this is jackson about 4 months old. note how much of the chair he is taking up.
this is jackson today aged about 13 months. note how much more of the chair is taken up by him. what a difference 9 months makes. i keep telling myself this as i (we) prepare our lives for the next step.
this thing, this piece of hardware has caused me much anger and frustration. i just thought it should be displayed so that all can throw stones and yell at it. 
my father-in-law loves this cake, luckily plums are coming into to season and i am able to make it again. this is what was leftover after three people had some for dessert and my father-in-law took what was "needed" for his lunch. 
those of you that know me, know that i love me my seltzer. i could drink gallons of the stuff all day every day. it soothed my nausea, it fulfills my daily water requirement, its like a miracle. today we were out shopping and stop and shop had a sale. 3 for $1. (normally its anywhere from $0.60 to $0.80 a bottle) it was as if the heavens had opened and i could see the manna falling at my feet. this incredible bounty was only made better by the fact that, they had already received their kosher for passover shipment and the sale applied to that seltzer as well (normally upwards of a $1 a bottle). well we stocked up 15 bottles for me and 12 for passover (i daresay there will be another trip back to the store to get another dozen or so before the sale goes away!) so dear reader you tell me unhealthy love or just a gal who loves her some seltzer.
tonight will and i went to a meeting with other dog owners because there is a threat that the town may be closing our local dog park. this dog park means to a lot to us and to our fellow dog owners, we know our community and our neighbors because of it, to us nothing is more important than community as we prepare to bring a new human into this world. so, as a group we want to be sure that we had our talking points ready before the threat becomes more real (ie gets put on the agenda for the next town meeting) because as we all know its better to think ahead. anyway i was proud of what we accomplished and wanted to share!
will occasionally brings me home flowers. since i got pregnant he brings me flowers after major dr/milestone type appointments. (all good news and nothing to worry about) last time was no exception. they were beautiful roses; here is one close up..
lactose intolerance! we went to whole foods and how they tempt me i mean does a grocery store need a gelato bar at the entrance? how does it get worse? my favorite flavor combo, dark chocolate mint was beautifully displayed, oh cruel world! i did try one of the sorbet flavors and it was good, but it was no dark chocolate mint gelato.
last night, my hard-drive (HD) died. i went to reboot and with the restart i got the dreaded file folder with a question mark inside accompanied by a distinct clicking noise. those of you in know with computers know just how dire the situation is based just on that. i called applecare and they told me to go a genius bar. there a nice guy named henry told me what i feared. my HD was no more and worse than that, they couldn't recover any of the data. in order to get my data i would need to send the old hard-drive off to some place with a clean room so that they can attempt to recover the data. the nice apple people aren't going to charge me anything to replace my HD however data retrieval that's gonna cost me. more than $1000. 
i spend a lot of my time at school, most of that time is in study rooms or the library. however when i am in class this is what i see. not exciting i know especially since the board is clean and there is no professor lecturing. but still i was reviewing the blog and realized that this classroom was missing it was a big omission.
I know jackson has a sweet face, he is a sweet dog, he loves us. he "protects" us. we however, made a mistake in his training. however all the fault is not ours. when we first got jackson we were told, by more than one person that knows such things, that he most likely wouldn't get bigger than 35 -40 lbs. so since he was going to remain small we figured that him occasionally sleeping with us would be ok. however our dear dog is 55 pounds. you can see from the picture that he takes up much of the bed, sleeping with us is torture. for a while he had no interest in sleeping with us. However recently since, he knows that he isn't supposed to sleep with us, he waits until the middle of the night to join us. He knows we are too tired to deal with him so he gets to stay. as a result both will and i get terrible sleep, added to this that i am not sleeping awesome anyway. I am a giant pile of crank. but still i wake up every morning and see this sweet face and can't help loving that dear dog of mine.
recently will started to be able to feel the fetus moving about inside me, neither he or i know what body part we are feeling but nonetheless its a neat thing. whats not neat.... a new trick called lets dance on the bladder. i can't say that its painful, just really, really annoying. 
today we got a save the date/invitation for a wedding on august 8 of this year. i have never been invited to a destination wedding, the invitation says that shoes are optional, just reading those words took me a to warm beach-y place in my head. but then i remembered, i'm pregnant, my due date is july 13th, my graduation is august 8th. the reality is that, finances aside, we can't go to this wedding. i hate typing that. i love weddings, i love seeing my friends celebrate their love, i love beaches. i know that my friends will understand for any number of reasons still, i hate that we can't go this wedding.
my loyal readers have seen this adorable kid before but as we were visiting them over the weekend how could i not post a picture of him, i am also glad to report that he has moved on from munching on will's fingers to barley cereal & fruit!
so while i have been sick, my husband has been dreamy, medicine dispensing, water pourer, food maker all around great guy! this post is for him. i love you honey.
**this is a picture of the front of the lands end catalog.
i was really hoping that the "thermal" setting on my photo booth would should my throat as red which is a gross understatement of how it feels. if only i were inclined to put sound on my blog then you would also get to hear the death-rattle sound of my cough.
i have a friend who is dealing with far more than the average person should have to; my thoughts are with her. i know i can't fix it, but i just wish there were more i could do.
the last couple days nature has been really trying to make spring happen, here is the evidence. i can't wait for spring flowers!
one of the best things about being pregnant is that when i told my dr i was eating a lot of ice cream and she said great what a great way to get your calcium! so more ice cream for me! also i heart breyers for their lactose free vanilla ice cream. also jp licks has one flavor a month but its not always a good flavor so its nice to have a solid back-up that costs way less money
we have the best neighbors, they have our keys we have theirs, they have watched jackson for us, have helped us bring in groceries and they have a dog, harry. today harry came over for a playdate, jackson was in heaven!
i like putting knots in my hair while watching teevee. seems silly i know but we all have things and this is one of mine.
thats what will told me last night as i started watching wedding crashers last night, meanwhile he was practically drooling at vince vaughn on the teevee.
