Jack’s voice is like music. I have been thinking this for a while now, wanting to write it here. It will deepen one day – I’ll never forget the day I called home and my 9-years-younger brother answered the phone with a man’s voice, a stranger’s voice. Right now, at age five, Jack’s voice is…
Category: Jack
The Back Half
My Littlest is six weeks old tomorrow. I (sort of) took the full week off before his Thursday birth – forced out of the office by ice and snow starting Tuesday. I’ve been gone from my office for six weeks. Therefore, in typical American (white collar) workforces, I’d be back into my third day of…
Hodie Christus Natus Est
It’s been a lovely Christmas season – I just did the camera photo dump, and so I’m going to put up the best pictures from our lovely December. Ergo, this post will be a longish, but I’m hoping a fun journey through the holiday period. Earlier in the month, we and some friends took the boys to the…
I just ate a Baby Ruth at 9:18 am. Must be the day after Halloween. Halloween brings out the “wistful” in parents, I think, perhaps more than any other holiday. Last night, we wandered through our mostly-retired-folks neighborhood with a sweaty, mask-less Spiderman and a speeding little Batman (thrilled by the flap of his own…
Sunday
Yesterday, Jack and I went hunting for birds. He really wanted to take a picture of one, to send to his grandmothers. As you can imagine, a five year old is not the ideal companion when one hopes to sneak up on some birds. No birds were to be found. We did find, however, a…