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Software geek / mom blogs about her life. I blog about the trial of parenting and work. I love gadgets and music, keep up with many podcasts and send along fun things I find on the internet.
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Silly Monkey Story - We Finally Have Snow!
After seeing photos of snow in Houston last week, I felt that there was something amiss in the cosmos as we've only had a freak dusting in October. But snow has finally arrived here in Massachusetts and the kids got out to "help" Dad shovel the wa...
Silly Monkey Story - Jumping off the swings
When I was a kid, my absolute favorite playground toy was the swings. I could swing for hours and hours. My kids love the swings too, but they seem to enjoy them only for a moment and then jump off. At full height. When I was ...
PSF - Happy 9th Birthday Adam!
Adam, I know you would hate to read a gushy mom's letter for your birthday, so I'll keep it short. You brighten every room, you are "wicked" smart, and awesome at soccer. You love to read and you eat up book series like candy. Perhaps like ...
WW - Fall Flowers
What's this coming into view? A field of flowers! Rows and rows of the last beautiful fall flowers (these photos were taken on October 10). Adam was drawn to them. Dova was barely as tall as them. I took mostly boring shots of them. But ...
Adam loves his baby cousin
While Dova was busy playing fairies with her cousin, Adam took to playing with his 11-month old baby cousin in June. I would think that Dova, being a girl and always playing with dolls, would love a chance to play with a real baby. In fact she seem...
How Do I Pay for This Test?
But first, the rant… Earlier this month, I posted on BlogHer about paying for grades. When I was in school, I was paid a dollar for every perfect 100 test score that I brought home. It was my parents’ way of keeping me from slacking ...
Tuesday Toot - Adam Programs Scratch
Photos courtesy of Catherine Seo. Several months ago, we attended a meeting of BostonCHI (computer human interface) where they discussed the MIT Scratch programming language and web community. Evelyn Eastmond presented the philosophy behind...
Small Town Soccer Politics
Better late than never for Tell Me Thursday right? I live in a town that is an hour's drive from Boston, so far that a primary source of entertainment is youth soccer. Little league is pretty big too, with basketball and hockey trailing ...
Perfect Pitch, Dissonance and Tonality
Adam contemplates the piano. WNYC’s Radio Lab has made quite a few episodes about music that have really intrigued me. As a classically trained musician, my ears always perk up when I hear stories that are intricately related to how ...
WW - Soccer is Here!
Header! Fancy footwork (chop). Goal! Visit by Wordless Wednesday or 5 Minutes for Mom for more participants. Come back tomorrow for the story behind these photos for Tell Me Thursday.--- Thanks for reading my feed. Please stop by to com...
See You Later, Mom!
Normally, I don't see the kids off to the bus in the morning. But on Tuesday after Labor Day, we had a forced plant shutdown at work. Since my company still enforces two mandatory days off each month with a 10% pay cut, they decided to save even m...
Tell Me Thursday - First Day of School
Normally, our town starts school after Labor day, but this year we started on August 31st. I think it was because we lost so many days (weeks) in the ice storm last year and we nearly ended the school year in July. We missed the last two days of sc...
WW - First Day of School
Adam started 3rd grade on Monday. Did you notice something totally remiss? Click to see it large. Giant backpacks. Dova started Kindergarten on Tuesday! Visit by Wordless Wednesday or 5 Minutes for Mom for more participants. Come...
Tuesday Toot - Adam Water Skis
While I was partying it up at BlogHer this year (I continue to have dreams about partying at BlogHer, even about next year!), I dropped my family off in Wisconsin to visit with friends. With forecasts of good weather on the lake, I felt less guil...
WW - Catching some sun... flares
Visit by Wordless Wednesday or 5 Minutes for Mom for more participants.--- Check out my SkinGlow towel giveaway. ...
Adam hits the waves
Every time we go to the beach, Adam complains that he doesn't want to go. But then he spends the entire time splashing in the waves until he is frozen (this is chilly Salisbury beach in Massachusetts). When he finally gets too cold, ...
Happy 30th Birthday to the Happy Meal
I remember when McDonald's came out with the Happy Meal 30 years ago. As a big kid at twelve years old, I didn't want anything to do with them. I had graduated from a cheeseburger to a Big Mac at age ten, and there was no turning back (you know, t...
Silly Monkey Story - Onion School
In a nearby town, there is an original schoolhouse built in 1895 with the name "Union School". Shortly after Adam started to read, we drove past it, and he asked me, "Why is that school called 'Onion School'?" We laughed because as with new read...
Adam the Photographer - A Three-Fer
It may appear that I'm always giving my camera to Adam, but in fact, all these occasions occurred weeks apart. I took the kids hiking on some local trails and taught them what poison ivy looked like and thought I could impart some wisdom on nat...
PSF - Adam's Steady Hand
It was fairly hot during our visit to the National Zoo in Washington DC, but I still choose to bring my heavy telephoto lens so that I could get close-ups of the animals. It was a good choice since the pandas were far away as well as some of the bir...
Love Thursday - Love of Country
On the Fourth of July this year (yes, I'm that far behind), I took the kids to the playground and then for ice cream afterwards. I took my usual plethora of photographs, and then I let Adam use my camera for a while. He took dozens of photogra...
WW - The Bubble Catcher
The snowman bubble. The shared bubble. The bubble catcher. Visit by Wordless Wednesday or 5 Minutes for Mom for more participants.--- Thanks for reading my feed. Please stop by to comment! ...
We're all related because we have the same color Nintendo DS!
On our whirlwind trip to Washington DC, we managed to attend a party, wedding, reception, swim in the pool, visit five families and squeeze in trips to the National Zoo and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in five days. They don't call...
PSF - The Psychic Piano
Last month, I went to a meeting held at Sun Microsystems where Adam and I learned about the MIT scratch program (a whole other post). As we were leaving, we admired the open lobby where there was a waterfall and a piano. Adam whizzed around the are...
Tuesday Toot - Adam's Piano Recital
Adam had his very first piano lesson at the end of February and after only four months, he had his first piano recital. His teacher introduced him as a "new student who has improved by leaps and bounds". It could be that his mother lord...
PH - Creamy
I went to the archives for these ice cream shots. Dova was 2 and Adam was 7 above. Hosted by tnchick.com.--- Thanks for reading this feed. Please stop by to comment! ...
Silly Monkey Story - A Tangle of Arms and Legs
Ever since Adam was little, he loved to show affection by wrestling or pig piling on you. Most of the time this is fun, but sometimes it is annoying when you're just trying to get a nice, quiet snuggle in the morning. He knows he can wrestle with...
Baby Week on Discovery Health - Adam's Birth Story
Next week is Baby Week on Discovery Health. Behind every baby is an unbelievable story. This is so true. Every birth story is remarkable in its own way. Even though it would seem that my births were straightforward vaginal deliveries, the fact that...
A Boy and his Cheerios
Ever since we first gave Adam Cheerios as a baby, he has been completely addicted to them. And not the Cheerios brand, but only Joe's O's from Trader Joe's. I will admit they are crunchier and tastier. When he was a baby, I marveled...
Silly Monkey Story - Kung Fu Adam
We spent a day in Brooklyn, NY and Adam loved jumping off the walls of the beautiful brownstones on Union Street. I attribute it to watching Kung Fu Panda multiple times in the car during this trip.Hosted by Karen at 3 Garnets and 2 Sapphires.--- Th...
