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It’s hard to believe that Claire is now 256 days old, or just over 0.701 years! It has an oddly familiar way of feeling simultaneously like both an eternity and an eyeblink. We’re getting more sleep than in the zombie days of October and January/February, which is a definite plus, although we seem […]

The thing about being a relatively new parent is that life very quickly becomes a complete blur, and after a certain point you’ve no sense of what day it is, let alone how many weeks old your little bundle of joy is. This makes life tricky, since there are certain milestone weeks that are […]

11:49 PM. From down the hall, an ominous THUMP…. THUMP…. THUMP… The sound of Claire kicking her legs against the mattress like some kind of imprisoned mermaid.

Me: Drums… Drums in the deep…
Liz: You know, that’s what I think every time she does that.
Me: Damn, I love you.

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March 1 was strangely mild; I laughed derisively when the weather lady declared that it was “coming in like a lamb” for once. Silly, silly woman. As a recent fortune cookie told me, “the lion, when hunting, does […]

I might be old, but dammit, I ROCK!
Yes, I just completed the solo guitar tour on Rock Band, and even though I was only playing on medium, it feels pretty freaking awesome. My wife (goddess!) sprung for an Xbox 360, and my mother-in-law (what a sweetie) sent me Rock Band, and I’ve basically been […]

I’ve discovered that Claire responds really, really well to “The Ballad of Serenity” as a lullaby. (That’s the theme song from Firefly in case you didn’t recognize the title.) I’ll sing it softly to her at bedtime or naptime as I hold her and then transfer her to the crib, repeating it as necessary until […]

I spent the better part of a week in bed with a nasty case of influenza–chills, aches, sweats, nausea, digestive “issues”, 102.9 degree fever–the works. And once again, everyone in my family had the great taste to all get sick at the exact same time, so you can imagine the fun that Liz and […]

I was really looking forward to writing some more about our “first Christmas” experiences, or of our post-Christmas road trip to Chicago for a Boyd-side reunion of sorts, or Liz’s 30th birthday festivities (oh, the wine!), the exciting new year to come, but instead I’ve been absolutely annihilated by some sort of mutant cold virus […]

As the Christmas Day festivities wound down and we settled into a quiet afternoon together, Liz asked me a question:
“Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?”
My thoughts flickered quickly across the warm and happy morning spent with my beautiful wife and daughter, singing songs, opening presents, cooking breakfast together, playing with the cats. […]

I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve either been too busy to write anything or too not-busy to have anything worth writing about. So here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to, in more or less random order.
I’m thinking of moving our blogs to private hosting on WebFaction, partly because I […]