I always wondered...

Could never figure out why someone would move their blog. Now I have followed suit. You can find me in my new home over on WordPress.

Halloween!

Tolido was a darling grinning dragon this year...

A Citizen!

Today we took Tolido to pick up his Certificate of Citizenship at the San Antonio office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services!



He is now a full-fledged American.



Congratulations little one!
Love,
Mom and Dad

Continuing Sickness...

My child is losing his hearing. He seems quite happy with the situation but it's a bit alarming to me. Anyhoo tomorrow morning we have an appointment with the doctor to get him looked over. He looks sorta like I look when I feel like I've been run over by a bus. Pinkeye, a gift from pre-school, has his eyes red and watery with green crud floating around in them. Two nights ago he rubbed the hell out of them and popped a blood vessel in one. When he looks to the side the blood spot is big and bright red. His sinuses are draining incessantly and he has a nagging cough. He hasn't been tugging at his ears or seeming the least bit concerned about them. He'll be thrilled to death to see the doctor come at him with an ear scope first thing tomorrow morning. ;) This morning it simply would not do to have Daddy pry his eyes open and he asked Daddy to get Mommy to apply a warm wet compress to his eyes to clear the dried crud. I swear it felt like it was 3AM and I really didn't want to get out of bed. BUT this was the very first time he ever preferred Mommy's help over Daddy's so you bet I was there!! :)

Sickness Go Away!

Introduce three days of pre-school each week and life becomes a constant battle to stay healthy. 'Course it probably doesn't help that the two of us who know better walk a fine line about really getting enough sleep and downtime around here. :) The newest sickness to sneak in... PINKEYE! Yay!...or not. Definitely not. Crusty, cruddy, crappy eyes are NO fun. Considering the host is a toddler, the eyes get rubbed, nose gets rubbed, hands go in mouth and onto every surface in sight. Ugh! I'd really really prefer to not get pinkeye so... we're going overboard in the hand washing and laundry departments. Wonder how long the stuff lives on all the toys in his toy room?

My Cubicle

I'm LUCKY! My husband works in "cubeland". He also works in a place I'm not allowed to enter because I'm not an employee. So I'm not absolutely sure he actually has a job; however, he does seem to be getting a paycheck so, it works. Anyway he describes cubeland as a vast room divided into small spaces by six-foot walls and an intricate maze of hallways. Hmm. I wonder if he and his "cubemates" are really just rats in an experiment.

I also work in a cube. Mine is spacious, carpeted, decorated in sage green, walnut brown, white and silver. I have three windows and double glass doors. There are no other cubes - no cubeland. The cafeteria is about ten feet away. I can open the windows and listen to the wind and the birds and the bees. It's peaceful in my cube. I like it that way.

And this is my view out the center window between my two monitors. Sitting at my desk, if I look straight ahead, this is what I see...

An Office Troll

I got a funny new chair for my office. Almost exactly a year ago I began having pretty severe back problems and eventually found relief by sitting on an exercise ball while working at my desk. Problem was that every time I got up to do something the ball would silently roll away and I'd have to chase it down. It eventually annoyed me enough to get my attention and I looked for something to stabilize the ball. So I got this new chair that, from some angles, looks like a fat little dinosaur. It's wonderful and I am very happy with it. But one morning I found a little troll on top of it quite happy with himself! ....and no, my office isn't always such a mess. This was in the middle of ransacking and rearranging. :)