i’m changing on you all again

so, i’m going back to blogger.
at this point, if you stop reading, that’s okay.
it’s just that wordpress is restricting. blogger allows more freedom with colors, more freedom with pictures, more freedom with the background/template stuff (are you getting that there’s more freedom with blogger? because that’s my little message today).
so i’ve moved. again. the sad [...]

what gets me through the day

gott spricht zu jedem nur, eh er ihn macht

i have been reading poetry to ava since she was brand new. i just like poetry, and i think it should be read aloud, and when she was younger, she couldn’t run away from me the way i think ryan wants to sometimes. the funny things is, she really likes it. she’ll hold still and [...]

to whom it may concern:

ryan and i are going to be driving in to the happy valley tomorrow afternoon and we’d love to see all of our friends! please meet us (if you can) at shoots restaurant at 7:00 pm on Saturday night.(this is especially for miss crystal, if not in labor, the terry family, the rowlands, hamblys, coopers [...]

taking a shower with harry potter and ava’s molars

i need advice on showering. when do other moms shower and get all ready? i have to set my alarm and get up before ava does. sometimes she decides to wake up too and then i just am a smelly mom for the day!
i finished harry potter 7. it’s the last book. there will never [...]

Hernan Bogado, ladies and gentlemen

FUNNY story from an email a very good friend sent my way:
“Two nights ago I went to a pub where this girl started talking to me. She told me that she was a stripper dancer, and her husband also was a stripper. The funny thing is that both of them were dancer for male audience. [...]

nebraska and so on

so we went to nebraska. it was nice. it would have been nicer had every house we went in to not had an enormous, steep staircase leading to the basement. ava kept hurling herself off the top step without a thought for gravity. this concept has either not occurred to her or she thinks she [...]

life’s a beach

so yesterday (saturday) we went to the beach. we’ve been before and ava was short tempered (who would want to spend all day at a place where there is only sand and water?) so we weren’t really anticipating a long stay. however, to our surprise, ava loved it! holding the sand in her fists [...]

what’s a geologist’s favorite kind of chair?

a rocking chair!!!
last night was my brother james’ class play. it was about geology (sort of like the genealogy primary song: “geology, i am going it, my geology. . .”). a baby bird went off to a “UC” school . . . the “UC see me fly” school and learned about different kinds of rocks. [...]

kittens, easter dresses, teeth and asthma (not necessarily in that order)

about a month ago i got five cats to foster. i put them in my bathroom. there was a mom and her four little babies and they were aloof. and then, just when i thought they were almost all ready for adoption, i took in another four kittens and the vet visit was postponed a [...]