4am

Consistently… for the past few weeks Finn is waking us me up at 4 in the morning. Somehow Jon sleeps through it but I am wide awake as soon as the cat gets going meowing and scratching and jumping on furniture and pawing at my feet… sigh.  (the picture is him sleeping… during the day… [...]

being satisfied

So I am not doing too swell keeping up with this blog lately! Things have been quite busy as we’ve been getting ready for the baby and everything else that goes along with that. Jon has been studying hardcore for the GRE and I’ve been… being supportive!
I learned yet another lesson from Finn tonight… I [...]

chicken in the hand

We have a new strategy for keeping Finn off the counter while we eat…we pull a chair up to the corner of the table between us and set Finn in it. It works like a charm, he just lays down and hangs out while we eat.
Then there was tonight… We grilled chicken tonight and Jon [...]

a meowing morning

Jon was in the shower. I was curled up VERY comfortably, smack dab in the middle of the bed, half awake, half asleep and smiling as I felt the baby kicking. ahhhh, this was good. Then I hear it, a soft little “meow” behind me on the bed. “Aww,” I think, “Finn is going to [...]

lessons from the cat

As may be obvious from the header… we have a cat. His name is Finn. Now that we’re expecting a baby I keep hearing how much we’ll learn about ourselves once the baby is here.  A bit intimidating… considering I feel like I’m already learning a lot about myself from the cat!
Take this morning for example.  [...]