A life in photos

Some whining, and some pretty flowers.

April 21, 2012

I’ve been making an effort to not complain, especially in my online spaces, but I have to be honest. This year is turning out to be kind of strange. Joel injured his back last Thanksgiving, and it turned into a chronic problem, and by January he was fully incapacitated. So we’ve had the rounds of [...]

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Last week.

March 12, 2012

I’ve had a string of long days recently, but the weeks still seem to fly by. Meret is having particularly difficult round of teething, turning her normally happy temperament into a series of monsoons punctuated by sunshine. Some days feel like a roller coaster of baby emotions. Along with that has been a lot of [...]

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Scenes from the weekend.

January 30, 2012

Meret got to meet her Aunt Joanna and Uncle Greg for the first time this weekend, which was one of those amazingly blue January weekends that happen in San Diego. We had a good time showing them some North County sights and Meret got to show off her sweet skills. There was a flip side [...]

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New photo gallery.

January 6, 2012

I love Instagram. It lets me use my camera phone to document every day life, capturing those funny and beautiful moments that pass by so quickly. Since it’s basically a mini-blogging platform for me, I decided to add a page to my website for my Instagram photo journal. I try to post something every day, [...]

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34.

December 5, 2011

When it comes to birthdays, I like to keep things low-key. Didn’t make any special plans, just waited to see what would come up. Somehow we managed to squeeze an amazing amount of fun out of a completely unplanned weekend. The highlights: I took Meret to mom’s night out on Friday evening at a local [...]

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Oceanside Pier.

November 6, 2011

I went for a walk with Meret last week and happened to run into my aunt Cathie, who lives nearby. She joined us on our walk, and we saw this. Have I mentioned how much I love Oceanside?

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Labor Day Weekend

September 7, 2011

Our holiday weekend was… laborious. We are hoping to embark soon on a camping / road trip to Northern California, where we’ll visit my parents, introduce Meret to her NorCal extended family, and see some of our favorite sights. But our camper van isn’t ready yet. (We bought a VW Vanagon back in December and [...]

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What’s going on.

July 21, 2011

Meret is rapidly approaching the three-month mark, and my job is suddenly much easier. Her nighttime sleep was pretty good before, but now it is even better — she will sleep for 8 hours, eat, then go back to sleep again! She’s starting to consolidate her daytime sleep into longer naps, she has learned to [...]

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Scenes from the weekend

April 18, 2011

These last couple of weeks have been very sweet. We are relishing the time, just the two of us, before we become a family of three. On Saturday morning we enjoyed sitting in the sunny kitchen eating bacon and eggs for breakfast. One of my favorite things is a kitchen that gets morning sun. Joel [...]

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Traveling to Chicago.

April 12, 2011

I never got around to writing about our trip to Chicago back in February. Joel’s sister got married, and we flew out for the wedding. We used airline miles from Joel’s dad (wasn’t that nice?) to book flights out of the Carlsbad airport — instead of driving 45 minutes to one of the major airports [...]

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