Owen, abridged version

I recently commented on a friend’s blog about Owen’s first days of life. It got me reminiscing, and I realized that his first months have been mostly undocumented. He was born on December 8, 2008, so he’ll be 4 months old on Wednesday. Now, I’ve said before that I have a penchant for romanticizing the [...]

Wise beyond our years

Someone asked Kyle and me the other day, “What has surprised you most about marriage so far?” With not yet 1.5 years of marriage under our belts, we agreed that the most surprising thing has been how much more we’ve enjoyed the dawn of Year 2. During our engagement, well-intentioned folks would say things like, [...]

My, how things have changed

On March 28, 2006, life slowly ticked by whilst I was “Living Alone”: You can leave two half-full or half-empty glasses of water sitting on your wooden dinner tray. You don’t have enough money to buy a dining table, so you use wooden dinner trays, but you have to sit on pillows when you use [...]