Kelli Diane

A while back I confessed that I’m simply not cooperative enough to participate in a cooperative preschool. At least I have the self-awareness and the fucking balls to admit it; which is more than I can say for the two families that I have the greatest issues with.
With the year-end in sight, the class […]

With the increasing sunshine, I’ve been dying to get outside for some me time. Missing my morning runs along Puget Sound, watching the sun rise over the Space Needle. I’d give anything to hit up a 50-mile bike ride; and recently found myself drooling over a ride flyer, touting 8,000 feet of vertical […]

I was intrigued by Katie’s recent post and went digging for our last few water bills. Turns out that we have averaged about 90 gallons of water per day over the past several months, with a spike of about 125 gallons per day at one point. There was one month late last summer […]

At some point during pregnancy, sleep becomes nearly impossible. If I’m not waking up every few hours with an unbelievable need to pee, then I’m woken by jabs to my innards as little Erin makes herself more comfortable. The worst though began a few months ago, horrible pains in my hip from laying […]

At a time when Christopher and I are doing our best to trim expenses in preparation for the upcoming renovations, the idea of canceling our water delivery first crossed my mind a few months ago. A Santa Barbara native, I was raised on “real mountain spring” bottled water, delivered to our door every few […]

I’ve been on my own for a few days now, adjusting to the quite and barreling through “back-burner” work projects that have been collecting for some time now. Though I’ve got a relatively open schedule, I’m increasingly amazed at how easy it is to fill a day, and further impressed by how much I […]

Running around all day, my schedule has been eased considerably today without having to cart Dillon from place-to-place. I grabbed my computer on my way out of the house this morning, figuring that I’d rather not head home between meetings.
The only coffee shop within a couple blocks of the medical tower, I […]

There are two things we take for granted in Seattle; coffee and wireless Internet access.
I’ve had my computer parked on the dining room table the last couple of days, plowing through work at lightning speed without Dillon under-foot. Trying to take advantage of the silence comes at a steep price of boredom, however. […]

I remember vividly the day I found out my mother’s cancer was malignant. A warm September afternoon in Davis, the emotion as suffocating as the heat. Ever-pragmatic, my family marched forward into treatment, completely unsure of the road ahead. Twelve years later, she’s far out-lived the odds and we consider ourselves lucky; […]

With my brother scheduled to be in the Northern Hemisphere over the weekend, Dillon and I escaped to California to visit with family and take in some warmer temperatures. At nearly 33 weeks pregnant and in charge of a rather curious three-year-old, neither one of us were much help in moving my Grandmother on […]