family dinner

Sunday: rainbow tortellini with 3 1/2 pepper sauce and oakleaf lettuce salad This dinner was a bit of a goof. When we were at the grocery store I was like “WOW I CAN’T BELIEVE I DON’T NEED TO BUY ANY ONIONS THIS WEEK” but I did need one, for the pasta sauce I was planning …

four tens

This past Sunday was my birthday, and I turned forty. I’m not one of those people who FLIPS OUT over birthdays and aging, but it is definitely a weird feeling. Forty. Wow. So strange! To make my birthday special, Taylor spent months planning a hotel stay for just us with no kids. D’you know, the …

twenty-four

Sooooo city hall passed the motion to look into giving my block a heritage conservation designation! I’m so excited, like nothing’s done for sure yet (I guess the next step is research) BUT it’s one step closer to our goal. My friend emailed me a link to a local newspaper article about it and the …

life right now

I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago; when I told Gwen we were going to the beach she immediately ran and put on her bathing suit from last summer and I had a doozy of a time convincing her that February was too cold for swimming. making Not a lot. I have been …

gwen lately

Gwen’s speech is progressing nicely. Everyone always said “oh she’ll be caught up by the time she’s three!” and now she’s three and she’s not caught up BUT she is definitely talking more and more every day. She asks for things by name, she uses adjectives to describe things and numbers to describe quantity (usually …

Symstagram

1. Sym herself; 2. purple sushi; 3 & 4. Miffy; 5. fractions; 6. rainbow; 7. shells & cheddar; 8. the Sea Witch ursula talking about “body language”; 9. I know it’s hard to tell but this is actually a stuffed toy panda

Baby Rambles

Today is my first day back at work after vacation, which is GREAT because I think I’ve reached the can’t-sleep-and-when-I-can-I-have-weird-dreams portion of the pregnancy. After tossing and turning for hours I finally drifted off, only to have what was clearly a baby anxiety dream: I dreamt I had triplets, and they were so tiny and …

Symstagram

1. Sym herself; 2. rainbow mani (done at a birthday party); 3. her friend’s Boston terrier; 4. baby clothes; 5. some kinda s’mores snack; 6. Dougal dog :3 ; 7-12. back cover pictures from the Sailor Moon mangas; 13. one of Sym’s drawings