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I had a wonderful morning.  My wife and I woke up to the sound of our house losing power (the security system make a wretched noise when the power goes on or off).  It was 60 degrees in our bedroom.  The sunlight sparkled off the pond in the back of our house.  Neither of us had anything scheduled.  There was …

So my wife has been on a cooking binge lately.  I don’t know if being seven months pregnant has her wanting to develop her domestic skills or maybe she just has cravings.  Either way I am certainly reaping the benefits.  As I have been chewing my way through homemade pastries and skewers and soups and quiches… mmmmmmmmmmm… oh sorry.  I …

It has been way too long since I have posted one of these and for the record it has been way to long since I have seen my wife.  She left three weeks ago for Vermont and I still won’t see her for another two.  They say that you don’t know what you have until it’s gone.  Well, I do …

I have only been away from home for five days, but it has given me some time to reflect on my wife, our marriage, and our home life.  We were talking the other day and she was telling how much easier it is for her to go to her play rehearsals (she is the music director for “Footloose” at our …

At 5:00 AM my wife dropped me off at the airport. She is pregnant, it was way too early for her to be up, and this is the first time in two years of marriage that we will be apart for more than a day. Needless to say, she was crying when she left. It is very strange how normal …

The joys of pregnancy and motherhood continue for my wife. My sister-in-law invited us out to dinner at Don Jose’s (a local Mexican food place here in Sebring). We had been cooped up in the house for most of the day because it had been raining pretty hard all afternoon, so we decided we should definitely get out. My wife …