life goes on.

evan's asleep. it's naptime. let's see if he makes it to his normal 2 hour nap today... yesterday he had a marathon nap. it started at daycare. melly said he went to sleep b/w 1-1:30 we picked him up at 3-something... fell asleep in the car on the way home, and continued to sleep in the car until 5-something! he then went to bed at 9:30 and didn't fall asleep without a good fight... so probably about 9:45 before he calmed down enough to sleep.

last night tyler's mom and sister came up for dinner. that was good time. we made mammoth amounts of jambalaya and collard greens. almost enough to feed a small army, and there's a whole casserole dish of it in the freezer we're all eating for lunch. it definately came out better this time than the first time we made it. last time tyler and i misread the directions and put in about a cup of cajun spices instead of the 2 tsp we wre s'posed to! it was so peppery it was practically inedible. of course we didn't discover this until the following day when "Oops" was the word of the day. thanks to amanda for the cajun cookbook.. it has served us well.

i just lost the game. this will only make sense to those who play the game.

we have begun making our own wine. the first batch came out good.. it's still young and needs to age a few more months before it's s'posed to be ready... but of course we're drinking it. we're currently in the process of making apple wine, which apparantly has the potential to have 19% alcohol whe it's done fermenting... b/w the sugar in the juice and the sugar we added the yeast sure did go to work, and boy will we get tanked when we drink it. lol. it's still got a while to go before it's even ready to be bottled.

jason offically starts his job on monday, but he's been going in the past couple of days to get htings setup and do prep and stuff. he's very excited to be not working at umass anymore doing microbiology... the lab had a pizza party for him and we went down to join in... that was a good time.. i didn't even get a parking ticket! i only had 65 cents for the meter which amounted to 39 minutes... yeah meters are super expensive on campus, but i didn't feel like parking in my lot which is across campus from where the lab is.. it is however right next the building where i work in the engineering end of campus. speaking of which i need to call parking services... they haven't sent my my parking permit yet. just called them... they said it was mailed within the last 2 days. let's see how long it takes for it to get to me 1/2 hour away.

beach bums

i have posted new pictures in my online photo album... please check out the link on the right and visit it... blogger was being too slow on the upload to put them up here... but here's one from our first night there. Aunt Jane was trying to teach him wiffle ball... i have some video.. it was pretty entertaining.

beach

[chanting] beach beach beach beach, beach beach beach beach...

for someone who grew up at the beach and now lives in the "mountains", going to the beach is a VERY big deal.

thus we're going to the beach tomorrow.... it may not be onset (which is okay that water was yucky) but it'll do. it's ocean and there's waves

fantabulous news!

as of yesterday, jason is offically employed by hadley school district to teach 6 classes at hopkins academy (aka hadley high school)! he starts aug 29th. we're very excited!

taken this morning

in case you haven't seen him in a while...

word of the week

FRUITLOOP - 1. verb. To forget something you earlier remebered. 2. adj. to be a goober

in a sentence: Tammy totally fruitlooped about the party on sunday and forgot to come even though she remembered in the morning. After realizing she was such a fruitloop she was going to call, but fruitlooped that too before she got the email wondering where she was.

Video Store: "hi this is video to go, and the matrix revolutions dvd you returned is missing disc one"
me: "oops, i totally fruitlooped and forgot it in the dvd player"
video store: "that's ok, it's a common mistake"
me: "after my son wake's up, i'll be glad to bring it over"

i'm such a bonehead sometimes. lol

Summer days

so it's been determined my evan's nurse at the dr's that he has hand, foot and mouth. apparantly it's very common in young children/babies in the summer. and it's contagious. according to askdrsears.com (an online baby doctor site i love) it's mostly contagious through the saliva.... hmm who was drooling on him that he caught this virus? who's kid was running around just drooling on everything.. i have no idea but it's funny to imagine. we had all thought he was working on his 2-year molars, which i s'pose it still could have been, but more likely it was the mouth sores associated with the virus. they didn't give us any medicine for it, and it should go away in about a week. i did call the dr's again this mornign to ask if there was anything i can do for the blisters on his feet b/c they seem to be bugging him when he walks (they're on his soles!) poor little guy. he is otherwise fine and happy though, which is all good.

i finally got my first sunburn of the season last week when i went to go visit amy in nh. my back got fried. and from that day it's confirmed that evan has daddy's skin. evan has the french skin that tans and not the pasty scottish skin that burns. thank god. i'm not sure i'd wish it on anyone i care about. i'll never forget the time i burnt my butt falling asleep at the beach by my house... not my whole butt, but the outer parts that were exposed thanks to my suit. i couldn't sit comfortably for days. now i wear those suits that have those little skirts to hide my fat thighs. it's not an old lady one tho.. atleast i don't think so.


evan looks very cute in his babe-in-suit as we say around here. look at that little gut. what a porker. he is so funny these days talking up a storm. mostly words we can't decipher, but it's cute all the same. it's amazing these little kids can learn so much so quickly.

later all, i'm gonna get reading on some HP

musings

hum drum hum drum....

yeah.. i'm bored at the moment. evan's in bed and jason and tyler are watching empire on abc... a show i couldn't get into. i finished reading the Closers by michael connelly and am in the process of waiting for some books of his i bought on ebay to show up at my door, b/c he ismy favorite author. what did you say? what do you mean i have time to read? yeah only after evan goes to b ed, but when the book gets you sucked init's hard to put down and i've been known to let evan run amok in the back yard with the hose dribbling some water while i sit cozy in the chaise looking up once in a while... it's even better when the neighbor's come over to play b/c they keep evan occupied.

i could play my computer game, but it's 10:30 something and that too sucks you in once you play.. hate to stop. altho when you die and reload and realize you haven't saved in a while.. that's usually a good stopping point.

perhaps i'll head up to bed soon.. i've been pooped. that week off of work really did me in i guess... made me lazier, is that a word? oh well... if it's not i'll hear the wrath of nanny in my sleep. always correcting our speech, she was.

evan's doing well with going to bed on his own... he has stopped throwing up due to crying so we've been able to let him calm himself to go to bed... last night was 20 min, and tonight was shy of 15... didn't notice he stopped. oh well. people say it only takes 3 nights. i wonder if tht's just an average.

i have a toy party on sunday at 2:30 you should come. there will be some food there. btw. bring a friend or two. let them bring their babies. i have a kiddie pool they can play in.

jason had a job interview this afternoon at some charter school in fitchburg. jay says it went well, and i hope something good comes of it... altho it is an hour commute. beggers can't be chosers.

i'm grateful i don't have tourists constantly driving me crazy during the summer. sorry mom. sucks for you. but you should be grateful it's only for 3 months and not 9 months of college students being assholes and idiots all over the place. they don't know how to drive, those little snobby brats from CT.

mom, if i don't remeber to mail you out your next dvd, i'll bring it with me when i'm in the area next. how do you like the show? it's addicting... perhaps i should just mail it tomorrow when i'm not working. i'll have to find an envelope.

later, sleepiness is taking over, and i had the need to blog so i did

Here it is: the famous teriyaki recipe

1 tsp gr. ginger
1 tsp. dried minced garlic
1 Tbl sugar
2 Tbl cider vinegar
1/4 C. water
1/2 C. soy sauce.. ( i recommend La Choy.. kikkoman tastes like crap)

marinate atleast 4 hours, but preferably overnight/ 24 hours

fixed?

i think it fixed it... apparantly there was a drop down menu that got switched to prevent comments, but i put it back, and we'll see what happens. sorry.