Wendy's Excellent Adventure

When Dave and Michele came to visit in April, they brought a wonderful children's book for me to read to Zeke called On The Day You W...

As I mentioned in my previous post, Zeke is a bit jaundiced and is receiving phototherapy for it. He's doing fine and we're going ho...

Introducing Ezekiel Monash The last 3 days have been the craziest of my life. An amazing and overwhelming combination of excitement, a...

I say this without any desire to sound like a bitchy asshole, though I'm sure to some that's exactly how it will come across. But I...

The seller accepted our offer, with the only sticking point being the closing date. We wanted late December, they wanted mid November. We sp...

The house-hunting process has been a bit stressful. First, I'm experiencing extreme sticker shock at the price of real estate here. ...

I've never thought of interior decorating -- or other similar stylistic choices -- in terms of having a theme. Because of my parents...

We're starting the house-hunting process. We've got our prequalification letter from the bank, our realtor is lining up open hous...

Aww... he's got my cankles! I'm giving birth to the creature from the black lagoon. This past weekend we went for an ultrasound to ...

My youngest brother, Sam, is one of my favorite people in the world. I've thought so ever since he was a little kid -- he was always sm...

It's no secret that I share my father's tendency to say wildly inappropriate things in public . With a certain gift for the gab come...

Yesterday I walked out of my house at about 2:45 in the afternoon to go run some errands, only to discover that I had a flat tire. A pain...

Tonight is the start of Rosh Ha'Shana, the Jewish New Year. It's the beginning of the Days of Awe, the 10 days leading up to Yom Ki...

I've been plowing through all of the books on my must-read list, and I've hit a bit of a lull. Stuff that I've heard so much ...

Last night I was watching an old episode of Law and Order and when the guest actor playing one of the defense attorneys came on screen, I th...

We have a neighbor in our complex who is very sweet and nice to us, but she never stops bitching about money. I've gotten to the point ...

I'm sitting in my office working right now, and my belly is going nuts. The baby is incredibly active all the time anyway, but right ...

One of the nicest things about being in Hawaii is that everyone wants to come and visit. Last night my parents came to hang out with us f...

Yesterday Jason and I went to a wedding. The groom, Francis, is a good friend of Jason's from work. Francis and his wife have been toget...

Flossie's projected path has shifted south, so even assuming she takes the northernmost track of the projection "cone," Oahu w...