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My not-so-relaxing afternoon

Seeing as how my opportunities to come home from work and have a few hours to myself are about to disappear when football starts on Sunday, I figured I’d take advantage of Rick having somewhat normal hours and leave Mallory at school and let him pick her up. I thought I’d come home, take Cooper for a long walk in the woods, maybe fold some laundry and just relax.
Here is how my “relaxing” afternoon went:

Got home and as I’m unlocking the door, I see Cooper has the contents of our boat bag spread out all over the entryway. A chewed …

Mallory, rb, stb

I got yelled at by my husband :-(

The past few nights Mallory has had some sleeping problems. I don’t know if it was because her schedule was so wacky from our weekend trip or it could be that her second molars are starting to come in, but she will go down for bed fine but about an hour later she is up SCREAMING for me. I am not so good at getting her to lie back down (or is it lay?); Rick can usually go in and tell her to go back to sleep and she will. But I can’t stand seeing her face all blotchy and …

friends, Mallory, rb, stb

Happy 4th of July!

Ok, so it’s not a real original blog post title but oh well.
Our long holiday weekend started off on Thursday. Thanks to some monster storms that blew through Wednesday night, daycare was without power on Thursday. Rick was already scheduled for a vacation day, and had grand plans of biking, kayaking and windsurfing, but they got squashed just like the fence in our back yard did by the storms. And then it got worse for him when I volunteered him for Alli duty too, since Alli’s folks didn’t have anyone to watch her. :-)
The girls got to see each other …

Miscellaneous, stb

The Olden Days

Beautiful summer days like today make me miss my olden days car, circa 2000…

Off-topic, stb

My life in pictures…

Saw this recently and thought I would try it out…
Instructions:

Answer the questions below
Type each answer into flickr
Take any picture from the first page of results and post your answers.

Here goes….
Age you’ll be on your next birthday:

Mallory, rb, stb, video

A Well-Rounded Weekend

I have to declare this weekend a success.
Friday night was low-key family night and Rick & I got to watch Survivor from the night before.
On Saturday Rick got a “Rick Day” – I took Mallory with me to a baby shower (where she was darling and well-behaved, I might add) and Rick got to go mountain biking. After that, Rick & our neighbor got half of the dock put in (so we are one step closer to getting our boat in the water!)
Saturday night we went to dinner at Mallory’s BFF’s house. It took the girls about 1.2 seconds to …

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All About Me

Here is a post all about me. Since I gave up hockey after Zulu* was born due to scheduling conflicts and having to be at work so early, etc, I haven’t had anything that was just me. I missed the camaraderie of my teammates more than I missed playing hockey and mostly I missed having something to call my own. So Rick encouraged me to finally take that photography class that I’ve been talking about for, oh, about 5.5 years.
First class was last night – and it was so fun! We have a small digital point & shoot camera and …

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Now for the bad news

Add this to my list of irritating things about my kid being sick: she gave it to me. Dammit, Jim. I was up all night and still feel like crapola this morning – Miss Cheri just came to rescue Mallory so I can go back to bed. Of course I am thinking “but maybe I am feeling well enough to scrapbook?” but instead I think I’ll go have a date with Harry Potter (still on book 5) and take a nap.

Mallory, scrapping, stb

Look at the bright side

My sweet baby is sick. She threw up today for the first & second time in her short 16.9 mos of life. This is mildly irritating for a few reasons: 1) I’m missing our big monthly mandatory staff meeting at work for the second month in a row; 2) I have used a lot of sick time in one four-week period; and 3 ) we are supposed to go to the Wings-Blue Jackets game tonight.
But the bright sides are these: 1) I’m missing our big monthly mandatory staff meeting at work for the second month in a row; 2) I …

Mallory, stb

My mom knows French!!

Today is my birthday…
I love having my birthday on April Fool’s day…it seems like I get the most random birthday emails from the most random people…usually along the lines of “how could I forget your birthday…it’s the day of fools!”, etc, etc.
We went to dinner last night at Outback (fancy, schmancy) since we weren’t going to have time to go to a nice dinner tonight because of Rick’s insane work schedule. We usually try to take advantage of the “buy one, get one free on your birthday” meals at the fancy restaurants downtown, or at least hit the ones that …

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