House cleaning
My New Year’s resolution this year was to “get my house in order”. It seemed like an appropriate goal to share with the entire family when asked at Christmas dinner, and yet is just amorphous enough...
View ArticleChristmas pictures – finally!
I know I have been a complete slacker about getting pictures from the last month – huge apologies to out-of-town family and friends who have been waiting (especially Aunt Emily and Aunt Lexi, who both...
View ArticleLeap Day
To celebrate Leap Day, Emma and I went in to the city with Mike via Metro and went to the National Geographic Museum just around the corner from his office on 15th Street between L and M. They have a...
View ArticleNothing to fear
There is a huge slide at our local park. It is of the corkscrew variety and to get to the top a child has to climb up many stairs. We let Emma go down the slide but only when both Mike and I are...
View ArticleBetter with time
Last week, for our third anniversary, a box of flowers showed up at my door. As I walked up the steps towards them, I ran through the list of people who could have sent them to me. Included in that...
View ArticleWilliam James Carvalho
William James Carvalho joined us on Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 5:32 pm. He weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 19 3/4 inches long. Like his sister, his labor was uneventful if pretty short – 6 hours of...
View ArticleSasha and Malia’s house
As a result of Mike’s obsession mad skillz with the internets, he scored us four tickets to yesterday’s White House Easter Egg Roll. Since Emma “hearts” Sasha and Malia, and Mike and I *heart* their...
View ArticleA walk in the woods
Emma and EJ discuss what might be lurking in the hole in the tree. Or maybe they are just sharing ways to drive their parents crazy.
View ArticleAFSCME Convention 2010
AFSCME Convention 2010, originally uploaded by Justpowers. Our family is in Boston this week for the 2010 AFSCME Convention. Well, Mike is in Boston for it, we are just along for the ride, enjoying...
View ArticleRainy Walk
It’s been ages, almost a year, since my last post. There is no way to get caught up on a year in one post so I won’t try, but I will make a renewed commitment to blogging and to documenting the lives...
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