With the house on the market, we’ve had to take down gates, remove doorknob covers, and open the house up to MonkeyBoy. He is loving the freedom. He now helps himself to food in the pantry and delights in playing in the master bedroom. Up until last month, we still had the [...]
I made a travel map for MonkeyBoy a little over a year ago, and I thought it would be fun to update it. I didn’t realize we had traveled so much this past year, but he’s doubled the amount of states he’s been to, plus he collected that Canadian stamp in his passport. [...]
MonkeyBoy’s current fascination is boogers. He’s known about them for awhile, since I used them as a way to get him to learn how to blow his nose back when he had a cold months ago. He’d fight me getting anywhere near him with a Kleenex, I’d win and force a tissue against [...]
The boy is tired. But he won’t nap. I still enforce “quiet time”, especially this week because I am exhausted and want to lie down for a bit. Yesterday during “quiet time”, MonkeyBoy lined up all his books in a row. He was so proud.
Today, he refused to nap at all. When [...]
I co-hosted a baby shower yesterday. And by co-hosted I mean I made the cakes, favors, Pioneer Woman’s bacon goodies, a name banner, and a scrapbook for the signin sheets. The other hostess did so much more, with her gorgeous decorations and food preparations, house cleaning and cute sign in sheets. Oh, [...]
Today at work I got notice that I would be receiving a pink slip. After twenty years in existence, my whole department was defunded. It’s quite a shock to everyone there, although I wasn’t too surprised with the way the economy is going. I do admire academia though, they do their best [...]
I downloaded pictures from my point and shoot camera today and just have to share more. Expect a week of Alaska-related posts as I go through our adventures.
We traveled with my parents as well as my brother and his family. My brother married a woman with three teenagers, and they all decided that MonkeyMan [...]
We’ve spent the last 10 days in Alaska, with a quick jaunt into Canada at the beginning for passport stamps. We flew to Vancouver and then boarded a cruise ship into the Inside Passage of Alaska. I was very apprehensive about taking a two year old on a cruise, but the trip went [...]