The good news: we weren’t up all night wrapping presents. (We had them done two days early this year!)
The bad news: we were up all night with a coughing, feverish baby. :(
Dave didn’t bring the kids over until almost 7 o’clock on Christmas Eve, and they hadn’t eaten dinner yet, so […]

A few months ago we decided that if we were ever going to see Billy, Shana, and Dalton on a regular basis that we needed to have something scheduled, something that we could put on the calendar to make sure it actually got done. It’s worked pretty well, kind of. . . . […]

Angelina was sick all last week: the strep test that they did in the doctor’s office came back negative, but the backup culture that they sent to the lab came back positive; of course, they didn’t tell us that until we were at the school this morning, and just about to leave — Angelina was […]

So this is different. I’ve taken my laptop on flights before, but I don’t know that I’ve ever actually used it during the flight. Usually it just looks like I’m one of the few competent business fliers who actually gets his stuff done before the flight. That’s fine, of course, but sometimes […]

The Birth (from Carole’s viewpoint)I woke from a sound sleep not knowing exactly why, but with images of warm blue waters rushing towards me; I rolled out of bed — I think I was trying to escape the big wave that was about to engulf me in my dream — and as I was rolling […]

So I’d been thinking about sharing again, but what specifically did I feel like sharing? Well, my grandmother died this past Tuesday. My mom’s mom. The last grandparent.
And it’s that road my mind’s most been travelling the past few days. The hard fact is I was never very close to Grandma […]

I only met her twice. The second time she was older, second or third grade, busy with a baseball or softball game. She didn’t remember me very well. She was excused: The only other time I met her—the first time—she was only four or five. But while she wasn’t able to […]