Change

 
Today I had to inform a couple of team members that they were being transferred to other departments (I hate delivering bad news…I am no Lynn Russell).  Change she is a coming.  I myself am on the cusp of some fairly radical career changes.  My whole division is going through a massive reorganization.  For the [...]

Up Chuck

Well today is Chuck E. Cheese day.  Why?  Ethan is 7 years old today.  Actually as I write this post, it is to the minute of his birth.
 
Ethan has changed my life in so many ways for the better.  Since he has come into my life, I am a better person.  He lights up a [...]

Darth Bunny

 
Last night I finished a Star Wars novel (Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader).  OK, I can hear the groans through my monitor.  It is cheap pulp Sci-FI, but I can sometimes pull meaning out of a Huggies commercial, so go figure.
 
I am fascinated by the character of Darth Vader. 
 
When I was a [...]

Treat

 
Life can take you some unexpected places.  When I was a kid, I always dreamed of getting a house in my parents’ neighborhood when I grew up.  My sister always looked to more distant horizons.  She was the bold one who went to school out of state.  I was the one who went to Junior [...]

Hades

 
Clearly I have died and went to Hades (try to contain your shock).  It is 99 in Virginia.  That is hot.  Not California Hot.  Not Washington Hot.  Not Colorado Hot.  This is the pit of Hades.  The humidity is roughly 3000%.  I think I will go visit Africa to cool off.
 
To add insult to injury, [...]

Not like a horse?

 
Yesterday was Ethan’s clinical appointment day.  Thanks to my new best friend Maggie (our GPS); we made it to DC Children’s in record time (45 minutes). 
 
After waiting for about a half hour they took us to our room.  The cool thing about Children’s is that they have a flat screen TV in every room.  [...]

12 Hours to Membership

 
So yesterday afternoon we were going to celebrate Jenn’s birthday since on her real B-day we are going to be at the clinic all day.  Then we remembered, we had a membership meeting that we had to attend at our new church.  Normally, I would not have rushed into membership.  But since Jenn is on [...]

Specialist Buffet

This week we have our Spina Bifida clinic appointment (they accept VACTERL patients too).  He sees 5 specialists all at once.  It is bound to be a multi-dread week.  First of all, the only appointment we could get was on Jenn’s birthday, ugh.  Two and three are more serious matters.
 
They took hip x-rays at his [...]

2/3 Speed

Yesterday afternoon we took Ethan to see Speed Racer.  What we saw of it, was visually stunning, literally.  I was on sensory overload.
 
Then suddenly, bam the movie stops, the lights come up and a siren goes off.  We had to evacuate the building.  It was very orderly, no trampling.  Suddenly we were in bright sunshine.
 
And [...]