Baby name?

Okay my last post may have made it seem like we have decided on a baby name... we have not. Please help. Vote for either Josie or Maggie on the poll on the left.





Baby Arrives


September 29, 2008 19.75" 7lbs 2oz

Off to the hospital

We are on our way. Baby #2 will arrive today. Please send your good thoughts our way and baby's way. We have had some last minute rethinking of the name so for all of you used to Baby Josie please prepare for a possible retooling...

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin

And the parody that does not need to do a re-write to be funny

Oh so painful

Oldest presidential candidate ever and this is the person who would step forward to fill his seat if the need arises... Now it won't be the kids keeping me up at night

prepare for 5 minutes of a candidate who can't even effectively find the political platitudes to spout to cover the gaps in her knowledge


Last month up at the cabin

Sonja being silly

Momements before this video was captured Sonja said, "I got a nice haircut at that baby monkey haircut store."  So proud and so profound.

t minus ?

There are currently several unknown variables in my life, both personal as well as professional.  Not really sure what is going to happen at work, the group I have worked with for the past year and a half is about to undergo a major shake-up and I am not sure where the chips will fall.  Stress.  Baby #2 is due anytime now, this is great news, but not knowing WHEN just adds enough chaos to the daily routine that it makes all things slightly more stressful.

Then we start to move out beyond my local spheres of influence... past the families and friends which again aren't always stressful but do require a certain amount of energy in order to maintain.  Past that politics... I have decided to be fully engrossed in absorbing news but in true Minnesotian fashion I choose to repress all reactions to this news.  It turns out that repressing pigs, pitbulls and lipstick is libel to give one a tummy-ache.  Not healthy.... then beyond that there is this The Hadron Collider Controversy
Sigh.