At some point during Slane's birthday party a month ago, after the friends left but while the parents and grandparents and godparents were still here, Q changed Slane's shirt...and this is what it said:
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
How happy is happy?
Wunder-blogger Penelope Trunk writes about families and happiness today. She highlights an article about a super-busy family and raises this question: are they happy, or just engaged?
We've asked ourselves that a few times. We both work full-time in jobs that don't strictly obey business hours. Our most recent date night was our Maundy Thursday service at church. (Yeah, we live large.) Each of us has significant volunteer interests. Are we happy? Sometimes. Our family is curious - we like interesting, even if interesting is complicated. And our curiosity contributes to our happiness. We make connections at the campus Passover seder, at Saints Rest, taking Slane for a walk. Slane gets invited to participate in the ISO fashion show. These are good things, even if they make life messy and complicated and cause us to think twice about doing the dishes or the laundry.
Our pursuit of interesting is our pursuit of happiness.
We've asked ourselves that a few times. We both work full-time in jobs that don't strictly obey business hours. Our most recent date night was our Maundy Thursday service at church. (Yeah, we live large.) Each of us has significant volunteer interests. Are we happy? Sometimes. Our family is curious - we like interesting, even if interesting is complicated. And our curiosity contributes to our happiness. We make connections at the campus Passover seder, at Saints Rest, taking Slane for a walk. Slane gets invited to participate in the ISO fashion show. These are good things, even if they make life messy and complicated and cause us to think twice about doing the dishes or the laundry.
Our pursuit of interesting is our pursuit of happiness.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Slaneycue
Slane is so funny. I love to listen to her commentary on life and the things she sees.
Things like:
See the moon! The moon is flying!
Hear that! The bird is singin'!
Flag!
You daddycue. I'm Slaneycue. That's mommycue.
I need to see my (insert name of person of the day)!
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I also love to watch her play on her own. Her imagination is amazing!
I've seen her do these things lately:
Saturday we were raking leaves. We had just gotten Slane a toy rake, so she "helped," but as she helped, she was moving leaves out of the piles, all while carrying a purse.
She races her toy cars on the piano or the couch. Sometimes she races her "BIG TRUCK" from Epa!
She carries around a cabbage patch and tells us the baby is crying or sleeping.
She is very concerned about the hungry animals in her barn.
She plays with her hockey guys (and sometimes they get into fights and go to timeout!).
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Worth a read
Miscellaneous reflections after an entire week of parenting - Amid celebrating Slane's second birthday and preparing for BabyCue #2, I liked reading Chris' observations. Maybe we should start a baby girl's clothing collection free of pink. Of course, it now seems to be Slane's favorite color. (h/t to Tyler Cowen)
R.I.P. Flip Camera - We love our flip and we don't have an iPhone (yet). It fits us now - quick videos, but able to shoot higher quality, too. MamaCue has used it for her music classes and performances. But phones have better cameras now and if/when we get a dSLR, the Flip may become Slane's camera of choice. (h/t to Jason Kottke, who also notes, "There's an app for that")
R.I.P. Flip Camera - We love our flip and we don't have an iPhone (yet). It fits us now - quick videos, but able to shoot higher quality, too. MamaCue has used it for her music classes and performances. But phones have better cameras now and if/when we get a dSLR, the Flip may become Slane's camera of choice. (h/t to Jason Kottke, who also notes, "There's an app for that")
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