Sunday, September 23, 2007

Overdue Update

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I've been meaning to blog for a few days now, but it's been hard to find the time. Alex doesn't go to sleep until 8:30 or 9:00, and some nights we don't get to have dinner until after that. So there's not much free time here. Last Thursday, as I was tele-experimenting and doing household chores, I thought to myself that I'm living the life of a Victorian housemaid. I've read somewhere that they would work from 5:00 a.m. to midnight. It hasn't been quite that bad for me, but only by a few hours. Hopefully things will get easier as Alex gets older (or gets better about falling asleep when he needs it).

It hasn't been all work and no play, however. Yesterday we went to a friend's baby shower in Chicago. Alex went too, of course, and he and two other babies were the stars of the show. Eugene made his (well, Paula Deen's) mile-high apple pie. It calls for two dozen apples, but he could only fit twenty of them into the bowl he used to stack the apple layers. What a shame. ;) After the shower, we visited Millennium Park and took pictures of Alex by the Bean. Here's a shot:
























Today we ran a couple of errands (such as spoiling Alex with toys and new clothes at Babies R Us) and visited Eugene's family. While we were there, Alex grabbed a set of toy keys and waved it around. It's always cool to see him do something new.

Writing: I haven't done much, but I've thought of a new opening for Lennon's Line (I mean, Thine Own Self.) I like the new first line; it's the rest of the paragraph that's eluding me.

3 comments:

Maria Zannini said...

Hang in there, Sandra. -hugs

Ref: Writing: I haven't done much, but I've thought of a new opening for Lennon's Line (I mean, Thine Own Self.)

Cool! I love the new title. The old title always brought visions of "Lenin". (I have no idea why. LOL) But "Thine Own Self" has a cryptic quality that works well.

Sandra Ulbrich Almazan said...

"Thine Own Self" is also good because there are a lot of Hamlet references in it. The main character, Paul, is an aspiring actor.

Russ said...

Sandra, good to see you on here again. Don't worry about the little hiatus here and there, we'll keep checking in!

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