We haven’t done this for a month or so, but there hasn’t been much change in our coolness until the last two weekends, so let’s review those.FRIDAY
After a week of staying up too late, I crashed around 8:30 PM. CM was on the computer. I woke up around 10, but didn’t accomplish anything. Crashed for good around midnight.
Basically went to bed AT 8:00?? On a Friday night?! Not very cool, dad. [-10 cool points]
SATURDAY
After spending most of the day at home, we drove around town to run some …

Another review of our weekend to assess our coolness. I think I’m tired of the Metathes… (i don’t even feel like typing it out) joke. This will be renamed shortly.
FRIDAYA Cool Uncle came over to play Mario Kart on the Wii. CM & I watched Juno.
A hip new game, a hip flick. Hip hop hooray for +5 cool points.
SATURDAYIn the morning, we went to garage sales and bought things like a vegetable steamer, a closet organizer, and a baby gate. Then went to the mall and scored $20 …

I’m back! Since I last wrote, I have planned or attended about 5 parties. Okay, most of them were actually baby showers, which totally does not count as a party. But there was 1 party…brunch can be a party, right?
Here are some recent high points and low points to assess my current status:
1. The Scene: one of those fancy schmancy little grocery stores that has more flowers and overpriced produce than actual useful groceries. Classical music plays in the background.
Me: wearing Cool Baby in …

Our first review of a weekend to assess our current coolness.
FRIDAYCool Dad rushed home to do some website work for a side project. Did that for a few hours, even foregoing a normal dinner with the family. We struggled getting the boy to sleep and then discussed techniques to help him sleep better.Pretty lame for a Friday night. [-15 cool points]
SATURDAYCM went to a party with friends. CD took the boy out on the town, drawing adoring glances (at the boy) from ladies and curious “huh, that’s like …

Cool Mum has gone through and tallied most of our cool points so far. I updated the score as you can see to the left. Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would even break 50!
You all are too good to us. I’m sure we’ll reveal some things that will bring us back down to earth, but for now we’re going to bask in our sweetness.
And there are still points left to count. We may be rockstars by the time this is done.
(photo: Duncan …

1994: High school friends introduced me to the 80’s stuff and we went to a U2 laser light show (hehe).
2001: Heard “Beautiful Day” on the radio after a few years of Christian-music-only diet. Got the CD immediately. Quietly became a fanatic.
2002: Got married (unfortunately I did not walk/run down the aisle to “Streets”…what a missed opportunity) and started analyzing lyrics, listening to interviews, and convincing my husband of Bono’s awesomeness (”he’s telling people to read the Bible!”). By pure coincidence, forced to go on a week long trip …

I’m a prideful dork. Quick evidence:
I’ve never dry cleaned anything before. After many wearings, I finally took in my one nice pair of pants. I checked the pockets before handing them over to the nice lady. One back pocket: a piece of paper.
I made witty banter about how I didn’t want to leave anything in the pockets, like money. Then I reached in the other back pocket and pulled out a €5 bill (ooo… look at me with the euro symbol). Apparently, I last wore …

The boy has a new toy that he absolutely loves. He much prefers his new toy over other ones like
his colorful crab that rattles and squeaks
his Infantino frog that crinkles and has a mirror
his red Baby Einstein block that rattles and has pictures and foreign words on it
Plus, the new toy is lead-free, American-produced, and good for the environment being organically made from abundant natural resources!
With all that going for it, I can see why he just can’t get enough of the insect carcasses in the track of our …

I just posted, but there are a couple of more things I had to share.

Matt served us 2 cool points for pointing out the righteousness of baking.
I just walked by Cool Mum and I caught the title of the Firefox tab she was reading: Child Spacing. AGAIN?
Little Man is cranking out some product and it’s loud. And he keeps on going. I’m afraid.

Back to our regularly scheduled Saturday.

The Christmas trip is in our rearview mirror. Some notes:

On our first leg, CM and I started talking about blogs and things we can post about. She then commented that we’re exhibiting the defining symptom of computer nerdness: talking about the computer when you’re not on the computer. [-20 cool points]
We knew this already, but it was fun to see it in action: God uses the little guy to bring joy and love to our families. They had a lot of fun with him. We pray …