Categorizing Things is Overrated

  • Every Other Day of the Week is Fine

    – Yeah. But whenever Monday comes (but whenever Monday comes), you can find me cryin’ all of the time.   4:45 came early this morning.  No, no, my son slept through, because Murphy’s…

  • Countdown

    We’ll be hanging out with Baby Ella in 10 hours!    Oh, and Erin & Clif (her parents), too.  Grownups are way boring these days.   26 or so hours from now, we…

  • Giving Thanks

    It snowed here in North Carolina on Friday  It’s been an unusually cold few days.  I never mind the cold leading up to the holidays.  It seems appropriate to see your breath fog up…

  • The Trainee and the Trainer

    This morning I was getting Jack and Patrick all situated for breakfast, standing over them by our "sacrificial" (read: covered in baby spitup) green chair.  I felt a bump on my calf –…

  • One Day Down . . . One Night to Go

    We did well today, even taking into account the fact that Jack spent half the day with me at work (we couldn’t find a sitter.)  I almost managed to stick to his schedule…