Long time no blog... - January 6, 2009

Do you know someone who is a gourmet cook, fantastic baker, gardener extraordinaire, amazing photographer, seamstress par excellence, devoted mother, AND has a PhD???  I do.  Her name is Lam and she has one of the two blogs I follow on a regular basis.  The other being, of course, my SFAM (sister from another mister) Amber.  A while back I asked Lam if she could make some sort of padding for the rocking chair which lives in the back of the house, and where Papa spends a good deal of time rocking Griffin.  It's where they watched his first football game together -- a momentous event in this house (please God, let this child be a sports aficionado.  It would just make life SO much easier for everyone ;)).  Papa has spent so much time rocking him that a blister developed on his right forearm where he props it against the arm rest.  Not having any sewing ability WHATSOEVER, I didn't realize the level of difficulty required of the task, and, truth be told, she could have sewn together two half-moons of fabric and I would have been impressed.  Well, she did much more than that.  I'd post a photo, but hers are so much better than any I would take.  In addition to that, she snapped some gorgeous photos of the kids while she was here.  She was scheduled to arrive around 10 a.m. but was early (which, as she reminded me, is an important trait in a therapist -- "I must not be that important if my doctor is always late...").  However this interfered with my carefully constructed plan to have the television off when she arrived.  You see, Lam also doesn't own a television, and that is something which, while I admire, just could NOT do.  I would not be a very happy person without my 30 Rock (if you haven't seen that show, it is something you MUST check out) and reality TV (The City, the Real Housewives -- and though I am betraying my OC brethren, the NYC and Atlanta casts are SO much more interesting, the Bachelor -- ummm, season premiere last night, that is some DAMN good tv right there.  I could go on but I've embarrassed myself enough.  And yes, I do have an M.D. from a reputable American medical school.).  Furthermore, Regan's hair was still in a bedraggled braid (our new way to wear our hair which makes the morning comb out so much less dramatic since it gets less tangled during her nightly gymnastics) and Griff was sleeping in a spit-up stained onesie.  Not what I was planning on having him wear for the photos I knew she was going to take.  Well, if I didn't know better, I'd say Lam knew ME better and arrived early specifically so that she could capture the kids in all their naturalness.  Although I do have to admit I undid the braid ;).  She snapped away and got some of the best photos of the kids I've seen.  So, please, check out her blog and read the lovely words which accompany her lovely photos.  I hope to start blogging more  -- if for no other reason than to get the "blog pushers" (you know who you are!) off my back.  They are almost as bad as Kathleen, who has thus far successfully addicted me to everything she's suggested I try (facebook -- a truly awesome way to reconnect with people. I'm back in touch with high school friends, med school friends, residency friends.  People I've wondered about, and care about, but would otherwise never keep in contact.  More of her "crack": on-line scrabble, pathwords, twilight).  I've thus far resisted the Pilates suggestion, but if it'll give me a tummy like hers, I might have to take her up on it.  Oh, and she's reaquainted me with Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio.  A wine first introduced to me by my dear friend Jameila, lost along the way, and now re-discovered.  Again, if you like your whites: check it out!  Okay, enough rambling for now...  I'm not sure if anyone still checks in here, especially since it's been almost 3 months since my last update, but I would really like to be a little more timely in my entries.  Having no technical skills at all, I am still emailing my entries to Amber, but I promise to learn how to post to my own blog so she will have one less thing to do everyday.  Hopefully I'll be back before another 3 months passes :).

-Sheila