Family post

To the related family; I’m hopeful this is useful info and not old news…  For my parent’s 30th anniversary they are requesting this.  Mostly because after 30 years of prosperity and good luck they want to help others less fortunate and a tiny bit because Mom does not like to dust.  I will be calling [...]

New features in Picasa

Picasa, my absolute favorite (free) photo software package, is now better then ever.  They improved many of the little things that bugged me but the first of two awesome things is a new set of montage features that I use here with my bucket of cuteness in the quest for a christmas photo part II.
Second [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

what more can I say.  Hope everyone is having as good or better

Monday of a short week is still a Monday.  My stupid cold is in my chest so I scrummed to the advertising and got some Musenex and I suppose it does work but now I’m choking on gack that I’m hacking up.  (sorry for the visual).  Otherwise I feel ok, especially if I stay hydrated [...]

Sunday

Almost did not make it today, we have been extra busy today snoozing and shopping and playing.  We went to costco for the monthly diaper supply and babies r us to test drive highchairs.  Tonight I mushed up 5 avocados and it yielded 16 cubes of food, we are set for avocados for a long [...]

The pen

(cheep picture post ahead but its been a busy day)
So a friend came over today to do some projects and she brought with her the pen, baby jailworld, if you will.  It is a safe haven for little crawlers who don’t have more sense then a starfish.

She is ok with it so far, especally when [...]

Christmas… too soon?

After the bath with rosy cheeks I started the quest for the perfect Christmas card photo.  We will do a family picture too (don’t worry mom, I know how you hate the solo kid cards) but any opinions on these ones?

Home ownership, easier to find a hole to throw money into

5pm and my wonderful baby is taking a nap and since today was the work from home day I don’t feel compelled to try and clean during this break.
 
Today I think I will dedicate to the massive amount of money we have poured into our home this year, mostly in the past few months…
 
Most recent [...]

MBA

edited to add… ok… yesterday I wrote a nice fairly detailed description of my current MBA class and hit publish.  I noticed about 10 min later I had a popup that said it was unable to publish so I went in and published again.  I even went to view the site and it was there… [...]

sick…

The daycare crud has finally got me.  After about a month of Niamh coughing directly in my face I have succumbed to something.  Unfortunately I am so busy this week with work I can not take time off to sleep. 
 
Thats it for today, hopefully my germs don’t get you through the screen

movie monday

Roomba v Niamh

Sunday

today went by too fast.  Niamh was crabby and I had a cough so we did not go to church and we just played in the livingroom until nap time.  I attempted to register for spring semester but classes are not open yet, I only have 3 more core classes then 6 electives and I’m [...]

Done today

Will edit as I do stuff but I’m hoping to get alot done today since I have not ‘real’ plans (other then do the stuff on the list)
Before 10am;
put away all the patio furniture
took pictures of the damage done by the window people should evidence prove necessary
Cleared everything from the back porches/decks so the siders [...]

my newest crown

Ahhh the dentist.  I have avoided the dentist since just before I got married until 3 weeks ago when a filling fell out.  I know I should have gone but there were just so many things to do.  Wedding… house… baby… and the baby took 9 months so that is like almost a year right [...]

day from home

Thursdays have always been my favorite non weekend day, I’m not sure why, I’ve just always liked the day.  Thursdays got more important when we moved here because it is really the only free evening Lars and I have together.  Thursdays got even better when BossD gave everyone the option to work one day from [...]

Baby food

I know there is common blog rule against writing about food or what you ate for dinner, but, in the month of a blog post a day it can’t hurt to talk about the baby food I’m making for Niamh.
 
It all started when I tasted some baby food and when the ingredients read ‘carrots and [...]

Rainforest Cafe

The rainforest café…..  I want to give them the benefit of the doubt because I personally was a bit tired and Niamh was way over stimulated by the amusement park in the Mall of America and then the café itself but two days later I can still say it was not that great a place [...]

Busy weekend review

This weekend was both a christening and affirmation that I can sleep 11 in my house. 
I dropped of most of the visitors this morning and my sister Josie said “blog about us!” so I am
 
Friday went incredibly well with only one late arrival flight and that really fit into our plan ok [...]

baptised

it is done!

All safely here

Everyone arrived relatively on time (one missed flight) and we had a very nice day at the mall and Ikea for lunch and eyebrow maintenance at the local salon.  We met Lars at a restaurant inbetween the airport and home and after he went to costco and I took the masses home.  The rest of [...]

Friday

First – Happy Birthday Aunt Pia!
Second – today is extra busy, I’m picking up Sinead and Connor at 9:30am then going to the mall so we can find something to wear this weekend.  Then back to the airport to pick up Mom and Dad and Konrad and then home. 
At some point either I or Lars [...]

How I met Lars

Today is our Anniversary – 4 years married and almost 9 years since we met.  I don’t think I’ve ever documented how we met, although I’ve told the story to virtually everyone who reads this,  just in case I’m hit by a bus Niamh will have my version of events to read.
In 1999 I was [...]

‘New’ knitwear

You may have noticed the pretty purple sweater and hat set modeled by Niamh in the sidebar. It was a gift at my baby shower from Mistresses G and I really love the color and design.  Niamh will probably wear the sweater all winter since it is still roomy but the hat is a bit too [...]

Election day

I’m hopeful to update this with a ‘we voted’ sticker since we plan on picking up Niamh and heading to the polls this afternoon.  I wish I wrote down that I ‘called’ McCain would be the republican candidate waaaaaay back when they announced  the big long list.  My actual college education centered around the study [...]

Bye bye carpet lump

Our carpet lump is gone!  No, we did not loose, give away, or misplace Niamh who we fondly refereed to as a carpet lump because she would stay where we put her… she has evolved into a crawling force of nature.
It started about two weeks ago when she began to scoot backwards and occasionally forwards [...]

Thoughts of the office Halloween

Dwelling on a thought Halloween has brought to mind…  I noticed this the past few years but this year it was even more polarizing.  My work is 95% guys, just the nature of the business/product, and while that is nice (practically private ladies rooms), the 5% of us are sometimes odd ‘man’ out and Halloween is [...]

November!

For the third year in a row I am attempting to write in my blog every single day.  This all started as a challenge for authors to start and finish a book in the month of November but since I don’t really have the time to do that I participate in the blog challenge that [...]