A couple of weekends ago, my little brother got married. Mike/Shortlegs married Amanda Rose on Nov 22, 2014 at the Church of the Assumption in Nashville's historic Germantown neighborhood ( Read more... )

Just realized this morning that I hadn't posted in LJ since February ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, JD and I found out about an opportunity available for us to get discounted tickets to Disney World during the week in November that contains Nigel's and Harper's birth days. With the discounts involved, some financial shuffling, and some Disney gift cards sent our direction, we were able to afford this trip.
( The trip details back here. )

No, don't worry, you haven't missed some news about JD and I. Last week was the local Cub Scout day camp. JD volunteered to work and both of the boys were there. They needed to be at the park by 7:15am and were there until around 4pm each afternoon. This was a huge thing for the three of them to do and I'm so proud of them for doing the whole ( Read more... )

Whether we're talking national politics or inter-personal relationships, I do worry quite a bit about how fractured we can be on various scales of "society" when it comes to voicing and supporting our choices/opinions and the effort we place on understanding others' choices/opinions. That is a big enough concern, let alone going the next step of ( Read more... )

Over the course of the summer, our household changed food habits quite a bit. JD has been making a good deal of effort to drastically cut the amount of processed food we buy and consume. There is some amount of replacing Factory Brand Cookie Product with Aunt Trudy's All Natural Carbon-Neutral Cookies, but a lot of it is doing homemade cookies ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday morning I was up early because the weather radio was sending out alerts like crazy overnight and throughout the day. Things were seemingly going well. None of the tornadoes seemed aimed for the south side of town. They were all going to the north of us or really far south ( Read more... )

Our family spent April 9-14 down in Orlando with the great bulk of the time spent on Walt Disney World. The flight down was the first flight for Nigel and Harper. They both took the time in the planes in stride and had no issues. My brother, Mike, flew in to Orlando just 30 minutes after we arrived, but he had to leave on Tuesday morning.


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JD and I were up until around 1:30am being Santa (eat some cookies, discard some of the deer food on the porch, open/assemble/display a selection of presents in the living room). Thankfully, the kids slept in. Calvin didn't wake up until around 7:30am and we were all huddled in the living room shortly thereafter. As JD and the kids were ( Read more... )

I plan on doing a post with details, but this is here just in case I forget to do that. We woke up to snow in the air AND accumulating on the ground. I got orange Chucks, a sonic screwdriver, and a great book of (historic and current) maps/diagrams of various subway systems from around the world. I am such a map geek ( Read more... )