tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30777232009-08-28T09:56:43.423-04:00Kate's personal web site.Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00469712117076933386noreply@blogger.comBlogger692125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077723.post-60584746562167758222009-08-28T09:55:00.001-04:002009-08-28T09:56:43.434-04:00

This blog is kinda in hibernation but I had to post this newsflash (copied from Twitter).Alex & Andy have a new baby cousin, born last night! Welcome Lola Elizabeth Saxe, and congrats Matt & Aly!

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Well, you may have noticed that this site isn't updated much (ever) anymore. Haven't had the time, and whenever I think about posting something, I end up twittering it instead. The other problem is that I can't say what I want to say. The corporate policy of my employer is...uh...basically you can post pictures of your kid or dog, or talk about what you ate for dinner. But you can't write

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There's a story behind this but, natch, no time to write it out in proper fashion. So, for now I'll just say that I've signed myself up to be the administrator and webmaster of our Candler Park neighborhood organization's web site, candlerpark.org. It's kind of fun, and I end up finding out about all kinds of cool stuff going on in the neighborhood and surrounding areas. For instance: A week or

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Had a not-so-great day. But when I see this face, I'm happy. Really, really happy.

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Not sure what I think of this but I've caved to pressure and started twittering. You can find me here. Who knows, maybe this will be a passing fad. But it ain't easy posting to this blog, Twitter, and Facebook, all the while attempting to carry on with life. Can a girl catch a moment for a Calgon bath at some point? Reminds me I need to dig up / link to the article on HuffPo or Daily Beast or

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Tyrannical toddler + bowl of filthy water + stripey smock + tubes of non-toxic paint + Mom + beer for Mom + Rudolph reindeer apron for Mom = delightful afternoon activity

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This morning we joined Shannon and Rob, along with a gaggle of other volunteers, for an Atlanta Helps project at Nicholas House, a transitional housing shelter for homeless families. There was much gardening and landscaping to be done, and it was a great opportunity for Jay to break out his new cultivator -- always a crowd pleaser. Remember folks, if there's work to be done, particularly

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Got a new iPhone and lovely hubby is fixing my contacts. Jay is at his computer. I am at mine. Both under same roof. Exchange:jaysandhaus (10:44:20 PM): was that a yes on deleting bars & restaurants?k8sandhaus (10:44:29 PM): nok8sandhaus (10:44:38 PM): don't get crazyjaysandhaus (10:44:39 PM): please?k8sandhaus (10:44:41 PM): nojaysandhaus (10:44:47 PM): they don't belong in your address

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And note that there are three generations in this pic! Pops is standing behind me, and Andy's little hand and hat are peeking out too.

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Today is Andy's birthday. Hard to believe he's already a year old. Poor kid had the misfortune of being the second child, so unlike Alex who got a big bash of a party, Andy will just have a quiet celebration at home on Saturday. To mark the first anniversary of Andy's birth, I decided to post his birth story. I meant to post this, like, 11 1/2 months ago, but for some reason didn't do it. For

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Very much enjoying this bird identifier thingy on the Scott's Lawn Care web site. You enter your zip code and it shows you a page full of birds in your area, all with nice photos. Recently we hung up a bird feeder on our deck. Jay has aptly described it as a squirrel feeder. I posted a photo a while back of a squirrel dangling from the feeder while eating, and that happens all the time. Lately

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As captured with Jay's new iPhone, the new gadget that he'd have sex with if he could. I'm telling you, the man is flat-out madly in love with the thing.

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I started to write a post about politicians who cheat on their wives, and the fact that Republicans always fail to understand why it matters. It's not that Democrats are such saints; far from it. Of course Democrats cheat just like Republicans cheat. The difference is that Republicans (at least the conservative, dogmatic ones) are self-righteous and sanctimonious, and are always running around

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A few weeks ago, our good friends David and Butters came to Atlanta for a long weekend. It was lots of fun and we did all kinds of things that I can't remember now. One of the best things we did was a photo shoot in and around our house. David is an excellent photographer, like a real one. Not just like a real one, but an actual real one. In fact, he spent a good bit of time while here in Atlanta

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It happened again. I decided to do some surfing on etsy.com and in about three-tenths of one second, I found about seventy-five things I needed to buy. Let me rephrase. It's not that *I* need to buy anything. It's that my poor deprived children are lacking several critical items, and who am I to deprive them. I mean, aside from being their mother. But you know what I mean.Like, who knew that Alex

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Today after brunch we stopped by the Grant Park fire station. We had heard that the fire stations around town were doing open houses this weekend, and Alex is just a wee bit obsessed with fire trucks and fire stations. So we dropped by to touch the trucks, and the nice fireman let Alex sit and "drive" the big ladder truck. Quite a thrill. And when we lamented the fact that we forgot to bring our

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Update to the post below: the segment is online! Watch it here.

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If all goes as planned, I'll be on TV this Sunday morning at 6:30 am. It's a PBS show called Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, and the show focuses on Dr. Joseph Tate, the OB/GYN who delivered our eleven month-old baby, Andy. My mom is acquainted with the show producer, and they got to talking about show topics, at which point my mom told her all about Doc T. Then a bunch of us Doc T fans sent her

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Nothing much to report because a) there's no news and b) I'm about to keel over from exhaustion. I woke up at 4:30 am thinking about this and that, and then couldn't fall back asleep, so I decided I might as well be awake with coffee and the internet rather than bored to death in bed. So I got up and accomplished approximately sixty-seven things from 5:00 am to 7:45 am when the rest of the house

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Alex, age 2 1/2, looking sweet and innocentAnd Andy, age ten months, showing off them choppers

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This here is a garden. But it is not any old garden. It represents weeks (months?) of planning, strategizing, surveying, laser-leveling, scouting, reading, chopping, sawing, nailing, de-sodding, tilling, lugging, heaving, dumping, raking, digging, planting, mulching and watering. This pile of dirt is like Jay's third child, and most of his waking moments this weekend -- and for a long time

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