Truly Turrible

Dear Karen-

Soooo...how about those Titans?

(chirp, chirp...chirp...chirp...)

I realize that my knowledge of football is virtually nil, but maybe you can help me understand something. Why is it that when a team does poorly game after game, people start calling for the coach to either resign or be fired? Doesn't a large portion of responsibility lie with the men who are actually out on the field attempting to play the game? Why does no one ever call for their resignation?

Love,
Julie

Fall is Finally Here!

Dear Julie,

I am delighted to report that fall is finally here in Central Illinois!  It's a cold, rainy, dismal 52 degrees right now (with a high of 56 predicted).  It's as gloomy as can be AND I LOVE IT!!!  I am in fall clothes Hog Heaven.  But wait!  It gets even better:  We're heading to Holland, MI for the weekend, where the weather is nearly identical.  Ah, fall!

I heard you got a trampoline this week.  Don't you wish you could've had that about 3 weeks ago to jar Eleanor out of her little womb?  Speaking of Eleanor, the public needs more pictures of her.  I can't wait to meet her!

I hope you have a good day, rain or not.

Love,
Karen

Back to Blogging

Dear Julie,

First, let me congratulate you on successfully producing another human being.  I have decided that young Eleanor will be ElliePhant to me.  Partly because there's a book called Ellie the Elephant, but also because she had the gestation period of an elephant.  I can't wait to meet her in person!

You are absolutely right about us.  We dropped off the blogsphere for over an entire year.  What has become of us?  For real?

In the past 16 months...I've had 16 haircuts.  I tried sushi.  I let my hair grow out.  I moved to a new office. I met and married my best friend.  I learned how to make a fabulous pot pie.  And I've watched hundred of Law & Order episodes.

Let's move on & do better.

Love you!
Karen

What's Become of Us?

Dear Karen-

I've been thinking a lot about this old blog of ours lately and figured it was time to resurrect it. I tried to remember how long it had been since I last posted here and was a little bit mortified to see that our last entry was dated May 23, 2008! We're terrible, Muriel.

Since that time, you've married the love of your life and I've had a baby. Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...into the future...

Having been home a week now since Ellie was born, I find myself missing a few things about being in the hospital:

• Regular meals. Meals that someone else plans and prepares, then delivers to my bedside. Meals that require no thought or effort on my part, other than the strain of picking up the fork. The food itself was just okay...but the convenience was pure bliss.
• Having people who checked in with me regularly to ask, "Do you need anything? Water? Juice? Narcotics?" Granted, they also did their fair share of poking and prodding - but I could live with that.
• Crushed ice. I think it should be a right of every citizen. I miss it so much it hurts.

Love,
Julie

Hodge-Podge of Topics

Dear Julie,

I regret to inform you that our blogging skills have been impugned. It has been suggested that we are lame in our blogging follow-through. Although, on further review, I believe I am being singled out for my particular lameness, as evidenced by the fact that you out-blog me (in content and volume) here at Posts From The Edge. I scoff (HA!) at this accusation since it was hurled by one who receives actual monetary reimbursement for writing things that people actually read. I mean, really....who are we hurting if we fall off the blog-wagon for days (week...or months) at a time? It's not as it actual people are hanging on every word posted here. Right? (Of course right.)

Now, about your son...I chortled when I read on your other blog that he told you, "I'm working on a Natalie tripping-device and it's almost done." What a nefarious little fiend you have in the making. I told Jim about it and he likened Ethan to Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes fame). I quite like that comparison. If he starts to build a transmogrifier out of a cardboard box, run. Run like the wind! Although I suppose he could actually transmogrify you into a Mommy Dog.

New topic.
Why is it so darn cold this late in May??? Maybe there's something to this global warming, after all.

Love,
Karen

PS: Did you know our parents bought a trampoline today?! I wonder if they make trampline bras??? Must look into that....

Proving Yet Again That She Is One of Us

Dear Karen-

So yesterday Natalie and I were doing her schoolwork and without actually using the word "synonyms," we worked on the concept that sometimes we can use different words that essentially mean the same thing. Her task was to think about the word "big" and see if she could come up with different words that meant "big." The lesson manual had a few listed, in case the child needed prompting...giant, large and huge.

To my delight, Natalie skipped right over those and went for these big guns:

-gigantic
-humongous
-colossal

We loves her.

Love,
Julie

Saving it for posterity

Dear Karen-

This is just a quick note with one of those "could my kid be any cuter?" things. So today we were outside and Ethan was looking at everything in the flower beds. There's quite a large dandelion out there that will open soon. Ethan looked at it and the flowers and said,

"This is gonna kabloom soon, right?"

I might have to use "kabloom" from now on. "Why yes, my flowers are doing well...the Stargazer lily is about to kabloom and the hibiscus should kabloom in a few weeks..."

Love,
Julie