So, it’s been a month since I took some time off to deal with all the things that needed to be dealt with. The baby was sick – TWICE! Work stuff was legitimately crazy until about a week ago, and life just felt like it was going full tilt. But it’s been a little while […]
Personal – An Update and Busy Busy Busy
Ok, so last week, the baby was sick. This week, she’s doing lots better (yay!), but work has gotten crazy. Each year we have a big project that comes up from the beginning of April through mid-June, and it just takes a lot of time. With the baby being sick during this project, and me […]
Delay-Delay-Delay…Again
Guys, having kids is HARD. Also, having a job is hard. This is all to say that between my job having an emergency come up recently (water + books is not a good combination), and then Baby girl having been sick, I am just very behind in blog preparation. So behind that while I could […]
Theater – Oslo
It’s funny the things that we remember from childhood, and what we don’t. I have no concrete memory of learning about the Berlin wall coming down, but granted I was six when that happened. But I somehow have a strong memory of a Monday morning at school when I was in the fifth grade, everyone […]
Out and About – National Arboretum
So, as I mentioned, my mother-in-law was recently visiting, and I was on the hunt for interesting places we could take her that would be easy, and very “DC”. It wouldn’t hurt if the thing we chose to do was cheap or free, and would take advantage of the lovely weather and the fact that […]
Books – April 2019 Roundup
So, I have made no progress on any of the books from last time that I said I was in the middle of reading. Which is vaguely hilarious. And I seem to be in a streak of reading all these self-help type books lately, which isn’t a bad thing, and may in fact have motivated […]
Personal – Taking Advantage of Local Services
There is a strong possibility that this blog post is going to seem obvious to almost everyone who reads it, but I’m thinking there’s a possibility that not everyone knows as much as they think they do about the topic. And today’s topic is…using the publicly available services offered by your municipality! I know, exciting, […]
TV – Shrill (Hulu)
Writing this post, I was about to start with “when you watch as much TV as I do…”, and then I realized that I definitely don’t watch as much TV anymore as I used to. Evenings where previously I might have gone home, made dinner, and then plopped down in front of the TV for […]
Travel – Okinawa, Japan
I’m going to be completely honest when I say that Japan always seemed like more a “dream destination” to me than a place I would realistically visit with children, partly because of the time of the flight, and partly because of the cost to get there. But when I found out that my sister and […]
Recipe – Lemon Honey Olive Oil Muffins
I could write a lot here about these muffins, but is that what you really want? A story about why I chose these particular muffins and the background of what I was feeling at the time? Probably not. You saw the title and you’re like, “Ooh, muffins – put that recipe in my face right […]