McKinnon Family Report

As you may have noticed, 99.9% of the posts on this blog are about Connor. It's my way of capturing the events of his life no matter how big or small.

Part of the reason that I do this is because my dear sweet mom can't remember anything about my own childhood. If I ask her, "when did I start walking" or "if I were a boy what would my name have been" the response is usually - I don't know. No offense mom...to be fair, Grandma doesn't remember anything about your childhood either. So this blog is really my way of retaliating against the hereditary memory loss that seems to plague my family.

However, in this post I thought I'd give everyone an update on the other McKinnon family members (even our pet manatee - Morgan)

Ross:
Ross has been traveling a lot over the past few weeks. Recently he took a business trip to New York where he met with his customers from an oil trading company headquartered there. He said that he had a very productive trip - even though each time I talked to him he was out at a noisy bar. Oh well, this is the oil biz, where the best deals are made on the golf course or sipping scotch over a dinner. They don't call it the "good 'ole boy network" for nothing.

After that he was in Houston for a few days of training. And in two weeks he leaves for Panama where he's doing some business with the pipeline there. When he's not jet-setting around the world, he's at home playing Bob Villa. Most recently, he installed crown molding in all of the upstairs bedrooms...what a handy guy! And that's not all...it wouldn't be a Ross update if I didn't mention football. Of course, he's really enjoying his role as the San Antonio Auburn Alumni President. So far, he's organized several game watching parties - each with a great turn out of Auburn grads (both young and old). Plus Auburn is 5-0 this season, so he's as giddy as a school girl right now...hehehe - I like that analogy.

Leia:
As for me, I've been incredibly busy at work (but what else is new). On top of my project work, which involves leading the change management effort around a departmental ITIL implementation (ITIL is a set of industry best practices which essentially standardizes and streamlines core IT processes. It enables IT to provide better customer service and fiscal accountability to their customer...i.e. the business)...OK YOU CAN WAKE UP NOW...I'm also the change lead for the account and recently had the opportunity to lead a several million dollar proposal to outsource a key business function to our off-shore delivery team in India.

On top of that, I have my night job of mommy (which is my favorite job of all). By now, you know all about how Connor is doing, so I'll focus this update on the new baby. Baby TBD is ready to rumble. He/She's been kicking up a storm and is now having daily hiccups, which I love. According to my doctor, he/she is growing right on target and has a strong, healthy heart beat. We have only 7 weeks left until the little one arrives...how exciting!!

Morgan:
Morgan is getting fatter and fatter by the day. I wonder if they have a dog version of "The Biggest Loser"? Connor thinks it's hilarious to feed her and Morgan is a willing participant. What can I do?!?!?