Month: March 2011

It is such a beautiful weekend, I am a little embarrassed to admit that we are just staying in the house and relaxing all weekend. No play dates, no extra activities, no nothing. Vince is doing a Rugrats marathon, I’m catching up on bills/paperwork/taxes and Grey’s Anatomy. Edda is still in her pajamas. We are eating on the couch and licking the artificial butter off of the packaging of microwave popcorn. It’s awesome.

Because my parents have spent a career designing piping systems for nuclear power plants and because Jeremy works in energy policy and because I have worked as an actual engineer that has stood in front of a machine that refuses to work even though you’ve tried everything you can think of (including kicking it), it is with heightened anxiety that I hear that the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is getting worse. I know that lots of people have lost their lives and lots of people have no food or water and that it’s freezing, but somehow I dwell on those handful of nuclear engineers and technicians who are without doubt operating on sheer panic to try and control the rapidly out-of-control situation.

On a lighter note, here’s Edda trotting. I tried to remind Jeremy to find out the name of the horse, but of course, he forgot.

We went to our local nursery this afternoon to see if we could find a small dogwood tree to plant in our front lawn. We are a little too early to find very many trees in stock, but we did get to see some beautiful plants!

Edda is getting so tall!

I am starting an Orchid collection. Either I get them as gifts or I find them neglected somewhere and ask if I can take home. I am so pleased to find out that these beautiful flowers don’t need very much light, our house is shaded so I thought I could never have flowers in the house. But now I have these!

Who are these crazy people?!? Am I related to them? Why yes I am!

Vince is taking the first part out of four sections of the MSA this morning. The MSA are some sort of no-child-left-behind testing that is done in almost year Vince has been in school. They have spent a tremendous amount of time preparing for this exam, every piece of homework sent home this year (especially the reading homework) has been geared to improving performance on this exam. It’s a little tiring how much this exam is emphasized – but I’m happy that Vince gets to do a lot of other non-test prep stuff at his school. He’s learning to play the recorder in music class as well as making awesome masks in art class. His mask was on display at the local library and we went to admire his masterpiece this weekend.

Edda spiked a fever again on Friday night. So she’s sick again. Poo poo. Ruby is very concerned.

I was hoping that the fever would dissipate during the day yesterday (sometimes Edda gets a 24 hour bug that comes and goes pretty quickly) so we took her all around town doing various errands…

Like shopping for low sodium chicken broth from Target (Edda is feeling crappy).

and admiring their large display of cheese balls.

And we also stopped by our local cookie stand which was raising funds for IRSF!
Drink hot cocoa for a cure 😉