Archive for December, 2008

Yoshi Egg Pinata

If you hadn’t gathered it from my other article, my kids LOVE Mario.  Ethan wants another Mario birthday party this year.. we may even do a combined birthday party for both kids since Mary’s birthday is in the summer (when friends are often on vacation.) (more…)

I started blogging with Nucleus six years ago, and saying goodbye to it to switch to WordPress has been harder than I’d anticipated. Granted, a lot of that could have something to do with the rather painful conversion process — and I definitely had my reasons for switching to WordPress or I wouldn’t have put myself through that.  But here are ten things I love about Nucleus, and why I’m now opting for WordPress anyway. (more…)

Mystery Blossom, final stage, also in September

Update: We figured out what this is called! And it’s bad news! But I still think it looks pretty neat.

Name that Plant! What wild flower (read: interesting weed) starts out as a curly vine, sports lantern-shape buds that blossom into nodding yellow flowers, opens up to expose long tendrils that look like some whimsical version of the snakes on medusa’s head, and ends as fluffy as a feather? You tell me! I’ve seen this plant while hiking, and it looks to me less like a wildflower from Utah than it looks like it could have come straight from Whoville. (more…)

Of all the random things for Mary to wish for, right?  I found out why when she was singing “Little Drummer Boy”

“Come, they told me. Wrap up a pom-pom!”

Wow, the process has been a bit more laborious than I figured it would be, considering it was somewhat difficult to import my nucleus items and keep their old Ids and comments intact, and then also converting the images to the WordPress format instead of the way Nucleus had them.  But I think we’re good! If you run into any bugs, please let me know, and meanwhile if you run across this post because you’re switching over, and you need help, drop me a note.