith Magazine‘s six-word memoir concept. It’s pretty simple: tell your life story in six words. Should we try it? I’ll start. You…
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Chiles Rellenos
Dave had to work on Friday, so I got up and did some video exercising. I had a project in mind—cleaning up my home e-mail (1193 messages in the inbox!)—so I worked on…
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New Year’s Eve and Day
Dave and I spent our weekend off doing more or less nothing, except having fun and storing up energy for 2009. We spent New Year’s Eve with Andrew and Maggie, Andrew’s parents and…
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Merry Christmas!
I repeat, Merry Christmas! We went to the 11:00 p.m. Christmas Eve service at church last night, so we got to start our celebration in the car as the new day turned over.…