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 […]

Happy Birthday Jason Revill

Today is Jason Revill’s 31st birthday.  He’s my oldest friend.  Not in terms of age- I mean, he’s only 31, but we’ve been friends since kindergarten.  I hope you have a nice day, buddy. I got up this morning and mowed the lawn.  Well, I was going to mow the lawn, but I couldn’t get […]

Milly’s First Shopping Trip

We had another good night of sleep last night.  In fact, we went ahead and woke Milly up at about 3:00.  She was a little fussy at the time, but she wasn’t fully awake.  Amanda figured it would be better to go ahead and get her started on a feeding before she was full-on crying.  […]

Milly’s Big Surprise

Remember how I bragged yesterday that Milly only got us up a couple times her first night home?  Her second night was nothing like that.  I think she woke up wanting to feed every hour, and since Amanda’s not able to lean over to pick her up out of the cradle yet, not to mention […]

Milly’s First Full Day Home

Milly woke us up at 3:30 and 7:00 this morning, which I figure is pretty good for a brand new baby.  Let’s hope things stay as easy as that. I did do a little bit of work today, banging out a proposal for someone I talked to a while ago who wanted to start moving […]