I very much dislike hot, muggy summer evenings. But it’s funny how quickly the temps took a turn this weekend. Now we’re waking up to mornings where you would gladly reach for a sweatshirt. There’s a cool breeze gliding through my office window right now. I can feel fall heading […]
Canine profile
It’s all she ever gives me. I’ve taken hundreds of photos of her and I’ve gotten direct eye contact in maybe three. Kind of like my kid these days. Camera-phobes!
The way summer weekends should be
Don’t mind the dirty feet. We were having fun! This weekend was the fourth summer get-together we’ve had with the families of the two babies who came over on the plane with Devin. Although they’re certainly not babies anymore. Four! They’re four. How did that go so fast? There was […]
I hung out with a monkey this weekend
Relaxing time spent with friends. Isn’t that what great summer weekends are all about?
Visiting paparrazi
Archie came to town today! We lunched at Restaurant Bloom (hello, goat cheese sandwich!), toured the GRAM (yay…Gordon Parks and Jennifer Bartlett), and watched Devin run pell-mell along the riverfront. Good times!
The picture of persistence
He’s cute. He’s sweet. He’s funny. He’s also been a handful lately. I have never met a more persistent and determined person. I really wish I’d had more of his attitude when I was a kid. I was always intimidated by the idea of trying something new or arguing my […]
The boy and the ballpark
Whitecaps vs. Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. Obstacle course. Playing catch with Dad. Hotdogs. Peanuts. Four spoonfuls of dipping dots. Three wails about how he just had to have cotton candy. Two bites of cotton candy the people sitting next to us offered when their little guy didn’t like it. Five minutes […]
Can you tell he likes cars?
It’s about all he talks about most days. As he sat there pushing them back and forth, sending them flying through the air, and careening them into each other, he was giving me a play by play. Constant chatter. And I must listen intently to every word of it or […]