Following up on my promise from awhile ago to add an “About Me” page to this blog, I decided to do something a bit different than the traditional, paint-by-numbers, paragraph-long business-style bio or the fun but frivolous, paragraph-long informal version that many web sites have (er, no offense meant if that's what your web site […]
“A sappy woman sent me a letter a few years back. She knew I was sappy, too, which is to say a lifelong northern Democrat in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt mode, a friend of the working stiffs. She was about to have a baby, not mine, and wished to know if it was a bad […]
I was laying in bed last night trying to figure out what my blog is about now that I'm out of library school (which was 90% of my focus for the past year.) I came up with: 1. library-related stories2. technology developments 3. baby stuff …with a side helping of politics, Saskatchewan news bites and miscellanous […]
Now, we just need:“My Grandpa Thompson is a Gas Man”“Help! My Grandma Thompson is Stealing Me (again)”“How come my Grandpa Hammond has as many teeth as I do?” “I think my Grandma Hammond slipped some homemade wine in my bottle!”…and we're good to go! Thanks to Meshell for the tip!
To combine this as both a baby and a library-related post, I'll go back to an entry from a couple weeks ago where I talked about my favourite presentation from my year in library school which was on the topic of online broadcasting. One of the main points I discussed in the presentation is how […]
We had an ultrasound today. Unfortunately they didn't provide VHS or DVD video nor allow us to record even a short clip ourselves (it is a diagnostic procedure after all. But man, are they ever missing out on a guaranteed cash cow if they provided that option!) Anyhow, they did give us some photos including […]
Today's the first day we felt Oscar kick! Well, Shea's been feeling it internally for a few weeks. But today's the first time we could feel the thump on the outside. According to Shea, the kid likes to kick like nobody's business. (Hopefully a $250 million soccer contract is in his (or her – must […]
Oscar turned 20 weeks today. Happy birthday uteroversary, baby! Jill recently pointed out my love of lists (if you ask me, lists are the letters of the 21st century) and so here's another one for the collection…FIVE THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT PREGNANCY1. Nobody ever tells you how scary the first trimester is. You hear […]
I heard this story on the radio driving Shea to work this morning… “Twins born in Massachusetts hold special distinctions – the last baby born in 2006 and the first baby born in 2007. Not a lot of time separated the birth of Jennifer and Scott Hoenig's babies, but two minutes was enough to give […]
This is a bit of an old story by now but Time magazine recently named “You” as their “Person of the Year”. Many people reacted to the decision negatively saying it was a cop-out and the ultimate gimmick to sell magazines from a magazine that arguably hadn't chosen the proper newsmaker of the year since […]
