Blaine actually made it to a half day of work yesterday before bagging it and coming home …. and when he got home, he “relaxed” around the house instead of sinking into the recliner in a Phenergan-induced coma, which is pretty much where he spent all of Monday and Tuesday, covered with a Dora the Explorer [...]

No signs of labor (which, considering today is 39 weeks exactly, is normal for me.  In fact, if I delivered anytime in the next seven days, it would be technically EARLY for me …..) No signs of anything to blog about, either. We love the pool. I hate the mud.  They tore up most of [...]

The only two funerals I’ve ever been to that truly bothered me were two of our cancer friends (children) in Georgia.  And probably because of Kendrie, it was so incredibly easy for me to identify with the parents of those children, I found both funerals, while beautiful memorials, very sad and upsetting. Today’s was sad [...]

The final weeks of pregnancy, a cancer recurrence, a heart attack, surgery …….. and as of Friday night, the death of a dear and cherished friend, very unexpectedly. I am waving the white flag of surrender. Bear with me for a few days, while I wait for the fog to lift.

Is there anything sadder or more pathetic than an 8+ months pregnant lady, stranded, in a parking lot, in a thunderstorm, with a flat tire? No.  No, there is not.  In case you were wondering. Thank you, sweet baby Jesus, for the person who invented roadside assistance.  Best money we ever spent.  My knight in [...]

… at 1:19 am, when I really should be sleeping.  A bullet list: * Why the hell *aren’t* I sleeping? * It annoys me when I’m watching tv this late at night and two different members of my family have set the DVR to record two different, although both completely asinine, television shows at the [...]

So, nineteen days.  Nineteen days away from the blog, waiting and watching for something worth sharing to post …… and pretty much, I’ve still got nothing.  Kendrie did make one funny comment yesterday ….. I don’t even remember what we were talking about, something about what makes a person a good parent, and she said [...]

I am here.  I have not forgotten the blog.  In between soccer and baseball seasons, I am simply (happily) drowning in sports photography.  I’ve set up a new website for that.  I am editing until the wee hours of the morning.  And a sidebar to that is I am (unhappily) neglecting my writing here, due [...]

Kristie:  “No, I’m telling you, my ass really hurts.  I’m like an old lady gimping around …. I can’t even get in my van without backing my butt up to the seat first, then sitting down and turning to lift my legs in.  It’s pathetic.” Blaine:  “I’m sure its not that bad.” Kristie:  “It **IS** [...]

I have been.  Which is why I haven’t updated in a while.  Doing what, I’m not sure.  But I have no doubt it was both fascinating and important. Actually, I know exactly what I’ve been doing.  Taking pictures.  Over eleven hundred pictures, to be precise.  And walking around for seven hours at baseball games and [...]