Saturday, August 30, 2008

While the boy is away, the girls will play...

Dain left at 7:15am to catch a NYC bus to visit our friend, Nate.  Meanwhile, Sabine and I plotted what trouble we could get into.  First up on my list was digging something out of the ONE closet in our apartment (man, I won't miss that!), which inevitably requires a complete re-haul.  Sabine was less inclined than usual to take the requisite nap (read: mommy access closet time), but finally went down around 9:20am.  Here I am at 10:30am, realizing my window for a carefree shower is quickly expiring, and I've dug out and re-stacked the closet only to discover that the target items are not in the box I maneuvered to the front - but may very well be in the box that I relocated to the far rear of the closet, thinking "I won't need to access this until we move".  At this point, I'm taking a break to contemplate my options: cut my losses; move everything again without assurance that the objects are actually in that box; wait for Sabine to wake up to double-check that what I was looking for all along is not, actually, already in some hidden corner of my DRESSER!  I think I'll choose option #3.

11am Update:  I couldn't stand it, so I dove back in and Yes, was right to do so. Now the closet is re-packed, Sabine is still sleeping and I'm off to find a snack.

After Sabine woke up and ate her lunch, we decided to walk to Porter Square to return a Redbox DVD and get cash for our pennies.  Why I decided to do this 2 hour walk in th
e heat of the day, I'm unsure.  But we stopped to swing along the way and when we finally did make it back, we both took a cat nap (30min).  Then it was out again to go get ice cream and swing by the library before coming home for dinner and bed.  Christina's is still featuring my favorite "fresh mint" flavor, which reminds me of  the mint that grew up around our outdoor facet every year.  Sabine liked it too, as you can see.


Not much else to tell of the day, except a picture of the princess surrounded by her now lowered (and therefore novel) exersaucer.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Sick Day




Sabine is having a sick day... runny nose, red eyes, clingy, needy.... I love it!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

First Stab

We are experiencing a sea change in the form and function of our family right now.  Sabine feels this change the least because she has no way of sensing existential, environmental, or economic change.  Between Kristen and myself, I would wager that we each intuit the changes to the same degree, but with significantly different emphasis.  

These changes are as follows:

*  Moving to Lancaster Pennsylvania 
*  Starting a new job for Kristen
*  Finishing seminary for Dain
*  Putting away PhD aspirations (at least for now) for Dain
*  Dain's wide-open job search
*  Looking to buy our first home
*  Figuring out daycare options 
*  Getting our finances in order 

Kristen and I are thrilled to be moving, but we will miss the community we have found in Cambridge, our church, and the food (to name a few aspects of New England)...

Dain's goal for this new blog during this time of transition is to reflect on 7 years of Massachusetts life with some shout-outs to "a few of my favorite things."