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Testing

Deb Ellsworth — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:27:02 +0000

To see how strange Matt can be.

Of Eco-Crimes and Modest Clothing

Matt Ellsworth — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:12 +0000

A couple of articles worth reading, methinks. One makes me laugh and one makes me happy.

Laugh: Large Families… (I’m all for being green, but c’mon!)

Happy: Mom “Shocked”… (And dad of baby girl relieved.)

For Posterity (Howdja Hurtcha?)

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:02:15 +0000

My dad had a saying he used to dazzle us with whenever we’d “fall down and go boom” or some other similar childhood mishap. He’d say it to us in a surprisingly rapid-fire way that was designed to distract as much as find out what happened. Turns out he got it from his father, my grandpa John V. Ellsworth. I’ll forever associate with my own poppa, but good to know where it came from… In any event:

How’d ya hurt ya, | cut ya, burn ya, | scratch ya, dig ya, bite ya?

Lots of “dja” and “tcha” sounds end up getting mixed in there which always made it a pleasure to hear.

Dr. Horrible

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:49:24 +0000

In case you haven’t already heard about this somewhere else, be sure and check it out quickly as it goes away the 20th. There is an FAQ to explain what it is if you are interested.

Dr. Horrible

Gotta love NPH and the guy from Firefly!!

***EDIT - Thanks to Suzanne for pointing out this sing-a-long!***

iPhone 3G Straight Talk

Matt Ellsworth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:45:12 +0000

This and that and some pictures…

Deb Ellsworth — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:28:33 +0000

This: I had a thought last night. When Colin was first learning to talk he called all berries boobahdees. Eventually he only associated that term with blueberries and finally he used the term boobahdee fuffin quite frequently. It was definitely the cutest thing he said consistently during the earlier stages of talking. I love it so much that I often use it as an endearment for both him and Hannah. So, I’m curious, would I be a bad mom if I specifically taught Hannah to say this instead of blueberry muffin when she first starts learning? I guess she will come out with something adorable of her own.

That: Matt will kill me, but I had to tell this story. He was sitting in the oversized chair with his feet up and Hannah sort of beneath him asleep on the bouncy. He farted, quite loudly, and startled the crap out of Hannah. So bad I don’t think she would have gotten back to sleep even if I hadn’t taken her to get her diaper changed and get ready for actual bed time. It was REALLY funny, poor girl being awoken by her daddy’s gas.

Finally, some pictures. The kiddos helped me cook lasagna last night. It was tasty even with the veggies I put in. I do recommend adding a layer of butternut squash to your next lasagna.

What’s in a name?

Deb Ellsworth — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:59:49 +0000

So I feel from my experience that in general people tend to like the same name. If two people like the name Fred, then if one suggests another name they like than the other person will most times like it as well.

Here are my examples, funny how they are all Ellsworth related, I guess because the Ellsworth names are pretty classic/popular, so maybe that is more what’s going on…

1. Older son was Zachary (sp?), younger son was Jake.
2. Older son was Matthew, younger son was Zachary.

Ok, so it isn’t a lot of examples, but kind of an interesting coincidence.

We met Matthew (2.5) and Zach (5 months) at the park today for a Pig Pen play group. This was a group of moms getting their under 3 sons together to play and get dirty. Sadly Colin’s injury means he isn’t interested in the slides and such, which isn’t a surprise. He was also pretty easy to cry over toys at the park. Colin spent the entire time playing with 2 year old Rex’s toys. Rex has a brother name Beck (7 months). Very unique names for those boys.

We are looking forward to meeting up with these boys again next week!

Chips

Deb Ellsworth — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:37:58 +0000

Colin saw a bag of pita chips I was eating while nursing Hannah (she doesn’t let me sit down and eat very often, so I have been eating portable food lately) and he asked to have some. Being a tired mommy I just handed him the bag. He started munching on them and then a few minutes later gave me back the bag, I didn’t think much of it until he started walking around with a little plastic bowl of chips.

He had found a bowl, who knows where and whether it was clean, put a handful of chips inside it and gave me back the bag. He did for himself what I should have done for him. He’s a great little boy.

However, we are going on day 5 of the Nap Strike of ‘08. We are in negotiations to end it soon, wish us luck.

Talk to Your Kids About This … Now!

Matt Ellsworth — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:16:37 +0000

“I just wanted to play tag…”

Add This to Your “To Do” List

Matt Ellsworth — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:31:27 +0000

A wonderful thing happened on the way to… uh… work? Well, it was still wonderful. And it is definitely something I have added to my mental “to do” list.

Thanks to our friend Katie for sharing her story.

Mr. Colbert

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:22:28 +0000

I liked this article.

Sighting: The Beatles?

Matt Ellsworth — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:56:37 +0000

I’m not certain it’s the Beatles, but it does serve as a quick teaser to the photos we’ll be posting soon about our trip to Iowa.

Two Years from Now

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:33:42 +0000

I’m going to level with you. I’m worried. A friend from work showed me this video of young Hannah at age two if we don’t sell our condo and have to end up renting it out…

Pressing Issues

Matt Ellsworth — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:40:54 +0000

1. Determining that, yes, indeed. Captain Crunch is still my favorite sugar cereal. Ever since I first had it over at the McHugh’s a thousand years ago. Eatin’ some now. Mmmmmmmm.

2. Figuring out how to spend the $100 Apple store credit I got for being an early adopter/purchaser of the iPhone 2 months before they reduced the price by $200.

