A Celebration of Mundanity

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Full On Waddle Mode

It took me an hour to waddle to the post office and hardware store and back, normally it's a 20 minute walk round trip. Looking forward to having my body back.

The Lotus is a Family Car, Right?

It figures on the weekend where both cars are off the road, I need to make a trip to hospital. The Lotus was the easier of the two for Mark to fix. We captured the hilarity of a near full term…

Status Update

Sometimes, a Facebook status update should really be turned into a blog post. Mark's from tonight after we made multiple attempts to attend a friend's Bonfire Night party for Guy Fawkes day: "Our…

Epsilon in Action

Epsilon looking like she's going to burst forth Aliens-style from my belly. She takes my breath away at times when she's this active.

35 weeks 2 days

Due date is a month away now! I'm glad I went on maternity leave when I did. My sleep has been completely disrupted over the past six weeks or so and seemingly getting worse. I'm grateful for being…

Pierogies

After the inspiration hit to make and freeze large quantities of pierogies this past week, I realized I had never actually recorded this recipe. The inspiration hit while I was tagging and labeling…

Admin

One would hope, now that I'm on maternity leave that I'll have time to catch up on the backlog of posts half written and photos to update. There may be a flurry of activity of back-dated entries, as…

VIP Opening of DC2 or where I met Prince William

I made HRH Prince William laugh. How you ask? I was approached by one of the Directors of the museum two weeks ago. My presence was being requested to man the SPA in the new Darwin Center for the VIP…

My Life With Bugs

Remember a few months back I posted about being filmed for an exhibit at the museum? Well, this is it! This short video is part of one of the exhibits, "Making It Part of the Collection" in the new…

France: Canal du Midi

We're off to France for a week of floating down the Canal du Midi between Toulouse and the Mediterranean with a couple of friends of ours! Epsilon is one well traveled fetus!