Though John and I are often tempted to trade in our only-phone-call-and-text-message-ready cell phones for something like iPhones, time and again we resist. For one thing, we don’t want to work two data plans into our budget. For another, I know I get distracted easily enough; I don’t need something else to take me out […]

You asked for it, friends.  A month and half into our new place, I’m finally ready to share some photos.  Welcome, and please come in. Here’s what you’d see if you could walk in the door (little man included):   Then if you could turn about forty-five degrees, this is what you’d see: And then […]

When I first learned we’d have to move, I started to wonder whether it would be easier to move while eight months pregnant or with a ten-month-old child.  We’ve now done both, and the verdict is . . . It is easier to move with a ten-month-old child, more specifically, a ten-month-old child who cannot […]