Michael Mercer’s 28th Birthday Party

Michael wanted to eat at Outback for his birthday, so we did.  We had a nice time there at our local Wilmington Outback Steakhouse.  Good food, good service.  It was a decent-sized group: me, Amanda and Milly; his parents, Karen and Phil; his grandparents Peggy and Earl Lemons; uncle/aunt/cousins Barry, Anna, Hannah and Kirsten Frazelle; then […]

Milly, Yeah

Usually when you knock on Milly’s door in the morning, if she’s up and moving around she’ll answer, “Yeah?”  You can keep knocking and she’ll say it in different ways.  Sometimes it will be a normal question, sometimes it will be fast and excited.  It usually depends on how fast and how loud you knock. […]

The First Day of 2011

I saw on Facebook this morning that Karen Mercer, my mother-in-law, has decided to give up drinking her Diet Mountain Dews.  Inspired by that, I impulsively decided to give up sodas again.  I don’t drink them much now, but I do at times and I figured it can’t hurt anything. I actually went several years […]

Christmas Eve 2010

I ran out to pick up a couple things- cat food, a last minute gift for Amanda’s grandpa, this morning.  While I was out I decided to call some of our friends to wish them a merry Christmas.  I was originally going to do it tomorrow, but with all that would be going on for […]

12 Days at PC3

Port City Community Church’s opening was not to be missed today.  It started out with a rendition of 12 Days of Christmas sung by Micah Kolk.  Seriously, Micah is one entertaining guy.  After that they showed the annual Christmas card, which had some very nice trick editing. Oh yeah, Mike’s message was pretty good, too.  What stuck […]