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announcing

della maria!  our second baby girl was born today at 2:49 p.m.  she weighed 7 lbs 5 1/2 oz and was 20 inches long.  she is gorgeous of course and we are in love (again).

lesson from the weekend involving a mouse

you’ll need a bit of history first.
we bought a house this summer that still had radiators and the original boiler.  and no air conditioning.  i wasn’t going to live in it without a/c so we decided to replace the boiler with two heat pumps and a furnace and electric strip heat.  so ductwork was put [...]

predicting how my day will go

i don’t know if anyone else does this or if i am the only crazy one. i like to predict how my day will go based on how my morning goes. not a good habit, in my opinion.
like today for example. today will be a good day. the husband got up [...]

to the car next to me on the interstate

just because i drive a minivan does not mean that you need to drive whatever speed limit you want, as long as it’s faster then me.  i understand not wanting to get passed by a minivan.  i used to be there too.  but really, passing each other back and forth for an hour really is [...]

busy busy

we will remain busy all weekend because we are painting.  i fear the painting will never be done in this house.  updates to come hopefully.

finished project & first snow

i finished the hat for the baby last night.  all of the sudden i had this urge to get it done so i stayed up late knitting.  it felt so good to be knitting again.  i think when i stop it adds to my blue moods and then it’s hard to get started again.  i [...]

our day so far in pictures

cora picks out her own shoes now and today she was serious about wanting her sparkle shoes:

we went to mass this morning at our parish.  little did i know it was an all school mass with the whole school.  it was pretty crowded but cora really enjoyed it.  a picture borrowed from our church website:

then [...]

disappointed & inspired & an update

Kelly has his final exam tonight in one of his classes. Guess who “forgot” to study all weekend? So he took a half day at work and is at the library and won’t be home for dinner. He said to me “I’ll be home early from class though and you can leave [...]

birthdays

Everyone has a fall birthday in this house except for me (including the new baby, we just don’t know her date yet!).  Today was my husband’s birthday.  Twenty seven years old already.  Until March I can say I’m married to an older man.
My parents came up today to cook us all lunch and play with [...]