Seamus’s Fourth Birthday

Seamus has his last party today at his Nana and PopPop’s house. It’s been all birthday all the time for the last week. I think he’s pretty well saturated. I still don’t do little kid parties. Although, I saw a kid semi-enjoy hers for the first time this weekend. Seamus was invited to a party…

Thankful

For Thanksgiving breakfast, we started out with carbs…biscuits. They were delicious. We had a conversation that tried to help the boys understand what the holiday we were experiencing was all about. (No, not the hat with feathers on it Seamus made in preschool. I don’t even know what to say about that.) We explained that…

Shamelessly Materialistic

A few weeks ago, it snowed a lot. Patrick and I were very excited to go skiing on Sandia,but when we got to the other side of the mountain, we discovered that the lifts were closed. What a bummer, especially since we had a sitter until one! So we did what any sane people would…

Exciting News

I have decided to do the Jingle Bell Triathlon in December. Yes. This December. I was swimming with my friend G the other day, and she remarked on how motivated I must be to be out and exercising again so soon after the baby. It’s true. I am motivated, but as we laughed about it,…

Tiki Party and Other News

Last night we went to a tiki party at our friends’ house.If you scroll down, you’ll see that they have an awesome backyard. Anyway, it’s been a while since we went out at night with Seamus, and even longer since we had an occasion to dress up, as for a theme party. We weren’t going…

From Teeny to Not

It’s his birthday, and so here are some pictures: He had those weird red marks all over him, his fists were always closed, and he was so small! Now he does things like this! He still has weird marks, but they’re from doing stuff. And he wants to have a piece of everything–in this case…

Things I Can’t Say

Last week, I taught My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki to my Women and Cultural Violence class. It’s one of my favorites–funny, sad, irreverent, thought-provoking. In the novel, the front piece for each chapter is a list from The Pillow Book by Shonagon written in the eleventh century Japan. These include: Disappointing Things, Things that Give…

Spring Break Recap

This last week was Spring Break for APS and UNM for the first time ever! Nice to know they can get the calendars aligned. It was beautiful on Saturday for Hector’s memorial service, so I rode my bike. I wondered if it was really appropriate to ride my bike to a funeral, but I decided…

We’re Back!

I didn’t mean to abandon the blog, but I had a sneaking suspicion that it might happen. My parents have dial-up internet and when we’re in DC, we just go go go. And in Philadelphia, the upscale hotels charge for internet access. And folks, we were upscale! Overall though, we did survive, had a great…

He Crawls and Pulls-Up: We’ll be rearranging the furniture this weekend

In case you didn’t get it from the title, Seamus is entering new realms of mobility. He’s been crawling for a month, but now, he’s gotten much better, faster, and more determined–in that, a little think like a coffee table shouldn’t stand between him and my shoes (omg, he loves to chew on my shoes,…