http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc Our two little reality checks, born 19 months apart, Ollie and Emmett. Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:52:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It hasn't had time to all sink in just yet, but in the meantime..... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=331 Being sick when you have a year old and 4 year old is pretty miserable. Being sick and having a sick 2 year old and a sick 4 year old is hell. After an entire morning of whining, snot, and fighting, I finally got the boys separate and happy (for ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=330 Listen up people! I grew up in North Carolina. To me, it will always feel like home. And today, I'm not the only one with Carolina in my mind. In fact, the whole country is looking to our state to make the difference. There's something different in the air this ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=329 I know that volunteer spirit in our society is on the wane, so we knew we had an uphill battle to climb. However, trying to get people to show up for the shifts that they signed up for and do some work has been next to pulling teeth. My bias ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=328 http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=327 I've been so busy doing data entry for all the phone calls and the doors we've knocked for Barack Obama that I've seriously neglected my blogging duties. I've even left my hockey blog to grow weeds as hockey season is getting started. Bad me. Just a quick catch up for now ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=326 It feels weird to be at home with no data to enter, no events or phonebanks on the horizon. My duties as IT whiz extraordinaire for the Obama campaign are on weather delay this weekend. They pulled our field organizer out to Raleigh until Hanna passes and canceled all our ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=325 It's official. Ollie is at school. We got up this morning, made breakfast, got dressed and did the whole routine. Not that we don't do those things every morning, it was just different today. We grabbed his tote bag and he climbed up into the car. We strapped him in ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=324 The world got a little emptier today. The Brown Dog passed away this afternoon at NC State Vet school. They did everything they could, but Sam was just to sick to fight anymore. We will miss her, so much and she wasn't even our dog. Our thoughts are with you, ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=322 Yeah, I know it's been too few and far between on the post front lately. Blame it one the kids, or better yet, the weather. It's been unbelievably cool this summer for Eastern NC so I've been spending all my time outside with the boys (not that the yard looks ... http://www.estuarium.com/greenville-nc/?p=321