nathan and audrey

My glider has arrived. Five years ago, I never would’ve anticipated getting so excited over a piece of furniture, especially one so demure as a glider, but apparently motherhood has affected more than my body. This chair—it’s heaven. Covered in chocolate brown chenille and loaded up with two huge pillows, it makes my aching back [...]

Well, I have been pretty much incognito for the past week due to my first attempt at submitting (it was just an attempt to submit for a chance to publish) a paper to a conference. The punchline to the story: I failed to complete the paper in time. It is extremely disappointing to work so [...]

Yesterday I was holding Garbanzo, feeling him kick inside mommy’s tommy, and I realized that in approximately two months he will be outside of mommy! It seemed so surreal. To think, “Wow! How did we get here? How did we get so blessed with this opportunity of  life?” I realized how hanging out with baby [...]

Have you ever made a commitment to do something you really want to do but can’t quite get over the hump with it? Examples of these activities include: exercising, practicing an instrument, learning new skills, school, or practically anything that requires a high level of intensity and sacrifice in order to achieve your goals. Quite [...]

As I’m the proud part-owner of an updating blog, it only seems right that I should occasionally contribute to it. I had determined to write about food and recipes for my share of the site’s content, but as I’m pregnant and weird combinations of food appeal to me and me alone (think peanut butter spread [...]

I have been thinking a lot about how to become more productive… how to kill this pervasive nature of procrastination… how to focus on a task and complete it when I desire. I have read so many blogs and papers describing techniques, and I’m still on the hunt for a good solution, but I have [...]

Well, I haven’t blogged in about four to five months, and would like to start things off again with a post about a new routine I am attempting to incorporate into my daily life.
I have a terrible time waking up when my alarm goes off in the morning. My wife can tell you of her rude awakening [...]

Okay so I just posted on the new move, now for the thing that has taken up most of my life for the past week and a half.
I wanted to write a little bit about my experiences in the first few weeks of grad school, and reflect on what I expected in coming here.
The first [...]

Hello All!
I know that I have yet to post in looooong time (specially in the blog world). I would like to start being more posty, and will start tonight.
An update on life…
We moved to Champaign-Urbana (always want to say Urbana-Champaign due to the whole UIUC thing) a little over a month ago. We were vigorously [...]

Lately, or rather for my whole life, I have been extremely spotty with getting up when I want to in the morning. I am so bad that my habits have caused and adaptation in my wife to the snooze lifestyle.With that said it has been increasingly frustrating not getting to work when I want to [...]