I'm mostly over myself, at least compared to yesterday.  The kids have bad timing, but they're also pretty cute and do a reasonable job of putting their own dishes in the sink. Tory horked again first thing this morning but has seemed fine since, so...

Mike and I had plans to go to a Halloween party tonight, leaving the kids with a sitter.  It has an 80s theme, and this morning we came up with a really good costume idea (Buttercup and the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride).  We sketched...

I spent most of last week on my 2nd work trip since having kids.  It was to central Virginia, which it turns out is particularly pretty this time of year.  I missed the girls and Mike, but it was a useful trip to kick off a new project.  The...

This is the part of the post about swine and their flu.  The flu update is that all of us are all better.  Today was a completely normal day.  Nobody was cranky (except when taken off a pony, for certain among us), nobody needed painkillers, nobody...

A quick update.  Mike is home from the hospital and oscillating wildly.  Sometimes he seems pretty healthy and sometimes he can do nothing but lie in bed.  The girls are still sick, but I think they're starting to recover.  Elisa is doing...