Last night, I went out partying with the girls of the Menagerie. It was good times - potlucking, byobing, party-gamesing, gossiping, drama-fying, dancing, bar-hopping, pool-sharking and bonding.
Anyhow, we started the evening with the potluck style house-party at one coworker’s house. And a pod of us had gone out front to cool off and chat. The [...]

Well, it’s been a stressful week.
A couple weeks ago, I sent out two resumes, not because I was particularly looking hard for a job, just because I saw a couple postings and I was like, “these look like good opportunities. Eh, what have I got to lose.”
The thing is, you say this when you start [...]

Ethan and Rachel are coming home tonight. I haven’t seen them since the morning of the 7th.
Tonight we’re having hot dogs for supper in order to relax for our last couple hours of freedom.
Putting the mustard on my bun, I remember how when Ethan was a toddler and I put mustard on his hotdog, I [...]

I may have said how Hannah’s sleep was improving such that I could leave the room for five minutes at a time during the pre-sleeping time.
Well, we slipped some in our consistency and Hannah went back to expecting to be nursed to sleep. And she still only naps for maybe an hour. And she still [...]

When our alarm system was installed, it came with two door sensors and one motion-detector. The door sensors went on the front and back door. And the installer didn’t figure that the motion detector would be able to see from the kitchen (at the back) to the livingroom (at the front) or vice versa. He [...]

It’s really weird to have an involved other parent.
I am mostly guilty of that thing people do where men get revered for doing things that are just expected of women. Where a man doing housework is referred to as “helping out” and I thank Ian profusely if he changes a diaper because isn’t that supposed [...]

Hannah used to sleep through the night. And then she started waking up at 2 every night. But only the once. And then she started waking up at 2 and then again at 4.
This last week, she keeps waking up at 11:30, though then sometimes she’ll miss her 2:00. But I’m all nervous that she’s [...]

Last year, I really didn’t have the capacity for frugality. And by capacity, I mean time. I was starting a new job, trying to manage Ethan’s school misbehaviour and make it to biweekly counseling appointments with him, manage my own pregnancy exhaustion and get to all my prenatal appointments and tests, move into a new [...]

Ian: Do you have any Jacks?
Rachel: NO WAY MAN! …go fish.
Ethan: Hah. She sure told you.

Hannah has a new dastardly plan for bedtimes. It’s more evil than crying for three hours straight.
Tonight, after I put her down in the crib, she smiled and smiled and cooed at me. And picked up toys and waved them at me, smiling. And when I leaned down to smile back and talk to her, [...]