• Saturday! Morning! Meal! Planning!

    / July 8, 2017

    The boys are home from “I-luh-rund.” It is very noisy here now. Jack is giving Craig piggy back rides. Liam has spent some quality time with his Skylanders video game. Happiest among us…

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  • Fourth

    / July 8, 2017

    His little swim things are drying on the back deck rail. I’ve gathered the various sprinkler attachments that I’d put on the hose for him this morning, and they’re in a somewhat muddy,…

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  • Gratitude & Anxiety, in Equal Measure

    / July 3, 2017

    My week+2 days off is drawing to a close, and I feel (as my title would suggest) both anxiety and gratitude. Sometimes it can be hard to relax, even with a week off, since…

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  • Phew

    / June 24, 2017

    Welllll . . . it’s been a coupla weeks, let me tell YOU. My notice at work was two weeks long, as is typical. The first week of it, I tried to stick…

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  • Two of Us

    / June 10, 2017

    Craig is lying, shirtless, spread-eagle on the couch, watching the 2015 Goosebumps movie – which is, as tween movies go, not the absolute worst I will say. Craig is watching it because Jack…

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