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Feb
28
Old Steam Radiators
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Our house is about 100 years old. It has those old, noisy steam radiators in every room. During the winter, they’re good for two things: warming your buns after shoveling snow, and drying wet mittens. Our cat loves them too – you can often find him stretched out on top of them in total heaven.
Feb
27
Feb
22
Snowy Day in CT
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I can’t remember a nicer snow day. The snow started coming down well before any of us woke up this morning; there was a good 4 inches on the ground by the time we went outside at 10am. Before I unleashed the girls on the new fallen snow, however, I took a few minutes to record the beauty and absolute peace and quite of the scene. Enjoy.
Feb
14
I was super-excited when I first heard that they were doing a 4th Indiana Jones movie. I was ecstatic when I found out they were going to be filming only blocks away from where I work (if you missed my coverage from the set, click here and start reading from the bottom of the page). And then I read the Vanity Fair article about the movie and started to worry.
I’m sure we’re all in agreement here – the new Star Wars movies weren’t that good (and I’m being nice). George Lucas obviously put special effects before story and dialogue. So when I read how he basically talked Steven Speilberg and Harrison Ford into doing a story about an object they couldn’t get behind using a script that wasn’t their first choice, my palms started to sweat. The pages of the magazine trembled in my hands when I read the words “Area 51″ and “science fiction.” Indiana Jones meets E.T.?! Please, George…, say it isn’t so. Thank God, by all accounts, someone talked him out of a computer generated whip for Dr. Jones – that would have killed it for me right there. I still prefer the rubber masks of the Creature Cantina to the CGI characters in the newer films.
So today sees the release of the first teaser trailer, and I have to say…, my faith has been somewhat restored. Although a few of the shots rely too heavily on cgi, it still gets me excited for May 22nd. So here you go, folks…, judge for yourselves…
Feb
13
Grace Update
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For those of you not familiar with this blog’s back story, I started blogging a little over 4 years ago, shortly after my 2nd daughter was born. At the time, it was a way for me to try and deal with some emotions I just wasn’t able to deal with. Without getting too into the details, she had heath issues that kept her in the hospital for the first month of her life, followed by more issues that required two different operations to address them. One was brain surgery to correct the hydrocephalus that we discovered when she was 2-years-old. Thank God that seems to have been successful. The other – and the one we’re really been dealing with since day 1 – was her severe reflux that resulted in her to stop eating. She had an ng-tube placed when she was just weeks old, and a more permanent g-tube placed at 9 months. Basically, she’s been tube-fed since birth.
To say it has tested our patience would be an understatement. Nevertheless, it’s probably only by the grace of God that we persevered and after years of seeing teams of specialists and taking baby-steps with her feeding therapy, we have been able to wean her off of the tube. It’s been about 6 months since we’ve used it – which is long enough for her doctors to give us the green light to have it removed.
We met with her pediatric surgeon yesterday to go over the procedure and it’s risks (which are minor). Now all that’s left is for us to schedule the surgery and have that tube taken out…, hopefully for good. We’re excited and a little scared at the prospect all at the same time. Obviously, it’s a huge step forward for us – we were praying to have the tube out before she went to kindergarten, which she’s supposed to do this September. However, there’s always that “what if” in the back of your mind. “What if” she gets a really bad cold and doesn’t want to eat. “What if” something happens and we need the tube again. Even though we’re not using it anymore, just knowing it’s there puts us at ease. With the tube gone, I’m worried we might overreact to normal 4-year-old eating behavior and get upset at things we shouldn’t. Our patience is certainly going to be put to the test again.
Well, we all know you can’t go through life saying “what if,” so I think we’re going to try and schedule the procedure for next week. The girls have off from school so it’s a good time to have it done. It’s a same-day procedure, followed by a few days for the site to heal. I’m sure she’ll be running around in no time, and just think…, this summer she’ll be able to run around in a bikini!
I’ll keep you posted.