Dec 13
Yesterday we closed on our new house. Still in Pana, but closer to the school and larger to accommodate our fiver person family (plus sister in law who is living with us at the moment).
My favorite part is the office space I’ll get to make use of. Yeah, I have to share some with Tina’s crafting stuff but it is large enough for both of us to use.
Also the downstairs family room is pretty spiffy. This room will probably house some of my toy junk as well as the television and main computer.
Nov 29
So, my wife made the rounds on Facebook and I finally got around to making the rounds on Twitter. We’re having a baby. We have three kids my my wife’s previous marriage but this will be our first together. She keeps saying if she is having one, she wants to have two so they can play with each other. I keep reminding her that the kids we have don’t get along with each other most of the time so that plan kind of sucks.
I thought about adding a sub blog for baby junk but then I realized that I already have a blog for personal whatever crap that no one cares about and in the end I’d just end up folding it back into this blog anyway. Besides, I only get so many SQL databases with my hosting and I’m starting to eat up more of them than I ever expected.
Anyway, somewhere around May 22nd everything is going to get totally crazy. I expect a couple of possible scenarios. One, everything continues mostly as normal (year right). Two, My wife deals more with the baby since I have to work during the day and she is all into that anyway. Three, I help out with the baby quite a bit and end up going nutty from the lack of sleep (this scenario is most likely). When I start blogging at 3 AM incoherently, it’s because the baby started crying and it was my turn to take care of it and lull it back to sleep.
Anyway, no idea if it’s a boy or a girl. I don’t think Tina wanted to find out but she keeps mentioning she wishes she knew so she could buy stuff she finds on sale/clearance. I tell her we probably should just find out when we can and her answer is she doesn’t trust the scan anyway. Can’t win I guess.
Nov 12
Pana schools has this annual event where they host a magic show for the kids to come and watch. I took the kids to see it last year. I took off work in time to take them this year. Unfortunately my oldest had a bad case of diarrhea.
Or so she claimed. Se has a tendency to exaggerate that sort of thing. The younger two were devastated when we decided we couldn’t go. In the end though I changed my mind and we all went albeit a little lately.
On the way out of the driveway, the cat walks up in front of the car. I slowly creep forward hoping ot scare it off, which works except that it’s running away down the driveway and not off into the darkness around us a hoped.
My youngest daughter says rather solemnly, “You can kill it if you want.”
My son reminds her that it’s her cat she’s talking about and she says even more solemnly, “I know.”
You see, she’s really excited about going to see the magic show. Apparently she’s decided sacrificing the cat is worth the extra 10 seconds I’d gain.
After the show the magician gave out balloon animals. She didn’t like her parrot though I personally thought it was pretty awesome since you could clip it onto your shoulder like a pirate. She then proceeded to take great pleasure in un-twisting the parrot then popping it. Later I found she had done the same thing to my son’s balloon dog.
Apr 17
As of Sunday April 15th, I’ve been married for one year. To celebrate my wife and I ate anchient cake and watched Veronica Mars. We had planned to go out of town to Chicago the weekend before but the weather decided it was going to snow which would have been bad for doing outdoor activities.
Mar 20
The last couple of weeks I’ve been covering for several of the people in Master Control and working the evening shift. This given me the pleasure of getting the kids ready for school in the mornings and taking them to school.
One morning, I’m getting ready and my daughters walk in. Well, my youngest walks in first followed by the oldest. The youngest is upset and says to me “Rebecca says babies come from your privates but mommy said they come from your stomach.”
This isn’t really my area here so I kind of skirt the issue by suggesting that “The babies live in the stomach for a while.
The oldest joins in and doesn’t help by stating “It’s true, we watched a video”.
Technically the baby doesn’t live in the stomach either. Just the stomach area.
Thank god the boy was in the other room.
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