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So. Where have I been for the last 6 weeks? I've been here . And here . And spending lots of time in one of these . And getting one of t...

Finally, after months of perfectly acceptable but hardly tank top worthy weather, Indian Summer (also known to us Bay Area folk as "rea...

Just a quick update: play school ROCKS. There were some tears when I tried to make the kiddo stand still in front of our house for a photo o...

The kiddo starts school tomorrow. What, what? Is he even two yet? No. He is 22.5 months old, and has already been accepted to Harvard. Lucky...

I could write 50 million blog posts about the fun things we did in Minneapolis, and it would still fall criminally short of describing the a...

Remember last Spring when I talked about our cracker jack plans for a garden ? Well, we did end up with some fairly edible prizes to show fo...

I loves me some animal cruelty. As long as it's adorable!

Whoops! I did it again. And I'm not just saying that because I'm wearing my hair in pigtails with fluffy pink hairbands. I let a who...

It already seems like years ago, but we took Samson camping last Friday. He did really well, as well as can be expected of a 21 month old sp...

Max and I are taking the kiddo camping tomorrow, and we're super excited. It will be Samson's first camping trip, Max's and my f...

A few weeks ago, Samson and I went to Portland to visit good ol' Dedi and spend some time with her toe headed progeny. We had great fun;...

To better reflect the direction my life seems to be going, I'm changing the name of this blog. The top contenders, in no particular orde...

Of course the lumps are benign. And of course they aren't worth removing. And of course we can expect him to get more and more of them a...

Nanna's passing brought with it the end of fetching, the end of stick chasing, the end of the snoring dog. There is no more squirrel cha...

Thank goodness for marriage. If it wasn't for marriage, Max and I wouldn't have flow to Brooklyn last April for my brother's wed...

God bless Dramamine.

Well, I've got a carry on bag full of tiny toys wrapped and tied with ribbons, about four pounds of jelly beans and m&m's, and t...

I've really been missing Nanna this week. Thanks to a crazy busy pace of life, I've been able to pretty much ignore the space left b...

While Max heads to Wyoming this weekend for a business trip, the kiddo and I are off to Portland to visit our peeps, both toddler sized and ...

Samson's first three-word sentence: "Bye-bye, duck shoe." Nice try, kiddo. You'll be wearing duck feet for as long as I ca...