Might be time to get a new phone service...
"The end may very well be in sight for Vonage, because the judgment represents at least 25 percent of its total value," said Stan Schatt, vice president for broadband and wireless networks at ABI Research. "I think the handwriting is on the wall."
Read more here.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
On and on...
Continuing on our Mickey Mouse obsession, I have at long last secured a costume from eBay. Because there's nothing like paying a premium for someone else's hand-me-down crap.
Perspective...
"Mom, look! I'm big and big and bigger! That means I can go to Disney World!!!"
-Josh apparently grew during his nap last week and seems to think he is now big enough to go see the Mouse.
-Josh apparently grew during his nap last week and seems to think he is now big enough to go see the Mouse.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Welcome, Josie!
Josephine Lyn Grishkevich
6 lbs 7 ounces
20.5 inches long
22 September 2007
3:58 pm
Congratulations, Paul & Nicol!
6 lbs 7 ounces
20.5 inches long
22 September 2007
3:58 pm
Congratulations, Paul & Nicol!
Monday, September 17, 2007
Car seat recall
Doral Juvenile Group announced a recall involving Alpha Omega, Cosco, and Eddie Bauer car seats. I am mentioning this one specifically because it affects BOTH of our car seats, and I know my sister & some friends also have the same one.
Recall details are here.
I'll blog more soon - I know I disappeared. It was a crazy, crazy week. We had a sewer pipe break and spent the week in a hotel, Josh started fall swim lessons and nursery school, and I was at a church conference for 3 days. Craziness.
Recall details are here.
I'll blog more soon - I know I disappeared. It was a crazy, crazy week. We had a sewer pipe break and spent the week in a hotel, Josh started fall swim lessons and nursery school, and I was at a church conference for 3 days. Craziness.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
How Toxic Is Your Carseat?
I could quickly slip into paranoia...here's more to chew on. Michigan-based Ecology Center reviewed 60 carseats sold at Babies R Us and Target and published a study of the chemical exposure resulting from use.
Interestingly, note that the 2 most expensive infant seats are on their "Worst" list.
Interestingly, note that the 2 most expensive infant seats are on their "Worst" list.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Oh, for crying out loud!
Three new lead paint related recalls at Mattel. Read more here.
***Update - I found out that you can sign up for email notification of any new recalls. Go here to register - you can limit your notification to infant/child products. That eases my mind a little...I guess.***
***Update - I found out that you can sign up for email notification of any new recalls. Go here to register - you can limit your notification to infant/child products. That eases my mind a little...I guess.***
Justice, Joy & Psalms
So yesterday, I breezily asked my sister about her sister-in-law, who is pregnant with her second child. I said "So how's Lindsay? Does she know what she's having?" and my sister replied that it was a girl. Casual, breezy, and the conversation moved on...
Until midnight, when I started crying and could not for the life of me get it back under control. I was totally overcome with anger - not at Lindsay, but more at what she represents...what I should have been. I was supposed to be having a girl in December, just a couple of weeks before Lindsay. I just have these moments where I am so totally pissed off about what happened, and the fact that it happened to ME, and how totally unfair it all is.
I was talking to a good friend about her miscarriage many years ago. She told me that a friend of hers was pregnant at the same time, and that for years, when she looked at the friend's little girl, she felt a pang of what might have been. I can so relate to that...I know a couple of people due within a couple of weeks of me, and even dumb Nicole Ritchie. I look at them and think about what might have been, where I might be, where the baby would be...I just want what I lost, and I'm grieving.
Several people recommended reading Psalms. I was just looking back at what I've read, and I have consistently underlined David's down moments - the "help me, why have you abandoned me?" verses where he cries out to God.
Psalm 40:1 from the Message translation: I waiting and waited and waited for God. At last he looked, finally he listened.
It's hard for me to reconcile what happened in the context of faith. I really, truly believe that God is completely good in the midst of everything bad that happened to us. And I really truly believe that God loves us. I am trying to just hang onto that, despite the "why?" that constantly nags me...but I am continuing to ask God "why?" at the same time.
He gets angry once in a while, but across a lifetime there is only love. The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter. (Also Message, Psalm 30:5)
So that's what I'm hanging onto...days of laughter, here I come.
Until midnight, when I started crying and could not for the life of me get it back under control. I was totally overcome with anger - not at Lindsay, but more at what she represents...what I should have been. I was supposed to be having a girl in December, just a couple of weeks before Lindsay. I just have these moments where I am so totally pissed off about what happened, and the fact that it happened to ME, and how totally unfair it all is.
I was talking to a good friend about her miscarriage many years ago. She told me that a friend of hers was pregnant at the same time, and that for years, when she looked at the friend's little girl, she felt a pang of what might have been. I can so relate to that...I know a couple of people due within a couple of weeks of me, and even dumb Nicole Ritchie. I look at them and think about what might have been, where I might be, where the baby would be...I just want what I lost, and I'm grieving.
Several people recommended reading Psalms. I was just looking back at what I've read, and I have consistently underlined David's down moments - the "help me, why have you abandoned me?" verses where he cries out to God.
Psalm 40:1 from the Message translation: I waiting and waited and waited for God. At last he looked, finally he listened.
It's hard for me to reconcile what happened in the context of faith. I really, truly believe that God is completely good in the midst of everything bad that happened to us. And I really truly believe that God loves us. I am trying to just hang onto that, despite the "why?" that constantly nags me...but I am continuing to ask God "why?" at the same time.
He gets angry once in a while, but across a lifetime there is only love. The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter. (Also Message, Psalm 30:5)
So that's what I'm hanging onto...days of laughter, here I come.
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