Sweetness in Spite of Snottiness

Milly was very upset at still being in her crib at 7:00 this morning, so I went ahead and got her up.  I tried to get her to lie in bed with me and maybe sleep a little more, but that wasn’t happening.  I ended up giving her a bath because she had a clump […]

Stretches of Sweetness

It started last night around 1:30.  Milly was crying in her crib, so I went to go check on her.  I don’t know why, but I didn’t even turn the light on when I went into the nursery.  Maybe I thought it would keep her calmer, which it did seem to do.  She was standing […]

College Basketball Begins

Tonight marks the official start of play for the 2010-2011 college basketball season.  Navy is playing at Texas, and I’m only watching it right now because Greg Paulus, a former Duke player, is their new assistant coach at Navy.  It’s really cool to see him on the bench.  His team kept it close in the […]

Efficient Use of TV Time

We set the clocks back last night, and Milly got up at 7:30, which felt like 8:30 to her.  Usually one of us is ready by the time we get Milly up to get her ready for church, but since she was up before either of us had finished getting ready, it put us back […]

Milly’s First Visit to the Fair

After a Cracker Barrel breakfast courtesy my mother-in-law and a shopping trip she and Amanda took while Milly napped (allowing me to catch up on South Park and ESPNU’s All Access featuring Duke’s men’s basketball team, prompting me to re-watch last season’s 82-50 shellacking of the Tar Heels at Cameron), the four of us headed […]