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We've been battling hand foot and mouth in our house again with Mina (a virus spread easily around young kids, with symptoms of painful mouth sores and body blisters most commonly on hands and feet. Not fun! She was back at school yesterday and is starting to eat more solid foods again, which is a nice perk. It is also an amazing feeling knowing how much just a hug from you can change a kid's world. This is the second time she's had it (once before as a crawling baby). This time was much harder, as she was walking (on foot blisters) and was acutely aware that her mouth hurt and it was hard to eat. Once you have it you are immune, but there are different varieties. It is a character building experience, to be sure.
This humidity is surely oppressive. As much as we can we are doing the local spray park or beach thing. We had a wonderful time at Salem Willows last weekend. I never went there as a kid (we always went up to Hampton Beach), but I can see us spending lots of time as a family.
Con season is ramping up. We are trying to negotiate that schedule around babysitting and also an October wedding. I can't believe we are already planning for the fall.
Our next big trip is planned for next spring (SW Celebration/Disney CA) but we have a long weekend trip in the White Mountains scheduled with my parents (sharing a 2 bedroom cottage) over Labor Day. We had pondered a trip to NYC with Mina to catch the Marvel/Shield exhibit, but the cost and her presumed quick interest in it along with busy fall is pushing me in the 'no' direction.
I haven't taken any dance classes or worked out much at all since the studio has been out. I've enjoyed just going with the flow on my Tuesday and Thursday nights off. I've dabbled with sewing and I've been cleaning up/donating some things hanging around the house. I watched the documentary "The Bus" last night via itunes while cutting out pattern pieces. Great movie! We had a white VW bus when I was young and I loved the thing! A lot of neat perspectives about the vehicle that I wasn't aware of. Though I love city life, there is a teeny piece of me that really admires and is curious about the bohemian life, so I'm fascinated with all things hippie (though I'm really not one at all).
I was invited to dance for a music video for a local rock group! Details are still TBD, but we should have rehearsal Saturday and film Sunday morning. Just crazy. I can share later when I have something worth sharing.
I think more and more about my car and its high mileage and feel less and less confident about it. I'm due to bring it back in for a tuneup and tie rod ends (I did brakes, some other dead part I'm forgetting and an oil change in early June). It has almost 120k miles on it, and is a 2008 Impala. I own it outright and the body is in great shape. It got a rebuilt transmission put in soon after Mina was born. It would be nice to keep it going for a while, but the frugal nature in me battles the mom who doesn't want to get stuck on the side of the road with her kid. I'm pondering moving the next time to some kind of AWD/Hatch vehicle which would be a HUGE change for me. The impalas are just not as safe or efficient as some other things out there. We shall see. In the meantime, once I get a break from paying for repairs (which have pretty much cost what a car payment would each month) we'll put about $400 extra into Brian's truck payment each month, so that our budget is used to the potential of another car payment.
This humidity is surely oppressive. As much as we can we are doing the local spray park or beach thing. We had a wonderful time at Salem Willows last weekend. I never went there as a kid (we always went up to Hampton Beach), but I can see us spending lots of time as a family.
Con season is ramping up. We are trying to negotiate that schedule around babysitting and also an October wedding. I can't believe we are already planning for the fall.
Our next big trip is planned for next spring (SW Celebration/Disney CA) but we have a long weekend trip in the White Mountains scheduled with my parents (sharing a 2 bedroom cottage) over Labor Day. We had pondered a trip to NYC with Mina to catch the Marvel/Shield exhibit, but the cost and her presumed quick interest in it along with busy fall is pushing me in the 'no' direction.
I haven't taken any dance classes or worked out much at all since the studio has been out. I've enjoyed just going with the flow on my Tuesday and Thursday nights off. I've dabbled with sewing and I've been cleaning up/donating some things hanging around the house. I watched the documentary "The Bus" last night via itunes while cutting out pattern pieces. Great movie! We had a white VW bus when I was young and I loved the thing! A lot of neat perspectives about the vehicle that I wasn't aware of. Though I love city life, there is a teeny piece of me that really admires and is curious about the bohemian life, so I'm fascinated with all things hippie (though I'm really not one at all).
I was invited to dance for a music video for a local rock group! Details are still TBD, but we should have rehearsal Saturday and film Sunday morning. Just crazy. I can share later when I have something worth sharing.
I think more and more about my car and its high mileage and feel less and less confident about it. I'm due to bring it back in for a tuneup and tie rod ends (I did brakes, some other dead part I'm forgetting and an oil change in early June). It has almost 120k miles on it, and is a 2008 Impala. I own it outright and the body is in great shape. It got a rebuilt transmission put in soon after Mina was born. It would be nice to keep it going for a while, but the frugal nature in me battles the mom who doesn't want to get stuck on the side of the road with her kid. I'm pondering moving the next time to some kind of AWD/Hatch vehicle which would be a HUGE change for me. The impalas are just not as safe or efficient as some other things out there. We shall see. In the meantime, once I get a break from paying for repairs (which have pretty much cost what a car payment would each month) we'll put about $400 extra into Brian's truck payment each month, so that our budget is used to the potential of another car payment.
