This blog has been sorely neglected for a long time. It isn’t unusual to find an orphaned blog…the novelty of the blog wears off, Facebook updates take the place of blog entries, and blog writers get plain lazy. I can also blame “The Summer of No Regrets” for my blog absence. Now that it is [...]
Category Archive for 'family'
It is Laurel’s 2nd birthday today! Again, another bittersweet day in a parent’s life. I have so much fun with her and have so much pride in her and am so happy to have a little girl in my life. The kids’ birthdays force me to realize that childhood is just as fast as lightning. [...]
Summer’s Kick-off
Posted in 100 Things, anna, family, laurel, oscar on May 25th, 2009
Three day weekends are great. Three day weekends that kick-off summer…well those are simply divine. This weekend we took the kids to visit Brian’s Aunt Kim for a morning of horseback riding. Kim rides 3 days a week at this lovely north county farm. Oscar and Laurel were very comfortable on and around the horses. [...]
Springtime in SD
Posted in family, laurel, oscar, San Diego on Apr 16th, 2009
Grandma Toki is playing with the kids right now, so I thought I’d steal away to my computer to share some recent photos. We just got back from a nice stroll through the Japanese garden in Balboa Park. It was a first time for each of us to visit the garden and we picked a [...]
82, 40, and 1
Posted in family on Apr 1st, 2009
My mom and dad are holding my grandma’s hand in this photo. Sunday, March 29th was a day that we honored each of them. It was my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary and it was also the last day of my grandma’s life. She suffered a major stroke last week and our family came to her [...]
Our bag is packed and the babysitters are lined up and I’m just here waiting for the magic hour to arrive. Brian and I are making a break for it and leaving the kids for the night. We have tickets to see our favorite guilty pleasure from The Soup, Joel McHale, tonight in exotic Long [...]
Neglectful Blogger
Posted in family on Feb 19th, 2009
It has been a while since I’ve spent some time on The Full Catastrophe, but that doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening around here. We are just coming back to the real world after the Brian’s birthday-Valentine’s Day-President’s Day weekend trifecta celebration. Brian is 35 now. Poor guy is just as old as me. [...]
So, here’s what happens when you leave Oscar and I alone with too much free time on a Saturday afternoon. After I’d finished editing the video and showed it to Oscar, I asked him how he was able to jump from room-to-room so quickly. He responded simply “magic”.
Lost and Found
Posted in family on Jan 8th, 2009
One of the days last week when we were relaxing on Poipu beach I stumbled across an SD memory card buried in the sand. I guessed that it had fallen out of someone’s camera bag while they were on the beach. When we got back to the condo that night, Matt (my brother) put the [...]
Christmas Gifts
Posted in family on Dec 24th, 2008
Merry Christmas from Oscar & Laurel. Here they are exchanging their gifts to one another… Laurel reaches out to Oscar and says “Hey Bro, how would you like this very special case of the common cold for Christmas?” Being a present-loving four year old, Oscar quickly reaches up to accept Laurel’s gift of an upper [...]
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