Life with Boose and Finch

We drove through the rain to Sacramento stopping only once because Ro didn't tell us he needed to use the bathroom until it was too late.  Once we got that figured out, the rest was pretty smooth sailing.  We stayed on the 7th floor of the Hyatt Regency across from Capitol Park.  For the most part, Ro was pretty good all week except for when he was really tired (unfortunately, that was most of the time).  He still doesn't quite understand hotel etiquette such as not running/stomping around the hotel room, or shouting.  The main problem with his little kid voice is that the high pitch is loud no matter what volume he speaks.  So, he had a hard time remembering that he needed to speak softer or whisper at night.  I think we might take him on another trip again.  While B was in his conference classes, Ro and I roamed around downtown Sacramento, Old Sacramento, and Sutter's Fort.  The first thing we did Monday was check out an umbrella from th...

We had a crazy busy last couple of weeks. Ro was starting to get kind of clingy and the week before Thanksgiving.  He told me that he really didn't want to go to school or daycare.  I told him that if he was good, he didn't have to go to daycare for the rest of the week.  My mom and stepdad then visited starting on Wednesday and drove Ro to my sister Ev and brother-in-law Ricardo's house that Friday.  It was a fairly uneventful visit, which means it must have been a good visit.   Things are still awkward to hang out with them because we still have to b-s- things to talk about together.  I'm not sure why this is.  Maybe it's because they have a more idealized memory about what it was like to raise kids -- so we don't really know how to talk about raising kids together because in their minds Ro is always acting out instead of just being a kid.  One of the days they were visiting, they said they took Ro to the park four times in one day...

I admit, it's been awhile since I last posted here.  I haven't really been feeling well lately and have been fighting depression. I know what has been bringing this on.  I've been overworked at work, and I don't feel very productive anymore.  At home, I'm just going through the motions of existing.  Sometimes, I can manage to get the laundry folded up, clean all of the dishes in the sink, and get most of the stuff picked up from the floor.  If I'm super lucky, I can also manage to sweep up all of the random dirt that is no longer trapped in the carpet we used to have from our laminate flooring.  But I'm just going to need to repeat these actions in the next few days.  I'm finding myself more often hiding from life by playing cell phone games.  Reading at least feels productive. I have a feeling that most of this comes down to it being a year since my car accident.  I still don't want to talk about it, but I'll try to make this a more prod...

Ro's birthday turned out great!  We invited all of the kids in his daycare class and dropped off a few invitations at his preschool.  We also invited a friend of ours who brought four out of five of her own kids to hang out, too.  The only family members who arrived were my sister, B's grandfather, and B's aunt, but that was okay because it gave us a lot of time to talk to the other parents.  I even managed to exchange phone numbers with another mom to maybe have some playdates! Unfortunately, we've been pretty busy every weekend since so I've been dropping that ball.  I am pretty excited about that prospect though because then there's a good chance that Ro will have lifelong friends from his diaper ages.  I enjoy time with all of my friends, but I've found that those are pretty special. After waking up, B left to go biking for the morning and we started the day off with a Starbucks breakfast.  Ro loves getting an everything bagel with cream cheese w...

Excellent Packinghouse Lighting I've always thought of September as a birthday month.  Mine and my grandfather's are at the beginning, my dad's is this weekend, and various friends are scattered throughout the whole rest of the month.  Ro was supposed to be born in October, but I was pretty happy when his birthday ended up being at the end of September instead.   I usually don't even like to tell people when my birthday is or how old I am.  I finally gave up this year and started telling anyone I met that that day was a good day because it was my birthday, my deeply cut finger was healing nicely, and I was excited to have two cans of Full Circle Brewing's Pie of the Tiger waiting at home.  One of my awesome coworkers ho works really hard to keep up with team events such as birthdays bought a delicious oreo cake for after lunch.  Usually around this time of year, we are trapped working in a 40-degree cold storage room all day and have to borrow pe...

So...it has been awhile since that SAR Wild Run.  Since then, not much has happened and a bit has happened. 1. Ro’s preschool seems to be going okay, but we don’t know for sure because he refuses to talk about it. He just says he has fun there. We stopped asking him if he learned any Spanish since he’s in a dual-immersion class because we were worried that he would feel too pressured to learn and would feel bad if he wasn’t learning as fast as he should. He did tell me that they read about Pete the Cat and his new shoes — in English. 🙄 But he did say he was making friends. I took him to preschool one day because I needed to make an addition I forgot about on his emergency contacts. He started to get upset as soon as we reached the gate, but I told him we were going to get breakfast before class. He watched all the classes meet in the cafeteria as he ate his breakfast. We were the last ones to get to his class — not really that big of a deal — and he threw a fit. I checked o...

So, during that self defense class, I had a chance to spar with Josh Teehee from Flowing with Famous and Aikido Discussed .  I mentioned to him that I listed to Flowing with Famous and really liked it at the end of that class.  Then I got a mention at the end of the next Flowing with Famous episode!  Admittedly, you can't tell because my name isn't mentioned; I'm just the "woman from the self defense seminar" because my name is a little different and hard for others to remember.  Usually, I'll use B's name when we're out and waiting for food to be called out.  When I do an online order though for an in-person pickup, I know it's mine by the panicked look on the person's face as they're trying to figure out how to pronounce my name.  Speaking of such, Nobody Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal is also a really good book.  I'm completely off topic... Money: Afford Anything I really like this podcast because of the diverse subje...