I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Family, Tommy on Jul 3rd, 2009
We’re at Grandpa and Grandma Muller’s house, in “Mish-din”, as Tommy tells us. The drive with the kids went okay on Wednesday. Elizabeth was still sleeping a ton from her immunizations on Tuesday, and Tommy did as well as could be expected. He read a book with Grandma Willett over the phone (thank you to […]
The kids and I made it down to Missouri for Peter and Cammy’s Columbia reception this weekend, leaving Derek home to recover in peace and quiet. Our normal 7 hour trip took 9 hours, even with Leann in the backseat trying to soothe Elizabeth for the last 7 hours. When we finally arrived, everyone was […]
Posted in Family on Jun 10th, 2009
I’m feeling a bit like Miss Clavel today, but with less nighttime interruptions. The only little girl who woke me up in the middle of the night was Elizabeth, wanting some food after a five hour stretch of sleep(!). All in all, I got seven hours, so everything is much less overwhelming today. Derek’s home […]
Posted in Family on Jun 9th, 2009
Well, Tommy and Lizzie and I all went to the children’s hospital today to see an allergist about Tommy’s food stuff. He is fine. And Derek is in the hospital down the street recovering from an emergency appendectomy! He went into the ER at 3 am with stomach pains and had surgery at 11:30. I […]
I’ve shared before about our tradition of picking a special hymn for each of our children. With Elizabeth, we are so much more mindful of the blessing that a healthy child is. Throughout my pregnancy, I kept reminding myself and Derek that this was not something we could ever take for granted after our miscarriage. As […]
So I’m missing my brother’s wedding today to take care of this pair. It’s kindof been a rough, emotional past 24 hours for me. The sister part of me so wants to be out in Maryland celebrating with Lt. John Willett and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Willett, but the mom part of me realizes that […]
Things are going pretty well here in the hospital. Besides the fact that our room doesn’t get good cell reception (so I can’t really call anyone), we’re feeling pretty connected to the world as Derek has been using the wi-fi here in the room! So far Elizabeth has been a very good sleeper and a […]
Posted in Children's Books, Family, Tommy on Apr 25th, 2009
Today has been a lovely Saturday…this morning, we hit up the semi-lame Lincoln Square kid’s day. Lincoln Square wants to be cool, but they haven’t quite figured out how to actually have things going on at their special event days. Basically, we walked around. Tommy liked walking with Daddy. And he got a pinwheel, which […]
Posted in Family on Apr 1st, 2009
After two months at a trial defending a corporation against the scientific allegations of the Government, you might think that I would be a bit, shall we say, cynical of the scientific positions of those in Washington, D.C. In reality, however, I’ve reached a slightly different conclusion: if there are two political groups fighting over […]
Tommy had a fun time with Grandma and Grandpa Muller a couple weeks back, even though I was spending the week mourning the loss of our computer…here are some pictures at last! “Ba-Pa Tar Driving!” “Payin’ [in the] bat-yard” Parking the “mon-mower”