Around Here Lately

Happy Birthday to my April baby! This year you have really blossomed from a little boy into a big kid. Going back to school in person this fall after finishing kindergarten online and being stuck at home all summer was the best possible thing for you. I’ve never seen a kid so happy to go to school, even if admittedly… Read more →

Okay. My BABY turned 5. Everyone warned me this would happen, but I still freshly remember the long wait and sleepless nights waiting for WILLIAM to turn ONE. Now in a blink my baby is FIVE. Ooofta. Andrew, you are the baby and always will be. I sometimes worry we’re ruining you with what you get away with being the… Read more →

Happy Birthday to my biggest boy! This is the 2nd birthday this poor kid has had during a global pandemic but at least it shows signs of winding down. William loves all things Roblox and Minecraft and like most 9 year old’s would LOVE to talk to you about it. All. Day. Long. He has a bad habit of bouncing… Read more →

I feel like I should write this down as some day I will likely find it hilarious. What a week we have had. Monday morning I was pretty excited to receive my first (and only) Covid vaccine in the form of 1 Johnson & Johnson variety shot. I felt like I had ran a marathon for a year and finally… Read more →

323 Days COVID Free. It’s a lot like “days without a workplace incident” around here. I didn’t actually start keeping track until day 301, so don’t go thinking I’m totally bonkers. I’m feeling a bit more optimistic than I did in weeks past. More on that later. The holiday season was kind of funky this year and at the same… Read more →

I almost titled this post “Trying to be Thankful”, but writing this post on Thanksgiving day, with a full stomach, in my warm house, with my healthy family, I certainly have a lot to be thankful about in the midst of a pretty relentless 2020. I’m glad the pandemic has given us pause to slow down and consider the things… Read more →

I’ve said for some time now, that in order for us to add a second cat to our home it would need to be a unicorn of sorts. Specifically young, polydactyl, and preferably orange. In other words, not just a run of the mill kitten. Well as luck would have it, about the time we left for WI, I got… Read more →

Ah man. The decision to get out for one family vacation this summer was a difficult one for me. I spent most of June trying to decide if the world was going to implode while targeting a trip to the Midwest during the last week of July/first week of August. Then, half by accident, I got a promotion at work… Read more →

I’m playing a bit of catch-up on blog writing while on vacation in WI (more on that in a separate post to come). This particular blog is meant to cover May through the 4th of July more or less. I can barely remember yesterday sometimes, so let’s see what I can scratch up. May as a whole was a lot… Read more →

Damn you global pandemic, March was a month of cancelled plans. We had planned a wonderful joint birthday party for all 3 boys, renting out a bounce house place here in Salt Lake. The week before the event, we, and likely half of the country, were faced with “Should we cancel our plans?”. The decision was made easier for us… Read more →