Remember her? Well, she’s back. [If you just panicked and thought to yourself "OMW is AllisonO wearing a GAS MASK while 7 months pregnant?! How did OBaby turn out OK?!", then you should probably take a deep breath, and then go here and here to read the Holy Pregnancy I'm Nesting and I Want Dark [...]
Because Nugget arriving before my laundry room walls were robin’s egg blue was entirely unthinkable. True to form, DanO’s family swept in and met our need this evening, inching DanO closer to the finish line in The Great Laundry Room Race of 2009. Around 7 o’clock this evening, three ready and able helpers arrived to [...]
Heads up, Nugget. DanO has upped the ante in the great laundry room race of 2009. I could be mistaken, but I do believe that is sheet rock. on.my.walls. Which makes them, you know, walls. Walls in the traditional sense, that is. We like traditional around here. We like our walls sheet rocked, our summers [...]
A project management term I’ve learned since being in the corporate world, scope creep is that pesky tendency of projects and tasks to increase in size, budget, and/or duration before your very eyes. Sometimes it’s the result of slowing the pace and spreading the timeline, other times it’s because you totally didn’t like the cheaper [...]
I’m going to try really, really hard to write a pregnancy update without using any words or physiology terms that will make the (one or two) male readers out there queasy. Well, that assumes that “cervix” and “dilation” don’t make female readers queasy, which may or may not be true. Oh shoot. I just said [...]
O Basement, Basement, wherefore art thou creepy? Lose thy dankness and shed thy smell; Or if thou wilt not… my husband will come at you with a sledge hammer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This weekend started like any other weekend. Saturday morning, the first time in 5 days that we don’t have to get up at 5:50, DanO [...]
