Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

I started off the week with a cold. I tried to keep my germs to myself, but as with the last virus we shared, everyone got it in the end.

At least it wasn't a terribly cold, but it did make us all pretty groggy one or two of the days in there.

Paela and I went to the park to play with some other kids and their moms. A playgroup, if you will. We had a good time; Paela was happy as a clam on the climbing structure they had. Paela and Wayne sat in on nursery in Church today. Paela thought it was a blast. We'll see what happens in a month when we try to let her go to nursery all by herself. She spent much of the rest of her week coloring, or asking to color.  read more »

We've been celebrating Pi day for five years now. Every time, I feel guilty for how dorky the holiday is, but this year, I noticed the popularity this holiday has gained and now I am feeling protective of the obscure holiday that has become too noticed. Regardless, we made key lime pie this year, in order to circumvent the abhorrence I feel towards eating normal pie. It was a good slice of pie.  read more »

AKA, our house became a germ festival. In other words, Wayne came down with the infamous traveling stomach bug Monday evening, and pretty much the first half of the week was dedicated to getting well and tending the sick.

Add to that, Paela decided Sunday evening to remind us that she wasn't yet on the upswing after all, so two of the three of us were down for the count.  read more »

The plan was to have Rebecca and Paela come with me. We were going to drive down to L.A. Wednesday for the rest of the week. While I went to the CAA conference, the two girls would drive around L.A. looking for fun things to see and do. Tuesday afternoon, Paela got sick. Wednesday, after more than 17 hours since the last time she threw up, we tried to take her with us. Almost to Gilroy, she threw up again in the car; we turned back and I left for L.A. alone.  read more »

The past couple of weeks have flown by...it hardly feels like we missed a week with our regular program of updates. You'd think we'd have some pictures to show for it, wouldn't you? So we had to take one today.  read more »

Rebecca blames me that her weeks to write the weekly letter never have anything interesting or photos, but I do. This week is no exception. 

Today we are instituting a cat sabbath. Paela has been very affectionate to the cat all week. She has learned to climb up onto the couch by herself so she can get to the cat and jump on her. And Paela has learned that the cat makes a nice pillow, until the cat fights back. Which she has, several times this week. We're trying to teach both Star and Paela to have boundaries, but in the meantime, we have decided that a cat sabbath is well needed.  read more »

Wayne's been getting back into the swing of the school year. He's had classes and meeting and readings, just like the good ole days. He'll have to figure out what to do about school when we move to Boston. In the meantime he became an international artist with this group show in Berlin.  read more »

We reorganized our DVD collection into one case which condenses things down to about 1/6th the space. We went to the park a few days, but mostly it rained this week. It is difficult to go down a slide when it is wet and had a big puddle at the bottom. We tried to find locations in our area which have indoor play spaces and were horrified to learn that this is the primary reason parents get sucked into taking their children (and feeding them) at McDonald's. Paela chose to be awake from 8am to 8pm a few times this week, but has returned to her normal schedule of 7-7 [mostly due to us encouraging her to...otherwise Sunday naps before Church would be nearly impossible because she wouldn't be tired yet].  read more »

It was quite a busy week last week, in case it isn't obvious from our late update. What with (another) trip to Boston with flight details being settled just the day before, and our friends Jon and Faith coming down for a visit.  read more »

We started the week off by sending me to Boston again, but luckily this time it wasn't the fall so I'm not in violation of any Veggie Tales songs. This was an interview with another company, for a position doing more natural language processing kinds of work, which would be cool. I liked the people I met a lot. Hopefully we'll hear something soon, and in the meantime we're back to normal.

I enjoyed seeing Wayne's sister, Camilla, and Victor again. They took me to a yummy sandwich place and an ice cream place and showed off Cambridge. So much fun.

Wayne and Paela had a good time playing in bookstores; she does love her bookstores. Though unfortunately she developed a fever the day I left and was fussy most of the time I was gone. At least the bookstores kept her content.  read more »