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Connecting the Dots

Lily Dresses Wyatt and Takes Him Out

By KJ / Monday, April 21, 2008

Lily Dresses Wyatt and Takes Him Out Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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A very confused caterpillar

By KJ / Friday, April 18, 2008

A very confused caterpillar Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Not at Starbucks, But Not Lost, Either

By KJ / Friday, April 18, 2008

Not at Starbucks, But Not Lost, Either Originally uploaded by kjda. Where in the world is KJ? The Mad Hatter Cafe, Durham, NC. Rob very carefully showed me how to get here last night, but…let’s just sat its A good thing the iPhone has a little button you can push to figure out where you are, or I would be in Georgia by now.

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Just like Lily

By KJ / Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Just like Lily Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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The end of a perfect party

By KJ / Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The end of a perfect party Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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There.

By KJ / Tuesday, April 15, 2008

There. Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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She went all the way across

By KJ / Tuesday, April 15, 2008

She went all the way across Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Wyatt at the princess party

By KJ / Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Wyatt at the princess party Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Sam: the world’s best sport

By KJ / Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sam: the world’s best sport Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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A meal I can’t get in Hanover

By KJ / Saturday, April 12, 2008

A meal I can’t get in Hanover Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Off to NYC, Masquerading as DINKS

By KJ / Thursday, April 10, 2008

That would be double income, no kids. A double masquerade, since my income wouldn’t really qualify by New York standards. But part of the goal of the trip is to change hat–I have multiple meetings with editors happening, including a few I’m really excited about. Wondertime,in particular, is my new goal. THey’ve been edging towards edgy for a long time now. I love the way they let the writers’ voices shine through (not that I’ve felt stifled anywhere else, but […]

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Spring in New England

By KJ / Monday, April 7, 2008

Spring in New England Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia Look! Sand buckets! Bike helmet! We are ready, anyway.

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Lazy Ass Me

By KJ / Wednesday, April 2, 2008

This week I have been VASTLY better at dicking around on the ‘net than, say, actually writing anything. I will have meetings, or probably at the very least one meeting, with editors next week. Agents for absolutely certain. The book should be shiny and ready to stick in a box, the freelance ideas gloriously new…but I am googling a former writer from Rollerderby. Oh, yeah, I’m ready for prime time.

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Happy Spring! (That’s Sarcasm)

By KJ / Friday, March 28, 2008

Can I just say that I hope this is our annual spring snowstorm…although I’m a little concerned, because in other years that’s been in April. I am so not used to being a New Englander. I think April, I think grass and crocuses. Oh well. Blew it on the thirty minutes today. Had it all blocked out in the calendar–it was supposed to happen at the library while we waited for Lily at a birthday party in town (Holly was […]

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This is going to end badly

By KJ / Wednesday, March 26, 2008

This is going to end badly Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Note what he has done to the cone.

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An Easter Tragedy

By KJ / Sunday, March 23, 2008

An Easter Tragedy Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia It’s hard to see–look at the next picture below–but Lily’s chocolate Easter bunny was left in a stream of spring sunshine and imploded. It’s face melted clear away. And it’s still only 19 degrees here. Farenheit, in case you had any doubt. Her suggestion was to write the Easter bunny a letter and ask him not to leave it in the sun next year, although the bunny really can’t be blamed, […]

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An easter tragedy

By KJ / Sunday, March 23, 2008

An easter tragedy Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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A Spring Song (By Sam)

By KJ / Thursday, March 20, 2008

Spring is here Spring is here The ice is off the river The snow is kind of deep The mud is on the driveway And also on the land And that is spring in New England Spring is different here

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I Have SKILLS! (OK, one skill)

By KJ / Monday, March 17, 2008

Ok, so recently I was having, yanno, a bad day. One of THOSE days. And during the course of it, the dog swallowed a candy necklace, which I thought little of, being awfully busy yelling at small people and tripping over small people and muttering unkind things under my breath about the small people and all, plus the dishwasher and the laundry and lunch, oh, lunch, can’t I have chocolate milk with my lunch? And after a bit I noticed […]

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Wyatt is Two!

