Hello! It’s been a long time. I really miss blogging, so I’m making a real effort to get back into it.

A lot’s happened in the last 18 months. Jesse graduated from his PhD program! We moved to California! Keira turned 2! We cooked lots of delicious food and created new recipes! I continued to struggle with health issues! (Okay, that last one’s not so fun.) Let me share the highlights with you.

Leaving Colorado for California

The day we left Colorado

In October of 2014, Jesse finally finished up his 6 year PhD program and we moved from Boulder, Colorado to San Jose, California.…

Hello! It has been such a long time since I have been able to blog, but never fear, we are all still alive here. Keira turned three months old last week, and for the most part it feels like we may be falling into some sort of routine that isn’t just all-baby-all-the-time, particularly since she’s now generally amenable to me doing things like eating/showering/laundry/dishes when she’s awake as long as she can see/hear me. So theoretically I may get to start spending her (five tiny) naps doing something other than eating/shower/laundry/dishes. 🙂

(Of course, now that I’ve written that I’m sure we’ll once again be hit by a week of extremely fussy, non-napping baby, which seems to happen every time I start to feel like things are going well.)

(Side note: As I wrote the above, Keira decided to turn what is normally a 40 minute nap into a 20 minute nap.…