The Kidlets take on the Triangle Modern Quilt Guild

August 14, 2010 in Kids by emily | 3 comments

(ok, totally a week behind on this post…)

So I was torn on whether or not to even *try* and go to the guild meeting last weekend.  I wanted to go but did I want to risk it turning into a complete meltdown where all three of us end up leaving asap in tears?

I decided to give it a go… so at the tender ages of 3 and 6, my kids attended their first quilt guild meeting. Liam could really have cared less where he was — he had a cup of water, goldfish, his wall-e quilt and an iphone with wall-e playing. Maeve was excited to see the quilts and loved sharing her Olivia quilt (you know, the ones I made for the kids and never blogged about because this summer has been insane? yeah, that one).

Mommy’s and Daddy’s old iphones make awesome entertainment for kidlets.

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Show and tell.

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I promise they weren’t bored. Just chillin’ and watching movies.

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I am not a Network Administrator

August 7, 2010 in Life by emily | 4 comments

Nor do I play one on TV.

I do not know the difference (nor do I care to learn the difference) between a router, switch, d-link, linksys, netgear, silicon dust or whatever other plastic boxes with blinking little lights are sitting next to me.

I do not know what is in that scary cabinet full of wires (nor do I care to ask).

I do not know what should get plugged into what (nor do I care to learn).

When the network breaks, the network administrator fixes it.

Problem is he moved to Seattle.

Problem for me is that a friggin’ ginormous storm hit us Wednesday night/Thursday morning (seriously one of the worst since we moved here 4 years ago) and decided to nuke all sorts of stuff.

We thought it was just the cable and Time Warner finally decided to send someone to our house this morning (yes, on Saturday… no internet for my internet business since Thursday morning). Cable man fixed his stuff but it still doesn’t work.

I can’t really call Sean easily since we have Vonage and if you don’t have internet, well, you don’t have phone either.

Can’t really call on a cell phone either because we live at the bottom of a huge hill and are covered with trees and the server room (yes, the house has a server room) is in the basement.

I finally got my laptop to work by plugging it straight into the cable modem. So if I want to send an email, I can walk down 2 flights of stairs with painful arthritic knees to my laptop or hen-peck out an email on my phone but ONLY if I’m standing next to a window on the top floor because then I might get 1 bar of Edge (no 3G… don’t even think about it). We ended up in an IM conversation trying to get it working.

I sound whiney. I need more chocolate. I’m supposed to be working on binding-o-rama. I have 2700 inches of binding to do.

I need a network administrator.

(If you’re waiting for me to respond to something, hang in there. Things are obviously not functioning normally at the moment!)

A Little Too Literal

August 4, 2010 in Kids, Life by emily | No comments

See? It’s an eyeiPhone. The boys were being quite silly this morning (mommy too I guess since I’m sitting here typing this).

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Torn

August 3, 2010 in Kids by emily | 1 comment

I’m torn on whether or not this is a good thing.

We decided late last week to start Maeve at school here.  We’re on a multi-track year round fustercluck schedule so she started yesterday. In a way it’s good because it give her some structure to her day (which were were lacking around here lately) but it’s not so good because it means we’re still here.

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Liam is quite thrilled because with Maeve at school, he got some uninterrupted puzzle time. Though today he was quite sad and kept asking where Maeve was and saying that he missed her.

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School has also put a kink into talking-to-Daddy time (iPhone FaceTime rocks btw). We were calling every morning at 10 because it was a good time for everyone’s schedules but with school, I think we’re changing Maeve’s time to around 4 when Sean is finishing lunch and Maeve is home. Today’s conversation?

D: Hi Maeve!  How was your day?

M: Good.

D: Did you have fun on your second day at school?

…silence…

M: what?

D: I said, did you have fun on your second day at school?

…silence…

M: Daddy, why do you always have time to talk to me?

D: Uh, well, I just finished my lunch, and since you’ve been at school all day, this was the first chance I’ve had to talk, so I wanted to give you a call before I went back to work, since I have a few minutes.

…silence…

D: Can you hear me Maeve?

…silence…

M: what?

…silence…

D: I said, can you hear me or is it hard to hear?

M: Daddy, I’m *trying* to concentrate on TV!

D: Oh… okay.  Ah, did you want to stop talking and go watch TV instead?

…silence…

(in the distance) Liam, do you want to talk to Daddy?

**

They really do miss him. Promise. But how dare Daddy interrupt Olivia! Just wait until I turn it off to give them baths in 3…2…1….

(did the Raleighians hear the screaming?)

Stack O’ Quilts

July 29, 2010 in Quilts - In progress by emily | 1 comment

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Now that the house prep is done and we’re just sitting around (ha! yeah right), I’ve gotten back into the sewing groove. Phew. It feels good.

Next week? Binding. My hands hurt just thinking about it.

(Holy grainy photo Batman! That’s the new iPhone. I thought the camera was going to be better?)

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