Biscuits and Jam

108 entries tagged with family.

Like Brother, Like Brother (January 17, 2013)

Blankie head (top: Arlo, bottom: Felix): Creamed spinach: Aunts and uncles: ...

Christmas and the New Year (January 17, 2013)

A somewhat belated Happy New Year! My wish for us in 2013: More sleep! Otherwise, things are pretty great already. When we last talked, Felix was 31 weeks old. A day after my last post, his first t...

October/November Recap (November 22, 2012)

Time for another long update! At 23 weeks, Felix rolled from his tummy to his back for the first time (and has continued doing it every so often since then, but it doesn't seem intentional). He sta...

September Recap (October 13, 2012)

Wow, six new orange chair photos to share? I guess it has been a while. At 17 weeks old, Felix found his big kid voice, and he started hollering for fun. I don't remember Arlo going through a loud ...

Road Trip, Beef Share (July 2, 2012)

Hmm, time seems to be going by awfully quickly. I have three more weeks' worth of orange chair pictures to post--here is Felix at 5, 6, and 7 weeks: Poor little brother! In the past few ...

One Month/Two Years (June 13, 2012)

Felix turned 1 month old on Sunday, and we celebrated with a picnic at Laurelhurst Park. The sun was shining, and we had Pine State biscuit sandwiches and lemonade in Mason jars--a great way to celebr...

Twenty-Three Months, Thirty-Nine Weeks (May 3, 2012)

Arlo is 23 months old! Not much new to report this month--Arlo continues to be awesome. He talks a lot, and he picks up new words almost every day. He seems to be moving past the phase where he...

Twenty-Two Months Old, Cabin Trip (March 31, 2012)

What a crazy week! My sister Lianna came to visit at the beginning of the week, and unfortunately, Patrick and I came down with a cold almost as soon as she got here. Luckily, she was still able to ge...

Holiday Recap (January 11, 2012)

We spent the holidays in Portland this year--our first time since we moved here. I missed seeing my family, but it was nice being able to relax at home instead of traveling with a toddler. We got a li...

Seventeen Months Old (November 9, 2011)

Hmm, apparently it has been a month since I posted. Arlo is seventeen months old now. He's so great; he just gets more and more awesome every month! In the past month, he has gotten really in...

Approaching 14 Months Old (July 27, 2011)

Wow, it has been almost a month since I wrote a substantial post! Here's what's new: Arlo is very interested in all of the bikes, cars, trucks, and buses that pass by our house. He's particular...

California Visit and Meg's Graduation (June 18, 2011)

We started our California trip with a visit to Atascadero, to my mom and Alan's house. It was a lovely visit as always. Many of Alan's family members live nearby, and some of them stopped by fo...

Twelve and a Half Months Old (June 18, 2011)

Lots to report on the Arlo front in the past few weeks: Arlo just finished up two weeks of teething--runny nose, drooling, grumpiness, and frequent fingers in the ears. For a while we thought he ...

Arlo's First Birthday Party (June 3, 2011)

As of Monday, Arlo is one year old. Wowza! We had a nice, small birthday party on Sunday. The overcast weather kept us inside (the curse of having a Memorial Day birthday in Portland), but we s...

Forty-Nine and Fifty Weeks Old (May 21, 2011)

Oh, this sweet baby! How'd I get so lucky? Here he is at 49 and 50 weeks old. He was still dealing with his cold during the 49-week photo shoot, so he's pretty teary-eyed in most of the picture...

Forty and Forty-One Weeks Old (March 20, 2011)

Here's Mr. Arlo sharing some wonderful toothy grins! (Tooth #5 showed up a couple days ago, much to our surprise!) He had his 9-month checkup a few weeks ago, and it went just fine. Patri...

Twenty-Nine and Thirty Weeks Old (December 31, 2010)

Arlo is seven months old today--my, how time flies! He's still working diligently on figuring out how to crawl and erupting his first few teeth. I'm happy to wait a little longer on the crawling (we h...

Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five Weeks (November 22, 2010)

This will be an extra-long post, since I didn't get around to writing one last week. To start off, here are two weeks' worth of orange chair pictures--Arlo at 24 and 25 weeks! And here are ...

Twenty-One Weeks Old (October 30, 2010)

Arlo is five months old today--what a big kid! Here he is posing for his 21-week picture last Sunday. He just gets more and more entertaining and fun to be around every week. He can be grumpy a...

Thirteen Weeks Old (September 2, 2010)

Arlo turned 13 weeks old this past Sunday, and Monday was his three-month birthday! We celebrated by going out to dinner at the Farm Cafe with Jon and Katie, who just happened to be passing through to...

Eleven Weeks Old (August 16, 2010)

Arlo is eleven weeks old! We're having more and more luck each Sunday catching him when he's bright-eyed and in a good mood. With the hot weather we've been having for the last few days, he has...

Eight Weeks Old (July 29, 2010)

Arlo is eight weeks old and coming up on his 2-month birthday on Friday! Within the last week, he has discovered his feet (which he finds especially interesting when they're inside his new st...

Arlo Cuteness and Adventures (July 24, 2010)

We've got baby smiles! So great :) Arlo has become alert for longer stretches of time in the last few weeks, which is so fun! There's still plenty of crying, but at least it's balanced out by l...

Week 31 Recap (April 9, 2010)

Thirty-two weeks! This marks the start of the eighth month--whoa! If I think in terms of months, two months still sounds like a decent amount of time to get ready, but 8 weeks, not so much. Babies are...

Week 28 Recap (March 19, 2010)

Twenty-nine weeks! This belly means business. I wasn't sure if I should mention this, because it might move me from the "slightly unorthodox pregnant lady" category to the "crazy new age pr...

On the Mend (February 28, 2010)

Thanks for your kind words about yesterday's post! Patches is back home, and she seems to be feeling like her normal self again. They still don't know what caused her problems yesterday, but she ate s...

Patches Is Feeling Yucky (February 27, 2010)

Our poor kitty is staying overnight at the pet hospital tonight. When we got home from running errands this afternoon, she had thrown up outside, and then she came in and proceeded to throw up four mo...

2009 Highlights + Big News! (January 1, 2010)

This past year has definitely had its ups and downs for friends and family and for the world in general, but we were lucky enough to have a pretty good year. Some highlights: We made new friends ...

Two New Shirtdresses + Summer Plans (June 30, 2009)

I spent the past week in California for work and took a few days to visit my mom, grandma, and aunts while I was in the area (it's always so much fun when they all get together!). Now I'm back home in...

Patches Is Not a Zombie Cat! (February 17, 2009)

While working our way through the third season of Buffy tonight, we realized that we inadvertently named our sweet kitty after a gross zombie cat. Specifically: Cut to the library. The caged cat is...

Looking Back and Forward (January 7, 2009)

While I'm writing, I wanted to acknowledge that 2008 was a really good year for us, what with moving to Portland and buying a house. I'm so glad that things have worked out and that we love Portland a...

Snow in Portland, Christmas in California (December 25, 2008)

I haven't written in a while! When I last wrote, Tree and Andrew had just arrived in Portland for a visit. Soon after, the snow started. It kind of put a damper on our fun Portland activities, but it ...

Patches Joins the Family (December 9, 2008)

Patches is officially our kitty as of Saturday! Her owner brought over her vet records while we were planting our trees (and I didn't recognize him, which made me feel totally dumb after I realize...

Colorado Recap and Moving Update (August 3, 2008)

I keep meaning to write about our visit to Colorado last weekend, but there hasn't been time to do a full write-up. In short, we spent a couple days last week visiting my dad, stepmom, and sister in F...

House Blogs and Food Update (No Pictures) (July 3, 2008)

We're about halfway through the home-buying process at the moment. We're getting to the end of the inspection period, though we're still going through some negotiations on the retaining wall repair. N...

All Food, All the Time (May 3, 2008)

I was thinking--it's a little odd that when I look back on this time, I'll just have a record of what we ate. But there's just not much else to tell right now--life is good. We have a routine for the ...

