Totally over-the-moon; that’s me. I am thrilled to announce that I welcomed a foster “baby” into our home today. She’s adorably cute, and I plan to take her everywhere with me for the next six weeks (including BlogHer, Germany, and downtown Chicago, of course!) until I have to return her to her home (which will be a really sad day for me). I think I’m going to learn a lot from her. This photo was not taken with my trusty, pink duct-taped Olympus NOR the new Olympus PEN E-PL1. I took it with my Photo Booth program on my MacBook in case you wondered. Olympus was nice enough to allow…
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Couch to 5K Update: Bring It!
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I’ll Tell You Who He Is…He’s MY SON!
Well, another lacrosse season has come and gone. This year, with both boys playing (the younger boy on the Fresh/Soph team and the older boy on Varsity), our family schedule was jam-packed. On some weeks, I had three or four evenings of games to watch. It was a lifesaver that the older boy has his own car to get himself to away games for pre-game practice so I could join later, as well as the fact that both of their teams did their Monday through Friday practices at the elementary school in our own neighborhood. Each of them had a very different season from the other. This was the younger…
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car
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Driving Miss Melisa
The big news around here isn’t all about high school graduation, believe it or not. The younger boy is having his own sort of commencement this week. Thanks to a permit test passed with flying colors, he is beginning a lifetime of…driving. Acquiring a driver’s license is very different from how it used to be, back in the day. Basically you read the driving rule book, you *might* have taken a driver’s ed class in school if you were able to fit it into your schedule, you took a permit test, and one day, you just went to the department of motor vehicles on your sixteenth birthday and, as long…