I am unteachable. Dear friends Ian, Christine, and Alise are due to arrive in Louisville for a visit in 8 1/2 hours. Not content to clean up the status quo, I undertook a few projects to spiff up the place before they arrived. I did this at a time when Matt worked long hours, school […]
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Hearty congratulations are in order today for Shawn and Yun, who sometime after 1:00 p.m. yesterday welcomed identical twin daughters Amber and Allison into the world. Amber and Allison join older sister Kalyna, who is a lovely and precocious 2 1/2, to fill out the mini-van. Special kudos to Yun, who carried the twins to […]
About that vacation… Matt and I both have an abiding love for the mountains. Specifically, we love the ancient, treed mountains found in Appalachia, the Smokies, and the Blue Ridge. Matt was lucky enough to live in the mountains of Tennessee for four years in college, and I was lucky enough to live a half-day’s […]
About six hours ago, Matt, Simon, and I returned from a long weekend in Asheville, North Carolina. We were overdue for our annual mountain fix, and we were about three years (!) overdue for our Rossi family fix. I’ll have news soon, but for now I’ve decided to let the photos speak for us and […]
That would be the handsome fellow pictured below.
A huge congratulations–and an impatient post again, already!–to dear friends Tony and Katherine on the birth of their second child, and to Master Thomas on the birth of a sibling. All I know about baby two is that he/she (but probably he as per a slip of the tongue of the sonogram technician) arrived at […]
Today is a day I’ve dreaded for quite some time: It’s Molly’s last day with us. When Molly first arrived in February, I wasn’t sure if we were a good fit. I didn’t hear her the entire day, and she barely talked to me even when I asked her direct questions; for an extrovert like […]
I think Simon has some quality bonding time ahead of him with his Uncle Ian. It’s just too bad that he won’t be back in California sooner. You see, my friend Ian is a great lover of Danish. Well, all pastries actually. I’ve seen him hike up small mountains in San Francisco late at night […]
Overbooked
Posted in First Steps, Friends, Jessica, Toddler! on Jul 4th, 2008
Much like the airline industry, I am prone to encountering “overbooking situations”. Somehow, I always think that this will be the week when the space-time continuum will alter to accommodate my planned 30-hour day. Wednesday, I actually planned the following day. And I swear that at the time, this day seemed a bit busy perhaps, […]
Sometimes the answer to a problem is right in front of you, but you just can’t see it. Fortunately for me, my path has crossed with someone who has a complementary problem to mine and better vision into a solution. My problem is that I worry Simon needs more socialization than he’s getting. I’ve made […]