We had a real scare with my mom recently. It turns out that she knew for a long time that she was having problems with her heart (shortness of breath and chest pains), but didn’t tell the family or her doctor until it was nearly too late. When she finally fessed up to her doctor, …
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Happy Mother’s Day To Me!
Today is the first Mother’s Day where I’m a mom. It’s kind of strange. Jude (actually Andy) got me a gift card to Ann Taylor so I can buy some new clothes for work. Today we will be spending time with Andy’s family. Several people have asked me what I like most about being a mom. …
Family Cook Book
After copiling the Andy and Jessica book, based on this blog, we would like to compile another book. The idea is that it will be a family cook book. It will be professionally bound with a spiral binding (to allow it to sit open at any page while preparing a recipe). If you are related …
What We’ve Been Up To
 The week or two before Christmas, I had to go into what I call “self-preservation mode.” Self-preservation mode is always triggered by being so busy at work that I have to work several weekends in a row. Self-preservation mode involves me being really selfish with my time (essentially all work and no play). Andy …
Buy the Book!
Andy and Jessica: Volume One is out. Jessica asked me, as a gift for our second wedding anniversary, to print off all of the posts to date for her so that she could compile a book archiving this blog. I viewed that as too small of a gift, and wanted to give her something much …
A Better Website
My apologies for not getting to this sooner, but I have upgraded the software that runs this site, and installed a much nicer theme. There really is no excuse to use the dull, drab default theme that comes with the blog software when there are wonderful themes like this one available on the internet for …
Baby Olson
Andy and I are thrilled to report that I’m pregnant. I’m considered 16 weeks pregnant as of October 23rd. The picture of our baby below was taken three weeks ago. Now our little darling is already quite a bit bigger. Probably about 5 inches long. The baby is due on April 7, 2007, but will …
We Interupt this Interuption
I had some trouble with this site. several weeks ago, I upgraded the operating system on the computer that this site is on, or so I thought. It turned out to be a partial upgrade, and some of the software broke, including the database program that stores all of these posts. Since Jessica and I …
Our July 4th Weekend
I am tired!! Jessica and I, along with our parents and my brother, worked hard around the house. Saturday and Sunday we painted the outside of our house. We got the house itself done on Saturday, and worked on the trim and touch-up on Sunday. It really updated the house a lot. The neighbors all …
What We’ve Been Up To
Since being on Channel 9, we’ve been busy, and obviously haven’t posted much. We continue to work on our house. We have nearly completed the interior painting, and will leave the rest until our second guest bedroom becomes a child’s bedroom. I’ve been working on soffits in our living room when I can find the …