Food Post, Including Ham, Coffee Cake, and Malted Waffles (March 6, 2008)

I appear to be almost a month behind in writing about our meals! I doubt these posts are of interest to anybody other than me, but I have a dream of someday writing a recipe database that summarizes a...

Christmas in Colorado (January 1, 2008)

We spent last weekend in Fort Collins with my family, celebrating Christmas a little belatedly. It snowed right before we got there, and it was below freezing pretty much the whole time, but at least ...

Holiday Baking Roundup (December 28, 2007)

Now the sweet things... 1. Lemon-buttermilk pudding cake. Recipe from my latest acquisition, the Tartine cookbook (my new approach to buying cookbooks is to get them at the library first, to make s...

Second Anniversary Gifts (October 26, 2007)

So, I said I'd talk about our second anniversary presents, didn't I? So far, we've tried to buy anniversary presents within the traditional (or modern) categories. It makes things more entertaining. L...

Jay and Heather's Wedding (September 30, 2007)

Yesterday we attended Patrick's older brother Jay's wedding. This was the first wedding we'd been to since our own, nearly two years ago. It was a beautiful wedding, and I'm so glad that Heather is ...

Lianna's Graduation (June 2, 2007)

Last weekend, we flew to Colorado to see my sister, Lianna, graduate from high school (the same school I graduated from nine years ago). It was a fun, relaxing visit, for the most part. We flew in...

Life Update (May 4, 2007)

We've been busy recently! Last Wednesday, we went to see the Decemberists at the Warfield with My Brightest Diamond. We only recently started listening to the Decemberists, and we like them a lot. ...

Christmas Dinner 2006 (December 28, 2006)

We are back from our Christmas visit to my family in Colorado! We had minimal travel issues, which was lucky given the blizzards bookending Christmas in the Front Range (one last week and one today a...

Cooking Classes, Another SF Visit, East Bay Adventures (December 20, 2006)

Last Thursday was a busy day. In the evening, I took a Oaxacan cooking class at the new Whole Foods, taught by the husband and wife who own Oaxacan Foods (they also sell food at local farmers' market...

Lots of Pie + No-Knead Bread (November 26, 2006)

This tree near our apartment is turning all sorts of pretty colors and is laden with little berries. I don't know what kind of tree it is, but I like seeing it every morning. So autumnal! Las...

Anniversary Pictures, Petaluma, Arroz con Pollo (October 28, 2006)

Our lemon tree has its first blossom! It seems like an odd time to start making fruit, but what do I know? It smells gooood! Last weekend, we dusted off our tripod and took a bunch of picture...

Visit to Colorado + Tour de Fat (September 27, 2006)

We had a great time in Colorado this past weekend. We crammed a lot of relaxing into four days! Friday, September 22: We arrived late Thursday night, took the shuttle home, and went straight to...

Good meals in good company: Millennium and Fresca (September 17, 2006)

For dinner on Thursday, I made a very vegetable-heavy meal of Tamale Pie and Southwestern Corn and Potato Soup, both from Moosewood Low-Fat Favorites, as well as some steamed green beans. The s...

Exciting Trip Plans + Yummy Autumnal Dinner (August 28, 2006)

Last night, my need to use vacation time on a fun trip got the best of me, and we bought plane tickets to go visit Fort Collins in late September. It's going to be a great (though short) visit! In a...

Indulgent Dinners: Tamarine and Zibibbo (August 22, 2006)

We went out for dinner the past two nights and ate very well. Last night, we went to Tamarine to celebrate Patrick's brother's and dad's birthdays. Before dinner, Patrick got to golf at the Stanford...

Food, Food, and Food! (August 7, 2006)

On Wednesday, I donated blood again. They were in desperate need of types O and A last week, and they were giving away free movie tickets (and free ice cream coupons). It went really well. I told t...

Weekend Mini-Vacation (April 3, 2006)

We had a good mini-vacation this weekend in Big Sur. We drove down on Friday evening in the rain and darkness and had a late dinner at the Big Sur Lodge (where we were staying). The restaurant was ...

