Skyping Brazil

Oct 17, 2011

I don’t think I mentioned that Gilberto and Gabi are in Brazil right now.

They’ve already been there a few weeks, and this is how we’ve been spending a lot of time!

 

 

Getting to see my baby’s face every few days has made the separation a lot more bearable.

Did you notice how we’re using phones?  That’s ghetto Skyping.  It’s what you do when you don’t want to invest any money in fixing a speaker/microphone issue.

Did you also notice the crooked pictures on the wall behind Gabi?  They drive me INSANE!  Every time I’m in Brazil I try to fix them, but for some reason they won’t straighten out.  I even tried to put clear tacks underneath the leaning corner to hold it in place, but the tacks wouldn’t go into the concrete.  It’s becoming a really lame life mission to get those pictures to behave.

read more

A Hairied Day

Oct 14, 2011

I was stopped at a red light, staring absentmindedly into the distance, when my eyes flickered to the car driving past me.  And...

read more

Mothagedon

Sep 16, 2011

It all started with a rotten sack of potatoes. Actually, it goes back a bit further than that, to our dryer vent getting clogged...

read more

Excuse Me, You Have A Giant Pi...

Aug 29, 2011

I spent a good 15 minutes of Sunday’s 60 minute sermon focused on a woman’s head in front of me.  She had her hair up...

read more

Two Bear Stories, Only One Hap...

Aug 22, 2011

I have a sick fascination with bear stories. I hate blood and gore and terror, but wrap it up with a bear and I’ll take it any...

read more

Sometimes You Just Need A Frea...

Aug 15, 2011

A friend of a friend was stopped at the mall and told that she was a horrible mother for having her twin toddler sons on leashes. ...

read more

The BlogHer ’11 Laughter...

Aug 13, 2011

The thing I will remember most about BlogHer ’11 was the laughter.  The sessions were fantastic, the connections amazing, and...

read more
Page 1 of 5612345...Last »