Category: Life

Several years ago, we went to Downtown Disney around Christmas time which is one of my favorite things to do. This is before we had Andrew and really before we were even thinking about kids but we went into the giant toy store anyway. They had this humongous display...

It’s funny how strongly some memories stay in your mind. It was a little over 8 years ago, Summer 2001. I was getting ready to go back up to Gainesville for what would end up being a very trying semester. Summer 2001 was still a time of innocence. So...

Dear American Economy, You have sucked for a while and I have been trying endlessly to spend my money to help you out but you insist on repeatedly making the same mistakes. No I’m not talking about bank failures and the mortgage crisis, I’m talking about basic consumer products....

This will be random, I assure you. So I got the RSS feed working again. I posted about it on Facebook so probably that is not news to any of my readers. I hate the fact that I get so completely obsessed with getting things right to the point...

Please read about baby Christian. He is an August baby who is proof that miracles happen every day. Christian’s Story Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 is a day that the Quintero family won’t ever forget. That afternoon, 11-month-old Christian fell in the family pool and nearly drowned. His big brother...

Tomorrow marks an important day. Andrew will turn 38 weeks and 4 days. Why on earth is that important you ask? Well he was born at 38 weeks and 4 days so tomorrow he will have been out as long as he was in. I can no longer say...

There have been many things I have been unsure of in my life. Many. Rarely has anything ever been an easy decision. I like to drag things out, think them over, you know, generally annoy everyone around me for a while while I work things out. I remember the...

If you’re looking for my introduction, scroll down to the next post. I love it when we change the clocks forward an hour. The loss of one hour of sleep is so worth gaining an extra hour of light in the evening. It makes me feel like summer is...

This thing has been going around facebook for a while. Now the number is up to 25 but when I got it, it was just 16 random things about yourself. So I can’t think of anything else to write tonight so here’s an encore presentation: Me, by the numbers...

A few years ago I started thinking about having children. They say you never really know when the time is right but I was trying to work out some things in my mind. Most of them were highly personal things but I was consumed with an issue that I...