When my mom had her stoke right at the new year, I spent a lot of time alone with her in the ICU, sitting by her bedside, holding her bruised and lifeless hand in mine. To pass the time hour after hour, day after day, I found peace in my solitude by singing quietly under [...]
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7 Mar
Keeping the Faith
I was raised Catholic, and have yet to actually struggle with reconciling being gay and Catholic until RR came along. Even before she was born, I was plotting ways to get her baptized. Plotting, you say? Well.. see, those Catholic churches won’t baptize a baby being raised up in a same-sex parental household because, well, [...]
20 Dec
Animals
A while back, RR started noticing our cats. Yes, cats. Two of them. No, you don’t get pictures. Why? Cause our cats are embarrassingly large. No, really. You’re thinking, “Nah, surely you must be exaggerating!” But, sadly, I’m not. Our cats are prime candidates for “The Biggest Loser: Family Edition.” They need Weight Watchers, or [...]
18 Dec
A Wonderful Christmas Time
So much to say, but I’m feeling scattered and still a little wounded from the whirlwind that has been the last few weeks. That said, we’ve finally stopped spinning long enough to realize that Christmas is merely a week away. How did that happen? The tree has been up for over a week, but just [...]
19 Nov
She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain
This post is brought to you by RR’s favorite pajamas, and, apparently, the Mardi Gras appearance of the background of this picture, which just so happens to be our dining room. Cue the Zydeco! Why yes, she is in the Bumbo ON the dining room table as specifically stated as a DEATH HAZARD on the [...]
5 Nov
Moaning
No, we’re not moaning. Neither is RR. But all of her schoolmates do, and I’d like to know why. RR has five schoolmates in the baby room, four boys and one girl. The four boys are eight months (and crawling), six months (and HUGE for his age), almost six months (and the most moany), and [...]
18 Oct
Toys Are Not Us
So far, I think we’re doing a pretty good job as parents. RR is a pretty happy, smiley, and now occasionally chuckling, kid. You know, as long as she’s well-rested and fed, which we try to take care of before she turns into a demon. She spends her weekdays at school, from around 8:15am-5:15pm, Monday [...]
7 Oct
Turning the Corner
We have been nursing some sort of illness in our house for almost two weeks. It started with my wife a couple of weekends ago (salmonella? virus?) and then last weekend RR came down with projectile vomiting. We had to import the sister-in-law to visit on Sunday so that I could have my birthday dinner [...]
11 Jul
4am
For the first mornings after RR was born, the nurses would drop her off with me around 4am. Who knew 4am was the time parenting began each morning? They would turn on the bathroom light, which would flood the room with a gentle glow, and then I would hear the squeaky wheels of the plastic [...]
9 Jul
Two Weeks
What is it about recent parenthood that turns the world into some crazy time warp? No, not in this, “I can’t believe she’s two weeks old, already!” sort of way. But just a general time warp where the days go by so slow (is it 8am yet?), but then, all of the sudden, it’s July [...]
