Author Archives: casey coombs

I may be 30, but I most certainly do not feel 30. I still get really excited about things I was never allowed to do as a kid or things I wasn’t able to do in our early years of marriage. The Mold-A-Rama is a perfect example of “Wait, I’M THE GROWNUP, I can totallyContinue reading “way to be a grownup!”

Holidays are getting really hard for me. I miss my family tremendously but even more so on holidays, today included. It doesn’t help that it’s been so dry out here that fireworks were cancelled, what’s the Fourth of July without fireworks? Kind of lame, that’s what. But then again there’s thousands of people who aren’tContinue reading “jolly melancholy”

While Addie and I were in Chicago she was with me pretty much everywhere I went, including the bathroom. One morning as I was showering I turned around to see her staring at me intently. It wasn’t a judgmental sort of stare, just the kind of stare kids give when they’re trying to figure stuffContinue reading “saggy fun bags”

So let’s discuss what actually happened last weekend in Chicago. I am now more comfortable in Chicago now than I am in Salt Lake because every part of Salt Lake I was once familiar with has been torn down or torn apart, it’s very unsettling. Chicago has stayed pretty much the same since the firstContinue reading “chica-go-go-go”

I kind of wondered when and if this day would come, the day when Vivi showed a obvious preference between parents. I thought that maybe it was a one time thing since I was all busy being postpartumally depressed with Addie that she took to liking her dad a lot more, but today proved otherwise.Continue reading “playing favorites.”

I learned a few things this weekend: Having kids means you’ll never have to (or get to) push another elevator button again. Kids of a certain age are remarkably easy to travel with given they don’t really care what you do, how you get there, where they end up sleeping or what they eat asContinue reading “a weekend away”

When I was about Addie’s age my mom took my sister and me out to eat at Pizza Hut while we were on vacation. It was around the time Jurassic Park came out because I remember putting the dinosaur sticker I got from the restaurant on my window in the car, it was a greenContinue reading “fish and tips”