Personal

I seem to have a theme lately of "what to do with your life" and this quote resonated.  According to research done by the authors of Freakonomics, practice is more important than talent; you are just more likely to practice what you like so you end up being good at what you like.  (Or vice […]

NPR has a segment on a class at Harvard about how to be happy.  On their web page, they have six tips on how to find happiness from tal Ben-Shahar and one in particular struck me as something I’ve thought about a lot.  NPR : Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom. 2. Happiness lies at

Jacob’s idea of what to do with a secret is "Hey! I have a secret.  Want to hear?"  Today he evolved to the next level.  I was playing the role of stuffed bunny rabbit when he told the bunny in a whisper, "Hey, you know what?  I hid a bouncy ball in each pocket so

For those of you into ultrasound pictures: It’s a Boy! – a photoset on Flickr.  For those of you, like me, that are a little ultrasound challenged, each picture has a label of what the important feature to be looking at is.

So as you read earlier,  We told our 5 year old about the baby, and he’s been asking all sorts of interesting questions.  We took him to the ultrasound and he asked the following: As we pulled up to the hospital, "is this where your doctor is?" (No, it’s the hospital.) "Is that like urgent

We told our 5 year old last night that he is going to have a baby brother or sister … He was very pensive the whole time and thought about it quite a bit. We asked what he thought about having a baby brother or sister. "Brother!!" We told him it wasn’t a choice, so

My cousin’s kids say the cutest things: Things My Kids Say: If I was pretend….  Would you rather be pretend or would you rather the imaginary characters came to life?  Personally, when I read a book or watch a movie, the worlds are as at least as exciting as the characters (I suppose that’s why

This morning I was typing away on the computer when our 5 year old asked what I was doing.  I said I was writing a letter.  He said "which one?"  I said a letter.  He said "which letter?"  When I realized he thought I was typing just one letter of the alphabet, I tried to

I won’t be posting anything next week but you can watch the weather forcast for where I’m at.  Thinking about the weather forecast makes me miss my grandmother.  She used to watch the weather channel all the time and she would call me up and tell me what my weather was supposed to be like

I’m quite excited!  I’m going to spend the last week of my summer break taking a sailing class in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) with Offshore Sailing School.  The class will give me bareboot certification so I can go down and rent a sailboat on my own.  (And hopefully it will give me the confidence