So, we are at Due Date +1.  Baby’s arrival is still pending.  With arrival imminent, we’ve set up a last-minute guessing pool…

Tomorrow marks the official “due” date for Baby Sandridge.  Today, we had our 40-week checkup with our obgyn, and all looks well as far as Baby’s and my health are concerned.  As I told the doctor, I feel great!  I just have a loving obstruction who consistently gets in the way of my being able to reach […]

I consider myself already a mother of two (in-utero children count!); however, it will be a different mother-of-two experience soon.  So far, no signs of impending arrival are present, but we are definitely in the “any day now” timeframe!  We are excited, and we are also feeling the growing pressure to be ready.  Unfortunately, there […]

One tough thing about being in Irvine has definitely been having our closest friends and family a 4+ hour plane flight away.  Yesterday, our family was kind enough to honor us with a baby sprinkle for Baby Sandridge!  Many gifts were shipped in advance to our apartment.  We are fortunate to live in the internet […]

On the first day of our “Baby Moon” we decided to explore Lego Land.  Only an hour away Lego Land is on the way to San Diego, which isn’t as far from us as you might think (closer than LA TBH).  As you might imagine, I was a little excited to check it all out, […]

It was a normal sort of day, and I had just picked Colin up from school early.  I thought it would be great to start off the long weekend a little early.  We had done all our normal stuff on the way out of school: a stop by the water fountain, dropping by a wall […]

We enjoyed a visit from family today!  We packed a lot of activity into the day, including a stop by Nick’s office, lunch at the Irvine Spectrum Center, and checking out Laguna Beach.  So far, Laguna has our favorite beaches.  Though, in full disclosure, we have only scratched the surface as far as visits to […]

Weekend-before-last, we managed to squeeze in a mini vacation to LA!  No time to write out a decent post, but here’s a listing of the highlights: taking the “scenic route” to LA, passing by Burbank and going through the mountains and hills, including Mulholland Drive stroll through Palisades Park to the Santa Monica Pier (the end […]

There are definite tradeoffs.  Overall, after teleworking for about 3 months, I think I like it.  I can foresee myself getting tired of it eventually, but for now, I like it. It’s actually surprising to me how much really has been able to stay the same for me at work.  I work on pretty much […]

This weekend has mostly been a “staycation” for the Sandridge family.  On Friday, Colin’s main teacher, Mrs. A, met with us for the official “potty conference.”  Colin was ready.  Were we?  We decided to take the risk.  We cleared our weekend schedule for the big kickoff, and with deep breaths and a lot of courage, […]