We had our second official prenatal appointment today. At Kaiser they have a system for these things and today’s appointment is a sort of class/lab day. You see videos about eating right and the nature of testing for various birth defects. They do a urine and blood test and you fill out a bunch of [...]
I kind of don’t know where to begin. Our whole year had built to a fevered pitch of tension and stress. Disappointment after disappointment was the order of the day and it was hard to even know how to think about what lay ahead back in August or so.
Amy and I had conversation after conversation about, [...]
We have family in Las Vegas, Lake Chelan-Washington, and on the Big Island of Hawaii and we try to visit all of them as often as possible. We also try to take vacations on our own every now and again. The plan that we have tried to work with over the last several years is that [...]
We just got back from seeing my Grandparents in Oklahoma, barely getting out of town before tornadoes touched down just north of their house. My grandfather is the only surviving blood relative I have on my Father’s side of the family and I hadn’t seen them in almost 18 years before the weekend in Yukon, Oklahoma. [...]
My friend, John, lost his father recently. Bud James was 70 years old and in excellent health, so it came as a complete shock to John. I attended the funeral in Bakersfield last weekend and you could see that Mr. James had touched a lot of people’s lives. I was glad that I was able [...]