May 5th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

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Nolan and I had our first hike together in at least a few months recently.  We had a great time- he actually did a little of the hiking himself, and after a climb up 2 switchbacks at different intervals, he was pretty pooped and fell asleep almost instantly on my back for the rest of the hike. I can tell you- he is HEAVIER than when we last went.  And even though I’m now 27 lbs lighter than our last hike, it still felt HEAVIER.  And it certainly couldn’t be even partially due to my being out of shape could it???  It has to be all Nolan’s fault.

December 11th, 2010 by Busy Mommy

I went for a walk with my brother at Lake Chabot today.  It’s so BEAUTIFUL there right now.  The leaves are brilliantly yellow.  It occurred to me as we were walking that I will be 30 in a few more months and my brother is already 26.  Where is the time going?  I seem to always think of my brother as being 20, but somehow another 6 years have gone by. This wasn’t really part of the photo shoot- but I just had to take a picture because if you’ll look closely at my brother’s sideburn- yes that’s what I said, sideburn, you’ll notice it’s red.  His hair changes color at that point to a brilliant red, so if he ever grew a beard we’d have a redheaded, I mean redbearded irish ruffian on our hands.  Just kidding about the ruffian part of course.

October 12th, 2010 by Busy Mommy