near record low temperature!

Current Miami Beach temperature..... 38 degrees! Most of the time it doesn't dip below 60! A lot of people don't have any heat!

does it feel different now in 2008?

umm feels a lot like 2007. Hopefully 2008 will be an easier year for us. But if we have our scheduled June baby, no jobs for the summer, its sounds like it will be an even crazier year. I have to admit I assumed by my late thirties I would have my act together and have plenty of money from my great paying job.
Yesterday we went snorkeling in Key Largo with my parents. Unfortunately, my parents are not good at trying new things and after driving and hour and a half, talking a 25 minute boat ride my mom was too afraid to try. She said putting the snorkel in her mouth reminded her of having a scary operation. And then my dad got seasick. Oh well, this whole family trip has not gone too well. I tried so hard to make this a good trip for my sister and parents. The weather was great but somehow all we did was fight. I am not even sure what I should have done differently. Sometimes it seems a situation is doomed. Well, on to anther year. Pam and I did get out there in the water but it wasn't the clearest water I have seen. Here are some pics we took with our underwater camera.

Xmas rainbow

My parents and sister are in town for the holidays. This morning we had a really nice rainbow over papa johns!

Fienberg-Fisher Staff Party

We had a fun time last night at our school staff party. Pam got busy with slayter and I had fun with Assistant Principal Zabala and Brenda Torres.

Some good news for a change...

When you get a lot of bad news - not the kind of "you're going to die" bad news, but a lot of disappointment really - it's hard to accept good news. Yesterday we got the results of the CVS (Chorionic Villus Sampling) test. The test results came back negative for any chromosomal defects. We are still trying to absorb it. The results mean that after three tries, we may actually be having a healthy baby. We are still feeling reserved. (There is one other test at 16 weeks - a blood test to check for neural tube defects.)

So at this point, it looks like in June we might be parents. Maybe after a few days, we will get better used to the idea. (Pam had a thought yesterday: "Maybe they mixed up my results with someone else's!" It's these kinds of thoughts we are still trying to work out.)

We could find out the sex of the baby, but we haven't decided on whether or not we want to know this. It might be nice to have at least one mystery...

Art Basel

Yesterday Pam and I went to the Art Basel, a big art exhibition and we got free tickets which are normally $30. At first I was a little disappointed because there was this Andy Warhol ripoff of dollar bills except it turns out it was actually an Andy Warhol! There was a lot of really interesting unique modern pieces and sculptures. Just as interesting was the "eccentric" art collector types --you could just smell the money. And the art was selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Among the unusual pieces were "chocolate santa with butt plug" and a sculpture of fingers and penises that cast a shadow figure of two mens faces.

Thanksgiving in bmore

It was nice to go to Baltimore for thanksgiving. We went for a hike with John and Julie and friends. Here's a great pic of Ruby "Jackie O" Webb.

5k for the kids

We had a great time doing a 5k on saturday that benefitted Miami-Dade schools. The weather has been "cold" here lately. It was 55 degrees when I woke up on Thursday. All the kids have dressed up in jackets and hats!