This and that

The latest round of guests are gone and a quiet calm has fallen over the house. Dan is in the other room watching a movie, I have been watching a backlog of bad TV on the DVR and lazily surfing the net. Will is fast asleep after a pajama stripping/diaper-taking-off incident in bed. As wonderful, wonderful, having our latest guest here was there is something so nice about just having the three of us in our quiet little house again.

Since this guest was mostly Dan's, Will and I have gotten to spend a lot of time together over the last few days. Our nightly routines have been pared down to just the two of us, and we have had such a nice time. I think he is about ready to have Daddy do nighttime again - I just don't quite read certain books the right way - but we have made new little traditions and inside jokes just in the course of a couple of days. His newest movie obsession in Mulan...there's something about the Huns I guess. He's memorized a couple of the songs and his been singing "I'll make a man out of you" at the top of his lungs every time we get into the car. He's even memorized a couple of lines from the movie and it is very important that when these lines come up, I must stop whatever I am doing and "act out" the scene with him....which of course makes me want to explode from all the cuteness and just plain earnest-ness.

It's hard though sometimes, these days that I get to spend so much time with him, to give it up. It's amazing how quickly I can fall into a rhythm that I just don't want to interrupt with things like work and daycare and having to let Dan put him to bed tomorrow night...

Beach Part1

These are from a few weeks ago when my parents where here. We spent the day out at Cannon beach and Astoria It was, of course, raining in mid-july but in some ways I was glad my parents got to see our Coast like that, all misty and Northwesty.










These were taken with my mom's camera, the one I covet. Seriously, seriously covet.

My former home

I have been devouring news out of the Twin Cities this week. After making sure that family and Aggie were accounted for I really should have been able to just read the occasional story, but for some reason I keep combing the stories for more coverage, more news, more details. It's like I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that I didn't know someone who was affected and I keep looking for that detail as to who it is. I also can't seem to stop thinking about what it must have been like to be on/under/around the bridge at the time of it's collapse, and so many of my thoughts have been going out to the people who were so tragically touched by this horrible event.
The people I love are ok, I feel so lucky for this.