From a very new reader of your blog: Congratulations! And from a mama of a toddler: Parenthood will be amazing and rewarding, but get all the sleep you can now.

Patrick! Congrats on both counts … my 21st anniversary was yesterday. Once you have children the time simply flies by and somehow stands still all at once. I’m not certain how that is, but it is.

I have a fourteen year old daughter and as we sat in a restaurant the other day a young couple came in with their little girl, who looked to be about 1o months old. Suddenly I could not account for the time between when my daughter was that age and now. I don’t know what happened to it. Yet I’ll bet she’s the most photographed child ever.

Oh well … that’s the long way of saying, your life is about to get very adventurous in the most mundane ways. Congratulations on 5 great years and here’s to many more adventursome years as a family!!

happy anniversary lad!

Thanks, y’all! Especially Amy, you’re very welcome on my blog. I’m glad to have you Looks like you’re starting an interesting experience yourself (your new blog, that is).

Congratulations, Patrick, on both counts.

Congrats! Come January Kate and I will have been married 19 years. Isn’t the kindness of women amazing?