The Day Obama Drove By
As I mentioned in yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday, President Obama came to Madison to give a speech on education at Wright Middle School. To say this was a big deal to Madison is a giant understatement. Not only have we not had a sitting President visit our fine city in 59 years (since TRUMAN!) but Madison has a huge love affair with Obama. WE LOVE YOU OBAMA! See? I can’t even help it. It’s like a political turrets. So when Wednesday morning came along and my very co

Mr. President, if you missed me so much you could have just called…
Wordless Wednesday

A Vacationing We Did Go
Despite my mother’s tooth pain, my 25% lung capacity (which made sightseeing go something like this: walk walk cough cough walk walk cough cough) and Northwest/Delta’s merge almost causing us to miss both of our flights (more on that in another post), we survived our quick little jaunt to D.C. In addition to having a great visit with my uncles, and my friend Anne, we did many of the classic touristy things. When in Rome… One of the best was seeing the monuments at night.

I Survived The Swine Flu and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Hello from the other side! So yeah, that was fun.  By getting this flu and in turn, giving it to my son, I was just being a good mother.  You see, Ben told me last week that he wanted a day alone with just me.  Well kid, how about THREE!?  Just you and me, Buddy.  Nope, no one else can even come into this apartment! Oh and how about during those three days we lay comatose on the couch.  Even better let’s watch D3: The Mighty Ducks more times than Emilio Estevez.  Because really, nothing says “mother and son bonding” like both of us sleeping for 12 hours a night, going through three boxes of K

H1N1 Ain’t No Fun
It all started on Thursday night.  It had been a very stressful week so when I was feeling run down and semi sick, I just thought it was the weight of a bad week on me.  Until I woke up in the early hours of Friday with a cough deep in my lungs that burned like lava.  “Shit,” I muttered to myself.  I knew immediately this wasn’t just a normal chest cold. Regardless Friday morning I dragged myself into work since I had already called in sick once that week and thought maybe I would feel better as the day went on.  Ironically Josh (my coworker) was out sick, so I stayed but as every hour went by I knew that Matt and I were going to miss