Colorado Visit (March 29, 2006)

I don't think I mentioned it beforehand, but we spent last Thursday through this Monday visiting my family in Colorado. It's always so nice to go home, both because we get to relax so completely and ...

Coffee Cake and Fish in Crazy Water! (December 28, 2005)

We had a good Christmas with Patrick's family. Lots of sleeping in and being warm inside while it was raining outside. I'm glad we have another long weekend coming up! I managed to fit a few of m...

Thanksgiving 2005 (November 25, 2005)

We had a nice Thanksgiving. We spent it with Patrick's family (it's so convenient having them only a few miles away!). I guess I can call them my in-laws now. Ha! We still get a kick out of the fa...

Dinkey Creek, Garden, and Wedding Stuff (July 23, 2005)

As I said earlier, camping last weekend was fun. Every year, my stepdad's family goes camping for a week in Shaver Lake, CA, at Dinkey Creek campground. Patrick and I joined them (and my mom) for th...

Christmas in Colorado (December 29, 2004)

We had a really nice visit to Colorado. I wish it had been longer, but we made the most of our time there. We had the usual Christmas morning brunch with my mom, stepdad, stepdad's ex-wife, stepbrot...

White Christmas, perhaps (December 3, 2004)

Patrick and I are going to spend Christmas with my family in Colorado! It'll only be for a few days, but I'm still very excited about it. I've been wanting to visit home ever since I moved here this...

Family Time (November 28, 2004)

Today Patrick and I went to my grandma's house for lunch. My mom is still there (she's returning to Colorado tomorrow, probably), and various members of our extended family showed up. I hadn't seen ...

Thanksgiving and Lunapads (November 25, 2004)

Happy Thanksgiving! Patrick's making sweet potatoes right now (we decided to go with Zeke's recipe), and then we'll head off to his family's house. We had gingerbread waffles this morning (leftover...

Family Visit (November 10, 2004)

My mom is on the next leg of her adventure now (the deal is that my Auntie Nance bought some land in Corvallis, Oregon, so she's flying out to take a look at it, and my mom and grandma are driving up ...

Appletastic Pork (November 7, 2004)

Okay, here's the picture of our dinner from a few nights ago. We made Pork with Apples, Calvados, and Apple Cider (but we used Applejack instead of Calvados) and Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage. We used ...

Update (November 6, 2004)

I keep meaning to post about the pork we made for dinner a few days ago, but I need to download the picture I took of it. It won't make for a very exciting post, I'm afraid. My mom's visiting for a ...

Status Update (August 21, 2004)

Well, yesterday we moved out of the cottage and in with Patrick's dad and two sisters (who also live in Palo Alto, conveniently enough). We don't know how long we'll be staying with them; hopefully n...

Dog tired (July 13, 2004)

I'm back in Boston, and I'm sleepy! I tried to sleep during my red-eye flight last night, but that didn't work too well. I'm going to sleep well tonight though! Yesterday, I finished my journal a...

Literary (March 10, 2004)

Today I found out that Poppy Z. Brite has a journal. Most people would be interested to read her journal because she writes novels (none of which I've read yet, tsk tsk). Instead, I find her journ...

Cat and Dog and the Mixed-up Week! (January 28, 2004)

Whee, I got a package today! It was just some stuff I'd ordered on Amazon, but still...So I got some CD-R's (boring, but necessary for storing all the college notes I've been scanning like a crazy wo...

Gross but Delicious (January 11, 2004)

I was reading this article today, and boy, some of that gourmet food doesn't sound so tasty. Specifically "toro (fatty tuna belly) spooned and scraped into a mixture with cod sperm and onions. The r...

What an Animal! (January 4, 2004)

I just finished going through pictures I took on vacation, and none of the pictures of my family turned out (they were all too dark). But here's one of Mister licking raw turkey drippings out of the ...

Food, Glorious Food! (December 30, 2003)

Patrick and I just made a tasty dinner. It's good having him around, because we actually got everything finished at about the same time, which is much easier with two people working than one. Bake...

Rainy Day (December 29, 2003)

Today's a rainy day. We went out this morning to LensCrafters so Patrick could get a new contact lens prescription (I'm a good nagger), but we've stayed in other than that. I just made hard-boiled e...

