Thursday, January 25, 2007

We've moved!

We are now residents of Cary, NC. All of our worldly possessions have made it (hopefully) to our new home. As soon as I find the camera, I will post some photos. The place is lovely and about twice as big as our last home, which is nice. We have the same phone number, email address, etc. So, if you want our new address, you can email me and I will give it to you. We plan to send out change of address cards to those on our Christmas card list, so if you're in no hurry to have our new address, well, you can wait for the card.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Junk mail

I've just spent the last hour shredding junk mail. I can't stand the stuff. I shredded about a hundred of those "you've already been pre-approved" credit card offers. Old bills. Odd bits of paper with personal info on it. I'm really tired of having to go the extra mile to prevent some person from stealing those credit card offers and destroying my credit. I think that someone should invent a mailbox/shredder-incinerator. Mailman puts mail in mail box. You retrieve mail. Take out personal correspondence, bills (maybe), magazines (good ones only) and the rest you put in the shredder. Then you press the button "incinerate". Ahh, yes. That would be nice.

Caroline and the stethoscope

Caroline has been sleeping in her crib without the siderail for a few months now. The transition wasn't a big deal; I just took the side rail off the crib and she slept there. The one thing that has changed is the number of security items she requires in order to sleep. Before the transition, it was a pillow, blanket, and stuffed bear. Slowly, it has progressed to include a baby doll, another baby doll, their respective blankets, and most recently her toy doctors case. This case is not an innocuous cloth bag, but a hard, unforgiving plastic case. In the case there are a number of pretend medical devices (a plastic emesis basin, plastic ophthalmoscope, stethoscope, you get the idea...) I have tried hiding this darn thing a night, but she thows a fit. She must sleep with the whole thing. And no, she does not keep all the parts in the case, she sleeps with an empty case and then all the implements around her in bed. If one of these bits falls out of bed, she gets out of bed and looks for it in the dark. So...last night, around midnight, Caroline woke up crying. Todd went in to comfort her only to find her rooting around on the floor looking for her stethoscope. Once Todd found the missing stethoscope under the bed, all was well in the Lewis household once again.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

the big news...

Todd has a job and we are moving to Raleigh, NC. We will actually be living near Research Triangle Park. We have spent this weekend looking at houses to rent and we have 2 very nice candidates. I hope that everyone received our Christmas card. If you did not, please email me with your address. I will make sure you get our change of address card and a Christmas card next year.

Monday, January 01, 2007

Happy New Year!

I guess I missed the whole "New Years" celebration. Last night, I read a good book and did not even notice the stroke of midnight. Oh well... This is what you get when you have two little ones. Caroline kept waking up when she heard fireworks and that had her up until well after midnight. Isaac did fine, but he is still in our bed at least part time. We had an enjoyable evening nonetheless. I read my new book Next by Michael Crichton and Todd read a book too.

So, in other news, we are now looking into our options with starting the business. It's all up in the air, so I can't really comment now, but I will let you know when these things are settled. Isaac now takes naps in his crib, which is very exciting. Soon, I hope he sleeps through the night in the crib. All in good time though. Caroline can count to 10, recognizes all her letters, and is talking more these days.

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