I just dropped a cool wad o’ cash at Old Navy for some duds for my oldest dude. Every spring and fall I do a shop like this – either at Children’s Place or Old Navy or Target or somewhere – and nowadays I tell myself “this will get two more kids’ worth of wear,”…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
And Sitteth on the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty
*This was drafted on Easter Sunday – not published til days later* Of late, Jack has been asking questions about death. I think this is typical for his age – on the cusp of Six. The world is growing bigger for him these days – he sees more detail when he looks around, has…
Lily Pads
As much as I know you’d all love to read about how tired I am after five weeks of multiple night time wakeups, including last night where he woke fussing at least once every hour . . . I thought I’d go a different way for today’s post. The concept of “lily pads” is something…
Mardi Blahs
My facebook feed is equally full of (1) pictures of Mardi Gras revels, and (2) the woeful sorrow of my former law classmates who left New Orleans and wish they were partying on Fat Tuesday. I fall into the latter camp, and I submit that it is particularly cruel to be a Mardi-phile who lives…
2014: The Great Look Forward
I won’t be making any resolutions just now. I can see myself making some exercise goals at some point in the spring, once I have recovered from the birth. But resolutions are a form of self-improvement, right? And 2014 is not about me, it’s about Tex. The first year of an infant’s life is a…