But What Happens Next? (December 27, 2003)

My mom and I finished watching season 2 of Sex and the City last night, and she hadn't rented seasons 3 or 4, so I'm left high and dry, waiting to find out what happens. I've gotten sucked in! Maybe...

Rock Shrimp Bisque (December 26, 2003)

So this afternoon, my mom and I went out to lunch at Nokhu (the first time I went, it was with my dad, Vicki, and Lianna, so my mom had never been). In addition to mother-daughter bonding, I was hopi...

Christmas (December 25, 2003)

We had a good Christmas morning this year. We started out with our traditional breakfast (coffee cake, grapefruit, sausages, orange juice, and a recent addition--eggs). Afterwards, we (my sister and...

Sex and the City + Gardening (December 24, 2003)

My mom and I started watching Season 1 of Sex and the City last night (she'd seen them all before, while I'd never seen any). I'm enjoying it so far; Carrie's hairstyles seem almost attainable by peo...

Mmm, Nokhu (December 23, 2003)

I'm too lazy to write about my day again, so I'll just include an excerpt from my email to Patrick. For most of the day, I just sat around knitting, so the only interesting thing to tell about is din...

Christmas Next Year (December 15, 2003)

Know what's exciting? Next year at this time, Patrick and I will hopefully have our very first Christmas tree together. Patrick's grandma made him and his siblings their own starter boxes of ornamen...

Thanksgiving Recap (November 29, 2003)

Well, I'm back in stupid, cold Boston (tickets for a Sunday return were way too expensive, what with it being Thanksgiving weekend). Here's what happened after I wrote last: Thursday: We headed o...

Dinner and a Movie on American Airlines (November 27, 2003)

I'm in California! My flight last night went pretty well, despite being over 6 hours long. The in-flight movie was Legally Blonde II, which I was secretly hoping for (everybody around me groaned whe...

Pictures (November 12, 2003)

Patrick posted his pictures from the past few months, so I have a few new ones up now too (good thing he lets me put his pictures on my website!). There are a few older pictures of us in the Caitlin ...

Brussels Sprouts (November 12, 2003)

I was looking through the Thanksgiving issue of Cooking Light while at my mom's house, and they had a bunch of good-looking recipes, including one for roasted brussels sprouts with ham. Of course, it...

Colorado Visit (November 11, 2003)

I had a very nice visit home to Colorado, although I wish it could've been longer. Friday: Patrick and I both arrived at DIA around 7 pm, and my mom and little sister Lianna picked us up a little ...

Zellie Bear Knits (November 4, 2003)

So my mom, who is awesome, has been knitting since before I was born. And now you can buy handknit baby sweaters from her, online. Click the picture to visit Zellie Bear handknit baby sweaters. ...

Tree and Andrew's Wedding, Part 1 (August 19, 2003)

Okay, here we go (and might I just add, I had a wonderful time on this trip, despite how busy we were): Tuesday: My flight got into San Francisco around 8pm. Patrick picked me up, and then we wen...

Pittsburgh Adventures (August 4, 2003)

I'm back! We had a great weekend. Luckily, I get to spend almost a week with Patrick starting next Tuesday (we're taking a few extra days of vacation in California before Tree and Andrew's wedding)....

Pittsburgh Adventures (July 21, 2003)

I had a wonderful weekend. It's too bad that every time I visit Patrick, I end up hating MIT for a few days, before I get back into my routine. Why am I here? I don't enjoy anything I'm doing; at m...

Undie Head! (July 2, 2003)

I got the best surprise in the mail today! My Auntie Nance sent me this picture, matted and framed (but the one she sent me is better quality): That's one of my favorite pictures of little Cai...

Bikes (June 18, 2003)

Shylo's entry makes me want a bike. But I wouldn't want to ride it here in the city--it's dangerous enough being a pedestrian! I didn't tell you, but when I went to the bike store with Patrick, I ch...

