Die Buchwalds

I do not find it fun to mail miscellaneous paper to people I don’t know. I also find it very very hard to follow my husband’s logic as posted below. Taxes are NOT like children. But my husband is really cute.

In other news, the Souzeks have officially made the Big Move, which involved an awful lot of time in my home state, but no visit with the Buchwald family. *pouts* We’re glad to hear that they made it safely and have furniture.

Posted in Family,Housekeeping | By Amy at 7:29 pm | Comments(1)

The other night Amy and I were watching Seventh Heaven. No, I don’t know which night it was; Seventh Heaven is on like every night of the week. It’s everywhere. It’s so omnipresent that it’s on nine days a week! Okay so maybe not so much, but it’s there a lot. And we watch it. And we were watching it on that night during which our activities consisted of watching Seventh Heaven and doing other things. Which could be any night really. Hah hah hahaha! I just tricked you into a reading a whole freakin’ paragraph and all I basically said was, “Hey, I don’t remember what night that was exactly.” Sucker.

So during the show, there was dating stuff going on. There’s always dating stuff going on in that show, amongst whatever other moral lesson it happens to be bringing to you this fine evening in question. So, after said dating stuff occurred (does occurred have one r or two r’s? I can never quite decide), Amy emits these following words of impending doom: “See what we have to look forward to?”

I did what comes naturally: I used my male intellect to produce the best course of action that would prevent said impending doom and thus make her point invalid. I told her that our children simply weren’t going to date, because they were all going to be priests and nuns. I stood triumphant, beaming with pride at my quick thinking. That was until it was realised that we’d never have grandchildren at that rate, and grandchildren are good things. See, grandchildren are children with all the fun and none of the effort. It’s like you took something of mixed blessing, like taxes, and removed the bad parts. You get all the joy af mailing random pieces of paper to complete strangers without having to spend buttloads of money while doing so.

So this brings us to my point: taxes are like children. You heard it here first.

Posted in Babies,Catholicism,Family,Watching | By Matt at 4:55 pm | Comments(0)

Pansy has reappeared from a forced Internet sabatical.
She and partner-in-crime, Peony, hold down the fort at Two Sleepy Mommies, a marvelous blog about Catholic motherhood.

Posted in Housekeeping | By Amy at 10:02 pm | Comments(0)

The baby was born just two days before the wedding. She’s the first baby Matt recalls holding. She was also the first baby I’ve held while wearing wedding rings. It’s craziness. And she’s just too darn cute. We’re waiting impatiently for her parents to need a break & call in our offer to baby-sit.

We’re also waiting impatiently for hubby’s employment status to change so we can start talking about houses and a few babies of our own so we don’t have to borrow them from various friends and relatives.

Some day, Matt will post more. Seeing as I’m generally the more talkative one, I think I’ll probably babble here more, too.

*edited to add that I have a feeling we’ll be waiting a long time to get to baby-sit because I’m not sure how Maureen & Tony could ever need a break from all that cute-ness

Posted in Amy,Babies,Matt | By Amy at 11:19 pm | Comments(0)

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In other Buchwald Family News, Matt is still in bed. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, as I like to let dh sleep in on the weekend. But today we have places to be & people to see. We also have things to do before we can go anywhere or see anyone. A mere 4 hours from now we’re supposed to be an hour away for a family reunion. It takes a minimum of an hour for the two of us to get ready to go anywhere, and I still have to make food to take with us. I also wanted to finish going through the proofs from the wedding & get ready to place our order.

This being a grown-up married woman thing is hard… Actually having to take food to picnics! Imagine that! *pouts* Where’s my mommy? Oh yeah, she’s at her house, getting her OWN food ready to go to the picnic. My food will be far inferior to anything my mom has ever made, but at least I’m making an effort, right? I’ve kidnapped a recipe for taco dip from Carrie and I’m going to attempt to feed it to my relatives. I tried to feed it to Maureen & Tony’s relatives a few weeks ago… and they ate it… but I found out later that I made it wrong. So hopefully round two will go better (not that round one was bad, mind you) & the relatives will like it.

Tomorrow looks to be another go-to-church-then-sit-around-the-house kind of Sunday, which is A-OK by me, and I’m sure Grandpa Stock approves. I have a goal that I will not shop on Sundays now that I’m married, and last Sunday was the first Sunday I suceeded in my goal. All of the previous Sundays we just couldn’t sit still so we ended up at the store.

On Monday, we’re going to dinner with Matt’s dad to celebrate Matt’s birthday yet again. I think Matt wants to go to Applebee’s, Hopefully we’ll be able to get there early enough to enjoy Happy Hour. I haven’t had a good Long Island Iced Tea since the day before I got married (Thanks, Diddy!).

Wednesday is our final session of NFP. Not that I’m any sort of seasoned veteran or anything, but so far NFP is working out really well for Matt & I. I think I can safely speak for my hubby when I say that we strongly recommend learning it. *insert 30 second commercial* It’s really really inexpensive ($45 for the four session/3 month class which includes instructional material & a thermometer plus any cost for photocopying extra charts and something to write with), very time efficient (5 minutes a day, tops), and it’s educational. Plus, it’s something you have to work on together, so it builds communication. You can learn more from Couple to Couple League or your local Catholic Diocese. *end 30 second commercial*

Next weekend, Ginny & I have plans for a Princess’s Day Out. This means no boys. More on that later… time to wake the hubby!

Posted in Housekeeping | By Amy at 7:56 am | Comments(0)