Things we love (and things we hate)

Things we love in our house right now…

I am loving these Wholly Guacamole 100 calorie packs. Sooooo good! Thank goodness they have $1.00 off coupons on their site. This could get expensive…

I’ve already mentioned this, but the boys have gotten over their DVD addiction and have turned to hats…
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And they don’t have to be real hats, either…
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I got Super Mario Galaxy 2 last month, and, what can I say? It’s fun!

Things I’m not liking:

That we had to cancel our beach vacation in August because of *$#&@ BP.

But I do like that my old high school friend Kevin, who is an eight-generation oyster-man, founded Horizon Relief.

And my talented friend Alison is making these shirts and selling them to benefit Horizon Relief.

It’s one thing that we lost our vacation spot. Boo hoo. But at least we can help in small ways, those who are affected by it.

06/15/10

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I took the boys to see Daddy at work (or “Daddy’s school”, since he works at one) and they had fun wandering the halls. Note the hats. I guess they’re the DVD replacements. Hmmm.

(I already did today’s picture of the day, but I had to share this one, even if it was just taken with my phone.)

Back in the USA

So I’m just now getting back into the swing of things after my work trip. It was a doozy. Flew to NYC on Saturday, had dinner with friends that night, spent the night at a friend’s house in the cutest town ever, drove to Toronto, had conference, drove back on Saturday, came home on Sunday. Whew.

I shamefully didn’t take many pictures, even though I brought my camera. Most of the pictures I’ve already posted. But here are a few that I haven’t.

New Yawwwwk!
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Toronto!
Yet another picture I took from my hotel room window:
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Buffalo!
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New York State, between Buffalo and Long Island!
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The drive to and from Toronto was long, but so scenic. It took us 11 hours to get there, and 14 to get back. Yeesh! But I was with fun people, so that made it go by a bit faster.

While in Toronto, I was mostly confined to the basement-level conference area, but there was fun to be had. When we weren’t sitting in sessions, there were card games and dancing and a murder mystery. So, you know, something different.

Next year, the conference is in Boise. I’ve never been to Idaho, so that should be interesting.

06/14/10

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They were just so cute, sitting there, wearing their matching shirts, drinking their matching milks…Linus wearing a fleece hat even though it’s like 100 degrees outside…

(And yes, they are wearing the same shirts as in yesterday’s picture. That’s because they get very attached to what they wear to bed, so I put them in their next-day shirts the night before. Has stopped many tears in the morning.)

06/12/10

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We drove from Long Island to Toronto (and back again.) I saw things I’ve never seen before.

06/11/10

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A view of part of Toronto from a bar on top of a skyscraper. Lovely.

I’m alive!

I’ve been a very bad blogger lately, but I’ve just been so busy with this conference. I’ve been barely taking my picture a day, but I’ll post them all at once after I get home.

Missing my boys very much…

06/09/10

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It was very foggy in Toronto that day. Couldn’t even see the top of the CN tower.

06/08/10

Ooops, this is supposed to be the picture for June 8. I totally forgot. So ignore the one I posted before of the inside of a freaking school bus.

I was able to talk to the boys on Skype on morning when they were at my Mom’s. You can do a screen shot of the chat, and so here they are, sitting on Larry’s chair, talking to Mommy. Who they can’t see because I couldn’t get the webcam on the netbook I was using to work. I think they might have been a tad weirded out by the disembodied voice of Mommy, but clearly not too much.