Posted in Fun Pile, Travel on Jul 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
I just returned from five days and four nights of camping in the rain. It was a little overwhelming, but we just couldn’t stay away as it was the week of our favorite music festival on an island north of Seattle. For five days everything felt damp, even if it wasn’t actually wet [...]
Posted in Everyday, Fun Pile on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in Family, Fun Pile on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
On the 4th we drove North to Bellingham where my dad has a condo on Lake Whatcom. The weather was beautiful, the kids were great, and the food was yummy. And there was plenty of laziness going around for everyone to enjoy.
That night I drove home, and around 10pm we were [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Fun Pile on Apr 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile on Mar 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
My girlfriend, Sarah, has been coming over on the Monday nights that Bryan is out of town, and we scrapbook together. When Ruthie was a baby I made scrapbook pages throughout her whole first year, and filled a second scrapbook of other family fun stuff. But by the time Thomas came along I [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Ruthie on Mar 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday was Ruthie’s 4th birthday so we threw a dinner party in her honor. We began talking about it several weeks ago when, with pen and paper in hand, I asked what she wanted for her party. It was funny how precise she was, and how reasonable. I had wondered what I [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Jan 14th, 2007 4 Comments »
Wow. What a weekend. Talk about spontaneity! On Friday afternoon two of my friends and their kids just HAPPENED to find themselves at our house at dinnertime, so we lengthened our table to make room for four adults and four kids and had teriyaki pork loin with navy beans and a salad… YUM! [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Ruthie, Thomas on Jan 11th, 2007 5 Comments »
Posted in Fun Pile on Jan 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
A good friend forwarded this hilarious email to me, and now I bless you all with these words of wisdom…
I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could all use a little more calmness in our lives at this hectic time of year. By following simple advice heard on the [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Jan 1st, 2007 No Comments »
I’m going to bed now…
Posted in Bryan, Friendship, Fun Pile on Dec 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
This was a weekend for celebrating! On Friday night I took Bryan to a local men’s spa for a pedicure and massage as a gift for his birthday. It was a well-deserved respite from the stress of his work and all his efforts to keep our household afloat. He was so relaxed [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Video on Nov 28th, 2006 3 Comments »
We’re going on our third day of WINTER STORM BLAST 2006, and once again the city is crippled by its lack of snow plows and sanding trucks. I’m a Minnesota transplant, and even though I’ve been here for 16 years I still marvel at how much damage a few inches of snow can cause [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Nov 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
I wish I could convince my children of the joys of slacking around on a holiday, but they are not easily catching on. And I have done a SERIOUS amount of modeling the appropriate slacking behavior in their lifetimes. Take now, for instance: it is 4 in the afternoon and I am still [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Ruthie, Thomas, Video on Nov 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
Posted in Films, Fun Pile on Nov 3rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Have you ever planned an entire date around one drink? I think of that Kohler commercial where the lady sets a faucet on the architect’s desk and says, ‘Design a house around this.” I did that tonight. I designed an entire date around the Jitterbug Martini.
Tonight was our first date in many weeks [...]