Wendy's Excellent Adventure

not that having a bath is such a monumentous occasion, but I couldn't resist posting a photo of him in the froggy towel that my friend A...

It's one of those rare days in Hawaii -- particularly on the side of Oahu we live on -- when it's rainy and crappy out. I've ...

When I was about 5 or 6 months pregnant, I ordered some DVDs from Amazon. One was a childbirth class, and the other was called The Happiest ...

for reassuring me that I'm not a monster and that it's perfectly normal for me to not find taking care of a newborn to be particul...

As anyone who knows me knows, I am a chronic insomniac. Haven't slept well for 10 or 11 years. I usually have no trouble falling asl...

Not much blog-worthy going on these days. I spend my days and nights feeding the baby, looking at the baby, reading to the baby, taking pict...

The Hawaiian ladies are very big on getting designs on their big toes when they get pedicures. I always thought it was a bit too ghetto-fabu...

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...