Archive for December, 2008

In which I finally leave the house so I can meet up with bloggers for breakfast

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Holy crap, people.  I’m at work today.  I was scheduled to take this entire week off, but after being shut in because of THE SNOW for the last week and a half I HAD TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.  So I’m at the office. The King’s at home (his office is closed this week) [...]

Happy Holidays (don’t worry, I didn’t use my camera’s timer for this picture)

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

In case you missed it, we spent most of September touring around Europe.  Our good friend Andreas took a lovely family picture of us in Berlin.  Upon viewing his photography skills he said “hey, you guys should use this picture for your Christmas card this year!”
And so we did!
(I also used the same picture to [...]

In which we document the year with an ornament

Friday, December 19th, 2008

The King and I got married in August of 2000.  That first Christmas we decided to start our own tradition by documenting the year with a new ornament for our Christmas tree.  Of course the defining ornament for 2000 had to represent our wedding, and so we bought an over-sized diamond ring ornament.

We’ve been using [...]

In which we are totally snowed in

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

My boys look like this today:

So that they could go outside and do this:

So that I could stay inside and do this:

Working from home (in my pajamas) today.  At some point I hope to get a shower.  And maybe something to eat.
Do you think any pizza places are delivering today?  Yeah, probably not!

In which he’s scared

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Babboo has decided that he loves using the word “scared”. I’m not sure that he truly understands what it means to be “scared” of something or if he just says it to get out of doing something he doesn’t like. No matter the reason, he tells me all the time that something scares [...]

In which I list things that suck

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Things that suck:

Coming home from a quick trip to Canada with 16 of your closest friends to find out that all those cell phone calls and texts to said friends cost you over $50! (I guess I should have found a better way to pass the time at the border crossing then by texting [...]