Year: 2007

Right on the good ol’ Rockville Pike.

I guess the title should have read, “Too Bad I will be in Paris.” Sigh.

No I’m still at home. I’m taking Friday off, since Ted is in town. We’ll be painting the town red. I leave for Paris on Monday.

When Jeremy steam cleaned, the kitchen was turned upside down. Vince ate in his usual place, but not on his usual seat.

Or I would go to this:

The Booksmith, San Francisco’s celebrated Haight-Ashbury independent purveyor of fine books, magazines and cards, hosts Cary Tennis in a reading, discussion and book signing on Thursday, November 15 at 7 p.m., at 1644 Haight Street, between Cole and Clayton. If you have not heard Cary perform, you are in for a treat. Please join him and his many fans as they celebrate the publication of this long-awaited volume.

I know, I know, lots of people end up finding great care for their special needs kids while they work – it just looks a little discouraging right now.

In preparation for my parents’ visit this past weekend, Jeremy steam cleaned the carpet. He is obsessed with steam cleaning. I offered to get him his own steam cleaner for Christmas, but he thought that it took the male housewife thing a bit too far to get him an actual cleaning appliance for Christmas.

Mom and Dad came to visit this weekend on their way from South Carolina to New Jersey. This means a lot of yummy food for our bellies.

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Vicki and Pauli’s wedding happened on Saturday. It was a beautiful November day in Woodside. We were at the top of the mountain on Skyline overlooking the valley. They had their wedding on the terrace and dinner on the patio and dancing afterwards.

Best part:

Pauli crying during his vows. And it was a really good vow I thought. Basically he said that he wasn’t perfect, and knew Vicki puts up with him sometimes, but glad that she loved him despite his imperfections.

It pretty much brought the house down.

My stress of the night was doing the Anniversary Dance – the one were all the married people come out to the dance floor and one by one you whittle it down the the oldest married couple? Well instead of a slow dance, Vicki and Pauli wanted to do a Conga Line. It was going reasonably well, until the conga line left the room and then when I made all the couples who were married less than 5 years to exit the line, the line totally exploded since so many people were married under 5 years. We were left with mini Conga lines that had no direction.

Ah well, what do you expect for something that went unrehearsed?

Things have been busy – we are all hopping down the bunny trail of life. I’ve been at work now for 7 weeks – I really like it! I’m in a training program and it’s pretty intense – lectures and exams and not much free time. I’m missing a lot of what the kids are doing these days. I leave the house at 5:45 am and don’t get back until 6:30 pm if I’m lucky. (Oh by the way, of the 15 people I work most closely with, one guy’s mom and my mom worked together over 20 years ago and they just got back in touch with each other via us – and get this – I work with cousin Carrie’s freshman roommate from Johns Hopkins and this same person went to the same elementary school as me (although 10 years apart) small world huh?)

Vince is still sick, but out the other end today. No need for details there.

We are trying to arrange childcare, Jeremy has this thing which may or may not work out starting in a few weeks – maybe. We are having some trouble, mainly for Edda and mainly because we are not aggressively working the childcare-word-of-mouth network. Vince is just signed up at before and after care at his school – he’ll love it. Edda is harder to arrange. Day care will take her, but even though she has school for most of the day, we would have to pay for full-day care because they don’t have before/after care for 3 year olds because most 3 year olds are in care all day. Also, they don’t really have space for her and I’d rather find someone to come to the house or we could go over. I’m thinking like 2 other kids and a TV would be great. I know Jeremy is bearing most of the burden for finding care as I’m at work and can’t be of much help.

You know, I want it all – to work and to be at home with the kids. I want to be there for the Halloween parade and I want to defend the US Constitution. Grrr…

Edda in my most favorite place in the whole world besides my home – Target.