Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Mamma's tired but here are some pictures and a few quick distractions for your perusal. I don't want no bunny banana frog ok no way. [https:
Skylar Anniversary Tomorrow is my and Skylar's one-year wedding anniversary what how is that possible you look so young STOP IT YOU GUYS. What a wild first year of marriage
Ridiculous Only In Utah! Skylar said it was "hot" and he was "sweaty" so that's why it was a good idea for him to take his shirt off and go sit on the furniture. I told him this wasn't my
The Perfects Dead Rat Our greatest neighborhood allies are the Perfects next door. When I bought this house in The Year of Our Lord Eleventy Hundred, I was too intimidated to talk to them
Medical School Pediatrics Skylar found out his newest rotation would be in pediatrics and this freaked him out. I was honestly surprised that he was so nervous to do this rotation. If you
Ridiculous Red Vines On Saturday I started getting notifications to my phone about my Instacart order. This was curious, since I had, in fact, not placed an Instacart order. I had forgotten that
Skylar This New Step of Covid When The Great Covid began earlier this year I was one of those people who was constantly telling you that actually we really had a lot to learn from this
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions We are so very overdue for a Pictures & Distractions post and I have some fun stuff to share with you. So here it is. [https://1.bp.blogspot.com/
Ridiculous Famine The first time I visited Skylar's family in Portland I thought maybe the Pacific Northwest was experiencing a famine that hadn't made the news in Utah.
Medical School Skylar's World Skylar has moved onto his second rotation now, family medicine. As I understand it, that's the same as regular medicine except it sometimes posts racist things on Facebook
Dating Second Date Last week I tweeted this thing that went viral: > For my second date with my husband we met in NYC and went to a party and ended up at
Ridiculous The Friends We Made Along The Way We want to be the kind of people who go camping, but we don't actually want to go camping. That's the only way I can describe
Ridiculous My Mother's Pickle Canning Recipe None Of You Asked For, Which Was Rude I'm basically Martha Stewart now, except I've been to less prison and I look better in skirts. I thought I might as well fully lean in
Bob and Cathie Out of Gas We drove to a little farm yesterday morning to buy crap to put in jars and leave on our shelves to rot. Canning truly is one of my favorite annual
Ridiculous My Mother's Spaghetti Canning Recipe No One Asked For, Which Was Rude My most vivid memory from my entire childhood is stuffing my face into a giant green pillow in the basement during canning season as the house would fill with overpowering
Social Distancing Ghost Town Hunting We were supposed to go on an adventure last weekend, but our plans were abruptly canceled when Skylar plugged in all eleventy hundred of his nuclear devices at once and
Ridiculous Eternal Vine My parents have this Jumanji vine consuming a whole side of their house. They planted it back before the war when they were young and dumb and so full of
Medical School Rotations Skylar started his "rotations" this week, which as I understand it roughly translates to "wander around a hospital trying to look busy so no one asks you
Ridiculous Exhausted Broccolini On Wednesday I had one of those days where everything just a little bit sucked more than usual. I don't remember how it started. Technical difficulties. Ants in
Church Mormon Phrases When Skylar moved to Utah in 2016, he basically had to take a Utah-immersion course just to understand basic life. He'd occasionally wander into the house and say
Ollie Indogpendence Day Yesterday was Independence Day (happy birthday, America. Sorry your party sucked.) Normally we throw a Fourth of July party where all of our friends come over and lick their hands
knitting Skylar Looks Good In Sweaters A couple months ago I called my knitting store down the street #supportlocal #citizenoftheyear #It'sScaryToTalkOnThePhone #bravery. I had picked a new sweater to knit, something that would be
Ridiculous Paintings. Now None of You Can Go to College. Last year Skylar and I went to Santa Barbara for a quick vacation so he could have a break from medical school. We ended up driving a bit out of
Medical School Zoom This morning I heard Skylar in the other room on a Zoom call with a bunch of people from school. I had slipped into the room a few times while
Medical School Quite A Lot Of Pressure Skylar is supposed to get his test scores any day now and I simultaneously need it to happen immediately and not for a while. He is antsy and it is
