Author Archives: Jessica@Team Rasler

>Fortunate

>I’d been feeling a little boo-hooish lately, trying to understand what it is about being pregnant that makes otherwise-sane people tell me that they miss it after the baby arrives.  Sure, it’s hard when the baby comes, getting you up every couple of hours, crying, needing changes, dealing with soreness and fatigue.  But… let me…

>Becoming obsolete

>We never are as aware of what we say or do all the time as when it gets reflected back at us.  The best mirrors?  Children.  Every so often I used to overhear one of my students saying something that was clearly something I’d told them.  Or they would finish my sentences for me, making…

>Happy birthday, Daddy!

>Whew, busy day today celebrating the daddy’s birthday! No synopsis of the day, just this video because we both thought it was cute: http://www.youtube.com/get_player We love that daddy!

>Sunshine

> We had competing weather interests around here for the past few weeks. We’d just had a big lawn overhaul done, including reseeding. This required twice daily watering any day that it didn’t rain. So, of course, we appreciated it whenever Mother Nature took care of a task for us. On the other hand, the…

>Idylwood and Fox Hollow

>I have two Friday Field Trips to write about today (yes, I know it’s only Thursday). The first was last week when we decided to head to a park we don’t usually frequent. It’s really close to my husband’s office, so it’s not that far afield, but there are a lot of playgrounds closer to…