Wow. Not sure where the past 39 years and 2 days have gone. Time just escapes me. Okay, so I’m being a bit melodramatic. But I’m 39 and get to be. I am not sure that I am where I expected to be at 39. I have done nothing in my life traditionally. I didn’t [...]
Noah started his second school year today. He is officially a Newporter (his school has two pre-school classes Big Bend 3/4 and Newport 4/5). He is already talking about how next year he’ll be in kindergarten. Slow down big guy–mama doesn’t need you to grow up too fast. He has been so excited to start [...]
Noah has summer homework each year of pre-school. It’ pretty intense. We have to make a summer book. Okay, I’m lying. We so don’t have to make the book–they do provide that for us and they should for the tuition we pay, but we do have to write in it and fill it out. It [...]
Noah has a complicated “family” day or Noahversary as we like to call it. Hubs and I arrived in Ethiopia on August 20, 2006. We met and held Noah for the first time on August 21st–for a total of about an hour. He was then taken back to the hospital, where he stayed until August [...]
When they were released, I really wanted an iPad. But when challenged by my fad technology sceptic husband (who works in technology), I didn’t really have a good reason. I wanted to be able to read on it–I thought that would be great but then why not just get a kindle? When I got my [...]
Just when I think that maybe, I could not sent my kids to the private school Noah attends. Maybe we could then buy that vacation home we want (okay we really don’t want one–but we could have one). Maybe Bill could get a new car. Then I listen to something like this and am reminded [...]
We leave in less than three weeks for our annual family vacation–Hubs, myself, our two kids, my brother and his partner, my other brother and my mom. My mom started this tradition 2 years ago and it’s great. This will be our 3rd family vacation and I am excited. We are doing another cruise–which is [...]
For the past week or so Noah has been crying when I leave him at the sitters. This is totally unusual behavior for Noah. This isn’t to say he hasn’t been clinging before and a bit of a protester when it is time for me to leave–but even at home he’s been a bit needy [...]
I will be 40 in just over 12 months. I always thought, believed, hoped I would be in better shape and thinner by now. But the truth is I’m not. For the three of you who have been reading my blog for a substantial period of time know that weight has always been an issue [...]
It really is true what they say. There really are 6 applicants for every job opening out there. I have been lucky enough to turn my part-time job into a full-time job. But it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Because I work at a public university, we had to advertise the position even though [...]
