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• General, Health, Life

  Healthy changes

  07.28.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Blakery on Braces: Now with 33% more self deprecation!

• Life

  Rocket talk

  07.25.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Watching History Channel shows about the moon landing got us thinking and talking. We probably will see a manned mission to Mars in our lifetime. Me: Oooh, but it’s cold there! Joel: Well, yeah. Me: It’s not the kind of place you raise your kids. Joel, getting it: In fact, it’s cold as hell… Most [...]

• Family

  For fun

  07.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  MyHeritage: Family trees – Genealogy – Celebrities – Collage – Morph (Thanks, Carol!)

• Baby, Family, Life, School, Work

  I believe the Rolling Stones have a song to this effect.

  07.12.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Yesterday Zoe woke up around 9:00 AM. We played, cooked, played some more, swam, played, bathed, and played. At one point in the mid-afternoon I thought I might die from exhaustion and took a 20 minute break on the couch in a twilightish stupor, never falling asleep, but it was enough that when she asked [...]

• Baby, School

  Sleep-deprived ramblings about sleep

  07.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I have come to the conclusion that Zoe just does not require the same amount of sleep as most other kids. Here’s what happened last night. After a long, no-nap day, she went to sleep at 9:30 PM – very, very early by our standards. She woke up at 5 AM, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. What [...]

• Baby

  I guess so.

  07.01.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Whenever we part with someone, Zoe says her goodbyes, and after the door is closed or they walk away, she says, “Well, I guess so!” When we’re chatting in the elevator and someone exits on his or her floor, it’s, “Well! I guess so!” After saying goodbye to her Gigi and the car door closes, [...]

• Baby

  Poll – we need your help!

  06.23.09 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Zoe’s too cute, and we’re too biased. Could you help us narrow down her 5000+ flickr photos to six for a cute kid contest? This is my first attempt at a poll. You can choose as many as you want and vote as many times as you want until sometime tomorrow, when I have to [...]

• General

  Tasty tea

  06.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Joel loves girly flavored, caffeine-free teas. He prefers his hot, while I’ll drink mine room temperature or iced more often. Just about daily he offers to make some tea, and I appreciate his enthusiasm. We got a sampler box at the store awhile ago, and I tried the cranberry apple zinger. WAY tasty. I think [...]

• Family, Life

  Choose your own adventure: Wattses’ pizza toppings

  06.16.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Around here we LOVE pizza. It’s Zoe’s number one request for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack most days. Frozen, make our own, or restaurant-bought, we definitely eat our share. Roughly twice a week, it goes something like this: Me, realizing it’s getting late and we probably ought to eat something, sucking up my feeling of [...]

• Life

  It was a rough day.

  06.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Joel made me a business card after overhearing my mutterings while trying to hang drapes in Zoe’s room. It made me laugh.

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