Pater Familias Domesticus

Earlier this week, Annie asked me if I could send her the Christmas Card mailing list. Sure, no problem. I dug through a couple of desktop folders and finally found that little document. “Hmm!” I thought, “This hasn’t been updated since 2012. There’s got to be something more current than this.” I did some more searching before concluding that I must have been sending Annie the info in some different form for the last couple of years, I’ll probably remember…

Read More Read More

2008 was a unique year for us. Annie was settling into a very promising job, my gigs felt like they had attained cruising altitude. We had been married for three years, we were about as happy as we could be. Something wasn’t quite right though. Since day one, since our engagement days, we would have musings about someday having kids. There really wasn’t a time where we weren’t interested in becoming parents. Before I go on, let’s jump back a…

Read More Read More