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Monday, August 30th, 2010You may not know this, but it is a crime against nature for a child to arrive in the world to a home where the tubs under his parents’ bed have not been recently evaluated. A home without neatly organized bathroom drawers? Equally egregious. Most shocking of all? Arriving in the world when your mother’s file drawer [...]
Baby Registry
Friday, August 27th, 2010We are 32 weeks into this 40 week adventure, which means only 8 weeks (ish) until the little man makes his appearance! Thank goodness. He’s making my stomach HUGE and I’m ready to walk up stairs again without considering it serious calisthenics.
It has been a very busy summer between travel and both of our jobs, [...]
Cabin Rain
Monday, August 23rd, 2010August has been absolutely beautiful, as it often is in the Pacific Northwest. If there is going to be a cool and drizzly weekend in late summer, though, you can bet that we will have the intiution to pick it. Obviously, this means that we picked this past weekend (5 months ago!) as our cabin [...]
Nothing much
Friday, August 13th, 2010There is nothing much to report from our neck of the woods, apart from an impending heat wave over the next five days. The doctor visit for week 30 went well today, and the little dude decided that it would be entertaining to sleep with a foot poking out in a big lump last night… [...]
Monkey Butt
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Allosaurus is one lucky little dude.
So am I. I grew up with 3 grandmothers, 2 grandfathers, and a great-grandmother for my entire childhood. Most of us lived in the same area, so I saw them all the time. And as for the grandma and grandpa who lived far away? We got to go on spectacular [...]
Let Them Eat Cake!
Friday, July 30th, 2010I, Courtney, Queen of the Oven, made this cake for our friend Krys’ birthday. (There should be a joke about a bun in the oven here somewhere, but I’m too sleepy to figure it out.)
Keith, King of the Knives, cut Krys’ cake with great ferocity and skill. He was rewarded with an extra [...]
Egg on Your Face
Saturday, July 24th, 2010Portland is nothing if not opinionated.
In this city, it is expected that you not only will, but should be as vocal as humanly possible about your views on everything. Passionately believe that you know the only way to do it! Explain to everyone why they ought to be more like you! And gosh darn it, [...]
Eggplants (International)
Monday, July 19th, 2010Last week, we had pasta alla norma for dinner one night. This is a scrumptious dish with tomatoes and eggplant and fresh basil and whatnot. I’m not telling you this just so you can be wierded out that we voluntarily eat eggplant; we’ll return to this pertinent fact later.
Last week, I also [...]
Stags
Thursday, July 15th, 2010There were stags in the front yard of our bed and breakfast! One was a mature three-pointer (to the left), and the other was a scrawny teenage stag (to the right) hanging out with a cool older dude.
So, here’s what happened: Josh went to return our keys at the main house, and while he [...]
Garden of the Gods
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010We watched a video at the visitor’s center which told us that the Garden of the Gods was thus named because two men (can’t remember who!) were surveying the area together. The one man said, “This would make a great beer garden!” His friend replied, “No, this is a garden of the gods!” [...]
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