Little by little I’ve been constructing our house in a 3D model – the idea is to get a working model of our current house, and start to plan out some projects that we really want to tackle this year. A lot of them seem to involve finding the time to measure, get drawings out…
fat tuesday
Our local Mardi Gras is celebrated in and around our neighborhood on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday. We live two blocks away from the boundary of closed streets / pedestrian only area, and so pretty early in the morning on that Saturday the streets fill up with cars and people wearing shiny beads. We stay…
tell me who do you love
For seven months now I’ve been quietly whispering the word “mama” into her ear, determined to hear those little syllables first from her mouth. (E’s first word was “hippo” – so no one wanted to claim that one!) But no matter how I tried to sway her to the other side, her first word is…