Revelry Reverie

More like forty-fun, amirite? Forty was a good year. It went well, and I’m glad it happened. I’m really looking forward to forty-one, because it just seems like it’s going to be awesome. I love flowers. Bob bought me a beautiful bouquet yesterday (Grant tells me he was involved in the selection, but since Grant […]

It’s happening!

A day more than ten weeks ago I committed to ghosting on Twitter, FB, and Instagram. Since then, I have been to Facebook once, and Twitter a handful of times (to check notifications for both), and have not been back on Instagram. I’ve been glued to my phone for years, more than a decade, certainly, […]

For a class project, Eleanor had to write a book about frogs. She did very well, and editorialized the hell out of it. I am proud. There is a lot more to this book, but it is actually about frogs, and I’d recommend checking wikipedia. I think that’s what Eleanor did.

I have three different kinds of children, as embodied by this photo. Grant is mid-air. Henry is worried about Eleanor. Eleanor is succumbing dramatically to the wild ocean waves.

We went to Universal last week, and it was our first time going together as a family. We typically go to Disney (fun fact: my grandfather helped build Tomorrowland at Disneyland), but now that the twins are old enough, we decided to try something new. A few years ago at one of the Automattic Grand […]

I had a check-up today, and all is as it should be. I know I’m getting old when I think that the doctors get younger every year.

He’s never met a washer he didn’t like.

On our last evening at the resort, Grant learned to jump in the pool, and then he further decided to take his floaty off. My baby is growing up!

All the other kids knew when to run. No one told Grant.