Work-Family Balance

It turns out that learning how to teach sociology, doing enough research to get tenure, building a house, and starting a sustainable farm was a lot to do and left us with little time to reflect on life in the south and come up with interesting blog posts. Adding a baby and continuing the sustainable farm have pushed us over the edge. Balancing work and family is about all we can manage--something has to give and it looks like it is this blog. Sorry, but we've just been too busy living life to write about it. Actually, this should not really come as a surprise to those of you who know us: We are not the people videotaping our vacations (or our daughter). We are the people who forget to take the camera with us or are too busy to bother taking it out of the bag.

All this means that this blog has probably reached the end of its life. Or rather, it has reached the end of its life for people who want to read about something other than Evelyn. We'll continue to post photos and will probably make the odd, sociologically insightful blog post, but basically, if you want to know what it's like down here you should come and visit.

In parting, or semi-parting, we leave you with a reflection from the Cotton District Arts Festival. It is best described in the following analogy: the Cotton District Arts Festival is to Art Fair in Ann Arbor as Pumpkinpalooza (the Halloween celebration in Starkville) is to Halloween on Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. What does that mean? the Starkville events take place in one or two blocks and have maybe a handful of cool things. The events in Ann Arbor and Chapel Hill take over the town and are awesome. Here is an example of something not cool from the Arts Festival:

The sign for this booth said: Snipper Suits. Because what else would you get at an Arts Festival?

So, here are two months worth of photos of Evelyn (these are all albums--forgive us for our inability to edit):

A woman in my office gave us this very pretty dress:

Evelyn in her pretty white dress

but this is how we really role 'round here:

Mi'ssippi Evelyn

A day in Dad's favorite outfit:

Dad's favorite outfit

first real food!

First food-bananas!

A bath after her first haircut--we missed that spikey hair so gave her a little trim. I'm not sure what that means about the kind of parents we are.

Fresh from a bath

Albums of her at 5months

Evelyn and her orangutan--5months

and at 6 months

Evvy and her orangutan--6 months old!

And here is a link to where you can see the whole collection of Evvy and her orangutan.