Daniella took her first tentative steps today without holding on to anything. She's been cruising the furniture, and climbing for a while and even took a few steps holding onto a wagon a few weeks ago but today she was all "look mama no hands!" and took a couple of steps to Grandma and then about 5 steps to me later in the day. I remember being so excited when Elise did it and thought it wouldn't hold the same excitement the second time around but it does...oh it does! Way to...

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We found some upsides to my uncertain income situation:

1. more family time; always a good thing
2. forced budgeting; we have seriously curtailed our spending and I am looking into PearBudget to create a realistic budget and keep track of our spending. We feel that once we get a handle on this, when I am gainfully employed again, we will be in great shape!
3. the realization that Christine wants to start working again; she is starting up her fitness business!

And apropos of nothing, I put up...

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No meaningful (ha, as if they were ever meaningful!) updates in a long time. I suck. Saying I have no time is a lousy excuse...there's always time for something you want to do. More likely is that my life has nothing exciting going on right now...still unemployed..still have two wonderful children and one wonderful wife...still doing this contract...great money, so that helps...still looking for cool work...still rambling...

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Today we put a T-shirt on Elise and said, "That's a pretty T-shirt, Elise". She said, "That's not a t-shirt, there's no letters on it!"

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