Author: Ashlin

  • Another quiet night

    *I forgot the post this back at the end of June…Enjoy!* Last night was the final night of my solitude.  Jesse and the boys came back home today after their long camping weekend.  I’m happy they were able to go camping and be with his family and I’m happy I had a few days to…

  • Ride, captain ride, upon your mystery ship

    Jesse took the boys camping for the weekend, so I have the house to myself for a couple days!  It’s nice to have the peace and quiet but it also means I wig myself out that I’m going to be stabbed to death by an intruder.  My only solace is that nobody else is home…

  • It’s story time!

    We’ve been reading to Ezra at bedtime pretty regularly for quite awhile now.  Recently we gave him some “learning to read” books that Jesse had from his time as a teaching aide.  At least, I think that’s where he got them.  Or maybe Mary gave them to us…  In any event, we’ve been reading these…

  • Back at work…again

    A little late with this post.  I had the best intentions to blog during the parental leave I had, but you know, life gets in the way and lots of things happened and now I’d be hard pressed to describe in detail anything that occurred.  I know we hung out with Velvet and her brood…

  • Maternity leave, redux

    eBay has done a very cool thing starting this January 2016.  They have really beefed up their maternity leave/family leave policies.  Last year, the policy was you could get up to 12 weeks maternity leave, but only six weeks were paid by short-term disability and it was at 80% of your base pay.  Starting in…