My First Father’s Day

As I write this I’m sitting in bed at the end of my first father’s day with my two best girls: my wife, Amanda and my daughter, Milly. We got to bed about 10:00 last night.  Amanda and I held hands and said a prayer, thanking God for the gift of our daughter and asking […]

Pregnancy, 40 Weeks (Milly’s Due Date)

In the past I wrote about the specifics of what’s going on in the pregnancy for the week as a separate entry, but since today was the due date, the day itself was inextricably tied to expectations of a delivery.  I think that until she gets here, I’m going to write directly to Milly.  Here […]

Hannah Frazelle’s 20th Birthday Party

Amanda and I went to church this morning, as we generally do on Sunday mornings, then did a little running around.  First we went to Target to look at a rug she thought about getting yesterday.  We really need something to break up all the space in the nursery but I didn’t want to spend […]

Visiting with Babies

After work Amanda and I went to the hospital to visit with Mike and Sarah Nowak and meet their new little girl, Lauren Nowak.  She’s a cute little thing, but she was under a UV light for most of the time that we were there due to some jaundice (which is a common enough thing […]

Continued Practice with Eli

I went downstairs at 6:00 to let Bruce out to pee and decided to stay downstairs on the couch.  Nick and Amy Warkentien were coming by soon to drop off Eli.  Nick works at Port City Community Church so he was going to be busy, well, working at church for half the day and Amy […]