Archive for the 'Things and stuff' Category

Letting go; giving in

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I think it might finally be time for me to admit that I’m not as young as I once was.  Yes, yes, I know.  I’m only thirty, it’s not like I’ve got one foot in the grave or anything.  But let’s face it.  Thirty may be the new twenty, but it isn’t the new eighteen.  [...]

Goodbye House

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

On Saturday we went down to The Swamp to help my parents finish up their move into a rent house.  And I found it a lot harder than I expected to say goodbye to my old home.  We moved in before the end of my 8th grade year, some sixteen years ago.  A lot of memories were [...]

And on this historic day…

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Some times parenting really sucks.  The last few days have been…trying, as N mentioned over on his blog.  The weekend didn’t go according to plan at all (although I suppose I should be thankful, since the ORIGINAL original plan was for N to be working all weekend and me to play the single parent), I [...]

To my daughter on her first birthday

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Wow.  When I was a kid, I used to make fun of my dad for lamenting the all-too-quick passage of time.  But now I believe it completely, for it simply is unreal that my precious baby girl is one year old today. 

Six

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Today AE turns six years old.  I’m really not great at writing stuff that doesn’t involve a lot of sarcasm and/or CAPS LOCK but thought in honor of my little man I would give it a go today.