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Archive for April, 2008

Lemons to Lemonade

( C&T and Family/Parenting and Photos and Porter and Stella )

The last couple of weeks have brought us face to face with 2 deaths, a cancer diagnosis and the bittersweet activities of helping friends from our closest inner circle prepare to move to the other side of the country. And, if it weren’t for the fact that people regularly get fired for writing about [...]

Happy Birthday from the Incompetents

( Birthdays and Porter and Video )

If we were to be graded this year on our ability to prepare and deliver birthday gifts in a timely fashion, we would be receiving a big fat F, as in ‘Frankly, You’re Incompetent’
So guess what, oh lovely Mother-in-Law of mine? Your proxy gift will maybe, hopefully, and with any kind of luck be [...]

Happy 2nd Birthday, McGoo!

( Birthdays and Photos and Porter )

Hey Buddy!
Today, you turn two years old. And in this - your second year - we have had much to celebrate. In my best estimation, it was an In Like a Lion, Out Like an Ill-Tempered Housecat kind of year for us. We were finally able to rediscover sleep, sleep, happy sleep, [...]

Oh yes they did.

( Friends and Photos and Porter and Stella )

Trying

I have been conspicuously absent lately mainly because it is hard to write with all that screaming. Porter screaming at no one in particular because he wants a hot dog. No, make that oatmeal. No! a hot dog. Nooooo!, oatmeal. NO!!, both. NO!NO!NO!, neither. NO!, a hot dog [...]