DD – Day 9



David’s sharing his little frog book with me and showing me the mirror.
You can never instill the love of reading too soon.

PotD – Day 8



Of course today’s about the elections as well. But the captured facial
expression is one of my favorites.

DD – Day 8



A black and white one for today.

PotD – Day 7



Leftover pumpkins from Halloween. One would think they were bad by now
but two months down and they are still so cute.


Not a pumpkin person? Ok, here are some stamps for you:

DD – Day 7



You thought I was slipping, didn’t you? Today we took David for his
speech evaluation. As part of that, the evaluator showed him a bunch of
photos and asked him to say what they are. When he saw a couch, he said
“Couch, mommy couch.” and then they showed a book and he said “Mommy’s
book.” That prolly sums up my life for the last 20 days that I’ve been
sick. Mommy on the couch with a book.

PtoD – Day 6



My friend Mark and I took a long walk around Stanford campus today. It
was a wonderful time even though it started raining and we couldn’t find
our car. More photos from today to be posted later.

DD – Day 6



David was playing so happily that when he saw me grab the camera, he was
amused and even posed for me.

PotD – Day 5



Rainstorms are still all the rage here. Supposedly we’ll have another
six or seven days of them. Joy Joy.

DD – Day 5



Today was one of a lot of fun and horsing around with Daddy. Here are a
bunch of others from the same fun moments.





Twilight and Breakdown Lane


As opposed to last year’s Christmas vacation, I got a lot less reading
(however a lot more scrapping) done this year. The two I managed to read
are Twilight
and Breakdown
Lane
. So let’s talk about Twilight. I’d read about this one on
multiple blogs and thought that there would be no way I’d like it since
I don’t generally read young adult novels and I definitely don’t read
anything about vampires. Ever. I really mean ever. Yet I loved this
book. It was a lightweight, easy read. Well enough written that it
didn’t bother me the story was a perfect fit for my mood. I’d sort of
hate to admit it, but I did really enjoy reading this book.

I picked up Breakdown Lane because when I
absolutely hated Twelve times Blessed, Kim and Cheryl told me to read
this one instead. And, man, they were right. I absolutely adored this
book. It was depressing as shit. Really, really depressing. And I was so
very sick so it only exacerbated my grief. But it was so much better
written than the other book that it’s hard to believe it was the same
writer. The book left me with a lot of thoughts but that’s for another day.

I’ve also read a few scrapping books but that’s for another day. I
really need some good fiction. Any ideas?

DD – Day 4



Oh uh. David was not very accommodating with the photo taking today. I
hope this is not a trend.

PotD – Day 4 – Part 2



Today, we had one of the biggest rain storms we’ve had in Palo Alto
since I’ve moved here. Nonstop rain and heavy winds. It was not fun.
However, one of the benefits of a lot of rain is that grass and plants
get a lot of water and become really colorful. So I wanted to capture
the beautiful reds in our front yard to remind myself that rain is not
all bad.