Goodbye old girl

On my way to an appointment this afternoon, I ran over our cat Slippers backing out of our driveway. Her leg and pelvis were broken in three places and we had to put her down. It sucked. It sucked hard. We all got to say goodbye at the vet, and her last memory was her…

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Waiting is like sitting in art history class at 8 AM

Good Lord I am an impatient boy right now. I am sitting here across from my very pregnant – very beautiful – very puffy ankled bride waiting. Waiting for baby. Waiting for change that you can feel inching toward you. So Stinking Slowly It is all I can do to keep the drool from drowning…

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A piece of ice, anyone?

Let me begin my story with a little honesty. I dislike doctors a lot. There have been very few that I like, much less trust. I haven’t found one that I really like since my primary care physician moved to North Carolina. I miss her! Anyway, my OB is a woman, which is a plus,…

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2 weeks

I less than 2 weeks Baby will be home. It has gone by rather quickly and I am ready to see this little girl. She can barely move at this point, but whenever I talk to her or place my hand on her she starts to fidget. She has been getting the hiccups at night…

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2 More Weeks

As of today, I have 2 more weeks of being pregnant, and then we will have another baby around the house.  As I said, we are having a c-section on August 12th, Tuesday. My sister is getting married on August 9th, and we won’t be able to make it, for obvious reasons, but we are…

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What else has been going on?

Besides having the baby in a few weeks, we do have two other children, so here they are: This is David, me and Alex at his Bronze medal presentation during church.  Getting the bronze medal of achievement is sort of like trying to earn your Eagle Scout.  They do a lot of the same things. …

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Move That Bus!

MoveThatBus.org It is bad enough that I can’t use school services becuase we home school, even though we pay taxes, but enough is enough! Who in their right mind would think that parking a school bus in a cul-de-sac is a safe thing? Move That Bus – Chesapeake!

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IxWebhosting Blows

And sucks, and stinks. I have been hosting with them for years, and they have really gone down hill. I can’t afford to move my sites right now, so I have to suck it up, but DO NOT HOST WITH IXWEBHOSTING!! I am warning you, IxWebhosting is NOT worth it. Buyer beware, IxWebhosting is not…

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More Gifts

I promised I would post some pictures of the gifts from my baby shower.  I’m not sure how interesting this is to everyone, so if you are bored out of your mind, I would probably skip this post.  Wanting to share what I got, I decided to add pictures, so I don’t have a long…

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Dear Brain

I like you, really I do. Even though we have never met, and the only time I have smelled you is when I hit my head running backwards in gym class, I still like you becuase as far as I can tell everything I think I am is contained in you. You are like my…

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