Extra Super Fantastic

Yum. Playing with the new camera while Samson naps upstairs, the wind is doing a number on the trees outside my window, and Nanna's snor...

Happy birthday, my new little friend! Welcome to life. Don't worry, you ended up with two very cool parents--they have four cats between...

Our recent decision not to buy a house has left us feeling a bit more financially free and unfettered than we usually feel. Combine that wit...

Happy Passover, and please pass the matza. We all had a great weekend at the Sea Ranch. Tennis balls were chased, deer were growled at, matz...

We're off to the Sea Ranch for the weekend to spend Passover with our families. Samson gets all the benefits of being the first grandchi...

Funny thing, he really enjoyed the show tunes, but wasn't too interested in Bon Jovi. So no house for us. This is OK, we are far too fre...

I've been a little overwhelmed this week, and I'm having a hard time blogging. Chances are that this will continue for the next litt...

We're back from our long weekend. All of my airport security anxiety, seating assignment anxiety, screaming baby on the airplane anxiety...

All right. We're in escrow, the loan is locked in and ready to go, I've signed my name about a billion times and initialed ten billi...

OK, now is the time to buy stock in Prozac and any of your more popular mood-stabilizing drugs. And chocolate. We seem to have bought our fi...

Dear Month Five, I can't believe I'm actually doing this--I've never written a love letter before. OK, I've never sent a lo...

After our last potential house buying experience--which ended up with us not buying a house and what I consider to be more than my fair shar...

Nap Time

We are constantly living the roller coaster ride that is real estate. Home buying-induced heart attacks and ulcers have to be somewhere in t...

Momentous occasion! Life as we know it is over! He mastered step one a few weeks ago... ...and he can now officially roll from his back (bor...

So never mind about that whole house thing. It's going to cost way too much for us to fix that house up, and we are not house fixing up ...

For the second week in a row, we found a place during our weekly Sunday house hunting appointment with our realtor that we were nearly able ...

Samson's newest extra super fantastic fun thing to do? Pinch mommy! Not like how an evil toddler pinches people, but like a tiny little ...

The cold is continuing on its course and the baby now sounds like Kathleen Turner. Part of the hoarseness is probably from the massive amoun...

I got fitted for new contacts today, Third time's a charm is what I'm hoping. The disposable store brand that I tried in 2005 just ...