It’s been a busy summer!  I’ve kept thinking of posting a new entry but a seemly endless number of other things kept getting in the way.  Now that we’ve finally returned from our 6 week hiatus in Arizona I’ve peeled away enough time to post an update.

As you may have seen from a recent post on change I’d left my job at Omniture to take a position as VP, Corporate Development with Limelight Networks in Tempe, Arizona.  While I wasn’t up to moving to Arizona I knew from past experience that getting to know the culture and people in a company while working remote is difficult to do and takes a long time assuming you have the stomach for considerable travel back and forth.   Instead I elected to move the family to Arizona for the summer, this would be in lieu of our planned family vacation and would let us, I reasoned, see some sights in a new locale.  I’d underestimated, significantly as I’d come to find out, the power of an Arizona summer.  We packed up the family and moved into a small condo I found in Phoenix over the weekend of July 18th.  The first three days we were there the heat peaked at 117.  When we woke up in our condo the next morning standing on the balcony of our new place it was 95 degrees at 7am.  I realized then that this was going to take some getting used too. 

Having little food as we hadn’t had a chance to get to a grocery that first morning we headed out for breakfast.  But not before Madison managed to throw up in the living room of our new home.  It seemed she might have had a bug but she seemed to recover pretty well so, undeterred, we headed to Denny’s.  Part way through the meal Abi said her stomach was hurting.  We wrote this off as sympathetic pains with her sister but no sooner had she eaten her eggs than she was returning the egg and OJ concoction across the floor of the restaurant.  I hustled her to the restroom and cleaned her up.  Amy and I were trying to wolf down our breakfast and leave quickly.  Abi said she was feeling better and began eating again.  Madison refused any food and was lying down in the booth.  We decided to get everything to go and as I was waiting in line to pay the bill Abigail threw up again.  Amy was trying to get the waitstaffs attention for help cleaning up and I sort of froze.  Torn between getting the bill paid quickly or jumping immediately to Abigail’s aid.  Amy seemed to have Abi well in hand so I opted for the former.

Over the next week Abi, Madison and Amy all managed to come down with the flu.  Amy had the toughest time of it managing somehow to develop her flu into a kidney infection that had her throwing up for the better part of 2 weeks.

On the plus side the temperature didn’t drop below 100 during the daylight hours throughout July.

It wasn’t all puking and bed rest.  We did take in the Children’s Museum in downtown Phoenix.  I took the girls once and Amy returned several times during our the day with the girls while I was working.  We also took in a baseball game at the stadium downtown.  It was the girls first baseball game.