Here’s Bea reading her Happy Halloween cards from Aunt Jennifer and Grandma J.

I love to hear Brian making Bea laugh. He often comes home and goes right to her. She’ll look up with a big smile and I say “Daddy’s home”. He goes right to her and snuggles his face in her belly and smells her sweet little neck and she does her sputtery sounding giggle. And…

It finally felt like Fall this weekend when we drove up to Wisconsin to a pumpkin farm. Every weekend I find myself saying – dang, this is our last warm sunny weekend – and then we have another. It was a beautiful day. We picked out a pumpkin for Bea’s first Halloween. And we looked…

So that’s what it feels like to get six and a half hours of sleep at once. I had forgotten. I think we are finally making progress on the sleep issue. Yippeeeee! We’re off to the pool now.

It’s fun to make Bea laugh. Fun because she makes this sputtering laugh that sounds like the backfiring of an old car. Fun because she shrieks in that way that says I don’t really have any concerns in the world in a way that only children can ever really do. Fun because laughing is not…

I had a really nice weekend thanks to Brian. On Saturday morning he gave me a much needed break from the munchkin. They went for a nice long walk and I think to the bookstore too. I was able to get out some art supplies have some creative time to myself. I started on a…

Did you happen to watch any of the Ken Burns documentary on World War II? It was really interesting. I am always fascinated with photos and stories of the war – it makes me think about my Grandpa and Grandma and what they went through. The documentary was done from the perspective of four home…

Hey check it out my husband is a published author. He wrote an article about the pharmaceutical market in China for Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine. It’s a very interesting article (uh… that is if reading about growth rates, market potentials, hospital target strategy and sales force structure is your cup of tea).

Back from Quebec City and re-entering the real world (sitting in a middle seat on a flight to San Antonio to be exact, praying the guy in front of me doesn’t decide to lean back). We’ve had some really nice vacations and this one was no exception, doing what I love best – wandering around,…