Posted in stuff we like on Jul 5th, 2008
Brian and Oscar ventured out this morning to bring back doughnuts. Such fine young men, right? Here’s my favorite buttermilk bar from Mary’s Donuts paired with a patriotic fruit salad. I love a good buttermilk bar for the contrast of the soft and tangy cake inside against the crunchy crust of super sweet glaze.
Brian got [...]
Posted in family, stuff we like on Jul 3rd, 2008
A while back I wrote briefly about my family tree on this post along with a photo of Laurel wearing a babushka. Our friend, Lydia, left a comment on that post mentioning a children’s book called “The Keeping Quilt” that I finally read for the first time. It is indeed an amazing book that felt [...]
Posted in San Diego, family, stuff we like on Jun 27th, 2008
We are trying to spend our Friday afternoons doing fun stuff for the kids this summer. Last week we went to the beach and today we went to Balboa Park for the zoo and for a ride on the Miniature Railroad Train. It is a simple and sweet ride around some landscaped grounds of the [...]
Posted in brian, stuff we like on Jun 27th, 2008
I was planning on blogging about yesterday’s good stuff* until Brian got himself posted on Lifehacker today! Earlier this week he submitted photos of his home office on Lifehacker’s “Featured Workspace” series and wouldn’t you know it, he’s been featured. More than 11,000 people have read this post already–he’s got his 15 minutes of fame [...]
Posted in stuff we like on Jun 22nd, 2008
Last night Brian and I watched a bit of the PBS documentary “Carrier” about the people who worked on the naval aircraft carrier Nimitz during a deployment to the Persian Gulf. All of the people featured in their interviews are genuinely likable. The footage of life on the ship and its operations (esp. the jets) [...]
Posted in stuff we like on Jun 11th, 2008
For Laurel’s birthday I had a picture book made of photos from her first year of life. I used a company called Blurb and was really happy with the result. They provide a cool program called BookSmart that makes it really easy to import pictures and author your book. You can then upload your book [...]
Posted in oscar, stuff we like on May 25th, 2008
You’ve got to see what kind of art Oscar most enjoys. Sculptures? 3-D Art? I’m sure that some of you art school grads can help me with the proper terminology…
These are papers that were originally drawn on with crayons. After the coloring he rolls, then crumples the pieces. Finally, he’ll request a piece of tape [...]
Posted in San Diego, stuff we like on May 6th, 2008
It has only been open for three days, but we’ve already checked out The New Children’s Museum. What a great place–we bought a membership. The museum’s tag line is “think play create” and Oscar did each of those things during our visit.
think Oscar contemplated his feelings about many of the pieces of art in the [...]
Posted in stuff we like on May 3rd, 2008
My former boss, Walter Philips, at San Diego Youth & Community Services is doing something special that I wanted to help promote. He is riding his bike cross country to raise money for the kids supported by his agency. San Diego’s Fox 6 News is tracking Walter on his progress and daily videos from Walter [...]
Posted in family, oscar, stuff we like on Apr 14th, 2008
Oscar is fascinated with warning signs and symbolic messages and has a particular interest in the circle-slash type signs. He sees these signs EVERYWHERE; on the road, on household products, at the playground, and he wants us to explain the signs to him. These signs usually make sense to him without a lot of explanation, [...]
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