I’ve been interviewed!

August 23rd, 2007

Check it out - I’ve been interviewed on a website called SheUnlimited. Try not to laugh.

Jack @ 25 Months

August 17th, 2007

Well, Jack survived this month with no major injury, which I am very thankful for. He nearly bit through his lip, just about had his eye put out as a container with a sharp corner fell on him, fell down the stairs twice… you get the picture. The second time he fell down the stairs he was trying to walk down them wearing my mother’s shoes he had pilfered from her closet. He came away from that fall with a lovely heel-shaped gouge in his arm (yes, they were her Sunday shoes), and a boo-boo on his forehead. His two year pictures include that particular boo-boo, as I had already rescheduled them several times because of the gash next to his eye and a red runny nose.

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Jack took his first trip to the barber this month! I was so glad he consented to have his hair cut, because it was becoming nearly impossible for me to do a good job. The picture above is after the haircut, as he’s trying to get the giant sucker they gave him into his mouth.

Jack’s great joy these days is opening and closing doors. I have to drag him away from the grocery store when we go, because he wants to stand there and watch the automatic doors open and close, open and close. He has become a fan of hats, and has a nice collection going.

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Best recipe for vinegar window cleaner

August 8th, 2007

Since Mom has been retired, she’s been doing some deep cleaning in the house including taking the ceiling fan blades down in the kitchen and rediscovering their true color under the grease that inevitably accumulates, and of course the yucky job of cleaning windows. She asked for a recipe for window cleaner using vinegar, and we found a great one:

2 cups water

1/2 cup distilled white vinegar

1/2 teaspoon of liquid soap

Sure is cheaper than Windex and works better too.


Photographic Memory

August 6th, 2007

This video is incredible. A young autistic man from the UK flies over Rome one time in a helicopter and then spends 3 days reproducing what he saw with amazing accuracy.

Thanks to Chase Jarvis for pointing me to this one. If you have some time, browse around on Chase’s blog. He’s a wonderful photographer, and has videos showing the entire photographic process on some of his shoots.