Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Ellie’s first Easter was just delightful. We dyed eggs on Saturday. Situations like egg dying can make me a little uptight because I like things to look perfectly Martha style. Give a two year old breakable eggs and concentrated dye and no one can expect perfection. However, thanks to some planning and a bit of […]
Read More Easter WeekendWe love this show on TLC, but I’m so glad we just have two kiddos.
Read More Jon and Kate Plus EightAt this point in our story I got to work with one of the more helpful people at Polaroid (seriously, not sarcastically), supervisor Angel A. I explained everything to Mr. A who agreed that Polaroid should take care of the problem, but that he personally couldn’t do anything to resolve the issue since he no […]
Read More TV Hell (part 4)At this point I was still willing to give Polaroid a little benefit of the doubt so I waited until the following week before calling ProView back. The news I got was better and horribly worse all at the same time. They had indeed received my information and was processing our claim (yay!), they also […]
Read More TV Hell (part 3)As I was a little nervous about the TV warranty process from the outset I decided that it would be wise to invest an extra couple dollar at the Post Office to pay for tracking and insurance on our TV as it made its journey to the West. Over the next two weeks I diligently […]
Read More TV Hell (part 2)There is a creepy man who walks his dogs all day long in our neighborhood. He makes me very uncomfortable and I’ve decided to listen to my gut. Me: Should you ever talk to that guy? Zoe: No. Me: Should you ever go near his dogs? Zoe: No. Me: Should you ever go near his […]
Read More Stranger DangerIt all began in November of last year. Molly and I decided that as a Christmas present to each other we would get a new combo TV/DVD player. We were, at the time, probably the only household in the US that owned only one television, and with Ellie on the way Molly thought it would […]
Read More TV Hell (part 1)It’s now officially 11:30 AM and the start of Spring Break!!!
Read More Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!!Last night I had book club and Zak had parent teacher conferences, so Zoe had a new babysitter come over (I took Ellie with me.) There probably aren’t too many kids that need two pages of typed out instructions, including a 15 step bedtime routine. I thought you might get a kick out of reading […]
Read More BabysitterAs I sit here and reflect on what I’ve done, namely, writing an 8 part series (10 if you count this introduction and the conclusion) on dealing with corporate America, the second thought that came to me was that it seemed necessary to properly introduce the body of work. The first thought of course was […]
Read More TV Hell (introduction)