Marcie's Birthday Cakes
on Nov 15, 2009 in Marcie birthday photos As you might well imagine when it comes to me, there is a saga behind each of Marcie's birthday cakes. She has two because she asked me for a Dora face, and I knew it wouldn't be enough to feed a full party of kids. So then I bought a Costco sheet ca...

Ten Bullet Bio
on Nov 2, 2009Johnny over at So It's Come Down To This has sort of challenged me to complete a meme. It's pretty easy because it's not too long, and it's all about me. (Two great things!). To help readers new to this blog (and there sure can't be many given how te...

Good-bye October
on Nov 1, 2009 in photos holiday October was a relatively quiet month. It started with a birthday celebration for my brother. Let's not talk about how old he is now. I'll just say he's my younger brother, and I'd prefer not to think about his age, mainly because I consider myself...

Shameless Promotional Post: Meetings at the Metaphor Cafe
on Oct 24, 2009Before I was a lawyer I was a teacher.I loved teaching.I felt called to it.I was passionate about it.I could hardly imagine ever doing anything else.And I was pretty decent at it.How I got from teaching to lawyering isn't a particularly long story.Or...

Indy
on Sep 22, 2009Casey's Indiana Jones Halloween costume arrived in the mail today.It's pretty cheaply made (IMHO). But he doesn't care. He loves it.He put it on immediately.In fact, he's sleeping in it now.He cracks me up.

They Really Can Swim
on Sep 15, 2009 in Casey Marcie photos Our summer swim experiment was a success, by the way.Casey, who'd worked his way through five previous swim program/schools and was terrified of any water over 3 feet deep can now swim. In 8-foot-deep water. By himself. After jumping in the pool. Eve...

Competition
on Sep 13, 2009 in Casey Marcie antics Casey and Marcie participate in far more verbal jousting than I'd like. Not particularly intellectual conversations, of course (they're only 6 and 3, after all). It's irritating none the less.Here are a couple samples of typical "discussions" I hea...

Worms and Trojans
on Sep 12, 2009I haven't posted in almost a month. And it's the fault of technology. Truly.See, a while ago, Casey was playing a Cars game on my computer. A children's game. But, as happens from time to time, he either clicked something or a pop-up window appear...

Adoption News
on Sep 12, 2009 in China adoption We haven't actually posted about the adoption in a while. Not because it's stalled. Or forgotten. It's just a very. long. wait. Very long.Our log-in-date was October 9, 2007. Which means we'll have officially been waiting for two full years come...

104 Days of Summer
on Aug 18, 2009 in Casey I actually have no idea how many days of summer break there are. Phineas and Ferb say there are 104, and that school comes along and interrupts it. Oh, how I relate.This summer was the shortest. summer. ever.I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because we...