
We had the Big Ultrasound today. We came away with two major pieces of news. The first: The baby looks healthy, with everything in its perfect place. No third head, and therefore no three-headed-hat-buying, which sounded rather expensive, if we’re going to get right down to it. The second: The baby is a… BOY. How…
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Morning person (n.) 1. individual who unfathomably enjoys rising early in the day 2. individual known for frustratingly sunny behavior and generally cheerful comportment at ungodly hours 3. NOT KATE How do you people do this, you people with outside-the-home jobs and children other than mine? I mean, it wasn’t like I was sleeping all…
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It’s been well-established that while I like to eat, and eat a lot, I don’t actually enjoy cooking. Weekends are therefore all the more wonderful for me, a stretch of two days during which I can get away with ordering take-out at least once. Maybe twice if no one around here gets all JUDGY JUDGY…
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Happy July! Wouldn’t it have been nice if I had posted, say, at the beginning of July to share that? I agree. It would have been nice. I need to work on being nicer. But in the meantime, allow me to plead my case. See, Aura, my mother, and I took this little vacation up…
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<rant> So! Let’s talk about that last blog post, shall we? The one in which I basically follow the tried-and-true Make Fun of Adam tradition, but this time tie it to how his daughter knows him so well that she tells her teacher that Daddy likes to “cook cocktails”? Yeah, that one. I’m not 100%…
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Since Friday morning, I’ve been wracking my brain for something to post about, something beyond a rundown of the numbingly boring drivel that became my weekend. But it’s SO MUCH WORK. Here, let me show you Post Ideas #1-3, all of which suck equally. I appreciate such equal suckage, though. It seems to make everything…
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