By KJ / Sunday, March 16, 2008

Today is his official birthday, which we marked with a cake from Lou’s, balloons and a few presents–what Lily called “the family party, because nobody else is coming.” He’s a delight, a fabulous kid. In fact, I’m enjoying them all even more than ever, maybe because with the end of skiing season I’ve been able to return to working more, maybe because they’re getting bigger…who knows why, but things are good! And spring is near. Outside play, days without boots, […]

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Post-Haircut treats

By KJ / Thursday, March 13, 2008

Post-Haircut treats Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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A Late Winter Walk

By KJ / Wednesday, March 12, 2008

A Late Winter Walk Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Mmm…chocolate snack mix

By KJ / Tuesday, March 11, 2008

My newest recipe, meant to save me big bucks on Rex’s Road Crew Crunch, deeply delicious, stocked by our Co-op but, in my opinion, too chock full of peanuts, which I don’t like and end up throwing away: Ingredients 10 cups anything in the pantry that would taste good covered in chocolate 13 1/2 ounces dark chocolate, chopped and then melted in the microwave (remember you have to stir it, it won’t lose it’s shape when it melts! Sea salt […]

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Little girls and ice cream

By KJ / Monday, March 10, 2008

Little girls and ice cream Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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More on Why Wyatt is Brilliant

By KJ / Saturday, March 8, 2008

Today he hugged Sam, turned to me and said “Sam is taller than me.” Rob has all three kids at the grocery store. He’s known for this: everyone at the Co-op and in fact everyone in town gives him big props for his willingness to do something most parents (let alone dads) will not. He just straps them all into a giant cart and ignores them, if you believe what he says. And I do notice that they don’t give […]

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Why I Can’t Read

By KJ / Saturday, March 8, 2008

Actually I have no idea why I can’t read. What I do know is that I get those codes on blogs and groups–the ones that prove you’re human–wrong about half the time. Which would make me half human.

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Are We There Yet?

By KJ / Friday, March 7, 2008

Wyatt asked me that 27 times on the way home from dinner tonight, and that’s just after I started COUNTING. And he’s still not two. We are really in for it. More rain, sleet…just when I was thinking we’re close to spring, it won’t be that cold and there’s all this amazing snow. Planning skiing, cross country, finally figuring out a way to put a top on that igloo… Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about […]

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Just sayin’

By KJ / Tuesday, March 4, 2008

It is sleeting something awful, with a little rain thrown in. The driveway is a sheet of ice. I am so glad I don’t have to go outside barefoot to pee. I just let the dog out, did you guess? Oh–and I am SO GLAD that tomorrow I will have my fancy new gas-guzzlin’ SUV that will actually get back up this driveway. Is it a hybrid, you may ask? Nope–because the foolish folks that make the hybrid don’t make […]

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In Praise of Wyatt (Why not?)

By KJ / Monday, March 3, 2008

OK, Wyatt is exceptional. And in the interest of bringing everyone around to my way of thinking, let me just share some of the cute and brilliant things he’s said in the past couple of days–two weeks shy of his second birthday (because there’s nothing more fascinating than stories about the cute things my kid said, is there?) He and Lily were playing Hide and Seek. He found her, and there was much giggling, and he said “I thought you […]

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Bring on Vogue

By KJ / Saturday, March 1, 2008

This is what I’ve done today: 5:00 Get up to let dog out 5:05 Get Wyatt. 5-7: Sort of sleep, sort of not, while everyone mills in and out of bed. Aquire impressive collection of stuffed animals. 7-7:30 With Rob, get self and kids ready to go out the door. Pack for Sam’s sleepover. 7:50: Drive to town to deliver Sam to fll day Boston trip plus sleepover. (I miss him!) 8:15: Breakfast at Lou’s. Take Lily to bathroom. Let […]

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Something in the Nature of a Miracle

By KJ / Wednesday, February 27, 2008

No, not the fact that I am posting actual text blog entries twice in one day. Rob is out of town. This is night two of my three day solo. I had no babysitting today–which is to say, I had five hours of babysitting in order to allow me to ski with Lily and then sit with her in the ski lodge and wait for Sam. I had no free time today, how’s that. But we got through dinner and […]

