I’ve got it on my mind. One year. A wedding, a house, a move, a delayed honeymoon, a grandmother’s cancer, a pregnancy, a lost job, a pregnancy, parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, a new job, a pregnancy, no more new job, a pregnancy, more exciting new jobs. Oh, and a pregnancy. […]

The kids are on the couch eating, and both said their throats hurt.  Carole asked Angelina why her throat hurts.  Angelina replied, “I have no idea.”

Is it an update if nothing’s happened? That’s not quite true, actually; a few more physical indications that the time is nigh. We just don’t know how nigh.
What I realized we haven’t done, though, at least to my knowledge, is send any recent photos of Carole. If there’s any doubt that […]

Nothing to see here. A little more progress as far as physical things that generally foretell (at least for Carole previously) anything significant happening, and a few strong contractions, but no major movement. We’re officially back to waiting for labor. Dates to shoot for when mentally projecting: April 25, 26, 27, 28, […]

First in a series of posts about the blog itself, re: updates, nifty new features, or things I feel like bragging about.
1) Brigitte alerted me to the fact that commenters were being forced to log-in, which was not my intent.  Now you don’t hafta.  It just needs a name and e-mail address.  If the spambots […]

As I wrote to a couple of people last night, 10:00 and still no baby. We’ve pretty much had to decide to reset our mindset back to waiting for labor to start instead of baby to come. Hard to stop thinking about the what-if’s from yesterday, but that’s done, and in fact the […]

Few stories give me goosebumps, and who knows what will actually turn out to be the truth of this one, but to have the idea even approach reality is a little thrilling. Of course it won’t mean anything to us, but as I was just this morning explaining to Angelina and Alexander (per Angelina’s […]

After having eCarList, the auto photography job that seemed so promising, peter out, and discovering that the catering job wasn’t going to do what I thought it was, I’ve been back in job ad mode. Nothing promising was showing up until, almost one on top of the other, a couple have materialized (on Craigslist, […]