Battle of the Spoon

757 It’s true that kids will sometimes fight over anything. We just went through a few days of morning fights over who got to use a “special” spoon. I try to get the kids involved in meal preparations as much as I can. When you’re serving up cereal for breakfast there isn’t a whole lot […]

Beautiful Baby

735 It’s handy having a sister that is good at photography. Hannah had a photo shoot today.   Check our Photo Album for a couple of the best pictures.   (By the way, if you look really, REALLY close you may be able to see her first tooth. Found just yesterday by her Gran. It’s […]

A Tale of Two Pencils

711 This is the tale of two pencils that once belonged to two students whose class load was filled with pencil-intense classes such as math and computer science. The two pencils dutifully served those students well during Calculus III, Linear Algebra, Abstract Math, Assembler II, and so forth. Finally after such dedicated service, they rested. […]

Monarch in the Sky

715 A few weeks ago we had a beautiful Sunday afternoon. So beautiful, in fact, that a bike ride to the local school playground with kites in tow was in order. 713   This butterfly kite joined our collection last year. It was purchased at the kite festival at Ziker Park (in Austin). This was […]

Dear Daughter,

It’s Thursday night and there’s so many things I should be doing to get ready for your party this weekend. There are balloons to be found and mermaids to be cut out. And have you seen your bathroom lately? It’s getting a bit nasty. That should really be cleaned before people get here so they […]

Swapping….

No, not us. My cousin and his wife will be on Wife Swap this next Monday. From what we hear, it will be ….. interesting!

Family, Family, and MORE Family

I spent 9 days visiting family for the holidays and had a great time. Tonight I realized that in each of the past 4 days I have shared a meal with different members of my extended family. Lunch in my hometown with my family on Monday. Dinner with some members of G’s family on Tuesday. […]

101, 35, 3

It’s been a year and a half now and this is apparently my 101st post. My youngest sister is scheduled to arrive at my house in approximately 35 hours. I made my 3 kids cry at the store today. H cried because I tried a couple shirts on and couldn’t hold her while doing so. […]

So far behind…

Ant~Swing~Spring~Hibernate~Eclipse AJAX~Ruby~Rails~Struts~Tomcat~SOAP SAX~Velocity~Wet~Watir (spelling intended) It’s been almost 6 years that I’ve been out of the programming world and I just can’t keep up any longer. George has been using these words lately and I’m starting to get that eyes-glazed-over look when he does. You know the look. It’s the one that non-computer geeks get […]

Better than if you just pulled it out of the ground

One of the things we miss about San Antonio is H-E-B. (That would be the grocery store, not the school district we are currently in.) Another thing we miss is the Spurs. Sure, we can still watch the games here, but it’s not the same. Put those two together and what do you have? Spurs […]