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Well, it’s that time of year again – time to start looking for a preschool for your child to go to next fall. Oh, who am I kidding, it’s already March. If you haven’t found a preschool yet, it’s way too late. You might as...
Airports can be life sucking places. They are the price you have to pay to get from point A to point B. And they are almost never pleasant. You stand around under the fluorescent lights waiting for them to allow you to be herded on to a silver tube. And...
Dairy is a pretty significant food group in our family. We like milk and cheese and yogurt and sour cream and food that requires a cream sauce. In fact I can’t think of a single dairy product that we don’t like. I like just about every kind...
Politics is crazy. It usually is. And I don’t know why I should even be surprised when it takes that occasional sidestep off the cliffs of vague reason into the far below undulating pools of insanity (did you like that visual? I spent 4.7 seconds...
So, to recap: In the course of about 6 months, we had almost adopted two sets of siblings, only to have the adoptions fall through at, what at least felt like, the last minute. And now, only a week or so after the most recent adoption has collapsed around...
This past fall was a real time of change for us as we began re-thinking what we were looking for in an adoption and what we had to offer. We had begun assuming that we would adopt an infant. And I mean why not? Infants are cute and smell good and fun...
As many of you know, our family has spent the last year in the process of adopting a child. For anyone who needs a quick reminder on how this all got started, here’s a link to the blog I wrote about it last April. http://familiesonly.com/Community...
Ah Valentines day. The day to celebrate young love. Ok, I know it’s supposed to be the day to celebrate all love – young love, old love, middle aged love. But the reality is that it truly is mostly for young love. The rest of us are just too...
There is an old saying that you can usually find embroidered on ugly little pillows or written on the sides of coffee cups at Cracker Barrel. It goes: “Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.” It’s supposed to be...
As you may recall, there was a pretty important football game on the television box last Sunday. And I am thrilled to report that my team, the McKinley Fighting Titans won the championship on Glee! Very exciting. Of course, there was also that other football...
It was Saturday morning and we arrived at the hospital around 9:00am. We had left the kids with my sister-in-law who thankfully had been visiting for the weekend and was in full support of me going to the hospital since she could apparently hear me moaning...
To the regular readers of this site (By this I mean a couple of relatives, my wife and my friend’s mother in Michigan) you may realize that I haven’t been posting many blogs lately….. well any….. at all. To be fair, my blog output...
The Journey is Half the Fun No, no, I think I got that wrong. I meant: “The Journey halves the fun.” Oh, driving to New York is tedious. Mainly because of one thing – Pennsylvania. I’m sure that there are lots of things in Pennsylvania...
I haven’t blogged anything in a couple of weeks. I’ve been busy and we’ve had family visiting, and there have been lots of leaves to rake and blah, blah, blah, excuse, excuse, excuse, the past is past, whatever, whaddyagonnado? Anyway...