Mommy and I sincerely apologize that this birthday post is a little late, as we JUST only finished cleaning up after your ‘GRAN FIESTA’ last weekend. More than 75 people arrived at our little home in the campo to celebrate you on your special day. Aside from the seventeen little boys and girls from your class, it seemed as… Continue reading Just You Try To Keep Up With Her: Happy 4th Birthday, Kendley!!!
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Happy Father’s Day: 14 Reasons Why This Guy’s Absolutely Nailing It
Dear Ryan, Remember that article that used photographs of wonderful fathers to blast apart that age-old but annoying convention that dads are incompetent co-parenters? Well, I went and made my own version FOR YOU.
What it Means to Captain This Ship: To My Husband On Father’s Day
June 16 Vigo, Galicia, Spain This has been a challenging week, to say the least. Somewhere in the lovely Picos de Europa, our van started to sound as if it were towing a refrigerator up and down the mountains. After consulting a mechanic in Oviedo, we learned that our driver-side caliper was shot and our tie… Continue reading What it Means to Captain This Ship: To My Husband On Father’s Day
Happy Birthday, Little One: Kendley Turns Two (From Daddy)
May 18 Bordeaux, France Happy birthday to my beautiful little girl. From the second I laid my eyes on you, I was in awe of you. You have always filled my heart with joy and have given me a lifetime of love in only two years. While you might not understand what we are doing… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Little One: Kendley Turns Two (From Daddy)
Happy Birthday, Little One: Kendley Turns Two (From Mommy)
May 18 Bordeaux, France Today our daughter turns two years old. To celebrate, we followed our GPS for ages around the sprawling suburbs that spiral off Bordeaux’s ring road until it brought us to Récréa’Land, an indoor gymnasium/fun zone complete with multilevel play structures, slides and several enormous, child-swallowing ball pits. In the past, we… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Little One: Kendley Turns Two (From Mommy)
Priceless Series: Bedtime Stories
Earlier this evening, Ollie and I began reading Dickens’ Oliver Twist. On the second page of the (abridged) book, poor Oliver’s mother dies during childbirth. Ollie (our Oliver) and I were lying on the couch and after I read these lines, he looked back at me and asked, “Oh, is that when they cut the mommy’s… Continue reading Priceless Series: Bedtime Stories
Right On Le Marche
October 30 – November 5 Le March Region, Italy Towards the end of October while we were in Rome, between two dovetailing disasters that contributed to one of our more hellacious weeks of travel in recent memory, Ryan made an important discovery. “Look here. This website says this little town claims to be THE HALLOWEEN… Continue reading Right On Le Marche
Our First Miracle
October 1 – 10 Florence, Italy At this point in our travels, we have found our way to Florence, the central city of the province of Tuscany and the heart and soul of the Italian Renaissance. We have retraced our steps here again, nearly five years and eleven months following the birth of our first… Continue reading Our First Miracle