Author: MRJ

This evening Violet and I went for a walk with our friend  Kara and her son Liam. I snapped today’s picture while we crossed a street with Violet holding Liam’s hand. The only had she wanted to hold was Liams, which was kinda different for me as usually when we’re walking she always wants to hold my hand.

Today we have an attempt at an artistic photo. As I was outside with the kids tonight I looked up at the sky and thought it looked pretty cool and I thought it was a great time to try a new app I got on my phone, HDR Camera.

Today Jacob had his first game of House league Hockey. It’s a day we’ve been looking forward to since Jacob first took to the ice. It’s great to see how excited he gets going to the rink, and it’s not all for the snacks he gets after the games.  Its amazing home much his skating has improved since he started future stars in September, I can’t imagine how much better he’ll be after an entire season of hockey.  Next we have to get Violet out on the ice Maybe next week we can see about heading out to a free skate with her.

Continue reading “POD: Dropping the Puck”

Two years ago today I decided to take control of my blog. I went from the occasional post to posting every day. I didn’t think I could keep it up. The first 3 months I wrote a full post most days, with just the occasional internet video and my weekly Wordless Wednesday, but then I started my 365 challenge and my daily posting got a little easier. It can still be a challenge capturing a moment that’s worth sharing every day, but looking back on it now I wish I had started it sooner. For my readers it means that every day for the last two years if you came to my blog you would find new content. To me that’s something to be proud of.

I was originally inspired to blog every day by National Blog Posting Month(NaBloPoMo) which challenges bloggers every month to post every day, but the big month is November, to coincide with Nation Novel Writing Month(NaNoWriMo). I’m unable to find the time to take part in NaNoWriMo, though I’m hoping as the kids get older I will have a chance to do it again. For now the challenge of taking a picture and blogging it every day is enough. Well Almost enough. I think that this year I’m going to change it up. For the month of November I hope to do a full blog post each day and my daily photo. I’m a little nervous about generating that many posts but I think I need the challenge. I’ve been in a bit of a rut with my daily photos. I had thought of starting my daily double  posting today and go through to the end of the year like I did two years ago to start my daily posting, but with the demands of preparing for my half marathon, I worry I wont have the time. So instead I’m going to easy into the daily double posting. Look for my posting to increase over the month.

To help for inspiration I also plan to using the NaBloPoMo Month theme and daily writing prompts for some of my posts. To help me on the days I can’t seem to think of anything to write. The theme for October is Between, and as I write today’s post I realize that it’s really the theme of my blog for the month, I’m moving between just posting my picture every day with the occasional other post to posting twice a day every day. There will be some growing pains, and I’m not promising that my extra post some days wont just be a random internet video, but there going from now to the end of the year there will be more posts on Geek with Kids.

Ever since I started blogging I looked for a voice for my blog to have, it took me a long time to find it with my daily photo, but now I think it’s time to go beyond that and write about more of the other things that interest me and to make this blog more than just a photo blog, to make it this Geeks home on the internet.

 

 

 

 

TOday we have a picture of Young Violet getting Sparkly polish on her nails. While her and mommy where out at the salon before swimming tonight. Of course being 2 and 9 months old she didn’t keep it on her nails long and the person doing Violet’s nails is actually one of Melissa’s co-workers.

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This last week I was reminded how hard it can be to find time to run, but with my commitment to run the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon (Fitness Friday: Setting Goals) I know that I need to find the time.  This week with Jacob’s extra Hockey day and unexpected night in the ER, It’s been hard to get out there. I did manage 3 runs this last week which is better than I had done for most of the month, but not enough if I plan to run my race faster than I did in the spring. Looking at the the calendar, I have 17 days till the race. With my last training day being the 14th, I have only 15 days to get my ready.

Time to step up my training. To help me focus on my training I’m going to share my training schedule on my blog, and keep it up-to-date. I’m listing my runs from now till Race Day. Each time I run I’ll update the widget with my time and a link to the Runkeeper event. If I miss one I hope that some of my readers will bug me about it. I need to get out there and run. Not just for the big run either, going forward I hope to continue posting my schedule and want to be held to it. Here is what my schedule looks like for the moment. I’m hoping to run 10 of the 15 days I have before my race. With Sunday’s being my long runs, and Saturday being my day off. It could change, but for now here it is:

Fri Sep 30    – 5K Run
Sun Oct 2    – Long Run
Mon Oct 3    – 5k Run
Wed Oct 5    – 15k Run
Thu Oct 6    – 5k Run
Fri Oct 7    – 10k Run
Sun Oct 9    – Long Run
Mon Oct 10    – 5k Run
Wed Oct 12    – 15k Run
Fri Oct 14    – 10k Run

Continue reading “Fitness Friday: Setting a Schedule”

Today’s picture of the day is probably the earliest I’ve taken once since I started taking a picture every day. I took it last night while Jacob was in the ER, he was just falling asleep after they had taken some blood to run tests. They left the needle in, just in case they needed more blood or wanted to run an IV later. It turned out to be helpful because later the doctor wanted Jacob to take a steroid to help with his hives. Thanks to the IV we didn’t need to wake him try to make him take it. We spent the entire night in the ER, waiting for the pediatrician to have a look at him. When they arrived in the morning the Diagnosis was pretty quick. It seems he had a rare reaction to the antibiotics he was taking for an ear infection. It’s called Serum Sickness and it affects 1 in 10 million people, and though it could flare up again over the next few weeks, he is on the mend and should be making a full recovery.

Continue reading “POD: Overnight in the ER”

Tonight we have a picture of the sign on the outside of the emergency room door, that Melissa, Jacob and I have spent the last couple of hours in. Our little guy has a hives/rash that nobody seems to know what is. So here we sit waiting to find out what to do to make it go away.

Today before heading off to work I had a little outing with the kids. While waiting for a bus I captured today’s Picture of the day.

Today was my day for working from home, and while Jacob was at school I was working at the computer and Violet came up to me and gave me the cutest smile. I reached for my phone to try to capture it. It took a few dozen tries, but I finally got her to hold still so I could capture her smile.