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A New Kind of Bad Influence

By KJ / Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Lily had a ski lesson today, and while she was on the mountain with her instructor she ran into a friend. Apparently (according to the instructor) she had been beautifully following along until she saw…J. Who was going fast. And making no turns. And generally having a lovely time. And that was the end of nice cooperative Lily. Oh well. I had to get an earful about parents who let their little kids zip down the mountain, in the fall […]

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Breakfast at lou’s

By KJ / Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Breakfast at lou’s Originally uploaded by kjda. This was our reward for a morning of shoveling snow. School was delayed…but they were late anyway!

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The cross country ski “polar bears”

By KJ / Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The cross country ski "polar bears" Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily in the snow

By KJ / Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lily in the snow Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Wyatt in the snow

By KJ / Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Wyatt in the snow Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Who Said I Didn’t Want to Raise a Quitter?

By KJ / Sunday, February 24, 2008

This weekend’s highlight: a visit from one of my oldest school friends and her family (featuring “Boston Joey”, so-called to distinguish him from one of their best friends and sometimes even directly addressed as such). Boston Joey has done some skiing; his five-year-old sister “Roofie” has not. So as my friend took a year off the limited life span of her lower back by taking Roofie up the J-bar and Lily decided she wanted to hit the chair lift, I […]

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Lily is the baby and Wyatt is the mom!

By KJ / Monday, February 11, 2008

Lily is the baby and Wyatt is the mom! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily’s first gallery show

By KJ / Monday, January 28, 2008

Lily’s first gallery show Originally uploaded by kjda. At the library. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily on the lift

By KJ / Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lily on the lift Originally uploaded by kjda. Lily rode the j bar all by herself All day ( and didn’t want to stop!) KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Buy Nothing Month(s)

By KJ / Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I am not buying anything in January and February except books, food and toilet paper (which really represents the entire category of non-food essentials from toothpaste on but is limited to disposable items one actually does run out of and need. Therefore, lip gloss–which I am unlikely to run out of for several years–would be a no.) Rob’s response was a mystified “Why?” Somebody else asked me to expand on the rules, and when I say “I”, does that include […]

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I Just Grasped the Caucus System (and I don’t like it)

By KJ / Thursday, January 3, 2008

I am having a moment of sudden understanding–and thus sudden anger–about the Iowa caucus. How can this be the way we want things done? Here’s my problem with the caucus system: What if everyone in Iowa wanted to participate? I know, that’s crazy, but let’s just say they did. Not possible. What if you’re on dialysis? How many 17-year-old babysitters are there to go around? Who will man the 911 system, the emergency room, the quickie mart. What if you’re […]

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Happy New Year!

By KJ / Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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At the Detroit airport

By KJ / Thursday, December 27, 2007

At the Detroit airport Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’AntoniaI just want to say that Lily has a matching sweater too, but she took it off because she got hot. (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Lily eats ice cream

By KJ / Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Lily eats ice cream Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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On the T

By KJ / Friday, December 14, 2007

On the T Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Sam in NYC

By KJ / Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Sam in NYC Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ Dell’Antonia (Please attribute any drastic spelling and punctuation errors to my poor thumb-typing and creative autocorrect.)

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Putting my skates on…

By KJ / Sunday, December 2, 2007

Rob is out of town for half the week, so it’s pretty much a race with decent SAG stops for me. Get up! Get dressed! Get your coat on ! Get your boots on! Where’s your lunch? Why aren’t your boots on? Let’s go! [interval of school and babysitter and work] get in the car! We’ve got to go get someone else! Got to drop them off! Got to get home! Run! And this is just my inner monologue….

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Haircuts!

By KJ / Friday, November 30, 2007

Haircuts! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

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Now I am Dangerously Cheesy

By KJ / Friday, November 9, 2007

Now I am Dangerously Cheesy Originally uploaded by kjda. Comic created with Comic Life from plasq – http://plasq.com

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