Boston Baked Beans with a Southern flair…. I’ve been rather scarce, busy with our visitors this past weekend (that’s for another blog post which is forthcoming) and now that the extended family is now all safe and sound back home, I have some time to play catch-up with the household and some of the administrative … Read more
Photo by Fotomom. While Maryann AKA Fotomom was here visiting last week she took a really sweet picture of Howie in our kitchen. After she got home this week, she took some time to dress up the picture and wrote a lovely blog post about him and how she made the great picture! Photographers have … Read more
This week I put away the “kitchen laptop” once and for all. We got our weather webcam working again with Dave’s old PC laptop that had been sitting in our front office unused since we moved here. With no kitchen laptop to occupy my time reformatting and partitioning, I’ve taken on a new hopeless project. … Read more
Hey — is this lady really juggling for you? In my blog post draft this is animated! Today I’m doing a “reset” of sorts. As great a time as we had at Disneyworld, on our road trip, and hosting our North Carolina friends showing off the sights of the Florida Panhandle, I realized we were “on … Read more
Easter 2011. I’ve gotta admit it — my boys travel VERY VERY VERY well. From Jacob and the Amtrak Auto Train to see family at 9 months old, to Timmy and a trip up to North Carolina to find a new house at 4 months old, our boys have learned that long automobile trips are … Read more
This is our just-finished-packing-on-the-first-warm-day-of-our-campout-pooped picture. Meet Megan, who was my college roommate for my last two years at PSU. She has a son about Jacob’s age. Every couple of years we try to get together to hang out. We aren’t formal about it or anything, but in recent years we’ve been able to take turns … Read more
I use that line with my kids a lot when they’re making questionable decisions. If one of them is feeding grass clumps to the dog, I’ll ask “Good idea? Or bad idea?” Usually that’s enough to make them think before continuing. I got a (not-quite sanctioned) invitation to join Google+, Google’s new social network, last … Read more
Maryann’s and my latest adventure: Canoeing on Florida’s Blackwater River. Geologically, Florida’s Blackwater River is a “blackwater river“: tannins are leached out of the local vegetation giving the water a diluted-tea color. Yesterday we took the kids up to Blackwater River State Park (about 25 miles north of our house) and picked up a pair … Read more
As is always the case when I get together with Maryann the Fotomom, today was an adventure. We took our boys to NAS Pensacola today and enjoyed an hour or so at the Pensacola Lighthouse before spending the rest of the day at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, which we’d visited before. At the … Read more
This week we have friends from North Carolina visiting: Maryann (AKA Fotomom), Joey and Johnny. Jacob and Joey were in the same preschool from 2005-2008 and were two peas in a pod, while Timmy and Johnny were best buddies as the respective little brothers. We took dozens of great road trips together! Joey and Johnny … Read more