back from haitus

Three months with no updates has felt like an eternity. Between all the food feeding, poop scooping, day care driving, and rerun episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba, the Internet had all but disappeared.

wall and stove side cabinets

It’s been a whirlwind weekend, with my mother visiting for L’s first birthday party, and finishing the entirety of the kitchen in roughly two days. I haven’t been this tired or poorly rested since L was two months old.

paperless

I’ve talked for ages about how I’m going paperless, to the point it might as well be a New Year’s Resolution. But after month after month of scenes like the one above, I’m fed up enough to fulfill my own wish.

solids

I always get asked if L is on “solids” yet.

almost one full month

At 6:50pm tonight, L will be four calendar weeks old. He’s grown quite a bit, and can now fit into his Baby Snoopy outfit, I think it’s the first outfit that was bought for him before he was even born.

back to work

L is now almost 2 weeks old, and I can tell a huge difference in him from even a week ago. He’s making a lot more little noises, his eyes are open a lot more and he’s looking at the world around him.

what a time you chose to be born

I thought I would be way more in contact with everyone throughout the last few days, but instead found myself just wanting to have private time with E and some of our family members.

the story of liz

After just feeding Lizzy a plateful of greens, I thought I should talk a bit about her history, as it’s been long and eventful. I purchased Liz as a hatchling from a local pet center almost eight years ago.  In …

texas tenants association meeting

I posted awhile back about the discovery of the fact that E’s landlord was routing electricity feeds for publicly-used devices (motorized gate, flood lights) through her personal electric meter and breaker box.