Thirty-eight (and a half) weeks! Sorry to keep you in suspense by being quiet for so long. The baby is still in the belly, though he did drop last night when I was getting ready for bed. I felt some b...

Hello! Not quite time yet for a belly picture this week, but I figured I might want to do more frequent posts now, since the baby could come at any time, and I'm sure I won't feel like writing a post ...

Thirty-five weeks! As Patrick pointed out, the expiration date on his yogurt is now after our baby's due date. Not much longer now... Our pre-baby education continues. This weekend, we went...

Thirty-four weeks! We are definitely shifting into baby panic mode at this point, working hard to get everything ready before he shows up. We're making progress, which is satisfying. Regard...

Thirty-three weeks! Can you tell I was tired when I took this picture? I'm not too tired in general; this was just during a post-lunch slump. I took a quick walk in the sunshine a little later (with f...

Thirty-one weeks! Actually we're at 31.5 at this point. Patrick was out of the house this weekend enjoying some pre-baby hang-out time with friends from college (they rented a condo downtown for the w...

It took a little work, but we have obtained a dresser for the nursery! Yesterday, we went to five consignment/vintage stores (Consigned Home Furnishings, Rerun, I Heart Retro, Shag, and Hawthorne V...

Wow, 30 weeks! Three-quarters of the way there. I'm definitely starting to feel a little unwieldy, but it's not too bad. I've been feeling fewer sharp kicks recently, which is consistent wi...

Twenty-eight weeks! We've made it to the third trimester. Good job, baby! Here's a bonus family portrait to celebrate (we tried to get Patches in there too, but she wasn't interested). We had...

I played around with Photoshop today, trying to find some good paint colors for the nursery. I think I'd like to get paint from Yolo Colorhouse (they're local! And environmentally friendly, but of cou...

Twenty-one weeks--the baby is allegedly as long as a (large) banana. That seems about right. His kicks are getting stronger, which is exciting! We can count on him to put on a little kicking show righ...

Twenty weeks--the halfway point (give or take)! The big news this week is that we had our 20-week ultrasound this morning, and it's a boy! Whoa! We actually had a little false start related to the ...

I feel like it has been forever since I've updated, but I guess it hasn't been that long. I just haven't done much of note in the past few weeks. The weather turned cold suddenly last week, and I just...

Some recent tidbits: Shangri-La, the new Indian place at SE 26th and Clinton appears to have closed (already!). Bummer--we never got to try their full menu! They've scraped the paint off the wind...

I had the opportunity to rent a few movies this week, and after reading this post about The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, I decided to check it out. I'm not sold on the entire dialogue being sung, but I ...

Baking We went to a fun barbecue at Susan's on Friday, in honor of Linda and Paul, who were in town for Linda's book signing. It was great meeting them! My contribution to the barbecue was a shiro ...

Today is our one-year Portlandiversary (and house-iversary)! It has been such a great year--I'm so glad we decided to actually move here instead of just talking about it forever. Yay, Portland! In ...

Man, I meant to write about last weekend sooner, but it got so hot this past week, and I couldn't bear to have my laptop on my lap. But now, with the sun down and the fan aimed at me, I think I can ma...

I think I'm more aware of plants now that we live in Portland, both because we have a garden and because we walk and bike a lot, so we notice our surroundings more often. Right now, lilacs are in bloo...

We've been having a good time in Portland, as usual! Let's see... We went on a moss and lichen nature walk at Tryon Creek State Park a week or so ago. I learned so much about moss and lichen (not a...

I just bought a letterpress card with this Dylan Thomas poem on it: "I love you more than all the flannelete and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merio, lussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin popli...

We were running errands on Hawthorne this morning, so we stopped for brunch at Belly Timber. It's located in a nice old Victorian house, and I liked the way they combined embossed wallpaper with paint...

Hmm, it appears that I haven't written in a while, based on my backlog of food photos. Let's see... We had a nice, low-key New Year's Eve. We went to Bar Avignon (a cozy bistro/wine bar) for dinner...

Since Portland is moving into winter, Patrick and I decided it was time to invest in a good comforter. We chose a Wul comforter, which I had read about in Sunset a few years ago. We also got a nice du...

We woke up early on Saturday morning to the first frost of the season. We layered up with lots of Smartwool and headed over to a church in the Richmond neighborhood for our Friends of Trees planting d...

Guess what! I'm writing this post on my new laptop. Her name is meringue, and she's a refurbished MacBook. My old laptop stopped working about a month ago, and we waited until the post-Thanksgiving sa...

What a good 4-day weekend! We managed to get a few things done around the house. We had been wanting to frost the lower panes of our downstairs bathroom window for a while, and I finally did it using ...

We had a good weekend! Yesterday, Patrick attended training to become a Friends of Trees crew leader, and I went shopping on Alberta Street (that's how it always seems to happen--Patrick does the manu...

I bought some nice fall/winter clothes yesterday! My original plan was to stop by Pin Me to buy some Orla Kiely rain boots at 25% off (there seemed to be lots of big sales this weekend), but the boots...

Another good (and busy!) weekend in Portland. On Saturday, we went to the Screenprinting for Change party that I mentioned earlier, and we had a great time! I need to get more involved in the Portland...

Man, Portland is great! I'm glad it has lived up to my expectations so far. First of all, check out the beautiful produce I bought at our farmers' market! That's not even all of it! I also bought a vi...

We still haven't gotten to any big home improvement projects, but we're making headway on the little things. Earlier this week, we replaced our original (cracked, painted) Old Portland house numbers w...

I didn't do the project I had originally planned for today (painting two rain barrels for our yard) because it was cold and drizzly, which didn't seem like ideal spray-painting weather. Instead, I unp...

Last Sunday, we stopped in at the Polish Festival and waited in long lines for pierogies and potato pancakes. And then I made Patrick go furniture shopping on Mississippi Ave., even though he probably...

Last Friday night, we went back to Doug Fir to take in a show (that's what people our age are supposed to do, right?). We were there to see the second band of the night, A Weather, but we were very pu...

Patches came back on Saturday! We bought her some kitty treats to celebrate. I'm glad she turned up. Here are a few pictures from this evening. The sunset was really pretty, and weather was balmy. I s...

We just found out that you can buy pudding at the farmers' market! Jacob's Creamery sells containers of homemade vanilla and chocolate pudding, alongside a nice assortment of cheeses. Totally awesome!...

Some of my coworkers wanted to know what my home office looks like, so I put a few pictures on Flickr (click the picture below for a couple more). It's pretty basic, but it works. I am especially exci...

It has been raining off and on today, but the weather was nice yesterday, and we spent most of it riding around Portland on our bikes. In the morning, we rode across the bridge to PSU campus, to check...

Today we found out that Patches the cat has an owner and is not homeless or starving at all. What a sneaky kitty! Also, I found out that Patches pooped under our lemon tree at least twice in the past ...

We made it to Portland! We are excited about our house, even though our to do list is steadily growing. Let me recap... On Saturday morning, I got up early and made a batch of blondies and some lem...

Patrick flew out to Portland for a few hours today to attend the home inspection. The inspector was awesome and really thorough (we definitely recommend Owens Inspection Services if you need a house i...

I have majorly fallen off of the interesting cooking wagon since our trip to Portland and Bend. We've been eating a lot of salads (nothing wrong with that!). I think this is partially because it is su...