Welcome Home Ball Attack

Mommy deserved a good ambushing

If Breakfast Is Dinner Than Beer For Breakfast

This is how we celebrate most anything

At Home In An Ice Prison

We are living in an ice prison...

 but you'd never know it...

 the food is pretty good...

 and even the ominous mounds can't scare us...

we got everything we need

Aesop Over The Long Weekend

On day two of Aesop's life, we got free breakfast. Free breakfast AND a baby! Best day ever. I think Laura is enjoying this hospital thing a little too much.

Aesop meets his maker

Sleeping like a...

I was the one running around town and taking out dogs and feeding bunnies and buying bigger diapers, but I got my time in too

Day three of his life he was set free with a [mostly] clean bill of health. We waited around the hospital til early afternoon waiting for signatures and hospital bureaucracies to play out, but we were in no big hurry.

See, no big hurry

Packaged for delivery

Mommy wasted no time breaking him into the Bentwood

Day four left plenty of time for bonding, for him, for her, for everyone

Yuula got a kick out his heavy gaze. He seems to stare at her a little more intently than at anyone else.

I think they'll be just fine

Already napping together

To The Livery, Bowed, And Home

On then we left for home. We've gotten to the point where we just drive. No rush, no fuss. It's an all day affair, so why not take all day, ya know. 

I got a lot of this.

We decided to go off the path a bit for a fine dining experience.

The Sheridan Livery Inn in Lexington VA was just the thing. Delicious food and dessert was quite the show. 

They didn't even know it was already lunchtime.

Laura offered to drive the last 5 or so hours, but only if I let her wear a giant bow the whole time. 

Small price to pay.

Transitioning From The Road

missing the road

happy to be home

Home Sweet Japanese Maple-y Home

We had a present waiting for us when we arrived home from our vacation roadtrip today... 5 Japanese maples from good old Tom out in Houston. I don't deserve such thoughtful friends. 

Check it out:

• an Amber Ghost
• a Beni Maiko
• an Aureum Autumn Moon
• a Red Dragon
• and a Seiryu

Pretty pretty good. Gonna plant them this weekend. If we ever find a second of time. 

Needing Sleep Sums It Up

This is Yuula's second of three naps she took today. Pretty much sums up how we all feel. But we adults are back to work and can only "aww" at the lucky one. The trip to Georgia was plentiful and joyous. We drove back early Monday morning, awakened at 2am by a vomiting Yuula who couldn't keep down a niblet of a saltine. Not good for 14 hour commutes. We braved the cold at 4am and puttered home thru the western mountain landscape that seemed to be stuck in a perpetual pre-election state. No puke and lots of tunes later we arrived at a chilly home and the world resumes. 

Details to come...

Fatih Photos Incorporated

Caught Fatih getting some shots round the compound on Thanksgiving and then stole them off his camera. I like when people can make my place look nicer than it really is.

Home In Mexico

Let's get one thing straight, camping is not a vacation. That is work. We are more exhausted today than if we had just stayed home and gone about our business. But it was a blast. I will release some details throughout the weekend, mainly because we'll be too tired to be doing anything else. For now, tonight, it's dinner at a swanky Mexican place and home to an early night-night.

Mexican robot cheerleader

A Little Later, A Little Less

Oy. That actually wasn't so bad. Sleeping in a little and getting home a little later. Made a miserable ride a little less. Plus we brought along a few distractions like some fine brie and apricot spread, Mr. Pussywoof, a box of blueberry and brown sugar newton thins and a steady rotation of quality tunes the same Fraggle Rock episode over and over. And after a quick stopoff to stretch our legs and buy some spur of the moment Christmas at a Virginian Walmart, it was pedal down til we pulled into the driveway, making good time considering... well, just considering. Now we're home, in bed and guess who has some built up energy. Gonna be a long night.

Beware The Coons

Friday Night's Mall Night Alright!

I'm home, for the moment. Actually landed this morning round 9, and thru the traffic Laura still had a flawless pickup. We wrestled down 78 and got breakfast at the Roxbury. That had the opporunity to become a tradition. Had.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I only have an hour to shower, repack and head out again so, you'll get Friday night. Let's see, let's see...

I had a late night flight, 9:30, mainly because the car is in the shop and Laura had to drop me off after she got off at 5, so we had some time to kill there. The Roxbury mall is on the way and has lots of time wasting elements so... the mall on Friday night, it's like I'm 15 again.

We ate first because we were starving. The mall food court is a brilliant invention. I had Sbarro's or some bastardized version of it's chicken stromboli and Laura had Wendy's, mainly for the frosty & fries.

We hit up a few shops, like the gourmet cooking store, where we bought a discount Christmas bowl, apple butter & peach chutney. Now I gotta make some pancakes.

Laura took the opportunity to search for some new work shoes. She goes thru shoes like a thoroughbred, and even tho I could really use some sneakers that don't smell like gouda I felt it most productive to sit and do nothing.

We still had an hour to kill and nothing in this gigantic building seemed to interest us so we hit the Brookstone and took naps in the massage chairs.

I wonder what the breaking point is for the Brookstone employee and people sitting in those things. "We're seriously thinking about buying these".