The whirlwind is over. It was a good Christmas. It’ll be a while before I feel like seeing turkey or trifle again. On the other hand, I think I may have eaten too little chocolate (which, come to think of it, might be a good thing). I should have taken more photographs, but I got…
Category: family
Thus endeth a roller coaster ride
I thought I might take a pass on the “oh, what a year this has been” post, but I can’t seem to leave it alone. Part of me looks back on 2006 with rather negative feelings, but closer inspection reminds me that we pretty near broke even, although it didn’t much feel like it at…
Christmas break
I’m more or less signing off on work and work-related blogging for the next two weeks. I have a few Christmas gifts to finish up by Sunday night, one of the most elaborate of which is the quilt below. Katherine asked for a new quilt for her bed made with my own dyed fabrics and…
The Christmas checklist
Thus far I have: gotten all of John’s presents & stocking stuffers except the candy stuff (which I always buy on Christmas eve so that it won’t get eaten early) gotten all of Katherine’s presents and stocking stuffers (except for the quilt which needs making) dyed the fabric for K’s quilt and designed the thing…
Dawning realisation
We are blessed with a child who sleeps through the night and always has done. Even in utero, Katherine understood the concept of “night” and “sleep” and how they should go together. When she was a wee thing, she’d sleep about seven hours straight at night and still go down for a couple of naps…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 