Here is my nephew James!! 

Here are some recent pictures of Evan he's super cute these days...  

how is everyone?

i wanted to write something, but i forgot what it was. ah well... that's the story of my life these days. can't remember crap. I'm sick of my job, but really who isn't? hopefully soon i'll be spending some time down at the greenfield tv station. i'm very much looking forward to that. :)

i had to drive to lakeville today... which was ok. i had lunch with my mom, whom i haven't seen since evan's birthday or christmas... either way far too long. unfortunatly christine and james couldn't make it to lunch :( she had towork for the first time since he was born. going back to work sucks plain and simple. but the paycheck is somewhat of a compromise. i still haven't seen teh baby other than in pictures. he is super cute. we have good genes in my family i must say.

i'm gonna figure out how to post pictures now.

later

nothing new here

i'm writing b/c i'm bored, but i don't have much to say.

it's snowing....again. that's normal...it always snows these days.
papa's out snowblowing as we type, right buddy?

when can we have spring again?

so yeah.... it's 2005...

And it doesn't seem any different than before the new year. It's almost Easter. hard to believe. we've had a bunch of snow including 1 blizzard, which most of massachusetts go hit with, and it's non stop rain in california. glad i dont' live there, b/c that really sucks. i know for damn sure that i wouldn't want my house to wash away with everything i owned, loved and worked so hard for.

so we've pretty much finished redoing the kitchen. oh i didn't tell you? we decided it was time for cabinets and real counter seeing as how evan loved to pull things down and out of the sink, cabinets.. you name it. don't let me fool you.. we don't have any real money.. we did this with student loan and tax return money. yay for that. just a few cosmetic touch ups left to do. thank god. i'm sick of all the tools and repair materials strewn about the kitchen and back room.. i can't seem to keep it organized for very long b/c we working on the kitchen again.. it seems to never end.

i had a dream the other night i was at the beach and it was summer, and it was AWESOME. i miss the beach... we hope to visit the beach for our vacation this summer. i realized a few weeks ago, we never took a week off for vacation last year. we had a couple of 3 day weekends, but that just doesn't cut it. ya know... i guess we're jus tnot destined to ever go to niagara falls, b/c the 2 years we planned the trip something came up and we were unable to go.... mostly be/c we had to move and that was our vacation money, so we really haven't gone on a vacation since our honeymoon! holy crap!

does anybody out there read these? just curious. with that i gotta run. time for food

The Day After

Can it be? Christmas day has come and past, and a new year is upon us. the baby is taking a nap the husband is at church and I'm home relaxing. still in my pj's poking around on the computer. all is well. i decided to try out my new food dehydrator this morning. we'll see how it goes later. i'm very excited. i also got an ice cream maker which i'm dying to try out too.



it's amazing how little time it takes for a baby to lose his interest in a task. for example: opening gifts. it took forever for us to open evan's presents.. after unloading his stocking and finding a new toothbrush, he didn't want to do anything else but walk around and let Captain Destructo take over the house.



jason decided to make us pancakes for brunch which were tasty, but in the process tried to smoke us out of the house with his new cast iron skillet thing i bought for him. that was funny.



evan got a bunch of stuff, and amazingly jay and i bought each other the same gift.. a d+d book.. it's amazing b/c there are many out there, but we both picked the same one. funny how we know each other i guess.



tyler got from us a joke gift that has history: plastic swizzle sticks. i won't talk about the story here to protect the innocent, but for those who were there, may laugh about it now. i think that was one of the most entertaing gifts fo the friends Christmas party. Trev got "Beer Money" a card game which involves beating people up. also quite amusing.



for today we have some not so big plans, of checking on the drying food, perhaps some shopping of christmas stuff for next year at super cheap prices, and taking care of our son who accidentaly pulled his high chair on himself last night and got a bloody nose. poor little dude.



got to run, for evan is waking up now. Hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas.

the beach

I wonder how everyone is doing these days. especially people i haven't seen in a long time, those from my high school days, and family far away. perhaps it's b/c i'm nosy or maybe b/c it's christmas time once again. actually i've been curious for many of these people for a long time.. several years even, only i have no way to get in touch with them. some of them i've tried to IM, but they do not get back to me. do they care, or are they just confused as to who i am b/c i have a new screen name and a different last name from whence they were my good friends. i wish we didn't drift apart, but life goes on.



my husband is still close to those he grew up with. mostly b/c they went to college together, and also they are still rooted around the valley where they grew up. most of my friends from when i was a teenager have gone to such places as california, new bedford, colorado... but there are a great handful where i don't know where they are. i'm sure many are still around wareham somewhere, but others have made the trek, like me, away from the beach, away from family including all these friends. i dont' resent moving out to the valley at all... i love it here, but my heart does and will always cling to where i grew up, and i'll always long to visit hoping to see some of my old friends around town.



i dont' go there nearly enough to fill my need to be at the beach. we did go to marshfield this year, and it felt nice to be at the water again.. i hadn't been in long time. we'd go visit more, but the hotels are way expensive and neither of my immediate family members live in places that can accomodate a small family. such is life.



Evan has taken over the reaigns of the computer, so rather than fighting, i'll sign off.