Asa faces

 

 

 

 

 

First nap in my own crib!

Mom is very excited!

 

I know this is blurry, but...

...these snuggles are just the best. And I had to rub it in. 

 

Just a test

I'm trying out posting from my phone to see how well it works (or doesn't). Here's another cute Asa pic in the meantime. 

 

Photo 16: January 27, 2009

Oh. My. Goodness. I am terrible at this whole picture-a-day thing. TERRIBLE. Seriously.

Wow. My last post is from 10 days ago. I'm ashamed. I guess this has officially turned into a 365-photos-but-not-necessarily-in-365-days blog. So welcome to my new blog! Ha! (I will try to do better, I promise!)

Now I'll give my defense for the huge time gap in blog postings. I think I left off my last post with a wish for a picture of the new baby in our lives, Eli. We went to Natalie and Ben's last week, but between him being holed away for his feedings and holding him for Natalie to grab a shower, I just plain forgot to get a picture with him. So when I got home that night, I didn't have the picture that I wanted; instead of just photographing something random around the house, I procrastinated. (If you stick with this blog for long, you'll soon realize that the only real skill I have is procrastination.) That day turned into the next day, and somehow I didn't post then either. Oh yeah, I remember why.

Kevin woke up the morning after our visit with Eli in a foul mood. He immediately declared that he'd left something in the car and stormed out the door to go get it. I didn't pay much attention to his return, but he remained in a foul mood most of the morning. He finally sat me down after lunch to inform me that he'd lost his wedding band. (Close friends will know that Kevin has had quite a time keeping up with his wedding band since September. He's already lost it once under a display in TJ Maxx and forgot it at home when we headed on our honeymoon.) In light of his earlier wedding band fiascoes, I couldn't do anything but laugh at him this time. Anyway, after fretting about it most of the afternoon, I finally went down to his car and found it in about 5 minutes. Yes, I am the best wife ever.

So anyway, that took up most of Sunday, and by then I wasn't even thinking about posting on here. Monday was a holiday, and I guess I figured if I was already behind, why worry about it on a holiday! ;) Tuesday is when my real set of excuses kicks in. School started back on Tuesday, and this semester is super-busy. Kevin and I are both teaching courses, we're both taking a course together, and we're both in the process of writing huge theoretical papers that have to be defended to our committees before the end of the semester. Phew. Please, please let May arrive soon. My proposal of said paper was scheduled for this past Monday (yesterday), so I've been consumed throughout this entire week with making sure that I was ready to explain my plan/ideas. Add to that the fact that I'm teaching MWF at 9 am and have bootcamp MWTh at 5 am, and my butt has been dragging.

So there. That's it. That's what I've been up to and the reason for my delinquent posting. What you see below is a tiny portion of the evidence of my distractions. It's about a third of the books and articles that I'm reading for my paper, along with my folders, handouts, lectures, and textbooks for the course I'm teaching. Sigh.


I hope you enjoyed my pity party. I'll try to be better about posting regularly in the future--I promise! G'night!

Photo 15: January 17, 2009

Ooops. I'm not very good at remembering to post on the weekends! I'm posting this on Sunday, January 18, but it's really my post for Saturday, the 17th.

Last summer, Kevin's younger sister got married; her new husband already had 3 children, so Kevin and I gained one new niece and two new nephews! I hadn't met any of them, though, until this Christmas (when we also met his sister's brand new baby--another niece!). The kids are cute as buttons, and we had a great time watching them tear through their gifts on Christmas eve. Anyway, the eldest of those kids, Dakota, is turning 10 this week, so we went shopping yesterday for her birthday gifts.

In case you can't see them very well (for some reason our camera is not catching very clear pictures lately), we got her the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone, cute little socks with the days of the week written on them, and an awesome t-shirt that says "Little Miss Sunshine." A ten-year-old girl would like those things, right? I hope so. Heck, I'd like to get those things for my birthday! Anyway, our goal is to become a bigger part of all 4 of the kids' lives, so we're hoping this is a good first step. Now we just have to find out when Elijah's and Timmy's (her brothers) birthdays are!

Today's real post will come later. I have my fingers crossed that I can snag a picture of our friends Natalie and Ben's new baby, Eli! We're visiting them this afternoon, so I'll try not to forget my camera!

Photo 14: January 16, 2009

Hiya! Well, I did it. I successfully didn't set foot outside my door today. Not exactly something I'd normally brag about, but since it's currently 18 degrees (but really feels like 12, according to weather.com), I'm glad I was a homebody today! It was definitely a pretty lazy day, but I did manage to get some work done somewhere in there. Now Kevin and I are cuddled on the couch, where we've been watching Season 2 of How I met your mother. If you don't watch this show, you totally should--some of the funniest writing on TV. (Kevin says I'm going to get sued for posting this picture...) Off to watch the next episode!