Busy couple of weeks. I didn’t write last weekend because I spent the whole weekend doing work around the house: Putting things away for the winter and mulching in the leaves outside, and moving things in the basement, garage, and attic in preparation for getting foam insulation in those spaces. We were out of the…

Back to work. It was a jarring rentry. The very first thing I saw when getting online Monday morning was a ping about an issue that had major customer impact. Talk about getting the adrenaline pumping. It turns out GitHub and Cloudflare both had even bigger issues this week, too. And the time change didn’t…

While hunched over in my IKEA Poäng chair looking at my laptop, I thought, “I wish there were a desk for this chair.” So I fired up my web browser and typed in the magic incantation, and Bateman Labs makes one! I bought it, Charlie helped me put it together, and I love it. It…

Charlie had a busy and fun week with his parents, with activities ranging from pumpkin decorating, jamming to music, attending a friend’s birthday, and even trying horseback riding. The family also found time for various practical tasks and new interests.

When telling a friend that we wish our house had more space, they helpfully pointed out that the nice thing about small houses is that families spend more time together rather than each person going to a separate space most of the time. That is a good way to think about it. Yes, alone time…

We are pretty much recovered from COVID, though we still fatigue faster than normal and food still isn’t tasting quite right. This week was a long and tiring one. Amanda had to work in Houston, TX, from Monday to Thursday, so between the COVID fatigue and Charlie’s momma separation anxiety, it was a struggle. Even…

This was not our week. We ended a long, challenging weekend of potty training on a high note and felt pretty confident about Charlie telling us when he needed to go to the bathroom and holding it until we got there. Then we hit a wall because Charlie refused to use the potty at daycare.…

Wildlife relocation count: Three groundhogs, two skunks. One groundhog eludes us. We had a nice Friday night. We went to the local used book store and Charlie showed some real interest in browsing for books there. Then we ate outside at the new Gaucho’s Steakhouse, which was pretty good. N. Division St gets closed off…

New app I’m enjoying: Texts.com, an inbox for all of your messaging apps. Been using it all week and am not looking back. This week I kicked some home projects I’ve been neglecting into high gear. Next up on the agenda: Charlie updates: I didn’t take many photos this week. I was busy at work…

As mentioned at the end of the last post, we spent the week in Cape Cod for an end-of-summer getaway. We had a great time. The summer season was winding down, so the Cape wasn’t very busy, but almost everything was still open. We went once a couple years ago in late autumn and found…

One cool thing that happened this week is one of my photos was selected to be in a special gallery at WordCamp US! I didn’t go this year, but some friends sent me photos. My photo is the one of the sheep, which I took in 2018. It was used in as a sign for…

We took Charlie out in the guideboat on Lake Sebago in Harriman State Park for the first time on Saturday and he had a blast. We did, too. Charlie loved rowing, did pretty well in the boat, was excited about his lifejacket, and was excited to catch a fish. I think we’ll be spending a…

Hi there! 👋 I took a bit of a summer break from blogging this past month. Here are some of the highlights: A mishmash gallery from the last month: 2 years is a magical age. Their language skills and communication ability increases exponentially around 2 and it is so fun to watch. Charlie has been…

The past week has been very rainy, with rain on 6 out of 7 days.

We are entering my least favorite part of the year: The hot, humid season. I can deal with dry heat, but the 85+ % humidity we’ve been having just zaps my energy. The plants love it, though. Unfortunately so do the bugs. We finally had to put the air conditioners in when more smoke rolled…

This week flew by. Last Sunday after my weekly post, getting pizza at Hudson & Packard didn’t happen. After an hour drive with a toddler who didn’t want to be in his carseat, they were sold out. We’ll try again in the future. We did have dinner somewhere else in Poughkeepsie, then got ice cream…

Happy Father’s Day! I’m feeling extra thankful for our little family today. It has been a tough week with Charlie being home from daycare most of the week while we both had to work (all three of us were frustrated and no one had a good time or got enough work/play in), but it has…

The weather this week was weird. We had a hail storm on Tuesday, then smokey, hazy orange skies on Wednesday and Thursday as smoke from the Canadian wildfires moved in. I didn’t take photos of the smoke, but you probably saw them on the news. Thursday night Charlie refused to go to bed without Bunny,…

I prioritized spending time with family and friends last weekend, so I am doing a combined post this week. My parents came to visit over Memorial Day weekend, and it was great to spend time with them. The weather was beautiful and we spent a lot of time outside. We got the tomatoes and tomatillos…

This felt like a pretty long week, though it is the same length as all the others. Amanda was out of town for a few days and Charlie got sick while she was gone, so I needed to take off work a couple days to take him to the doctor and care for him. Poor…