Recession hitting close to home

My sister found out yesterday that the magazine she was working on as a free lance graphic designer was done.  The company that pays Meredith to produce it just could not afford to publish another issue.  That means that Emily is now without a job – with no warning at all.  In fact, they were [...]

Crashed & burned

It’s not that I didn’t want to blog yesterday.  I did.

I was sitting with laptop firmly in lap yesterday morning, figuring and inputting more of our tax return online, when all of a sudden, my computer froze.  The kind of freeze that not even Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn’t help.  So I forced ‘er down and tried [...]

Compromised

I received a letter from my bank last weekend explaining that my debit card information may have been compromised (not the fault of the bank – it was a yet unknown vendor that I have done business with in the past who was hacked).

I’m very diligent about reviewing our checking account daily, keeping track [...]

Connected

Josh and I felt like celebrities this weekend.

Josh has a favorite customer at work who just happens to review movies.  When this customer came in last week, he and Josh were discussing what actors and which movies they thought deserved Oscar nominations.  Josh had commented that we love movies, but rarely get out to [...]

ULTRAsound

This afternoon I had my first ultrasound this pregnancy.  It was ultra-awesome.

I picked Josh up from work and we went to the appointment with the kids in tow.  When we got to the office waiting room, the kids were playing so well that we just decided to let them continue playing while Josh watched [...]

I Pledge…

Have you all seen the ‘I Pledge…’ video?  It’s been floating around on the MSN homepage for the last couple of days.  I thought I’d post it here for all of you to enjoy. :)  Celebrities are so patriotic, smart, practical and oozing with virtue.  And they want us to follow their lead.  So, what [...]

Loose threads

Since I wrote about Jett’s not-so-excellent prune adventure yesterday, he only had one more bad diaper.  Poor guy.  From the very first diaper change, I knew we might be in for it, so I was especially gentle when wiping him.  One through six he tolerated well, but that 7th diaper change was terrible.  He [...]

Oh crap.

This morning I took a shower.  When I left the boys were in the living room playing nicely.

You just know something happened, right?

I caught Jett with what was a new package of prunes that we’d just opened the day before.  I took the bag away from him and counted only three left.

Oh [...]

JuvieJuvie

Sunday night Josh and I made a grizzly discovery.  We were just settling into bed.  I thought I heard a noise outside around our garage.  Josh peeked out our window towards the garage.  Nothing was out there, but what was discovered was frightening in its own right.

What you are looking at is our [...]

Seat warmers

With this new baby on the way, Josh and I discussed the need (eventually) to get a bigger car, you know, one that would fit three car seats?

We started to talk about what type of vehicle we wanted.  Top of my list was a Honda Pilot.  I love the look of them, I [...]