http://mommybrain.net It happens to the best of us. Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:27:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, this blog has been dormant for over two years. Actually, I pretty much considered it dead. Life with a start-up and two kids got too busy and I just haven't had time for long-form writing. Between Twitter, Flickr and Facebook my need for marking moments in my life has ... http://mommybrain.net/2010/07/02/santa-vs-the-birds-the-bees/ There was a house fire in the mission district in San Francisco this evening. Actually, I think three houses burned. It was just a few blocks from our house, but some friends of ours share a back alley with the burning buildings. As we were driving home, keeping tabs on ... http://mommybrain.net/2008/03/17/what-would-you-grab/ *GASP*..... Wow, life with two kids is harder than life with one kid. Go figure. Life with two kids and a start-up is bordering on ridiculous. There are days that I think "What the h*ll am I doing??!!! This is not humanly possible!" And then there are those days where I ... http://mommybrain.net/2008/03/13/coming-up-for-air/ It's 12:45 a.m., Friday December 7, 2007. A mere 45 minutes past my due date. Scant hours after I decided to take a chill pill and B...R...E...A...T...H...E.... And POP! Hello bag of waters! So we're off to the hospital.... http://mommybrain.net/2007/12/07/wouldnt-you-know-it/ Due date has come and is about to go. No one thought I would make it to my due date, much less past it. My mom's been here for over a week. Other eager grandparents and friends are calling, IMing, texting every day to "check on my status". Um, status ... http://mommybrain.net/2007/12/06/goinggoinggone/ The past six weeks have been an absolute marathon of baby-arrival preparation. It started with the overwhelming task of turning our home office / library / quinn's art studio / catch-all room into a nursery. This included two garage sales, several postings on craigslist, a LOT of rearranging of the ... http://mommybrain.net/2007/12/04/my-bags-are-packed-im-ready-to-go/ Quinn loves kindergarten. Full stop. The kid is seriously electrified by it. I've always known kids are like sponges but I had no idea the rate at which they're capable of soaking up knowledge and information. And how turned on they could get by it. I just figured kindergarten would ... http://mommybrain.net/2007/10/14/kindergarten-is-way-different-than-preschool-mommy-its-great/ So Disneyland was everything we'd hoped for. We started our first day accidentally pulling out in front of someone on our way into the parking garage and got a half eaten bologna-on-white-bread sandwich chucked on to the hood of our car. It was awesome. Day 1 was over 100 degrees F. On ... http://mommybrain.net/2007/09/17/turns-out-the-magic-kingdom-is-actually-kind-of-magical/ We leave tonight for our Southern California end-of-summer vacation. Quinn's school starts late this year so we're taking advantage of all the other kids being back in school and hitting Disneyland next week. (Going to Disneyland in the heat of summer with the HORDES of other people pretty much results ... http://mommybrain.net/2007/08/30/california-dreamin/ A couple weeks ago Quinn had a sleepover at a friend's. He was anxious about being away from me all night and was verbally worrying about missing me before he went over there. (I think partly, or maybe mostly, for my benefit). The next morning when he came home he ... http://mommybrain.net/2007/08/30/and-so-the-trend-continues/