Category Archives for Jude
T-ball
Originally, while mentally drafting this post in my mind, I called it “A String of Profanity.” At the time, I could not compose a sentence that didn’t have “fuck,” “shit,” or “mother fucking” in it. I’ve moved past the foul … Continue reading
Progress
The thing about being bed-ridden is that it doesn’t make for good blog-writing fodder. So here we are. Good news! Today I was able to assemble and cook a quesadilla for Jude. That means I was on my feet for … Continue reading
Beach Time
Josh, Jude, and I have been spending a decent amount of time at the beach lately. Yesterday, after having read an interesting article on the ingredients in conventional sun screen, I picked up two different containers of safe sunscreen: California … Continue reading
Jam Packed
I love days like today. Days when we go from activity to activity, from play date to play date, from yummy meal to yummy meal.
Bait and Switch
Wooo! That was quite the weekend. This is the first year Jude has gone trick-or-treating. Last year marked his first time dressing us (Remy from Ratatouille), but this year we went all out.
Carved
After Monday’s pumpkin patch fail and a failed attempt to procure a pumpkin from a local market yesterday afternoon, we finally brought home a pumpkin to carve yesterday evening. Jude was ready to dive right in; he desperately wanted to … Continue reading
Pumpkin
There’s a place on Sheridan Road that sells pumpkins during the Halloween season and Christmas trees during… uhm, the Christmas season. Since Monday’s attempt to go to the pumpkin patch at a semi-local farm was such an epic FAIL, Josh … Continue reading
Ideas
I’m really not sure what to write about. There a about six different ideas for blog posts swirling around in my brain right now, but I can’t figure out where to start. The simplest of the ideas is just to … Continue reading
Payback
In return for a really wonderful day with Jude yesterday, today the universe gifted me melt down after melt down from an overtired young man. One might say that Jude woke up on the wrong side of the bed this … Continue reading
Blerg
I think I’ve said it before, but in case I haven’t, let me come clean with all of you: I am a shitty, shitty parent when I am in pain. And, sadly, I’ve been a lot of pain as of … Continue reading