Homemade Pie Crust (June 15, 2003)

I just made my very own pie crust! I think I've done that once or twice before, but normally I just use the Pillsbury crusts. See, I felt like making a pie today, but I'm also making one Thursday t...

Bay Area Adventures (June 10, 2003)

Hoo boy, it's late! But I'm not that tired (last night, I could hardly keep my eyes open after 9 or so). Let's see, this morning, we went and had bagels for breakfast at Noah's Bagels in downtown Pa...

Arrived in California (June 9, 2003)

Well, I got to Palo Alto safe and sound yesterday night. I had to wait around the airport for a while because Patrick was driving back up from Southern California (he was helping his sister move). T...

Tree's Bridal Shower (May 5, 2003)

Oh boy! Pictures! First, we have pictures of the present I gave Tree. I can tell you what it was, now that she's gotten it. Okay, so I made her a beaded purse out of this pretty pink silk. I ma...

Ring Pictures (March 7, 2003)

More ring pictures--the scanner definitely worked better than my camera. Click each pictures to see a bigger version, if you're interested. I was looking at old journal entries...

Family Heirloom (March 6, 2003)

Ooh, sparkly! I'm not one for fancy jewelry, but this ring is special to me. It's my great-grandmother's (on my dad's side) wedding ring, and I remember seeing ...

Back Home (December 29, 2002)

I'm back in Cambridge, safe and sound. My flight got in after the T stopped running last night, so I took a cab home. I hate to take cabs because they're so expensive, but it sure was nice not to ha...

Cohousing Dinner (December 27, 2002)

I just got back from a community dinner. For those of you not in the know, my mom and stepdad live in a cohousing community. Every Friday, a few people volunteer to cook/clean, and others who want d...

Christmas (December 25, 2002)

Merry Christmas! I had a very nice Christmas. My dad and Vicki came over (I'm staying with my mom and Alan, but Dad and Vicki live only 15 minutes away), and we all had our traditional Christmas bru...

Mutant Healing Factor (December 19, 2002)

I'm still having a good time with Patrick, mostly watching TV. We agree that he must have mutant healing powers, since he recovered really quickly from his wisdom teeth surgery. I mean, he's still o...

Back from California (December 1, 2002)

I'm back in Boston. It's cold, and I miss Patrick. But my visit was great, as usual. Thanksgiving dinner was very good (his dad ordered most of it from Draegers, and it was really good, especially ...

Auntie Nance Brownies (September 8, 2002)

I'm having a very relaxed weekend. I haven't left my room much, which is fine with me. I hope people don't think I'm depressed or something; I just like having time to myself. I do miss Patrick tho...

Family Pictures (February 2, 2002)

I finally got all the family pictures up that I scanned over break. I had almost 100 total, but I only put a select few up since only people in my family would care to see that many family pictu...

Visit with Dad (January 9, 2002)

Only a short entry because Patrick's here and I have pie to make! Here are the pictures from my dad's house...I'll add some to my photo album when I get back to school (Jan. 20). Sorry if they take ...

NYE (January 1, 2002)

I wish I had pictures to put up, but I decided to leave my camera stuff at my mom's house so it wouldn't get lost. So no pictures...I'm sorry! I spent New Year's Eve alone (by choice, partially) w...

Failed Mittens (December 30, 2001)

Ocean's Eleven was fun. It had cool gadgets and lots of famous people. After the movie, we went to Johnny Carino's, a fake atmosphere Italian place. I ate too much, as usual. But at least I didn't...

A Christmas Story (December 25, 2001)

I'm happy. TNT was showing their 24 hours of a Christmas Story last night, so I got my fill. I love that movie. If I ever have a family of my own, we're going to watch a Christmas Story every Chris...

Pictures from Home (December 22, 2001)

Okay, here are some pictures from home. Expect pictures from Ethan's party tomorrow if all goes well. If you mouse over the picture, you'll get a description. ...

Arrived Safely (December 22, 2001)

So my bus trip was 2/3 nice, 1/3 painful. I got home to good old Fort Collins, CO, safely. I'm very happy I'll be taking the train back to CA instead of more bus. I'm too busy being lazy to take ...