When Jacob was somewhere around two months old, I remember a couple of people saying to me, “Isn’t it fun to have a baby?”  I smiled, nodded, and gazed dotingly at my little boy.  But really, I was thinking, “No, this isn’t ‘fun.’  It’s not as tough as I thought it would be, but ‘fun’ […]

The mystery of a child is that he is fifty percent his mother, fifty percent his father, and one hundred percent himself. Considering John and I both look pretty ridiculous in just about any shape of hat, this must be how it happened that our little man looks downright adorable in anything we put on […]