(For those keeping score at home, yes, that means I’m still down $150 on the phone. $100 for the price difference and another $50 for paying the college kid to wait in line for it. On the plus side—and we weren’t sure this was going to be the case—I did get the rebate. We wondered if the college kid would get that, too, since he has the original receipt…)

Question, Answer and a LOL

Matt Ellsworth — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:56:17 +0000

Question: why are we so upset by Michael Vick and his dog fighting “issue” yet seemingly indifferent to the bullfights happening Pamplona (et al.) each year? What’s the difference? Kind of a real question, but also kind of a rhetorical one. Deb suggests the issue is simply that dogs are pets and bulls are, well, bulls…

This video is the answer to the question: “What is Colin’s current favorite game.” That’s right… Who hasn’t played a good game of Fall Over in their day.

I had a good old-fashioned LOL when I read the take on Silicon Alley Insider take on the press release Dow Jones issued about some General Manager changes and my coming back to The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.

Wow

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:14:38 +0000

It sure has been a while since we posted something, huh?

Random Blasts!

Matt Ellsworth — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:15:51 +0000

Blast from the past. Who was that guy? (Editor’s note: I blame Deb.)

Blast from the here-and-now. Yes, I got one. Had to. No more questions.

Stay tuned for the future blast not yet released.

Fire and Flooding

Deb Ellsworth — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:43:36 +0000

Eventful day here in little ole Hoboken. This town floods VERY easily and apparently this is the worst flooding since a Hurricane in 1999! On the wettest day of the year we also managed to have a 4 alarm fire just up the street. A lumber store went up in flames about 5 blocks up from us. The flames were so intense we could see them from our window!

See the links below for pictures of our water-logged town:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sean123/

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8EYuWzNuycuZA

kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=17mud8e3.7vhtbeuj&x=0&y=-qqyreo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjur/460614929/

http://flickr.com/photos/67738072@N00/

These pictures were taken 1 or 2 blocks from our building: http://tinyurl.com/2gzprk

Here are some of the best pictures I’ve seen of the fire so far: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7267661@N02/sets/72157600081200694/

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wuoHXzWNQ

Lots of video and pictures:

http://www.hoboken411.com

I will post more if I find em!

Deb

I Think He’s a Jackass, Too…

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:09:10 +0000

…but sometimes you still gotta feel bad for the guy. I’m not sure too many other “leaders of the free world” have necessitated the spiritual cleansing of sacred sites merely by visiting them…

Oh My!

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:01:38 +0000

It is definitely different than food with flavor that “bursts in your mouth”…

It Boggles the Mind

Matt Ellsworth — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:35:29 +0000

When I was young and just beginning to wrestle with such concepts, I remember literally giving myself a headache trying to wrap my little pea brain around the concept of eternity. “It’s a long time, so think of the longest time period you can think of and then know it is even longer than that, in fact it just keeps going on and on…” The internal monologue went something like that. Anyway, I’ve found most concepts to be a little easier to grasp than that—probably simply because I’m older (and wiser?) (well, older anyway).

Today, though, I read an article that gave me pause because of its scale—not in a spiritual way, but in a the-implications-are-so-big and the-inequality-is-so-great kind of way. The columnist from Yahoo! Finance (yes, I read it even when I’m not working) is Ben Stein (yes, of Win Ben Stein’s Money and Ferris Bueller fame) and much of the article didn’t stick with me except for the section entitled “Disparity by the Numbers” section, excerpted in part below:

The top one-tenth of 1 percent of earners in the nation earn about as much as the bottom 40 percent. That is, about 130,000 high-income Americans earn as much as the bottom 120 million Americans combined.

I always knew there was income inequality in the world, and that it wasn’t a first-world vs. third-world kind of thing. And I even knew that there were some really rich dudes. But the (emphasis added) portion really puts a fine point on it in my mind. That is a very few elites (the same elites who subscribe to the notion of the Wisdom of Crowds) exerting economic control over a whole lot of “crowd” (who very likely haven’t even heard of the book, let alone read it).

Anyway, the scale on both sides of that equation boggles my mind.

Eo-eo-eo OD

Matt Ellsworth — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:11:54 +0000

That’s how Colin says Eeyore: “Eo-eo-eo”… And, well, since he now has two full-size Eeyores, one car-size (mini) Eeyore, one pair of Eeyore Robeez shoes, another (larger) pair on the way, an Eeyore Halloween costume and a severe need to have one or more of the above in his crib to go to sleep. Given all that, I am going to say it is entirely possible this final addition to the Eo-eo-eo collection amounts to an “OD”…

But he sure is cute!!!

And now for something completely different…

Deb Ellsworth — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:52:15 +0000

With the heated discussion on the site I thought I would post a link to a website I have found extremely amusing. It’s for all you daddies out there: http://www.dadlabs.com.

These guys are really amusing, have good tips and do some really funny experiments. My favorite of course being this one. Not for the weak hearted…

Thanks Wendy for passing this along.

Saying Thanks for the Holidays

Deb Ellsworth — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:23:35 +0000

My brother suggested I blog this site and I agree:

http://www.letssaythanks.com/

These messages definitely are appreciated. Here’s what my brother Dave said about them:

“I was in Kuwait right after 9/11–after the anthrax scare they shut down the “any service member” mail program, before that we would get stacks of letters from time to time. It was pretty neat to be on that end of it.”

We wish you a Soda Poppy Christmas and a Happy Dew Year

Deb Ellsworth — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:14:26 +0000

Now Matt and Dave, don’t get too excited, neither of your significant others will ever allow you to do this:

http://www.omwo.com/?p=12432

Thanks to Suzanne for passing this along.

Thanks again to Suzanne for pointing out all my ridiculous spelling/grammar mistakes the first time around. I think I counted 4 or 5 mistakes, ack!