Dookie

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

When I was a baby, I didn’t have any hair, so my parents used to put a dookie (the phonetic spelling of the Dutch word in the Frisian dialect for dishcloth) on my head to imagine what I might someday look like with a full head of hair. My parents thought this was HILARIOUS. Good [...]

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Portland pictorial

Posted on July 28, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Or, alternately: I went to Portland this past weekend, and all you get are a bunch of caption-laden pictures, mostly featuring the baby and not at all illustrative of the lovely city that is Portland (seriously, ’tis an awesome place, and I’d totally live there, if only because of Stumptown [which I realize is now [...]

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Vexworthy

Posted on July 24, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Two things irking me today. One, I hate how after several awesome nights in a row of the baby sleeping well and through to the morning hours, one lousy night of fitful sleep resulting in one parent on the couch (not me) while the other guiltily snoozes warm in our bed (me) seems to erase [...]

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I’m tired of whys, choking on whysJust need a little because, because

Posted on July 23, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 7 Comments

When I was a kid and would think about the vastness of space, usually in bed while trying to fall asleep, I would get so frustrated that I couldn’t understand it, that I couldn’t wrap my head around the concept of infinity. That on this seemingly massive planet of ours, we are just specks. But [...]

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Two of a kind

Posted on July 23, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Then: Roth, age 7 months, majorly digging on a zucchini. Now: Rowan, age 7 months, majorly digging on a corn cob. Yep. It’s safe to say these two are of the same ilk. Like peas in a pod, my boys.

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Seattleing down

Posted on July 22, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Four years ago today, we were on the road. We’d packed up all of our earthly belongings — an old loveseat, a new Kitchenaid mixer, boxes of books and CDs, one floppy-eared beagle — and pointed our caravan of sedan-following-U-haul-towing-SUV for the Pacific Northwest.Having lived nearly all of my life (save for that brief stint [...]

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About to burst

Posted on July 20, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Somehow Roth managed to capture on video Rowan demonstrating nearly all of his tricks to date — smiling, laughing, dada-ing, squealing, rolling, playing coy, whining, rocking on all fours — in less than two minutes. Crazy kid from Jen G. on Vimeo. At 7 months old, Rowan is far more fun than I ever imagined [...]

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Mental queue

Posted on July 17, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 4 Comments

I was conversing with my friend Kerri yesterday via Twitter (why yes, we do often DM each other in a silly string of messages, each only 140 characters long, rather than just popping onto Gmail, why? because we’re slaves to social media, is why) about some awful movie she just saw, and how she’s always [...]

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A life less expensive

Posted on July 11, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Now that we’ve been to California to visit my family and bid our adieus to Roth’s family earlier this week, the rest of the summer is ours for the taking. I want to say that we’ve intentionally made no grand plans, but let’s be honest. Times are tough, and we’re certainly feeling the strain of [...]

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Family fourth

Posted on July 7, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 10 Comments

As has become tradition since moving to Seattle four years ago, we spent Fourth of July weekend with Roth’s parents, who this year brought his grandma and 14-year-old cousin along for the trip, too. It was Rowan’s first time meeting a great grandmother on Roth’s side of the family, and while he may not remember [...]

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