The Leen

We had a great day yesterday! We stayed in San Francisco and our friend Kim (and her puppy Fipo) came down from Seattle for the holiday.
I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.

Sorry I disappeared and failed again on the NaBloPoMo thing. There’s been a lot going on this week; I may be able to share some potentially exciting developments here tomorrow, if things pan out. I hope.
Anyway, since it’s Thanksgiving as I’ve done in years past, I’m going to talk about a few things I’m thankful [...]

Our room. Hanging out, a few minutes ago.
Brett: You look cute today, with your cute shirt and frazzly hair.
Me: Frowzy hair? Thanks a lot.
Brett: No, no, Frazzly hair. Like Frazzle Rock?
Me: [rolling eyes] Uh, you mean Fraggle Rock? [laughs uproariously]
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Sorry for yesterday’s disjointed post. I heard Elanor wake up on the monitor as I was [...]

I have a lot of things I’m thinking about lately, so I think I’ll just do a bullet-style post; it’s just easier than writing a ton of transitions.

Writing: A post manifesto piece about our child rearing ideas. It’s gotten really, really long. It may wind up being a series of posts, actually, but, then, that [...]

Well, I did it again. I went on another unintended blogging hiatus. *sigh* I know, I know. But, like I mentioned in this post, it’s hard for me to blog when I’m preoccupied with something else. And lately, that’s been a really rough Elanor phase. Y’all, it’s been brutal. This parenting thing just keeps getting [...]

**Picture coming in the morning; it’s late and dark and I need to go to bed.
My love of books has been with me for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories have to do with reading, at first picture books, and later chapter books.
When my sister was born, my parents gave [...]

Our friend Rosanna made dinner for us last night, since I’ve been sick and Brett is gone. I was so thankful that she did; not only did it really help make the weekend easier since I hadn’t been grocery shopping, it was also a very yummy meal — a Moroccan stew of sorts, with all [...]

I just looked at the time and can’t believe it’s 5 p.m. I’ve been sitting in bed with Elanor for over two-and-a-half hours, playing with her for a while and then reading the archives (and love story!) over at Pioneer Woman while Elanor has been asleep.
My intent was to get up once she was asleep [...]

Ok, I’ve started two posts about our trip last week, and both are boring laundry lists of what we did. So I’ll just say that overall, it was good. Elanor did great on the plane rides, and seeing Daisy was fantastic. We had an amazing time. I don’t think we stopped talking all week! Our [...]

After my 38 week doctor’s appointment today (for which I waited an hour to see a doctor I’d never met before [my doctor is on vacation] for all of about 7 minutes, in which she told me that I’m still only one centimeter dilated and 75% effaced, and that first babies are often late, but, [...]