33rd Wedding Anniversary of Jerry and Rhonda Dotsey (and My First Cut Back!)

Yes, as of today my parents have been married for 33 years, and around the country people threw “tea party” protests.  Okay, so the two aren’t related at all.  I talked to my dad and he said they were probably just going to go out to Clarksville Station to eat tonight.  Exciting stuff.  Then again, […]

Who Does She Look Like?

Amanda was originally planning on just taking a half day today since the baby doctor appointment was at 1:00, but she ended up taking off the full day and helping her mom paint the nursery.  It’s looking great, but the big thing of the day is this: Does Milly look more like me or more […]

Easter Sunday, 2009

Christos vostress! That (or something very like it) means “Christ is risen” in Slovak.  The tradition is that you say that to Pap, my grandfather (whose parents were from Czechoslovakia) and then the response, of course, is “Truly He has risen,” (or “He has risen indeed,” whatever) except I can’t remember how to say that […]

Shoe Molding at Last!

Last night was a rough one.  First off, since Karen and Phil Mercer were staying the night, Bruce and Harvey kept getting out of bed and going downstairs then coming back up.  Then, at about 2:30 it started raining really, really hard.  Amanda suddenly remembered that all of the shoe molding that we had stained […]

Mercers at Indochine

Being that today is Good Friday and many people are off of work, I wasn’t expecting it to be too busy for me today, and for the most part it wasn’t.  I kept an eye on e-mail and answered any calls that came in, but there weren’t too many. Amanda and I started off the […]